Muse’s long string of five-star reviews on Amazon.com has snapped at last. A reviewer who identified herself himself or herself as a “Midwest educator” said the magazine was “Not a-musing!” and gave it one star–the lowest possible rating.
Well, you can’t please everybody. Thanks to all Musers who have told Amazon the real story, whatever their teachers (excuse us, educators) might think.
(When you see green text in a GAPA’s post, it’s a link, by the way.)
First post?!?!
BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! “Midwest Educator” MUSE IS AWESOME!
YAY!!!!!!!!!
I got first post!
sorry, I’m really happy, it was kind of a goal.
GASP!!!! Who could not like muse?
Well, I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinions *coughcrazyladycough*
The midwest educator obviously doesn’t have a good sense of humor, as is shown by her mediocre pun. If a magazine is more boring, that means it’s worse, not better
maybe she got one of those crazy issues where its mostly hpbs and pie. or one of the boring ones. or one of the ones with poop.
or the history of the fork.
gee, a muse freak named “Amanda” reviewed muse on amazon. wonder who it could be?
not that the history of the fork was boring, it probably just was considered uneducational.
and there was another guy who gave it one star because his issues didn’t come. that was slightly unfair, i think, but i would diss amazon too if they failed to send me muse.
*gasp* *is insulted*
Who couldpossibly not like muse?????!?!?!?!
whats the best punishment for someone who disses muse?
a. pie-ing
b. trampled w/ hpbs
c. getting eaten alive by tenrecs
d. getting thrown into the fmp
e. all 4 simultaniously
Oh, goodness. If you want a lot of propaganda about evolution that’s disproved about two months later, get your 12 year old National Geographic. Most kids -cough-me-cough- like looking at the pictures in magazines like that, and not much else. (Okay, I’m not *really* a kid, I’m 15, and I do get NG and read many of the articles. BUT! That’s beside the point. Sort of.) Anyway, the humour and creativity in Muse can get kids who couldn’t normally care less about science to actually be interested. And come on! You learn stuff that you never thought of wanting to know. I mean, until you read the title of the article and you’re all like “whoa, why didn’t I ever think of wondering about that?”
And now my rant is over, but I’m sorry, I really like Muse. I’ve been getting it for…5…? possibly…years, and it rocks. And the History of the Fork was AWESOME.
Also…I think this is a really, really old issue, but it has profoundly affected me. Does anyone remember the issue about toilets? The one with the article about that scientist who did research about household germs? And who set fire to his toilet seat? Yeah, that was an awesome issue, but it’s given me a profound paranoia of bathrooms.
If you read all of that, you are either very bored or very kind. Wait…the GAPAs have to read all of the posts, right? ‘cos a horrible reference, URL, or location clue could lie in any corner! Wow, okay, I’m going to shut up now. Sorry GAPAs.
Not amusing?!? Who does she think she is. She certainly is not a human being. She must be a vogon. Yes, that’s it. Well, I think we should sell something, and then when she tries to buy it, we send her swamp water in a container, and who cares if she sues, we’ll be in VENEZUALA by the time she recieves it. SHE MUST DIE, MUST NOT SPREAD VOGON DESEAS!!!! HELLLLLPPPP, SOMEONE IS INFECTED, HELLLLP, SOMEONE!!!! AND SHE’S CALLING HERSELF AN EDUCATOR? MORE LIKE A TERMINATOR OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!
MUSE IS THE BEST MAG EVER!!! I learned more from getting a year of Muse than I did after four years of school. Genetics, the Black Death, magnetism, tenrecs, artificial intelligence, the theory of relativity, optical illusions, mideval warfare, black holes, Incan culture, perpetual motion theory, black hole physics, misericords, rain forests, natural selection, parasites, animal psycology, GPS tecnology, the study of aging, homunculi, marketing tecniques, Esperanto, dragons–how could anyone not like Muse? Even the comics are educational! I bet not many kids who don’t read Muse can list the sisters of Calliope or describe, with complete accuracy, the garb of the ancient Egyptians! How many kids who don’t read Muse have even heard of half the things I mentioned? Getting this magazine is one of the best things that ever happened to me, no exageration. Five stars, all the way, and if there were a way to give it more I would put down infinity plus one, which was a logic problem mentioned in Muse. Whoever dislikes this awesome mag has to be blind, deaf, dumb, paraplegic, and entertain the belief that he or she is a bananna. I rest my case.
H’m…how do I post a review?
“Not a-musing”
Wow.
I’m almost glad she doesn’t like muse if that’s all she can diss us with.
No offense Ms. Crazy Lady…
lol XD
Hey i didn’t see the link before this…or possibly i was just lazy and forgot about it. I’m gonna go review Muse now! Wheeee!
it must have been koko up to one of his non a-muse-ing schemes. it is simply, scientifically impossible for any being to earnestly dislike muse. hence, it must be a poorly thought-out scheme of koko’s.
15- or a vogon. that’s always possible. though even they might like crraw’s poetry…
If you’d like to post your own review, you can find the necessary links on this part of the Fan Page.
I favor the Vogon hypothesis.
Phoenix, I had heard of black holes before reading Muse. And magnetism, and genetics, and optical illusions, and the theory of relativity, and parasites, and artificial intelligence.
I see Ebeth has figured out how to post a review on Amazon. And what a review it is! The whole world is going to think Musers are a bunch of raving lunatics.
…Which is exactly what we want them to think, of course. Good work, Agent E-42!
hey! the featured article on wikipedia today is about isambard brunel…he was in an issue of muse!!!!!yay!
Ok, gang. I think everybody should go to the link at the top of the page. Click, it, there you go. Now go to the horrible review, and click the “NO, this review was not helpful. If everybody does that, we can get like “0 out of 645 people found this review helpful”! It would be so cool, and embarassing for the stupid, uninteligent, stupid, (did I say that already?) reader/reviewer. Acctually, I wouldn’t consider that a review, but a… I don’t know what that is.
I love the toilet issue. I also happen to like most of the other magazines the “Midwest Educator” recommends. Stupid crazy Vogon lady.
WHAT!? What is the matter with this person? Or should I say Vogon, which she must be. Maybe it was some sort of mishap with an improbability drive. For as we all know, someone not liking Muse is HIGHLY immprobable. Emogrl: Definatly e. Well, actually, maybe the tenrecs are a bit harsh. How about d.? But what if *gasp* the FMP leads into Kokino County?! If she gets in there, there would certainly be reprocussions. Em: Boring ones?! Excuse me? There are no recollections of boring issues of Muse in my entire long-term memory. And the poop one was cool! The black hole one was great! I am now entirely obsessed with astrophysics. Of course we’re a bunch of raving lunatics. We wouldn’t be Musers if we weren’t. And the crazier they think we are, the less they’ll suspect Mostly Harmless or the Kokonspiricy *sings* The lunatic is on the grass….the lunatic is on the MuseBlog….
My apologies. After rereading the unfavorable Amazon review, I see that there’s no way to tell whether the author was a man or a woman. I don’t know why I assumed it was a female Vogon–that old implicit bias coming to the surface, I suppose. Sorry!
Ii will find that “educator”…
and when I do…
#28- I’ll help.
WHO COULD NOT LIKE MUSE!!!!!! KOKO!!!! GO PIE THIE “Midwest Educator” AND DO IT REPEATED LY UNTIL THE EDUCATOR GIVES MUSE A 5-STAR RATING!!!!!!!!
Mmh, the Vogan hypothesis is quite probable…very good. >_
Hi. Me again.
I have an idea everybody. OK? Go say thereveiw wasn’t helpful and then report it. Then maybe it wil get taken off and this thread can once more be put down, until the next time someone “Doesn’t Like Muse”.
Gradster(1)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Gradster(1)
live and let live, it’s a free country (supposedly…) and everyone is allowed to express their opinions. personally, though, i think muse is the best magazine in the world and that it;s kind of pompous to call yourself an “educator”.
FF (31),
I don’t see why Educator thinks you have to choose between Muse and mainstream magazines. As far as I’m concerned, you need both. That way you’ll have something to read when your parents steal your Muse.
U may have a point there…
Wh has a point there? I’m sure they do, but who.
THere have been a lot
of points made
I meant whO, not WH. Sorry
emogrl,or make his/her existence a false fact, turn them into a blind cave fish? ahh, the possidilities
# 28, I’ll help to
Vargon is evil beasty. when we ( I ) find her, I shall personally rip her guts out it will be fun
: ! : : evil : : ! :
the gapa, # 37
#28 ill help catch our educator
#13, we should do all four at once.
Vhat is a Vargon? The correct term for Eddie is Vogon. Just letting you know. (I’m calling the stupid Vogon Eddie. Prosy-whatever Vogon Eddie. What is the actual term, anyway, Queenie J or someone equally obsessed?)
PVEddie shall be pied around, then fed to tenrecs, then slobbered on by my dog, and then be given poisoned wallpaper. And then given to Hannibal the Pineapple.
Sorry to spoil the fun, but Cotton (34) is right: Educator has a right to express his/her opinions without fear of reprisal, just as you do. There’s too much of that sort of thing (e.g., feeding disagreeable people to tenrecs) going around nowadays.
Besides, the good reviews on Amazon outnumber her bad one by more than 40 to 1. I’m sure readers will draw the logical conclusion.
Heehee, I probably shouldn’t have done this, but at the bottom of each review, you can say “report this” and I reported it as “inappropriate”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly. Have you noticed that the stars in the overall rating are still 5! If we post enough reviews, her review will be pushed off to a different page, where nobody will look very often.
DES SHE REALLY THINK SHE CAN TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MM (45),
Check the “not helpful” box if you want to, but not “inappropriate,” please. The review is appropriate, and if we ask Amazon to look it over, they could wind up suspecting MuseBloggers of sabotage and pulling our reviews. So–careful, please.
I agree GAPA. *sigh* As much as we would love to be oppressive dictators (whether facist or communist-have we decided that yet? I vote commie!!), we have to wait until Mostly Harmless comes through. Then we’ll feed him/her to the tenrecs. Ok?
That’s a pretty cruel punishment. Can you imagine how long it would take to be devoured by tenrecs?
I mean, look at them:
The thought of being staked out with those little hedgehoggy things snuffling around me… Brrr.
Yeah that’s right! Watch your step GAPA…watch your step.
Lol jk. You’ll probably be the one feeding naughty spammers/deranged stalkers to the tenrecs anyway. XD
*gasp* GAPA! Implicit Association! Naughty!
“
herselfhimself or herself”Could you not have put herself or himself? Is there a problem with putting the feminine first? I predict that you shall be torn to bits, not by tenrecs, but by angry femenists. Mwahahahaha.
13- e. all of the above.
some may have thought of this, but I am very wierd. I can also speak tenrek. they are gathering an army of a gargantuine size (and it is really big) to devour her, but they will make sure her down bringing will be very painful. It will be fun
I forgot, who is this being and why is he/she in need of a brain transplant :-p
I only have one problem with the review. Are there any reasons why ME doesn’t like Muse? No. It is just “not a-musing”, apparently. Flinch. Flinch. Why does she not love Muse? Is there a problem with Muse? I don’t think so. There is no rationality here. It’s just incomprehensible. Ugh. And there’s nothing wrong with not being a human. You love me, don’t you?
43-Prostnetic Vogon Captain Jeltz is the correct term from the book. I know that from memory.
i agree Queenie (56). WHY??????????????
I think that she should have said why she didn’t like it. Then maybe we’d understand. I mean, what are we supposed to do if we don’t know why? send the army of hot pink pie throwing tenrecs after her? I think not.
I posted a review a while ago.
YAY!!!!!! our numbers are growing. It now says on teh review that 0 out of 9 people did not find this review helpful. Woo Hoo. When I first went there to say that it was not helpful, it said 0 out of 4. But keep the mouse clicking coming, we need to get to about 50.
About that toilet issue- I avoid using the upstairs bathroom to brush my teeth in since the tooth brushes are about the toilet. Blech…
And I’ll post a review someday…
I know I know!!!
We should trap her inside a middle school full of muse reading students that incessently talk about muse!
I volunteer…
Or…
Maybe we should leaver her in a Vogon ship listening to Vogon Poetry! That should be sufficient punishment!
She deserves the tenrecs. Period.
Maybe we could sacrifice her for something in Mostly Harmless?
But she is a Vogon, remember?
But she LIKES Vogon peotry, remember, because she’s a Vogon herself. Only a Vogon would not appreciate MUSE!
Or maybe she’s a MGA (Muser Gone Astray). Maybe she (or one of her kids (if she has any)) got Muse once and had a really bad experience with it. Who knows?
Does the company that does Muse (Smithsonian? Maybe?) do a mag like Muse for older teens?
I’m afraid not. I’m not sure anybody exactly outgrows Muse, though. The magazine regularly gets letters from readers in college, and then there are people like Rosanne and Paul Baker and me…
I think it’s the Cricket company.
Hmmm. Do you know anything about Calliope or Faces, then?
The parent company, Carus Publishing, owns 15 magazines and a book division. The magazines fall into two groups. The Cricket Magazine Group started with Cricket around 1970 and now publishes both fiction magazines (named after insects: Ladybug, Babybug, Cricket, Spider, and Cicada) and nonfiction magazines (Muse, Ask, and Click). The Cobblestone Group was an independent company that Carus Publishing bought about five years ago. Its magazines (which include Cobblestone, Footsteps, Calliope, and Faces) deal mostly with history, though there’s also a science magazine called Odyssey and an archaeology magazine called Dig. Most of the history magazines go to school classes, though the company sells subscriptions to individuals, too. If you can find them in a library, you’ll notice that the Cobblestone magazines have a different look and “flavor” from the Cricket Group magazines.
Yeah, I want a fairly in-depth historical/world culture magazine geared towards older teens. D’you think Calliope or Faces fit that category?
I got a chance to look at one of them (don’t know which one) a year or so ago and I don’t remember being particularly impressed, although I had three mintues in a waiting room and it was an issue I already knew stuff about.
I must admit that I don’t know the Cobblestone Group magazines very well. I have the impression that they’re a little textbookish, but that’s just an impression. Is there any reason not to take the plunge and get a magazine for adults?
Mmm, okay. Thanks.
About the adult mags, no, not really, aside from the fact that I think they’re more expensive and I don’t know of any off the top of my head.
Discovery does historical articles, I know, but there’s a lot of other stuff that isn’t historical too. Hmmm.
Retards. They ought to learn.
In the meantime, I’ll be accepting headhuting jobs on this person. Any employers?
I don’t think it’s right to hate someone because they don’t like Muse.
Post 45, it was the right thing to do. Let’s all do it!!!!!!
Gradster(1)
P.S. Anybody have a guess yet? Or maybe it was on another thread.
Smithsonian is good. Mine grandma just gave me a whole load of back issues and they is very muse-ish and interesting. They even have a lot of the same topics as old muse issues!!! More ads and stuff (WAY more seeing as the ones in muse are practically nonexistant) but when you can find the articles they’re really good. The letters are just the usual “this was good, that was bad, good job on this, i object to that” Short and quite boring. No hpbs to be found. Ah well, not everybody can equal muse…
mostly harmless must be accomplished before we can feed our educator to the tenrecs.
: cry : evil beasty from middle earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i shall, must kill !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suppose the Mostly bit in the Mostly Harmless is why we’re allowed to feed people to tenecs? Because we’re definately not just Harmless.
Maybe we should change it to somewhat harmless?
I agree with Queenie; s/he doesnt stat anything wrong with Muse; its just not “a-musing.” Which is a) very clearly not true, b) a very bad pun. I’m ok with critisism but you actually have to support it with something, ya know?
I reviewed muse!!! It was kind of long winded and Im not sure it will make any sense to anyone who does not already read muse, but at least I got the point across that muse is FANTASTIC!
By the way, if any of you go read it, my name is not Lylsa.
It is, however an anagram of my name, so I bet all you genius cever peoples can figure it out.
Let’s put him/her (we’ll call the person it) in the Total Perspective Vortex!! That’ll teach it to diss Muse! Okay, I’m just kidding. I actually have to agree with Zallie and whoever the ‘freedom of speech’ person was. If it truly is possible that Muse can be disliked, then I suppose it’s good that it made it’s opinion known. But it still didn’t say why. If it’s going to hate Muse, we Musers have a right to know why! And the other thing that bothers me is that it says Muse isn’t a good mag for 12-14 year olds and recomends adult mags for them. I’ll bet it’s one o’ them people who expects kids to be like miniature adults. The kind of person who would by a sailor suit for it’s infant son. I just so happen to be a 12-14 year old myself and I think I am a better judge of what I like than ancient Midwest Educator. So, my analysis: Lawful? I guess. Helpful? Not so much. For the good of country? Definately no.
Who\What is Mostly Harmless?
I like the tenrec idea…
That sounds extreamly painful, therfore a very good punishment….
…
*genius cLever people, not cever. Oops
You notice that that’s the only review that person has posted, despite being a “bibliophile ‘real books and mags for kids'”… Maybe they’re a bibliophile who doesn’t have opinions on many books… last time I checked Muse was a “real mag for kids”..
Hmm.. I notice that 26% go on to buy National Geographic Kids and only 8% to get Muse.. I used to get it, but then it started becoming more ad-oriented and more into pretty-boy pop culture, instead of the actual ARTICLES with actual, like, facts (*gasp*) that I wanted.. Like a lot of the reviews say, it’s 90% “OMG YOU MUST GET YOUR PARENTS TO GET THIS GADGET FOR YOU NOW OR YOU WILL BECOME A SOCIAL PARIAH!!1!1111″ and other brainless ads/shameless plugs disguised as articles, and the non-advertising articles are stupid stuff that I knew when I was about 4 (“Hey, kids, guess what! The Earth rotates around the sun! Isn’t that amazing! And I bet you can’t guess where we get our years from! That’s right! Every year is how long it takes the Earth to go around the sun!”), not to mention being patronizing (maybe I realize when things are patronizing earlier than most people or something – I also realized that American Girl was when I was about 8; one of my friends didn’t figure it out until about last year). Muse is a thousand times better.
Muse acctually has some character. Not that I don’t like National G. or something, but Muse is more fun. N. G. is for a more traditional read. Muse is for people who are not traditional. I like smithonian, and N.G., but MUSE is better!!!!
I think I’ll be a photographer fomr Smith… of N.G. when I grow up. That is, if I don’t work for muse.
“Some character”? Muse has character up to its eyeballs. It has style, verve, flair, panache, charisma, arete, and attitude! Just like the people who read it.
It has character in its forehead, too.
thanks
Sorry if I wrote SOME. I didn’t mean to make it seem less. I just put it in there.
But do you need a REASON to dislike things? Maybe something about Muse rubbed this person the wrong way and she couldn’t put a finger on it. Most of the people giving positive reviews didn’t provide much reasoning aside from muse being ‘cool’ and ‘rock’ing.
Zallie-
I agree with you. People shouldnt dis “Midwest Educator” just because s/he has a different opinion. On the other hand, I do think that even if s/he didnt have an automatic reason for disliking muse, s/he should have at least tried to give some reasons for it, simply for the sake of writng a helpful review.
For the sake of being balanced, I also think that people who give good reviews should put one or two actual points into their reviews and not just say “OMG this like the best mag ever” (though i dont actually know if anyone wrote anything like that).
I think Educator meant that smart kids shouldn’t waste their time on kids’ magazines when they are perfectly capable of reading adult magazines. I disagree (obviously), but at least it’s a coherent viewpoint.
-82-
how about seemingly harmless?
I’m 15, and I still find Muse fascinating. Now, maybe I’m not brilliant, and I’m not going to discover any new scientific truths any time soon, but I like to think I’m not an idiot. If a at-worst-average 15 year old is in love with Muse, then surely gifted 12-14 would at least find it interesting.
I read Muse (duh). I also read Science News. I’ve read them both for four or five years now. I mean, it’s not mutually exclusive. And it isn’t like reading a kiddy magazine cuts out of my time to read Great Literature Written For Adults In Magazine Form or something.
#48 (GAPA)
Yeah, that is what I meant……I said that it wasn’t helpful
I’m 14 and I love muse!
I have to agree with Mr. Coontz and the ME that kids shouldn’t waste their time with kid’s mags that tell you the obvious and talk down to you. But Muse is totally different. It actually tells you new info that you wouldn’t otherwise know, instead of “hey kids, did you that lions eat meat?!” Probably the ME has no sense of humor. The only complaint I can file in that respect is in the “Elixer of Death” article, I thought it was rather callous to have the muses making fun of the fact that all those people died. However, they did much better on the “Doctors Without Borders” article, an organization which my parents donated a sum of money too and were interested to read about. Does Muse even have an age limit anyway? When my Aunt was staying here, I happend to be reading the race Muse and all of a sudden my Dad started telling her what a great mag it was. That surprised me because , though he occansoinally reads it, it had been a while and I figured he had forgoten it even existed. If one’s parent read it voluntarily, without any form of provocation, I think it deserves the Seal of Agelessness.
83: Sally.
I totally think she should have said something. Maybe we can tell her that. Is there a way to respond to reviews, or do we have to, like, write another review and cleverly putting in a little thing about “I respect ‘Midwest Educator’s’ opinion, but I think that she should have said why Muse was not A-muse-ing”
*gasp*
*GASP*
*GASP*
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*dies*
*gasp*
The rating on the review is only o out of 12. COME ON, people, let’s GET GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know there are at least 60 people on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, wait, never mind. I forgot you have to have an acount. And that requires a credit card. OOPPSS?!? Sorry if I’ve been a bit armyish (sp?)
I have an account. I think. And I don’t have a credit card. And I said already that it wasn’t helpful. I’ll go do it again, if you like.
Happy? I clicked No like ten times.
And I wrote a review. Hopefully, if we put on a bunch of new ones and keep saying that it wasn’t helpful, her review will go away, or at least get moved to the next page where people won’t see it as much. It’s under the name Violetfire, by the way, so you’ll all know I put it there.
Hello. I just went down the page doing the “Was this review helpful to you” thing. I clicked Yes for all of them except hers.
That’s what I did too, but I didn’t say yes to others, I just said that hers wasn’t helpful
I have made a Kids Review. It is still under nobodydude.
I made up a new acount and rated a whole bunch all good, except the evil review that must not be named.
Way to go, KING GEORGE!!!!!!!!!
DArn. I tried to post a picture of OTzi, but it wouldnt let me.
What?!?! Blashpemy! Burn her!
Ha, Pheonix, I used your word before you!
Seriously, though, one review doesn’t make much of a difference when every other is good, and he/she/it doesn’t even give reasons.
phoenix.
Waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and…., December 1, 2004
Reviewer: Daniel Kolton (Mercer Island, WA USA) – See all my reviews
Okay, let’s be honest. I have not read one issue of this magazine. WHY? Because NINETEEN weeks ago I ordered this thru amazon & have yet to see a copy. In fact, I had forgotten about it until my son discovered it in the library & fell in love with it.
So is it a great magazine? My son thinks so. But will I ever get it? That remains to be seen.
After three conversations via amazon, I am informed I will see my first issue in January. That will be roughly TWENTY SIX weeks after I ordered it. And per the rep, the publisher will “credit” me for the issues I never got because I must have moved? Moved? Uh, sorry, never moved.
So why this loser review. As a warning to follow up after 4-6 weeks & make sure you don’t wait HALF a YEAR to get your first copy. If it ever arrives. Sheesh!
wot about this
strange people.
also.
the vogon that calls itself “midwest educator” first of all eserves to have it’s teaching liscense confiscated. thin it deserves to be pied with disguesting pies and shown itself in relation to th universe. then we will read it it’s own poetry for an infiniate span of time.
oooh nobodydude, your review got dissed!
lets stalk the vogon!
and then we can punish and persecute it!!!!!
scary idea!
what if the people reading the review think that everyone else is stark raving mad and not trsutworthy. they ccould then go on to trust the “educator” simply because it is an “educator” and not buy the mag.
helppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
GO LOOK UP THE PHRASE ‘MATTER OF OPINION’ PEOPLE!
So what if ‘The Educator’ thinks Muse isn’t so hot?
This is America people. We’re all entitled to our own opinions. Well, the wackos in the white house would like us to think otherwise, but we know better.
I THINK YOU SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!
EXCEPT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO AGREE WITH ME THAT ‘THE EDUCATOR’ HAS THE RIGHT TO THEIR OWN OPINION.
Man this country is goin downhill.
This should be a place for kids of the nation to come together and share fun, expressive, and clever ideas. And what are you all doing? Putting up hate posts, about some bad review on Amazon. Shame on you.
NOW I’M NOT SAYING I AGREE WITH ‘THE EDUCATOR!’
MUSE IS THE BEST MAG IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!
All I’m saying, is that I think we should get off his/her case.
Give ‘The Educator’ a break.
GIST OF WHAT I JUST SAID: SHUT DOWN THIS THREAD FOR PETE’S SAKE!
Muse blog is place for the extened Muser family to get together for a virtual thanksgiving every day. They can all stand around mingling, and gossiping, and bickering, until dinner is ready. And by dinner I mean their parents calling them for actual dinner. It is not a place for Musers to bad mouth a completetly inocent person, who was just being an American.
Bye.
HOLY COW!
EITHER THE ‘DARK LORD OF DARKNESS’ IS ACTUALLY A GROWN PERSON, OR HE/SHE IS AN INCREDIBLY GOOD VIRTUAL ACTOR!
WOW!
Cedar is right (120); there’s a difference between saying “I disagree with this person” and saying “this person must be silenced”–or worse.
Muse and MuseBlog don’t like to preach, but I think it’s clear that both are in favor of being curious about things, talking them over, and figuring them out. They’re against shouting people down, issuing fatwas against them, and punishing them for blasphemy. That’s just not how we do things around here. So–your loyalty to Muse is admirable, but play fair, please.
This thread has served its original purpose, but I think I’ll keep it open for a while in case the conversation takes a new turn.
THANK you Cedar!!
I like writing in italics, by the way…I said that everyone’s review was helpful (that gave muse 5 stars)
Thanks for listening everyone.
You guys are great.
GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHAME SHAME
i hate her just cuz i can
Muse IS at adult level, ******. I’m 12, I read Warriors and Lionboy, and its challenging for me. Sure, the articles might not be lenghty and the magazine isn’t half an inch thick (just a guess at how thick a lenghthy National Geographic is), but they don’t have room for all that.
Raise your hand/paw/hoof/flipper if you are 12-15 and fine muse to be at just the right level or harder.
I personally think this teacher just wants to take all the fun out of learning (And Muse puts a lot of fun in learning)
*raises tentacle in response to 127*
ooh look I switched my name around…
In reponse to that TERRIBLE PERSON who gave Muse 1 out of 5 stars:
MAY ALL FIFTY OF THE JAVARTRID’S ARMPITS SIMULTANEOUSLY DETACH THEMSELVES FROM HIS BODY AND CRAWL OVER YOUR SLIMY, PUTRID BODY! MAY YOU BE ELECTRIFIED BY A TOASTER AND GET APPLAFLAMAPHOBIA! A POX ON YOU, FOUL PERSON! GO TO BELGIUM!!!!!
There.
*smug*
Person? I belive you mean vogon.
i like cello
i don’t like the mean cello-playing jerks (guys) who i know. Those gentlemen *scratch, scratch, scratch* i mean those puppies, are so rude… and to think i used to like one of them!
p.s. i’m not who you think i am
OOOPPPS, i just left that in the wrong thread, oh man, i apologize, i’t meant to go int thing i like and don’t like, i am so sorry!!!
FOR HECK’S SAKE #127-129!
Did you even look at my post?
Go back!
It’s # 120.
Stop acting like a buncha jerkos.
You know that’s the only problem with most Musers. They have a tendancy to use threatening langauge.
Well I have four things to say to them:
1. S
2. T
3. O
4. P
There. I hope I got the point across.
Okay peoples, i agree with cedar. Please stop arguing, fighting, swearing, dissing. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. you can’t argue with all the fools in the world. It’s easier to let them have their way, and trick them when they are not paying attention. *is pied for quoting eragon* Okay, but seriously, i know you’re angry about what ‘e said. I’m angry too, it was a terrible thing to say. But cool it, willya?
127-14-and-not-quite-a-half-but-almost-(so-there), and yes, it is.
133-Cedar, excellent point on post 120. It was going a bit too far. But don’t just rocket off in the other direction, let us vent please. Besides, it doesn’t really mean much, seeing as we make death threats to pretty much everybody. XD
Besides, writing insanely complicated and completely random geeky curses is fun (as is reading them
)
GAPA, maybe you guys could open a thread to randomly insult nobody, instead of people coming on here for a victim. Just make a virtual guy, like “Mr. Joe” or something. Then we can all curse Mr. Joe into oblivion if we feel like it, and the poor Midwest educator gets a break (no matter how annoying her name is. educator??? Come on. But shh…we is not doing that anymore. *cough* Mr. Joe is an annoying name!!!! (not midwest educator) (well yes it is) (but i’m venting on Mr. Joe now instead) (So just pretend it’s not annoying) (either that or let’s just open the Mr. Joe thread already)
i agree with ebeth.
Yeah! I wanna insult Mr. Joe Or better yet, Mr. Green.
NO!
MR. JOE!! 
YES! 
Mr GREEN 
AAAH! 
MR JOE 
120: I agree totally. See post- okay, i don’t know which it is. Just see all my posts. And, by the way, who is Pete?
138: Aaah. So that’s why you’ve been posting him all over the blog.
Here’s an insult in Dutch: “Inclusief ga u, kwade wrattenzwijn vervloeken!” It means “Curse you, eville warthog!” Or, if that’s too hard, just “Inclusief ga u!” works. I was trying to think of an animal no one would ever want to be.
: evil :
omigod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
i hate the eville persone who hates muse!
i totally agree with violettefire. he is an eville warthog
I just showed my dad the review, and he fainted…, no, really!
I would!
Actually, I wasn’t insulting them, just telling you all a useful bit of information that I thought you would find interesting.
I can’t believe anyone could dislike Muse!
I’m amazed and offended!
Boo to the critic! Muse is one of my favorite magazines! Obviously, this “Midwest Educator” is not educated enough to realize that Muse is the best! Seriously. Read ‘Seventeen’ or ‘Teen people’, then read ‘Muse’, and you’ll see what I mean.
He didn’t recommend Teen people. NOt that I support him, but maybe he thinks that if he reads a magazine that other kids read, He’ll be considered stupid because kids read it. Personally, I bet all of us are smarter that it(midwest edu.), and that he might as well be insane.
hey, i wrote a review for muse. go see it.
did not anyone read my review? i worked so hard on it!
AGH! YOU PEOPLE ARE SO UNAPPRECIATIVE OF MY REVIEWING SKILLS!
‘k sorry, that was immature of me.
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