Post by Akbar Le Grey on Oct 1, 2006 5:05:34 GMT -5
October 1st – October 8th.
Editor-in-Chief: Akbar Le Grey.
Sub-editor: Linda.
Columnists: J., Descartes, BSam, Wasabi, Spoony.
Published by 667er Publications, ltd.
A subsidiary of the 667er Group.
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On Wednesday, 667 was unavailable for a couple of hours. This caused inconvenience for many 667ers who check the forum at that time. Shortly after 667 came back, member Triangle Eyes made a thread titled “It’s about time”, which became a place for everyone to rant.
Accounts are varied, but the downtime seemed to have occurred sometime between 5:30 and 8 pm GMT and lasted for approximately one hour and 51 minutes.
Even once the servers were back to normal, the clocks were still nearly two hours slow for the next several hours. Although the clocks were fixed within a few hours and no lasting harm was done, all posts made during these hours appear to have been made nearly two hours earlier then they really were.
It appears 667 was not the only Proboard to go down at that time. In the Proboards Support forum, a cryptic message was posted:
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~~SERVERS 7, 9 ,10, 11 OFFLINE ~~[/b]
Admins are notified of offline servers, and will restore them as soon as possible.
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All Proboards moderators claimed to have no idea why the servers had gone down, and tried in vain to appease the admins of other Proboards sites who came to voice their worries. that 667 One woman, the admin of a site that helps women with post-natal illness, expressed her deep concern for the future of server 7 and her board and asked the moderators to please do everything they could to fix it. And, sure enough, about the time 667 came back online another announcement was made informing everyone that the servers were back online.
For those of you who don’t know, 667 exists on four separate servers: Proboards 7, Proboards 8, Proboards 9, and Proboards 11. It was announced that 7, 9, and 11 had been down, but what about the whereabouts of 8? There were a lot of people trying to get into 667, and surely someone tried server 8. Well, that appears to be a mystery. No mention was made of server 8 on the official Proboards site. In fact, on a visit to this page, which shows the status of each Proboards server, server 8 doesn’t appear to even exist. But who knows what’s really going on with Proboards?
-Linda.
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As the month turns from September to October, it has been more than two months since the beginning of the 60023101 mystery. From its original place in RR, we knew just about nothing, and two months from then, not much has changed. There have, however, been a couple of hints.
There is only one post, which is not new at all. Although we have almost no idea what this post could be about, we do know that there is, or has been, some kind of activity in this board.
There is also a member by the name of 60023101, who joined in August. Although this member has no posts, it has been responsible for moving threads about 60023101 and related topics to other boards, and in many cases back and forth. One interesting speculation about this member is that it shares the same e-mail as Tragedy.
As advised by Snicket, members have just started to actually look at the name. Just take a look, he said, and you would find it. Members have wondered how they had not noticed it earlier. So, for those who want to figure it out on their own, please do not read the following statement. As simple as it may seem, the digits add up to none other than thirteen. Snicket also stated that it has to do with Lemony Snicket, and as unsurprising as this is, it should calm the bunch of members who find it so horrible that the person who created the site is deciding what he wants to put on it.
Over the past two months, there have been many quotes, and very few have to do with anything, or so it would seem. So, when I notice something interesting about the quotes, I'll say something.
Snicket claims that he and others have figured out the secrets of 60023101 and that he only needs to find the password [Editor’s Note: Well, when does Snicket NOT know all about Tragedy and the 667 administration, and whatever’s going on?]. I guess this is just one of the advantages of being a moderator.
This is what we know, and only time, or someone who spills the beans, will tell us more.
-Descartes.
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J's Public Service Announcements[/u]
You might be chilling out one day, and someone will tell you "Hey. Stay in school. Don't do drugs. Set goals for yourself. Use up all your abilities." Well, don't listen to them. Make your own decisions.
There are plenty of fun ways to have fun without tentacle rape. So next time you feel the urge to look at something or do something that involves the rape of a person, or a non-person, with tentacles, find some other way to channel your creativity. Draw a picture. Read a book. Look up methods of torture. But seriously, cut down on the tentacle rape.
Don't read the newspaper, be original: burn it!
The best time to relax, smell the flowers and rethink your life is when you're being burned at the stake.
You can cry and cry "I'm innocent!" all you want, but no one will believe you. From the moment you begin to rot in jail to the second they strap you into the chair, just believe in yourself and know you're innocent, and everything will be alright.
Oh, wait. No it won't. Sorry.
Thinking of taking up a new hobby? Well, don't. Life is just one disappointment after another, and the more stuff you do, the more disappointments there'll be.
In order to make something seem longer, deeper and more profound, make it into a poem!
This, an article
Holds much useful wisdom
Read it. Please. Please. Please.
There once was an editorialist
Who forgot how to write limericks.
Um
I hate
Those poems that
Form a diamond
Or something
I'm not good at making
Those.
Adventure
Cars
Rhode Island
Olive
Sticks
Tin
Idaho
Collar
Pencil
Option
Ear
Trim
Read
Youth
This poem
Is yay!
A rectangle
Sometimes poems are good
When they rhyme
Try to rhyme poems
As much as you can
Writing poetry
Is a great way to pass
English class
Teachers love poems about rape
I'm serious
I know, it's weird, right?
But if you write a poem about rape
You’re almost guaranteed an A
And a recommendation to the school's literary magazine
You can also try murder
Or suicide
Or poverty
Teachers don't flunk poems about raped, suicidal orphans
Especially if the poems rhyme.
If you want to impress an English teacher
Write as badly as you can.
English teachers don't know what the f!@# they're talking about.
"Describe how the author uses literary techniques to use literary elements."
I'm serious.
-J.
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[Editor’s Note: Unedited, as always.]
This is the from when i did go seen Gerling play at two diferent places at two diferent times
the first time was in a truck on a sports field
the thing was in a place that was rubbish, the town i mena, too far away and etc
but the monye wents to good cause
everyother band playing were rubbish local bands, we were there only for the Gerling
they were fantastic
we had glowsticks
luke had ecstasy
the second time was at the republic var which is very close to my house
we had drinks then headed down there
they hadn't started yet so we came back homne had more drinks then went back
had drinks and i bought a tshirt and a beanie and a cd
the highlight of both gigs was the song GHhost Patrol which they closed both shows with
our internet has been dead for the past week so i've been p[laying oblivian and am now almost a member of all the guilds
why does everyone care so much abvout football anyway? i mean it's a good excuse to have bbqs and partys bnut seriousl;y, can you plan it a little better so that the poor people in the supermarket aren't all having to serve everyopne at once? i'm so tir3d, i'm glad i only had 6 hours today,
i'm having a prty next weekend for my birthday the tuesday just gone, the 7th
come if you can
i was gonna havi it this weekend but stupid grand final stupid stupid
but i had to fill out a holiday form instead of them just shifting the roster around, which menas i get paid 9 hours worth for having a party
crazy
I give Gerling a rating of 4.7 stars
BSam
-BSam.
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~Spoony's Thought of the Week~
Ties look really good on girls. And guys. Heck, even eyeliner looks good on both of them. I don't really know why. They’re just hot sometimes in it, and it makes them all look spiffy and good. I guess if you put glam with the office, it makes something cool. Like if you put two contradicting things together, it can make something pretty and elegant.
~Spoony's Game of the Week~
Scramble! Rearrange these members' names to make them right. PM Spoony, and the one with the most answers will get a special prizzzzze.
OERGEG NIUDP
AMMIJE
KABRA LE YERG
THEBIZLEE
IAIMK
NAN
KTEA
LOTETHARC
TEDAN
ROANETNA
STEINCK aka HSURIT
YAGRTED aka LAINM
KIRED
NNAHGOE
ESST aka BARNIWISDET
SABM
JP
BILIANIT
KRIE
DANIEL HANDLER
BETROR
ORN "ULIS" AEWSYEL
.M aka DETIHMER
.J aka RIALLEE
OERU
IAVZ
SETNICK
KCINSET CEAF
ANODORP
Bonus!: make a sound file pronouncing all the scrambles, and the winner of the funniest sounding will get the file posted in next week's 667er.
-Spoony.
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Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont
Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont is an elegant, moving story about a lovely woman of age, on a journey to find something meaningful again in her life, who literally "trips" into the life of a young man on his own journey to find himself as a writer. Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont is an enticing film of two people, no matter the age, who happen to come into each other's lives at a time when they become very important to each other in the self-repair of their own images. A brilliant, wonderful, beautifully presented film.
Joan Plowright is so lovely on the screen as Mrs. Palfrey, and after meeting the handsome Rupert Friend, Ludovic, she seems to take on a glow of happiness and pleasure as their friendship deepens and they become more involved in each other's lives. Their scenes in the lovely parks of London, as well as in the interior of The Claremont, are scenes that have humor, compassion and great understanding all rolled in to form a veritable bouquet of all that is good about films of this genre. This is something which is missing in both their relationships with their own families.
Through Mrs. Palfrey, and their conversations about film, Ludovic is able to find a young woman who loves him for himself, and as Mrs. Palfrey's journey ends, his begins with the happiness and satisfaction of having found not only Mrs. Palfrey, but someone who will be with him in his life, and truly love him for the man he is.
With all due respect,
- Wasabi.
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Hi all.
Well, Ramadan’s started. Since Pakistan’s the randomest country on earth, we started Ramadan two days after the Arab world, and pretty much all other Muslims. To confuse matters even more, the Northwest Frontier Province decided to start its Ramadan one day before the rest of Pakistan, and one day after the rest of the Muslim world. Fun, fun, fun.
Anyway, I am now dying of hunger, so sympathise with me. Also, India seems to think we did the Mumbai train bombings, so if I’m nuked out of existence in some crazy Indo-Pak war, I hereby nominate Linda to be the next Editor-in-Chief.
Um, sorry, back to 667 stuff. Snicket, as always, knows everything there is to be known, and everything’s under control. So, yzay! Let’s celebrate and do the mindless-sheep dance. *sigh*
Honestly, Snicket, give it a rest.
Now, congrats, Brownie.
Oh, and Linda’s account was hacked. D:
She’s managed to get back on, though, and says she knows who did it. Grr to whoever it was.
I’m sorry, I’m hungry and hot and blah. Hope you enjoyed the edition; people who didn’t write, either PM me with an actual reason, or don’t bother to write anymore.
Peace out,
Akbar.
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