:sputter!: And read the board with anything in your mouth at your own risk!



Wouldn't you know, that's exactly what was in my mouth? And now in my nose, and on my desk...

I just thought of something else to add to the list of things to do when you feel the pressure building; Imagine Randy talking about ninjas, especially proposing that ninjas are somehow responsible for a murder case. I swear it's like having a yoyo in each hand. You simply cannot imagine Randy uttering the word 'Ninjas,', all earnest like as a theory and stay mad. If you can, then you are one serious hot head.

Ha!

Now, I have to laugh, because there was a time when this board... well, I mean the "Old" official board that turned into this one... used to be so thick with whiners and belly-achers, most of whom couldn't even spell "Sharona" correctly while complaining about her being off the show... that if you actually defended Traylor Howard or the writers, you were likely to be accused of working for the network. In retrospect, now, it's funny.

To my knowledge, the only person here who makes money on the show is Lee Goldberg, one of the writers, who has garciously posted here a few times in response to questions about the show ... oh, and Jeff beal, the guy who wrote the original Monk theme (the one that goes "Doot doot doot doo, doot doot doot doo, doot doot doot doo doo;"); he posted here a couple of times. I keep hoping that Natalie Teeger, who plays Traylor Howard, will post here, but... *sigh*

In fact... The Monk MMMTB Bus thread originally got its start as a refuge from negativity, where folks who were happy about Monk and the direction of the show were able to "Go Along For The Ride." It was Tami's idea, after a poster called her a "Looser" for liking the show (I think it was the same person who called me an "Elitest," leading to the natural question: "Which poster is the Elitest Elitist?". Brilliant of Tami to think of it, as witnessed by the fact that even on a new board, in at least it's third incarnation, the Monk MMMTB "bus" thread is still rolling along!

Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents worth... And, you know, it's still, even in season seven, a darned good show.

But you're right... it's only TV.

Naw...don't go back to lurking.....jumping in is the best thing , IMO.
I hope you watch the show & enjoy yourself here. All voices are welcome and needed.

If ya really want to have some CRAZZZZZZyyyyy fun, check out the Magical Monk Mystery Tour Bus thread.....where an imagination can and DOES (at least in the case of mine) RRRRrrrrUUUUUuuuuuNNNNNNnnnnn WILD! LOL

How you enjoy the show is up to you. We all enjoy the show ( or not because we take issue w/ a particular eppie or something w/ in it.) on different levels & for different things. How you express yourself here is your RIGHT.

B.
Watch Monk, talk & enjoy.

Some of us old timers have weathered out many a storm and waded through the puddes of muck and made it out alive, humor intact and are still here to talk about it.

*tromp, tromp, tromp*

I thought it was bad when everyone was giving their opinion on (On The Run) This is worse. Like I said back then, we are not talking about a documentary here.

Hi, I am and in out this week and trying to catch up. I totally agree with Sally above and I just want to send hugs to everyone especially Crystal, Yvette, Mandeville, and Liv. Oh get in here Arianna, Og, Kawasakifan, Bflogal, Quinfran, and kees-lady! Com'on Beholder, Total recall, and Ramblin man - where's Mi, chik and pinkie? EVERYBODY - GROUP HUG!!!!! I love the very unique personalities that we are getting to know here. Its fun to discuss Monk in such detail with people who watch as carefully or more carefully than I do. I think we are the best! You guys are much more imaginative than most of the people in my daily life and for that I am very thankful.

I would like to encourage the faithful to stay here and the lurkers to jump in and the newbies to make themselves at home. There's been a ton of good advice here, so I won't repeat it.


Question to salad makers: Have you tried armadillo? That tastes like chicken, too!

:hug:

As for salads and things that taste like chicken...Well, I think if I want something that tastes like chicken, I'll eat chicken, thanks. And I've always been very proud of the fact that I've never eaten roadkill, or that you normally see as roadkill. In fact, on my worst day, I would tell myself, "At least I haven't eaten roadkill....Or touched it."

Hey, you know what the last thought to go through an armadillo's mind is? 'Watch me scare the hell out of those little yellow lights!'

First, I don't think that I actually 'attacked' you in my post. I quoted you because there was an insinuation that someone was trying to preach at others or take over the board and make others behave in a way they didn't want to. Outside of the quotes the message had nothing to do with you. As I said in my private message, if you felt I attacked you, show me my "attacking" words.

I have never said I knew or understood what you were thinking/feeling. You assume that I can't understand differing opinions (and this thread has nothing to do with 'differing opinions' or censoring other peoples words, attitudes or thoughts). I am not trying to have people post things in a manner that I find "acceptable" (show me where I said that - because what I find acceptable would bore the socks off of me. LOL). Show me where I force people to agree with me, or where I claim or make other people say that I am superior. This thread, again, is going the other way. I am saying that I need help in finding ways to hedge that need to post whatever comes to mind, which may be what I am feeling at the moment, but isn't rooted in anything but emotion (and not truth). Saying that asking for help and getting it from others who have/see the same problem is superior is akin to telling an alcoholic or a drug addict not to go to AA/NA/ whateverA meetings or they will be seen as "being superior". I need help in this area, and I'm seeking advice. If that makes you upset/angry/whatever I really can't help that.

You brought up my problems with Mandeville. You said it was my fault - which is what I posted earlier. I reacted to what confused me in anger and I posted stuff I shouldn't have. I hurt my friend. I also admitted it and apologized in the thread for it. I'm trying to get help so that I don't go off half-cocked and blast people with my words. I don't want to do that any more. Now you are claiming that 'I'm doing exactly the same thing again' with you. Please, again, show me where I hurt you with my words.

So, were you defending youself in your relpy to me, that is the question. Most of what I posted before was an admission of what I did wrong and what I was looking for when I started this thread. Then all I see in what you posted is all of my problems. How I screwed up. My problem with Mandeville. How I'm superior, how I'm trying to run the board. Wow. Is that how you 'defend yourself'? It seemed kind of like an attack to me.

And in the end, and from what I've seen on this thread, policing myself has been the plan, pretty much from the get-go. Other people have been observent enough to notice that. I, and the peope who have posted their opinions, have not strayed too far from "I" as far as what could be done to make this more user friendly. That's what I noticed. It's not about the board or the people on the board. "They" are not the problem. It's how one person responds to another person. Actually, as far as I'm concerned, you have absolutely NOTHING to do with 'my' problem. You seem not to have any problem, in fact.

Hi there

I am generally found over in the USA Criminal Intent forums but I can say that we CI fans have our moments of difficulty too

I find that things in this thread can be helpful
http://forums.usanetwork.com/index.php?sho...p;hl=friendship

And we also have a pinned Etiquette Thread that doesn't always get read but has some good ideas in it
http://forums.usanetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=386733

Glad to see Monk fans are as community minded as CI fans are

The only other advice I have is to walk away from a keyboard and work through your emotions and thoughts before you post...I don't always follow my own advice and when I've replied emotionally and not worked through what I was feeling or thought about what I was posting it has come back to haunt me.

The Vault

How can you say that? Do you work for the network or something?



Hi, Kees.

Work for the network? Hey Man, I own the majority of shares in the network, nothing gets aired without my permission....I only pretend to be a poverty stricken little old lady of feeble mind and body with great grandkiddies, it throws off the gold diggers.......

The 'looser' I get with the programming the higher the ratings go, I'm 'elite' ya know.



Wanna buy some of my shares old buddy, old pal....and a bridge I've got for sale....?

Hey Hello Everybody!
I've been reading all replies and I'm sure the answers for the topic have already been said. Like many of you, I really don't like when the so called negativity is around, I just ignore it and look for the positive, funny, intelligent, creative, warm, amazing topics, which are the majority here.
I'm a new Monk fan and this board is one of the most interesting things I have in my life. I love here! I love reading the posts, I love waiting for Metacomet and Alex posting new Tony Shalhoub photos and news, I love reading Mandelville, Yvette, history08, Liv, Beholder, CrystalSmith and many other's opinions. I love kees_lady poems, I love Tonyfan's enthusiam, I love waiting for Bubba's short opinions. I love seeing that new fans are coming in.
This is a nice place and I don't intend to go anywhere. I'll always stay here and if "negativity" comes I"ll patiently wait until it disappears, like a storm that comes, brings some trouble and then goes away. I'll wait for the sweetness return!

Well said...I agree...storms come and go but Monk will never change...or will he this season??

I think some of the bad vibes are due to frustration on loging in under this new upgrade...I am terrified of logging out so I stay on so I dont get logged out..I feel for the other posters here that are upset. We are a proud bunch...we dont want Manville to go out and become someone new...damn it....Hang in there everyone...things are a changing...and we will ride this one out!

What a beautiful post! I think we should all follow your example.

Do you have access to another computer? If so you can try logging in without logging out on the computer you normally use -- that's what I ended up doing.

I couldn't log in, so I used the 'forgot password' option. It sent me a new one -- and then I was in. But for some reason it won't allow me to change my password. But I guess I can live with that.

I can't, I can't remember numbers. I can remember words or letter, but not numbers. If it was even partly numbers and partly letters I could remember it better, but this new pass-number, there's just not way I will remember it. Unless it's like my birthday or oone of my kids' birthday.

I can't remember numbers either -- so I wrote them down. I have a book with all my passwords -- if I ever lose it, life as I know it will cease to exist.

I'm rather impressed you can keep up with the book! I tried that a few times, and failed. I kept misplacing it or writing stuff down on any scrap of paper to be added to the book later, only I never did. I registered for one site, and it asked for a password, and for some reason, none of my regular passwords would do, and it asked for one that no one would think of. In a fit of frustration, and because I was at that time writing Psychkus, I made the password 'hermaphroditic', which was accepted, and to be sure I could remember it, I wrote 'hermaphroditic' on the plastic part of the front of my monitor...in really big letters with a permanent marker. Not the smartest thing to do. For a year after that, people who came over would ask me why my monitor was hermaphroditic, and when I explained about the password and the website, the next question was always, "What website was that?" And I felt extra, extra stupid because I couldn't remember which website it was!! I forgot to write *that* down!

I managed to scrub hermaphroditic almost completely off the monitor with alcohol, but there it's still there faintly. It's not as easy to read what it said now.

LOL -- I can see you saying, 'Yeah -- there's the male port...and there's the female port. It's a rare, hermaphroditic monitor. Like earthworms...yeah.'

I've been known at times to use obscure Bible characters -- they work great if... you can remember how to spell them.

Nebuchadnezzar is a great password -- although not quite obscure enough for me.

Well, I have been known to refer to hermaphrodite cables or connectors (to keep people from trying to sell me one that had the same end on both ends... Double females, or double males...).

As for passwords, One place where I worked had a password history of one... meaning that when it forced you to change passwords, it could not be the one prior, but could be any previous. So I alternated between "Numinor" (the C.S.Lewis Spelling) and "Numenor" (the J.R.R.Tolkein Spelling). At most, I would only fail to log in once. And it was always "The True West, where the Menel-Tarma had vanished beneath the waves, through the folly of Tar-Pharizon... "

There r multiple approaches to this problem:

1 Praise them this will confuse them and their brains will short circut.
2. Serve them tea laced with arsnic and ask for their opinions ....then wait.
3. Tell them they won a contest to go to Vegas where we take them on a tour of the desert!

I don't remember numbers either - guess that's why I've stayed on this side of Madison, I've been able to keep my same phone number since the late 1960's.

I tried writing them down but then a grandkid would find the booklet and I'd have to change passwords which I then couldn't remember...sometimers disease, it's hellish to get old.

Kees...my mom has the same issue with passwords and stuff...she wrote down all her email addresses and then "poof" it disapeared! She was so upset...but what she had done was write it all down in a notebook and then threw it out...not the sharpest thing she has done over the years but I'm sure some of us have done the same thing before...Memories...the shadows of my mind...??

That's the big problems, too many memories shadow my mind.

I never throw anything out, my condo looks like Ambrose lives here only I'm not keeping stuff in the hopes Dad will return...but when one of the kids or grandkids needs something I'm the first stop on their list and I usually have what they're looking for.

I have a little password book next to my computer. But I usually use it to jot down notes or websites or anything else that comes up while I'm online, so looking up a password is difficult, there's so much stuff to wade through. And I am also guilty of thinking I will remember a password. That doesn't work, I should know that by now.

My passwords are mostly all the same. Same 4 number combo (part of an old telephone number) and a variation of a favorite character name - guess who- for alphanumeric. My new laptop has a fingerprint launch mode. That works pretty well, and it remembers the password for me. If I know it, I tend to skip the fingerprint thing, because it takes so long for my print to register (up to 3-4 swipes) because of user error or the cut I recieved on my 'launch' finger.

Uh, Crystal -- I'd seriously consider changing them all now.

Naw, they're all in my brain. Nobody's getting in there.

Well, dont get captured by a spy...they love to torture people...

Well if a spy really needs the username and password for my Myspace page or my library card account, I'll just have to turn it over...

He can't have my fingerprint, though. That's not negotiable.

Wow....so many openings to load up and fire!!! I refuse to succumb to my basic nature!! Please no more tempting me tho devil woman!! loooooool!

I said in not out...

I see.....ur using a technicallity to circumvent the situation......nicely played Ms Smith!

Now I need ur help to accomplish one of my LIFE's Goals......I want you to help me form the committee to have ANY "posts" that are not humourous or informative deleted from the message boards! My aspiration in life is to be the Grand Pooh Bah .....but so many r ahead of me ..... however they have a lot of "hi" "how r u" "just checking in" type posts I can't catch up. At the very least they should have a *asterick like Barry Bonds. This is hardly fair to count quanity only! Some like Lady_Kees also have great insights but she's just TOO SOCIABLE to make this a level playing field!

I appeal to ur sense of fair play and lack of better things to do! I promise when I'm the Benign Dictator or Exalted Grand Vizer I won't forget you

Ah, we have post total ambitions, do we now?

But all my posts are either informative or humorous. Therefore all of mine count, right?

Hmmmm!!! I may need to form an "assanation squad" because urs r indeed both humours and/or informative! Or we could sign a non aggression pac! Do you want to play Hitler or Stalin??? It worked well for them

You realize I'm only doing this for the "greater good of the community"

We could assign a *, ?, or a $ sign to each poster according to what and how they posted ... better yet, I'll ask Artaxesxes (Og) to revive the point system. You start at 0 and lose points for misspelling the names of the characters, add points for correct spellings, lose for trollishness, add for non trollerish, so on and so forth.

Ah Good!!!! Og is my ally I have him in Hollywood working with the stars to find Trudy's murderer.....he should have this wrapped up by next season. I'm sure any point system will have a curve for those of us who didn't get through collage! Is TrollerTrash posted by people who live in mobile homes and say "y'all"?? http://forums.usanetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=405010

LOL, TrollerTrash...btw, I never got TO college - just a poverty level peon born and raised in a house my grandpa built. We had running water and electricity sometime after 1930, toilet in the basement, tub on the 2nd floor. Hated getting up in the middle of the night from a nightmare and chasing centipedes and spiders to find the toilet - or as some say, toylit.

Hey, my mother says 'toylit' -- I always wondered where that came from. She also says 'prentzels' instead of 'pretzels' and she 'steers' her soup (or rather she used to) instead of 'stirs.'

Once she told me to 'steer' the soup, and I made engine noises, and took the pot for a lap around the kitchen. That didn't go over too well, come to think of it...

Points Thread -- "And They're Off! The semi-annual running of the trolls"

OK -- Tami, I read that thread, and I only have one question:

WHO is going to clean the cranberry juice and ginger ale out of my keyboard?

Get yourself over here immediately -- and bring me a wipe.... um... Please?

And I think it needs an edit -- we now need to award points for people who, on their first post, complain that the writers are idiots because they know that Monk doesn't drink anything but Sierra Springs

My mom-in-law use to say eril instead of 'oil' and wondered which 'root' we were taking to get her back to Indiana.



I still think the troll count should be in minus numbers, the one with the most negative number wins 'Troll of the Year.'

Telling on myself now: As a kid instead of windshield wipers, I said "Winchill wipers" and instead of "Brand new" I used to say "New Bran". I did have a friend, as an adult, who pronounced "orange" as 'Oinj"

My daughter had good diction, but the one word we would never correct her on was noodles -- she always said new-news. It was terminally cute.

I think Quinnie might be able to help you out ... I alerted the Hazmat penguins she was cleaning up some chicken s---hazmat ...


I wish there were less than zero trolls ... oh, I guess that's not what you meant by "troll count" ...


I know someone who calls the "minute hand" on an analog clock the "second hand" because the "hour hand" is the "first" hand ... she calls the "second hand" the "third" hand ...

Ugh....I taught my grandson the word DICTION now he can't stop using it but always accents the first sylabble to make sure I GET THE POINT! I'm afraid to explain dictator, dictionary, or dictation to him.......his mother already thinks I'm a bad influnce....go figure!

It took my son forever to stop pronouncing the 'w' in sword...why is it there in the first place?

I lol at myself because I have what I call brain/mouth dylexia, always trying to combine two words into one, it's become so common that whenever I do it at work one of my coworkers says, "Sue speaks English, part II." ;D If I don't combine words I mix them up and forever call my knitting needles ' nerting kittles.'

Sue---
I mix up words, and combine them into one word, also. At first, I thought it was because of age,or stupidity, but a Doctor once told me it is possibly because I think faster than I talk. I'm usually three thoughts ahead of what's coming out of my mouth. I didn't think it was possible to do anything faster than I talk.

Meme

I thnk you're right Meme, I think faster than I can speak and it's become such a habit now I'm writing the new "Sue Speaks English" dictionary.

My new word for the day - community members = communbers

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