(We’ve copied this from the Muse Fan Page for your edification, until it comes back on line.)
Aeiou (pronounced A-E-I-O-U): Muse of Software; tidy, orderly, never talks.
Bo: Muse of Factoids; a cow.
Bunnies, hot pink: In Muse Mail, an annoying symbol the editors insert to replace passages in which readers debate which is better, cats or dogs.
Cat counter: An odometer-like device Chad installed in Muse Mail in March 2002 to track the number of requests for articles about cats—more than 8 billion by the time the July/August 2002 “cat” issue appeared.
Chad: Muse of Hardware. Tinkerer and inventor extraordinaire.
Crraw: Muse of Bad Poetry, a crow. Pwt’s quarry. Interprets for Aeiou.
Devil: Kokopelli’s puppy. First appeared in October 2001, after Crraw and Aeiou tried to make Koko nicer by tricking him into thinking he liked dogs. (It didn’t work.) Keeps falling into the FMP.
Dog counter: Chad installed it in July/August 2002 to tally requests for articles about dogs. It blew up at the start of the special dog issue (November/December 2002).
Doughnuts: Feather’s favorite food. He grows them on trees.
E.P.: Elizabeth Preston, Muse’s editor.
FMP: The Fan Mail Pit, final resting place of the mountains of letters the Muses receive from their legions of admirers, devotees, aficionados, acolytes, and padawans.
Factoid: Not just a Muse word, but
1. an invented fact believed to be true because of its appearance in print;
2. a brief and usually trivial news item.
We’re not sure which kind of factoid Bo represents. Both, maybe.
Feather: Muse of Plants. Sweet but a bit dim; always falls for Koko’s tricks.
Flamablamablous: An adjective one Muse reader (Leah T., 14, Wisconsin) introduced in the November/December 2004 issue to describe how big a fan she is. Another reader thinks it’s related to “flammable” and suggests that it means “so unbelievably wonderful that it could quite possibly combust spontaneously.”
Intelligent Air: A two-way global communications network, invented by Chad and programmed by Aeiou, with which the Muses watch Earth and whisper advice to people in need. Some of the dust particles you see swirling in sunbeams are actually components of IA.
Kokonino County: Home of the Muses. Looks as if it could be just a pie (or brick) throw away from Coconino County, Arizona, the setting of George Herriman’s immortal comic strip Krazy Kat.
Kokopelli: Muse of Tunes and Tricks. In the American Southwest, the supernatural trickster-flutist has figured in Native American legends and rock art for thousands of years. On joining Muse, he added pie-throwing to his arsenal of pranks.
“Milton Rupines”: Pen name of a Lord of the Rings–hating reader whose letter in the May/June 2004 Muse Mail section launched a thousand irate responses.
Mimi: Muse of Getting Along with People. In Australian aboriginal legends, mimis are shy but usually helpful and friendly invisible spirits who taught early human beings useful skills and crafts.
Pies: Kokopelli’s weapon of choice, which he hurls with humiliating accuracy.
Proton accelerator: A device for creating and aiming beams of protons, positively charged particles found in the nuclei of atoms. Chad makes proton accelerators out of paperclips. Physicists at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania call their proton accelerator the p+ shooter (“p” for proton, “+” for positive—get it?).
Pwt: Muse of Animals, born in ancient Egypt. Usually seen trying to catch Crraw in a net. We’re not sure where the name comes from, but in the Coptic language, a descendant of ancient Egyptian, “pwt†means “to run, flee, or go”—something Pwt spends a lot of time doing.
Tenrecs: Pointy-snouted insect-eating mammals of Madagascar, some species of which are spiny and tailless. After a Muse Mail letter mentioned them in January 2002, readers became obsessed with them. The magazine finally ran an article about them in May/June 2004.
Urania: Muse of Astronomy, the only holdover from the original Greek Muses. Kokopelli’s favorite pie-throwing victim.
Is this a first post? Also, what’s a DAPA? I saw it on an old thread.
1- Disneyâ„¢ Aggressively Perky Administrator. It was for the ’08 April Fools thing.
IIRC, Milton Rupines stated in a letter that he loved the books but disliked the movies. Just a clarification.
Question. Why do we have to put our emails? I’m new here!
4- Because a) The GAPAs (Great And Powerful Administrators) haven’t figured out how to get rid of the ’email’ box on the comment box, and b) they want to make sure that you’re not some hacker or stalker or adult in disguise.
how would an email prevent a harmfull stalker?
also, i was going ti ask for a way to post images, but never mind.
if you can not remove the email thing, that will be out if your depth.
For a start, bogus emails make us inclined to be especially watchful.
As for images, you can email them to thegapas at gmail dot com. Only administrators can post images.
What’s a wung point?
Re: Pwt’s name: Rwi is to depart, get away, to go away, to leave, to escape, to drive out, eliminate in Middle Egyptian.
Also. In middle Egyptian ts are feminizing though they also form the infinitive so maybe that is it. Besides, Coptic isn’t Middle Egyptian.
…yes, I take Middle Egyptian in school.
To oboe: to beat into submission with a reed instrument, esp. an oboe, as in “I oboed Piggy with a clarinet.”
Kittification: The quick-working zombification of a human being by a nearby kitty. The closer the kitty is to the human, the faster the effect occurs.
Kitty: The HPBs of the non-Muserly world. See also: kittification.
Piggy, now that isn’t nice. I have a friend who plays oboe, and I myself play clarinet. So apologize right now (jk)!
Would you rather I pipe-organned someone?
I think we should have all three Speens, just to clarify.
Wait, what’s the third Speen?
Isn’t there three? Mine, yours, and I seem to remember a third…
Maybe I’ve been oboed so hard I can’t think striaght.
Someone named a random chipmunk Speen at one point. It was on an old H&H. Not that old, but I’m fairly sure there’s a new one.
Really? When? Before the Speening episode on the SoCalKoKon thread? No, it can’t have been…
fireandhemlock1996-I play the oboe! I’v been playing it since 4th grade and I am now in 5th. It’s a hard instument, I’m sure your friend has told you.
What does the phrase “Pwt pwns” mean?
It means “Pwt is awesome”. Pwt is one of the Muses.
Thank you.
Points: Various systems of points exist on MuseBlog, mostly awarded to people for doing things that are in some way exceptional or special or as a sign of sympathy. They are not relevant in any way to a MuseBlogger’s status- all MBers are equal!
Okay, what does “cake” mean, other than dessert?
It’s used as a sort of swear word here on MB, as we support pie as an obviously better dessert/projectile.
Robert introduced it in December 2007.
Cake! I just tripped over my own foot!
i can’t find my socks
I know you’re new, but this page is not for Pointless Posting. I’ll let you off with a warning instead of a fine this time, but please keep all messages pertaining to lost socks and the like to the Random Thread, if you would. These pages–not threads–are for informational purposes only. Thank you.
Why does it say “IN August 9th” or whatever instead of “ON August 9th?”
sorry, that would count as pointless, wouldn’t it? please don’t oboe me.
Rosebud2- Well, you could’ve posted this question elsewhere, but I’ll let it slide. Part of the software here on MuseBlog was originally written in Portuguese, so, when having it translated to English, the GAPAs decided to let a few quirks (such as “in August 9th” and “cancelar”) stay as they were. It gives MB a tad more character, don’t you think?
Are you serious? That is so funny if it is true. And please don’t oboe me! That wasn’t random!!
Yes, the software was really originally written in Portuguese.
Cool thread. The top has info that is useless but interesting to only Musers. I only knew half of it. *hides face in shame*
What about wungs? They don’t seem to be on here…
Wungs haven’t appeared in the magazine yet, as far as I know.
We need a separate MuseBLOG glossary. Wasn’t there one on the old blog?
We do still have the Guide.
what’s the link to the GABOOMBA? (Yep- I like obsolete things. But The GABOOMBA also has some pretty cool stuff on it, such as Nak’s ‘House Rules’ poem.
Oh, and how does one become a GAPA? (Just curious-definately not my kind of hobby)
1. It no longer exists, unfortunately. It was lost in the Great Disaster.
2. You must be chosen before you are born. You are taken away from your parents at birth and trained in a secret location for many years. The initiation ceremony itself takes months to perform.
I’ve found a copy of “House Rules”:
House Rules
1. If you wash your hands with no soap
dry them with the green towel.
2. If you wash your hands with the green soap
shake them into the purple potato peelings.
3. Everybody gets a piece of pie.
4. If you ask somebody nicely
and they still say no
do a small dance in a secret room.
5. Always carry ostriches upright.
6. Never (ever) let a capital letter
wander the house alone at night.
7. At birthday parties, remember your mother.
—Nancy Kangas
nooo! now where will I ever learn the rest of that muse anthem that begins
Oh better far to throw a pie
Into a muse’s indignant eye
Than to play a bookish, timid part
With a muse’s head and a muse’s heart?
Actually, that was the best part of the song. It makes a good sort of prayer to all musiness.
Queen Julietaini of Kiador wrote that. I think she was 10 at the time.
i need a job this summer.
1) could i be a modereator?
2) would i get paid?
No and no. Perhaps you should check out the “Welcome, Neophytes” thread to get yourself started.
Pay? We do this for
mandated community servicepenance for misspent youthlove.i wish i could express how crushingly depressing this was. not only is my dream job not a job, but i only did not know that because i am an arrogant jerk who is too dumb to read the faq’s.
at least i can be decent enough to refuse to ask forgiveness. if did ask, and if you did find it possible to forgive me, i still would not be able to forgive myself. thus your mercy would be a waste of your invaluable time, which is another unpardonable sin.
I think it’s ok, you didn’t know. It would be a perfectly reasonable question on most online forums.
This may not be the place to ask, but while I understand that CUBE and DODECAHEDRON are anti-HPB organizations, what do the acronyms stand for?
Hmmm…I’ll try to get “wierd” up here someday. That will be my new life’s goal.
Shouldn’t it go on the MuseBlog Glossary instead? It’s not from Muse, unless you wrote a letter to them about it and it was published before I started subscribing. Either way, didn’t you say it was copyrighted or trademarked or something similar by you? I’m not sure it should be there if only you can use it. Still, it is a great word.
Anyone want to help us revise the Muse Glossary? Suggestions are welcome. (I haven’t seen any tenrecs in the magazine lately, for example.)
If I find myself with some spare time and I’m not photoshopping people’s faces into trees I’ll give it a revision. I have the feeling someone else is going to get there first, though.
Nooooooooooo not the tenrecs!
Cathassus- Chaos; an outrageous tumult.
Not to be confused with catharsis. The word comes from Flanders and Swann’s monologue “Los Oliveros”, as interpreted by Juliette.
Aster-Comet-Oid-Ite: A flying space rock with spikes sticking out of it.
Rock pie: A pie made out of rocks that flies in outer space.
You should have those. They were both mentioned in a section on flying rocks.
*sobbing* none o r this is relevant now
Perhaps not, but it was a lovely time while it was. I hope you’re doing well in life, stranger, and I hope the Muses live on somewhere in your memory as well as mine.