| This section was formerly known as "#p/g! flames," but
considering the #p/g! flame traffic is nowhere near as high as the stupid and funny things
we find in #p/g!, NMS, and alt.music.rush let's deal with that instead. So, good day, eh. Screw the explanations! I wanna read the
flames!
On the subject of #p/g! flames ...
What!? Flames against #p/g! ?? Of course! Most flames directed at #p/g! have something
to do with the fact that we don't talk about Rush 100% of the time. It's true, too ... we don't
talk about Rush all the time.
You see, some of us actually have interests other than Rush (imagine that!).
It gets boring real fast to sit and talk Rush Rush Rush Rush Rush Rush all the time. Would
you like it if we came over to your house and talked about the bathroom sink all day and
all night, for several years?
Another common flame subject is that we're rude, crude, and offensive. Well, so what.
So are any group of immature people who get together. If you're such a big prude that you
can't take the occasional crass comment, then what are you doing on IRC in the first place?
Anyway, the point is, if you come into #p/g! and want to talk about Rush, and actually
have something interesting to say, we of course will sit and talk about
it. We're quite friendly once you get to know us. Just be patient, for crying out
loud. If you come into #p/g! with your fists swinging acting like an ass ... well, if
you're lucky, we'll ignore you. If you come into #p/g! with a copy of Visions in
front of you, extensively quote tons of little-cared-about details and say we're not Rush
fans because we don't know all this by heart, you can piss off.
There's also absolutely no reason why you have to hang out on #p/g! if you really don't
like it ... just go hang out on another channel. Talk about Rush there, talk about your
bodily functions there. We're not here to tow the company line. If you can't get
along in the electronic frontier, you must be a real charmer in person....
Another thing: the #p/g! WWW server admins do not endorse the use of NMS or
alt.music.rush or any public forum for flaming. If you have "complaints" about
#p/g!, why not bring it up with the people on #p/g! ? Or at least send us a message
through here. You might be surprised how pleasant and
rational of a reply you'd get. Airing out your dirty laundry in public is utterly stupid.
Now that that's out of the way, let's get on to some hilarious and
pathetic stuff:
National Midnight Star
You know it, you read it, you memorize it, you quote it to your friends. Well, maybe
you just "grep" it for references to #p/g! In the old days, #p/g! was oft
lambasted in this on-line journal of Rush fandom. Here are a few of the better items.
- Well, guess we can't have all the fun, can we?
- Just to show we aren't the only ones having fun ... check out what happens when a NMS
subscriber gets a little bit beyond reason.
- Those guys on p/g! are assholes! (with a new addition!)
- We appear to have cropped up in the National
Midnight Star yet again. Seems some people think we should only discuss all things
Rush. Shyeah... we do have lives outside Rush music. Followed up with a rather civil reply from our old buddy Slythex (and he's not
kidding, he is the Grand Asshole of #p/g! ;-)
- Poor Widdle Myke's Bodily Functions
- One of the first #p/g! flames from the NMS ... Myke "I can't spell" Hutchings
complains about "bodily functions" discussions on #p/g!
- Face it Juno, Life Sucks
- Yes, this is probably the one you'll all remember. The famous "Don't hang out on
#p/g!, they'll just bring you down" NMS flamewar brought about by our own (?) Juno
(Julie Oneida, "rivendell"). This started as a result of Myke's complaint. This
has not only her original flame, but pretty much all the reponses to it.
- I can flame you in real time
- ... and in response to all that NMS flaming was this rather long and painful discussion
with juno herself on irc. Sure, this'd be better placed in the logfile section, but it
just flows so well here. This log was courtesy of Slythex.
- I'm irrelevant? No, you are!
- Here's a case where someone uses the NMS just to take a spiteful hit at a specific
(former) #p/g!-er — AnalogKid . In fact, I don't even know what this was about.
AnalogKid did the right thing and kept crap out of the NMS.
- You're too young, he's too touchy
- A semi-followup to Juno's "Life Sucks" complaint ... Juno mentions #p/g! in
one of her NMS posts, and Mike Weintraub (Jvi) takes it a perhaps a little too personally.
The moral of the story: lighten up, eh. :-)
- I'm a loonie, he's a loonie, she's a loonie, wouldn't you
like to be a loonie too?
- Here's the famous pre-emptive strike someone took against the "Lunatic
Wannabe's" on #p/g!. Don't really know what prompted this one, but it promises to be
interesting! :-)
- "Oh Geddy, what kind of tree would you
be..."
- This one doesn't have anything to do with #p/g!, but it involves juno so what the hell.
More or less all the nasties NMS discussion regarding the "interview" that Juno
was supposedly going to give to Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. Points to look for:
"Geddy Geddy Bo Beddy" and Zuck's love letter to his soulmate.
- "I've got my nose where, rush-mgr?"
- Not really a winner, but enough to get us started. The current tops in the "I can
kiss the rush-mgr's ass in my .sig better than anyone else" contest. If you find a a
stupid Rush .sig (it doesn't have to kiss the rush-mgr's ass, but it might help) use our comment form and let us know (remember to include where it was
to make it easier for us to find, eh?). We'll have the world's biggest collection of dumb
Rush .sigs.
- "Who is this Rivendell guy anyway?"
- Just to show not everyone has such a great a time with Juno the first time they meet
her...
- That's okay, you don't say anything nice about
Slythex either
- Ahhh the lamest place to take a cheap shot at someone, in their .sig in the NMS.
Courtesy of Juno, of course.
Usenet
One alternative for not-ready-for-NMS (or often, banned from the NMS) Rush fans with a
grudge is to attack the fine and friendly #p/g! folks on alt.music.rush.
- p/g in Usenet (awww ... again?!?)
- Funny thing when some loser from the past decides no one has heard from him lately. What
do you do? Post a whiney anti-#p/g! post to alt.music.rush!
And before, it was fashionable just to flame if you were a member of that other Rush
channel ... but apparently, they can't cut a break now either.
Website Feedback
It comes from the feedback form, it comes from e-mail ...
people just can't seem to comment enough on the site that changed the face of the
Internet.
- ... but no, I'M NOT BITTER!
- This little tidbit appeared via the online comment form. Apparently someone is a wee bit prossed at being dissed planning the Toronto
gathering. (Oh, and it appears Myke either still can't spell or really needs
them typin' lessons...)
- Digest This!
- The #p/g! Digest was a goofy attempt at mass notification about
potential #p/g! events — an undertaking by the great and mighty Glen Reed. Glen,
however, appears to have a critic regarding the stature of his fine
publication. Personally, I think it sounds like the guy needs some major medical help.
- And what's in the mailbag tonight, Bob?
- Oh yeah, we get mail. Tons of it. Most can be broken down into 3 topics:
- "So, like, when is Rush gonna tour? TELL THEM TO COME HERE!!!" (Yeah,
like I have any pull with the band, and would tell them to go there anyway, you
loser.)
- "Duude, do you know when the next Rush album is coming out?" NO. Now
piss off.
- "Hey man, did you hear they're Breaking Up, 'cause Neil has Cancer?" Yes, I
heard that.. over FIVE F***ING YEARS AGO, MORON. GET A LIFE.
Of course, we also get mail that is quite intellectually stimulating, such as case 1, case 2a and case
2b, and case 3.
- ... and your pages suck, too
- Even the editorial comments on these pages are real
informative.
- Say, did'ja hear about the new album coming out???
- See what kinda mail you get if you put a little test out? This was about the sharpest
response we got from having a little Internet Fishing Line™ cast out in the waters of
falsehood. Sometimes, all you catch are jellyfish...
- Huh huh huh, you guyz are a buncha lozers
- One little comment, one little steenking comment that differentiates music fans
from DittoHeads, and this is the kinda crap morons mail. Makes you wonder just
how much television the brain can actually absorb...
Boy We're Bored
After you've discussed Rush endlessly for a few years, your mind starts to wander. I
mean really wander. Here are some excerpts from #p/g! logfiles containing the
wild and wacky from the world of IRC.
- Immolate this baby...
- Mike promotes his stand on self-martyrization.
- Boy, sure has beeon slow in here
- Dunno what prompted this little shi^H^H^Hgem. I guess things
had become too dull for someone to bear.
- Arrrr... The Pirates of #p/g!
- Just to show what really happens when a bunch of really bored #p/g!-ers do when they
come across the Cask of '43....
- Hung by the neck 'til lame
- Oh here's a classic #p/g! log ... so shall be the fate of all idiots looking for sex in
#p/g!
- Yeah, but did Al win an Oscar™ for it?
- Another silly log. Based on the Movie based on the TV show based on the true story based
on pure fiction.
- Have a Merry Little Friggin' Christmas
- The #p/g!-ers butcher one of the better tunes of the holiday season. This little page
mystically appeared a week or so before the Holiday season. Everyone had their little hand
in this mess...
We here at #p/g! admin central can't catch everything. If you see a good #p/g! flame
anywhere, or you have a good logfile or something, let us know
about it! |
