Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?

[wdolson]

I've had a number of blank messages today that just say "Enter Message Here". I have never been able to figure out why that happens exactly, but on at least one occasion it happened at the same time someone was trying to PM me and the messages weren't getting through.

So if anyone has been trying to PM me today, please try again, but select e-mail instead of PM and see if that gets through.

In any case, if you PMed me and I haven't responded, it isn't because I'm ignoring you.

Bill

[zuluhour]

please ignore the sweater Bill

**poof**

[geofflambert]

Messages from Gorn frequently do not appear because our alphabet is not represented on your planet. If some gorn on my homeworld is trying to undermine my efforts to conquer Earth by contacting you directly, I need to know it. If they continue to try and contact you in some incoherent fashion, let me know and I will deal with it.

[Canoerebel]

Kenneth, what is the frequency?

[btd64]

Messages from the great Gorn beyond....GP

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Kenneth, what is the frequency?

That's trivia![:'(]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Messages from Gorn frequently do not appear because our alphabet is not represented on your planet. If some gorn on my homeworld is trying to undermine my efforts to conquer Earth by contacting you directly, I need to know it. If they continue to try and contact you in some incoherent fashion, let me know and I will deal with it.

Gorn darn it! [:D]

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Kenneth, what is the frequency?

That's trivia![:'(]

Perhaps many Forumites (at least middle-aged or older American players) will know this, but you'd have been my first pick of Forumite most likely to remember.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Kenneth, what is the frequency?

That's trivia![:'(]

Perhaps many Forumites (at least middle-aged or older American players) will know this, but you'd have been my first pick of Forumite most likely to remember.

It's an oldie but a goodie for sure! Well, ONE guy doesn't think so! [:D]

[guytipton41]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Kenneth, what is the frequency?

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed
I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream
Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh"

Writer(s): Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Michael Mills

[geofflambert]

STENDEC

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

STENDEC

Is STENDEC the Gorn word for FUBAR?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA ... t_accident

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: guytipton41

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Kenneth, what is the frequency?

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed
I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream
Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh"

Writer(s): Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Michael Mills

I suspect Canoerebel has never heard of REM and was rather referring to the assault on newsman Dan Rather. (See what I did there?)

This article tells the story, and also offers a decent theory on who "Kenneth" might have been.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/kenn ... dan_rather

[Canoerebel]

The Moose is right about Dan Rather being the source of the quote, though I know that the phrase also appears in an REM song. Coincidentally, I was in Athens in the late 70s and 80s, at the University of Georgia (as was forumite Bradford Kay) when the rock bands REM and the B-52s got their starts. I never saw either of them in concert, however, and know almost nothing about their work (with the exception of the B-52's "Rock Lobster," which one of the guys on my dorm floor played all the time and which became the theme song for our intramural softball team.)

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

The Moose is right about Dan Rather being the source of the quote, though I know that the phrase also appears in an REM song. Coincidentally, I was in Athens in the late 70s and 80s, at the University of Georgia (as was forumite Bradford Kay) when the rock bands REM and the B-52s got their starts. I never saw either of them in concert, however, and know almost nothing about their work (with the exception of the B-52's "Rock Lobster," which one of the guys on my dorm floor played all the time and which became the theme song for our intramural softball team.)

"Love Shack" was better. [:'(]

I was in Athens too, from Nov. 1980 to May 1981. The Big Acts were either outta there or still in the garage.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

STENDEC

Is STENDEC the Gorn word for FUBAR?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA ... t_accident

We gorn attempted to capture some humans on an airliner for interrogation. Unfortunately we botched it. So sorry.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

STENDEC

Is STENDEC the Gorn word for FUBAR?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA ... t_accident

We gorn attempted to capture some humans on an airliner for interrogation. Unfortunately we botched it. So sorry.

By the way, the coneheads obscured all the evidence. We still aren't very good at that.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Zorch



Is STENDEC the Gorn word for FUBAR?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA ... t_accident

We gorn attempted to capture some humans on an airliner for interrogation. Unfortunately we botched it. So sorry.

By the way, the coneheads obscured all the evidence. We still aren't very good at that.

Oh, you come from France, too? [:D]

Is STENDEC a relative of Beldar?

[geofflambert]

STENDEC is a coded message only gorns could interpret. Unfortunately I lost my codebook and therefor cannot tell you it's meaning.

[geofflambert]

Just in case anyone didn't bother to investigate Zorch's link here's another https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4231

Now gorn are famous for not even being able to transmit or receive Morse Code, Yes, we understand that it only requires one finger to generate Morse Code, but we only have claws. Expecting us to be able to do otherwise is a violation of our civil rights. Do not overinterpret my wisdom.