Fridge

I must confess as to puzzlement why people would find Rush lyrics cryptic? True, there are a few clever play on words, but in the vast majority of cases they are pretty straightforward.

QUOTE (Mustard Death @ Jul 21 2007, 12:00 AM) QUOTE (Mrs. Huck Rogers @ Jul 20 2007, 03:39 PM) QUOTE (rickyrob @ Jul 20 2007, 08:16 PM) QUOTE (rushfanNlv @ Jul 20 2007, 07:10 PM) QUOTE (tick @ Jul 20 2007, 03:56 AM) just a thought, anyone pompous enough to start a thread about being able to ignore certain members trully deserves to be ignored. You totally missed the point of why I was asking about this feature. It was never my intention to ignore any of the regular members on this board but rather the trolls that seem to pop up on message boards every summer. Kids who are bored with nothing better to do than start fights and post spam type stuff on message boards. At another site I used to frequent, this was a huge problem and the admin would basically ignore the problem so it was easier to use the ignore feature. I've said this since the beginning of the thread. I apologize if I am offending anyone here because I really like everyone on this message board. But the admins can't ignore it, because their job is to do just the opposite. If someone at your workplace is mouthing off to all the others, the directors don't just ignore what is happening, they have a duty to act, so the admins can't ignore. If a 'troll' comes on here (usually with a new member name), how can you choose to ignore someone that you don't even know you need to ignore? Often they go away pretty soon anyway, and if they are out to really annoy and realise there is an 'ignore' feature on here, they just come back and log in as a new member. yeah and sometimes its fun to watch them go down in flames They are entertainment man!! Rushfanlv you need to look at the trolls like that FINALLY! Somebody who gets trolls. I personally love most of them... I've seen trolls who post genuinely funnier stuff than any "real" member of a message board... some of them are very good at the game. The ones that aren't usually realize what they're doing isn't working and leave pretty quickly. Exactly! Also, trolling is more a state of mind than a label to apply to a person. A great many of us have engaged in some sort of minor trolling at some point or other in the past. it could even be argued that playing "devils advocate" can be a form of it. The only problem is when someone does it constantly.....

Classic I used to love this. We need more stuff like this nowadays. It seems the media are too scared to offend anyone at the moment.

^^^^ Apparently unable to use an internet search engine

QUOTE (rushman14 @ Jul 19 2007, 05:03 AM) ^^^^ likes...uh...oil rigs... n stuff. ^^^ Really needs to take a crash course in the art of Flaming

^^^^^ Likes spanking the monkey a little too much

^^^ I didn't know, and more to the point I couldn't care less. Olaf the yellow would have wet his knickers at some of my ancestors, but we don't like to brag Furthermore, I enjoy a battle of wits but I make it a rule never to fight with an unarmed man....

^^^ can't spell "weirder" (I would consider that a compliment anyway!)

QUOTE (KublaKhan @ Jul 17 2007, 12:37 PM) ^^^ Shut up.... Hey, dude, you got 1800 posts! cool. ^^^ No I don't

QUOTE (KublaKhan @ Jul 17 2007, 12:33 PM) ^^^ Doesn't know that I dont live in Mianus. ^^^ Couldn't read my post properly, where I stated he had Mianus LISTED in his sig, not that he lived there which is pretty obvious

QUOTE (KublaKhan @ Jul 17 2007, 12:24 PM) ^ Lives in a place with a funny name. Aberdeenshire. Sounds so wierd. ^^^ Thinks Aberdeenshire sounds weird when he has "Mianus" listed in his sig under location

^^^ Needs a crash course in English grammar and spelling

I once gave him some good hat advice to take back to Neil.... Advice which sadly, he seems not to have followed

QUOTE (rickyrob @ Jul 16 2007, 12:32 PM) touche We all know that EVERYTHING thats American is damn good Agreed. They are much better at us than lots of things e.g. being overweight,shooting each other,invading other countries,squabbling about religion,...the list is endless (BTW, this is a JOKE, before anyone gets their knickers in a twist)

I remember this well...absolutely hilarious and pretty courageous too in some of the subject matter they tackled.

Blade Runner Sleuth Spartacus The Shawshank Redemption Alien Dark Star

QUOTE (rushfanNlv @ Jul 12 2007, 08:08 PM) QUOTE (Fridge @ Jul 11 2007, 01:56 PM) Great idea.... I can then simply put everyone in the entire forum on it and only have to look at my posts. That way my delicate sensibilities won't be offended by any opinion that doesn't agree with mine, and I won't have to whine and cry about all the big bad bullies out there that don't live in sunny la-la land Dude, again....you are way off. This has nothing to do with delicate sensibilities or opinions. You, I wouldn't ignore. You are always good for a laugh. Trolls however, I would choose to ignore. Again I'll say it: It is an option in the program and all message board programs for a reason. You know, I can forgive most things... But being called "dude" is not one of them. Please desist from using this hippy, joss-stick, 70's language forthwith or I will be forced to use the ignore button

QUOTE (Necromancer @ Jul 14 2007, 03:26 PM) It's a sour grapes kind of thing. We can easily enjoy stuff like Monty Python or Benny Hill, but the Brits and such just can't accept that the "colonies" have funny f*ckers too. Why do Americans always assume that every Brit laughs uproariously at Monty Python? They did their fair share of guff and most of it was about thirty years ago. Some sketches are horribly dated,though to be fair, when they were good they were very good. Benny Hill? WTF, talk about out of date! It's hardly representative of British humour nowadays. FYI, America has produced some fine comics, from The Marx brothers to Bill Hicks (RIP to one of the funniest men I ever heard). You've turned this into a much broader discussion than it was intended to be. I was not slating American comedy in general, but merely saying I think the original version of The Office is much better.... Thats all folks.

QUOTE (ReRushed @ Jul 14 2007, 03:02 PM) QUOTE (Fridge @ Jul 14 2007, 09:41 AM) QUOTE (Necromancer @ Jul 14 2007, 02:02 PM) QUOTE (Milton Bridge @ Jul 11 2007, 04:54 PM) Get the BBC original on DVD it is far superior to the American version Put the pipe down and step away from the crack. I've seen the originals, and yes... they are good. But SUPERIOR to the American version??? Get real. The cast for the American show is just outrageously funny. And besides... the show is set in my hometown, Scranton Pa. Sorry... The original British version pisses all over the American one from a great height. Wow! People from the United Kingdom prefer the British version and people from the United States prefer the American version! Go figure! It's comedy! I don't "get" the Three Stooges but love the Marx Brothers. I never thought Martin and Lewis were funny but Abbott and Costello cracks me up. You may prefer the British version but it doesn't "piss" all over the American version. It's just a different take on a situation. I don't live in the United Kingdom, so there are things I won't "get" in the British version. With the American version I usually laugh throughout the entire half hour. It's all relative. Whatever peels your banana mate I still think they've removed a healthy slice of the sad irony of the original for the benefit of American TV, but horses for courses and all that

QUOTE (Necromancer @ Jul 14 2007, 02:02 PM) QUOTE (Milton Bridge @ Jul 11 2007, 04:54 PM) Get the BBC original on DVD it is far superior to the American version Put the pipe down and step away from the crack. I've seen the originals, and yes... they are good. But SUPERIOR to the American version??? Get real. The cast for the American show is just outrageously funny. And besides... the show is set in my hometown, Scranton Pa. Sorry... The original British version pisses all over the American one from a great height.

QUOTE (treeduck @ Jul 11 2007, 11:46 PM) 5 Fridge (scottish sheep and goat "tamer"/big Larger Bowl and Counterparts fan/bouncy castle pub brawler) I'll have you know I can tame any sheep or goat, not just Scottish ones... Lock up your livestock! Baaaaah!

Great idea.... I can then simply put everyone in the entire forum on it and only have to look at my posts. That way my delicate sensibilities won't be offended by any opinion that doesn't agree with mine, and I won't have to whine and cry about all the big bad bullies out there that don't live in sunny la-la land

QUOTE (EveryNerveAware @ Jun 19 2007, 03:34 AM) QUOTE (Fridge @ Jun 17 2007, 12:36 PM)Geddy decides to try a bit of crowd control and quite politely asks the crowd to move back. Being totally ignored, he got a little ratty, and it showed in the tone of his voice. As one, there was this massed shout of "f**k off you big nosed bastard!". I swear it was uncanny, as if it had been rehearsed. I think I found a recording of the concert you described. Is this the one....? http://www.megaupload.com/?d=62MSRDVQ I didn't hear the crowd say anything back but maybe this isn't the one... or it just wasn't audible in this recording. Sorry, can't access this as I'm offshore and firewall won't let me. if this is the one from MITAS site then I don't think that is it...

I've posted this before somewhere, but I can't find it. Back in the Signals tour in The Royal Highland Exhibition Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh (known affectionately as "that f***ing cow shed"), the crowd was surging forward, and some people were getting trapped by the barrier. This was in the days before all seating venues remember. I was about ten feet from the stage and I remember being picked off my feet and literally carrried by the sway of the crowd. Scary but exhilarating as well. Anyway, Geddy decides to try a bit of crowd control and quite politely asks the crowd to move back. Being totally ignored, he got a little ratty, and it showed in the tone of his voice. As one, there was this massed shout of "f**k off you big nosed bastard!". I swear it was uncanny, as if it had been rehearsed. Poor Geddy didn't know what to do, and just blinked and looked confused..... Ok, maybe I shouldn't laugh but to a fifteen year old it was funny as hell at the time....

My son, Joe, and my daughter-in -law Lorna with my new grandson, Ben http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i27/Fridge-1967/baby086.jpg http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i27/Fridge-1967/baby057.jpg