Ok folks, the dust was so thick in the old Part 6 rooms as to render it uninhabitable, even for a Sith (and no, I am NOT a StarWars geek by the way)

So, if anyone is in need of illumination or would like to offer any, here's da joint ya want...

Siths down and waiths

...emmmm....need a towel Mr. Innkeeper?

and a speech therapist

Well it's (a) phun :)

p'hun...that's sorta like getting... "gwitch" out of "Duhit" right?

Oh nevermind the phunnie puns....

What's this McGuire in Back Chat:
"Hoe she didn't fall in the vat..."

You're RIGHT... there was no "P" in Hope!!!!
Jeezums... it was funny. Namecaller!!!! Ha ha ha.

SHEESH!!!

I wonder who the mysterious guest is? Or maybe I should say, the Mstree-rious guest...
...Piker

NOPE... you're wrong. It was I, the lazy wun in too much of a hurry to log on/in.

So there :~

And Piker would be.... WHAT exactly? *hands on hips and tapping the right toe*

*still chuckling at Hoe*

ok Celtie..what is a sith monk?...

and I finally remembered my password ..lol

Wasn't there an "Alvin and the Sithmonks"
They used to sing in funny high-pitched (high-pith?) voices.

Okay lovely people, get your sith together.

Here I sith, Broken hearted
Came to sith but only f...

Oh!
Oh!
Sorry, thought I was in another room!
:-O

*groan*
jaysus, it's getting thick in here...
if I'd known Pt.7 would be the repository of bad puns, I'd...well...probably add one to the list myself *heh heh

Hmmm, I say let's have some limericks instead...and no Nantuckets now, dis here's a clean joint, family place y'know

I ask fer some limericks for fun
But I only see posted this one
Can't you folks even rhyme
and keep verses in time
Or can youse lousy bums only pun...???

Celt asked fer limericks and got none
The tribe didn't bite til he tossed one
Now there is no stoppin'
The limericks are poppin'
Can't seem to think of even wun pun

hmmm, not bad...a strange meter though consistent 8/8/6/6/9...what say you, Acc? Is it an official limerick? *s

On rereading Mac's, it's more like 9/9/6/6/9

*JEEZ*

Nine nine, six six, nine
Did I hear Mr Celt whine?
Mr Mcguire did his best
Now he's put to the test
I personally think he did just fine! :)

Hmmm, the limerick flow seems a bit light
Are my standards of too great a height?
either ten nine or eight,
Mac's was first rate
but it looks as if this one be sheit...

There was a podiatrist named Pete
Who's secret fetish was feet
Well heeled or just bare
Twas a sole-filled affair
Of leathers, and laces, discreet.

wink wink nudge nudge ;)

Like any good climber I know
its not the height that is the blow
its the depths that we fall
when giving our all
that causes the lack of a show

....see what did I tell ya *groan*

well done silk *clap clap*

While ol Acc toiled away at the bar
Several well known Tir wenches did spar
over whether Acc would
and on whether he could
And how long and how near and how far

Replied Acc to those tempting Tir wenches
"Serving bar here's like war in the trenches
And just one other thing
Didn't you see my ring?
So you wenches best come to your senses!"

eeemmmmm....Celt you need some illuminating. The June 12th limerick was by our lovely Sorcha, not I, deary.

You now have some grovelling to do! *winks at Sorch! LOL*

oops, sorry sorch *g* had my Sss mixed up

Tis ok, :)

HALLELUJAH!!! I bring ye tidings of great joy:
This past week it was announced that a new medieval manuscript has been discovered in an Irish bog. A 20-page book of psalms was found laying open, buried under layers of peat and dating from the years 800-1000 AD, contemporary to the Book of Kells.
Read more at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060726/ap_on_sc/ireland_ancient_book

Hey Celt, the New Orleans Celtic Nations Festival will be held in October this year in Lake Charles. I think the dates are the 13, 14, and 15. I plan on being there. They plan to eventually get it back to New Orleans, but that's not possible just yet. They need financial support. More to come...

thnx Mac, but I may be in Ireland around that time, not sure of dates yet *G* will keep in mind for next year though

My page, once a mighty foundation
of limericks, wit and oration
is now so rarely viewed
need I make it more lewd?
And risk staining my good reputation? *w

If it's a tarnishrd reputation yer wantin'
try running amok through a fountain
no need fer 'da clothes
to get wet don't you know
You'll need 'em after the cops find ya...

A canny young fellow named Celt
Thought the heat would cause him to melt.
To cool he was wanting
So he he went to a fountain
And disported himself in his pelt.

limericks, fountains, runnin' amok in a pelt??? Sounds like I've missed a remake of Sound of Music. hehe. Just buzzin' by. dayzy

There was a bright sprite named Dayzy
whose whereabouts for some time were hazy.
She's back and we're glad
But we're coughing like mad
'Cause she sprinkling that dust like crazy.

This sprite may have been gone a spell,
but she's glad to see ol Accasbel.
Though my sprite dust makes him hack,
I'll always enjoy my pal Acc.

Here's a little update about me,
Married 4 weeks, but 1 1/2 yrs. together have we.
Four kids which we are proud,
but like the Brady Bunch crowd.
Insane??? No just very very happy.
bzzzzzzzzz (my new sneezeless dust - hypo allergenic) hehe.

While the Sprite's new dust won't make ye sick
it is rumoured to have quite a kick
And we won't cast aspersions
that it might have allergens
nor would we turn ye in to the feds

aiee...that does'nt rhyme...try again:

While Sprite's new dust might make ye turn red
it is rumoured to expand yer head

how's that..?

and btw, it is GREAT to see folks actually limericking again at my dusty old board *G

*blows off dust in room....* ahem, it WAS great to see limericking in here, I says to meself...

We're in search of some jokes quite outrageous
So that writing them might prove contagious
'Course, the best are obscene
Though Acc might make a scene
But the subtler ones certainly won't faze us

While on the way to OHIO,
We gallantly drove on mile after mile-O,
We saw many a duck,
and one BIG cluster Truck,
which made us say Holy Shite time after time-O.

The easy solution for Madona? Hire the adobted baby's father as a nanny for her kids.

....then the family as scullery

....then the town as the roadies....

The translator told the African guy Madona wanted his baby and he agreed,wheres the problem?

Perhaps he misunderstood the "wants your baby"?

Everytime a woman says that to me, I never think that they might want one of my already existing children.

:)

There was a young woman named Madonna
Who told me "your baby I wanna".
I had to agree
out of pure charity.
But if the the wife finds out, I'm a gonner.

"Everytime"?!!! That's impressive Acc!...You apparently have a queue awaiting your gene pool? Hubba Hubba! A good Innkeeper is hard to find...or is it a hard Innkeeper is good to find?

*lmao.... slaps the grin off my own face and sends self to the far corner for the remainder of the day*

*OMG*
:-O

Where are the emoticoms when you need them?

The traditional out of court settlement in a case like this would have Madona return to the village once a year and give the father a chance to win back his first born by guessing her true name.

Rumpy-Pumpy?

In an appearance on Oprah, Madona blamed the media for creating a fuss about the adoption. She is expected to reiterate this stance later this week during appearances on Live with Regis and Kelly and on the Today show. Anyone interested in the opinion of the child's father is urged to pick up the latest issue of Hut Quaterly due on newstands as soon as they get a replacement typewriter ribbon.

One has to feel a measure of sympathy for Madonna when one reads, for example
1933776%2C00.html,http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1933776,00.html
(Story title: Father backs Madonna adoption)

- which includes:
"The Human Rights Consultative Committee, a coalition of 67 Malawian rights groups, has petitioned the court to make sure no Malawian laws were broken in the adoption process, and to make the committee a party to the adoption so it can help assess Madonna's fitness as a mother."

Hands up anyone who would think that "a coalition of 65 groups" would be a rational input for "help"ing to assess someone's fitness for anything?
Hands up anyone who thinks that a coalition of 67 groups would in itself be fit for anything other than internal fighting? One could reasonably assume that these 67 groups are at some level competing with each other. You know how the world works!
That's just in Malawi! Extend out to the whole world plus its media and we have a multitude of parties offering their 'help' from a position of zero actual knowledge.

Hands up anyone who would be happy to let the media decide on their suitabliity to have or to adopt children.


Meanwhile in the non-news, while the Madonna adoption circus has fascinated the chattering classes, another collection of children in Iraq have this week had bits blown off their bodies, seen their parents burn alive - or if they were really lucky, have been killed quickly.

Maybe we should get Madonna to adopt one of them? How about all the good people insisting that she adopt one with bits missing, rather than a pretty one?
Or maybe we could do it like countries trading carbon emmissions. People could adopt one pretty one if they simultaneously adopt either one quadruple amputee, or two double amputees.

If Madonna was military, she'd be fit to kill children and kidnap/torture (oops! interrogate intensely) their parents - without the benefit of having a coalition of 67 or more groups assess her suitabliity first.

she could have picked a country that had laws she was willing to follow or one whose laws were more easily cicumvented by celebrity

seems to me that instead of adopting their babies we might try teaching these people how to fish, so to speak...

If selling fishing equipment becomes more profitable than selling guns, that'll happen!

Teach them to shoot the fish.

Weapons of Mackerel Destruction

Like shooting fish in a barrel. Or is that with a barrell?

On the breast of a woman named Gail
Was tattooed the fee for her tail,
and on her behind
For the sake of the blind
Was the same information in Braille :)

Her tail?
Like, she was a mermaid?

roflmao

Probably a Merman...


...Ethel Merman

...Drinks Ethel Alcohol ?

Ethel, Methyl, Ether way...

A cost-cutting pimp called Dave,
Kept his whore in a cave,
He said, "I admit,
I'm a bit of a shit,
But look at the money I save!" :)

For a pretty mermaid did I wish
Cause they usually are quite a dish
But then what did I get
that got caught in my net
with girl's legs but the head of a fish

four months and no one's stopped by? Guess this is a harbinger of things to come...ah, Tir we hardly knew ye

Jaysus Celt.
You've got bad SL-shock!

Tir will live on as long as people care.
It's not a place or a website. It's a feeling.

sorry Acc, yes a bit SLshocked...*S* dont worry I'll be hanging around, sooner or later I might even buy a faster computer *L

CELT! *applys emergency ice packs...checks breathing*

CELT!!! *slaps face a couple of times..watches eyeballs rolling about in their sockets*

OH GEEZ...this is worse than I first thought! I'm going to have to apply mouth to mouth resuscitation!!!! *applys "Passionate Plum Revival lipstick* Quick!...someone with a stop watch....TIME ME WHILE I GO IN...WE DON'T WANNA LOSE HIM!!! :O

*grin*

ANOTHER four months and not one single message?
Sorta upholds my earlier assessment. At SL I spent more time fiddling with controls than exchanging words and ideas...SL shock indeed, bah humbug.

Sorry Acc...*g* And I do so miss all you folks and the wild times we used to have ....sigh

And its not just my board...the last six times Ive checked the Recent Messages, nothing, nada zip. Cmon people, remember your old lowtech buddies, once in awhile, eh?

Don't feel abandoned Celt!
Things are quiet enough in SL as well :)

Tir is resting again, in all of its lives.

A prob with SL is that the graphics hardware needed to run it in non-frustration mode is a bit new/upmarket. The graphics card is important. At least 1G of memory and a fast CPU helps greatly too.

Without that, the initial learning curve is a curse, and things would still be frustrating ongoing.

We're in between! Tir is in the past and in the future. There's a lack of 'now'. :)

If it makes you feel any better Celt, I rarely go to SL as RL is keeping me very busy.

Hi Celt, McG, and Acc. I haven't gone to SL in awhile either. The rare times I come on to putter around, it's easier to just check old Tir to see if anyone has left a post. Hope everyone is well. Hugs all round.

I haven't gone away you know

aww tanks folks *sniff*

celt? you going through a mid life crisis or what?

Could mid-Lives crisis!

Text Tir is far from dead or forgotten :)

or cry uncle

Hmm, the mid-life crisis of Dionysus, as Garrison Keillor would say....

Perhaps...I guess like many folks I am averse to change; I follow old familiar ways and don't like all these newfangled hoops to jump through.

Mostly though I just miss the early days of Tir when four or five of us would actually get together and exchange ideas. Now its one or two folks posting monologues. And SL isn't helping any.

Not a midlife crisis, just feeling a bit left-out, that's all...

*G*

There's actually a place for text-based Tir in the whole "ball of wax".
At the moment, Second Life can't show a live web page in-world. Communication between people on the inside and the outside in real-time is more than clunky.

That is going to change in the future. At the same time the standard of PC power that is required to run SL is going to become the norm for many users.
Think back to the PCs of a few years to those available off the shelf now. Way more memory and speed now, and much less expensive at the same time.

....comes a sprite to set things right,
with dust and winks and dew,
Ok sorry I tried, but I'm just not a poet. hehe. Hope everyone is well and good.

I'm not a poet either, Dayzysprite, but that doesn't stop me trying! Poetry is a good way to heal the soul along with art.


The Lover's Monologue

I use to talk with you
Enthralled with all you do
but you stopped coming by you see
Then, I was only talking with me.


I'd prattle on my messenger
Always hoping you'd reply
but for all the tea in china
I may as well have died.

I got tired of hearing myself think
amd making love to my own mind
but that is what sadly happens
when a girl's love is tragically blind.

So now I *enjoy* my monologue
Solitary and confined
No longer waiting like a fool
to hear the your yahoo chime

One day when you are lonely
And wishing someone there
Perhaps your own sweet monologue
Will fall on deaf ear?

Ah, but therein lies the prob, Acc...PCs need to be updated every two years...mine is only three yrs old and already a dinosaur...and I refuse to get on that merry-go-round of updating every year just to be current and "with it".

Maybe I'll catch up eventually, maybe not. But these days RL is more a priority for me than SL, so I'll just have to hope that eventually SL gets on the ball and offers a text option or a low-tech interface for us peons. *L*

But thanks for keeping the low-tech Tir alive, Acc, if only for those great archives of message boards from the first ten years....*G

Celticus, RL is a priority for the vast majority of us! I don't know if you mean it to sound the way you do, but your tone seems to suggest those of us who *do* hang out in SL do not consider RL a priority, which is absolutely incorrect!

If you are simply not intersted in SL, then so be it. Perhaps one day you may change your mind.

SL is simply another 'toy' and/or 'tool' available for those who enjoy dabbling with technology and creativity.

Sharin' a pint in the auld Tir is still perfectly enjoyable and acceptable, and always will be :)

No, didnt mean to suggest that at all Silk, unfortunately "tone" is not carried well by typed words *S*

I meant it exactly as written...that these days I'm far more into RL activities and dont use my PC as often as I used to, so updating my PC power isnt a priority right now, whether for SL or any other application.
Still, Im missing me old Tir pals and hoping to chat once in awhile just fer old times' sake. *W

*retreats to quiet corner for awhile till things settle down*

I understand that things have now settled down.

- even the dust layer ;)

hmmm I hope I have not been misconstrued
me sighing was in no way directed at Pegs or Tec
just the usual existential angst *w

The Scandinavians (or the Finns and the Swedish at least) have a whole communication system using sighs and breath intakes.
Body language and the sigh/breath used in a context convey a wealth of information.
Sometimes it's used just to fill a silence.

maybe I oughta move to Sweden...*g

at least I could emote and not be thought a pariah

ah well...sweeps up dust in corner and leans broom up against wall

*quick intake of breath*

turns out lights

Looks out the window at the new dawn.

closes up shop...thanks to all for sharing

Hey celt we have been here before

I was looking thru the old boards and found they shoot horses don't they a bit like what you are feeling now

take a look

I have tried second life and it is not my cup of tea but then it does not have to be

It is tricky with the written word I have had my fingers burnt with emails before now

all the best

In 10 years we've been here and there :)

Plain text can be a swine at times.
No visual cues from the writer - other than smilies sometimes.
No visual feedback to the writer to indicate how the writing is going down with the audience.

So we have misunderstanding and flare ups. Then people sit back and reflect.

You're welcome back anytime Celt.
Things and people always change.
We know that we change and mature. Sometimes we have a problem realising that the same applies to others :)

Hey Celt,

SL was fun for a bit, but at the end of the day, I had too much reality left to spend much time there. It also ate up too much bandwidth for my ancient (5 years old) computer. Don't sweat it, this place is as much yours as it is any of ours. Come back soon.

Celt

Life, just like the intricate works you paint, has it's twists and turns! It takes patience and dedication to complete a 'masterpiece', and often it is some of our biggest and unexpected mistakes as artists that turn out to be our most wonderful discoveries!

Some let fate take them where it wants, others will begin map-making. Neither is wrong, it is only different. It takes your heart and soul, some tone and contrast, light and dark to deal with a bigger picture. We weren't born equipped with the tools needed to 'walk' through this life. We have to learn as we go. That is where change picks up the slack and forces us to work it all out whether we are ready or not.

Even the people we might strongly dislike have purpose within our lives, just as you have purpose in theirs. Friends are, indeed, a blessing but they can be taken from us at any time. We cannot hold onto a moment anymore than we can hold the sun in the sky.

Retreat if you must, but remember that there may be golden lessons, and wonderful people still awaiting you therein.

TirnanOg will be less rich in your leaving. I hope you will reconsider.

%$##@@@

It's so irritating, isn't it... when the keys stick like that! ;) Welcome home Celt!

ah celt you have mastered esperanto.......

If you say so Celt, but I think you're paying too much.

It's cryptic alright.

% - Percentage / proportion ?
$ - of money?
## - to a hash - or - (for a) re-hash?
@@@@ - at all ?

Mac, I think you're in the right area, but maybe Celt's message is that he's not putting down a lot of money for just a re-hash of something?

If you take that code, then reverse it to numerics of the keys they occur on, you get... 5433222

5+4+3+3+2+2+2 = 21 ...2+1 = 3, thus the percentage/proportion must be 3 or one third.

lets take it literally

uh oh too hard

give up thats my motto