XieXie Ni, Mei Mei.

I received an email today from CatNapping suggesting that I search the phrase Xie Xie Ni on the fray.

She sent me a link, so I won't need to. I'll leave that to the 14 readers who regularly log their IPs with my site meter.

http://fray.slate.com/discuss/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=XieXie+Ni

Repapering the P-Fray

Love what you've done with the place, Tempo!

Mary Ann has only been gone two days and already there are toothless women sitting bow-legged on the front porch swing, and ferrets pissing on the living room rug.

You do Moira real proud.


UPDATE: kvetching & whining

Welcome to the new Ballot Box.

Now that Tempo has brought in her guns (we'll call them Lillith and Loriboo), anyone with class or decorum will no longer be welcome at the P-fray.

To wit -- MaryAnn has handed in her notice, and poets like Islandtime and Artemesia are likely to follow suit.

Already Tempo is gloating and doing her Evil C*nt Dance.

Mark my words. Tempo has flushed the toilet, and P-fray is coated in her shit, sliding its way to the septic tank.

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Readers want to know. How does Tempo feel about grandiose Official Farewell Posts?


Subject: Ironic though it may be, since I just
From: Tempo
Date: Sep 28 2003 10:23PM

spent an hour on the BOTF reading through a long thread
where a favorite poster of mine announces his resignation
from the Fray, it is regrettably time for me to do the same
thing over here.

I'll check in from time to time as a guest, if I may, but it's
clearly time for me to leave this place.

A Fray that won't accept, with respect and consideration, a
serious and well-thought-out post about our current political
and international disaster, even when that post is focused on
poetry and states in a clear prose introduction as to why it is
being written, is NOT a Fray where I care to hang out any
longer.

I wish you all the best, but my usefulness here is
clearly done.

Powder, thanks for pushing me over the edge with your
well-meant but inaccurate poem; I've needed to do this for a
long, long time. If you ever get your cowboy self down to the
City, I'm still buying lunch.

Mary Ann, you want this throne so badly? Take it, it's all
yours. And I hope you find the courage to try to write a
poem someday; I truly do.

Ted, thanks for fighting the good fight but it's clearly a
losing one, over here. I will follow your fine work with
interest.

I write this with sadness but finality.
Everybody knows where and how to reach me.

I will post my poems on the BOTF from time to time; if
you-all ever figure out how to break out of the confines
of this little isolated Eden, you can find them over there.
And 'as always, any and all comments will be welcome." :-)

And I will continue to email to the core group for responses
to the new poems, with one obvious exception.

Best to all
and to most, LOVE,


Tempo (Contempo that was)

m=8310545

Sock Puppets, Pantyhose, and Flying Monkeys

If you've never been smothered by the surplus of ruffles adorning a little girl's bedroom, or been introduced to the soft dolls and overstuffed kittens populating the top of her bedspread, then a visit to the P-fray might leave you wondering if they're in tribble with troubles. These nics are born pregnant.

Furry Lillith puts on her I-B-Blunt pajamas with the feet still attached, while shaggy Loriboo wags a monkey tail, cackling at her fecal wit. A wooly CatNapping.feeds the poets doggerel in a sboof of foobs, and MaryAnn giggles with her imaginary friends Angel and Freedom Writer. Not to be overlooked is Artemesia who has invented her very own fluffy sycophant Galatea. Or is that the other way around? Who came first the art or the gal? Tribble or Trouble?

Welcome back Moira. I hope you brought your own air tank. Don't eat the triticale.

UPDATE: CatNapping has written to deny. Shall we believe her?

No CatNapping, 63 is not the new 50.

63 will be the new middle age when people start living till they're 126.

Tempo says, "Now I'd say I'm a fairly attractive, impish,
late middle-aged brunette with a little bit o' charm.
How's that? I'm holdin' my own, mostly. :-)"

CatNapping says, "I guess 63 is the new 50."

Both of you passed your middle years decades ago. The average life-expectancy for women is 80. Middle-aged is 40.

UPDATE: Kitten, you have Tempo dead to rights. She was born in 1945.

April 2, 1945. She is 62 years old and she is drawing Social Security benefits.

Lunesta

Props to Tempo. Admitting she's a prescription sleeping aid took no small amount of courage.

True to form, she's enraged at another woman's popularity and talent. Then again, I remember from our personal communiques, Tempo likes to be smited. Man, woman, or Goddess, it makes no difference, as long as it stings a little.

Methinks she Drinks

While Tempo licks her wounds, we have found a few minutes to follow the antics of her comrade-in-arms, Nightengale aka ~loriboo~ aka lapnapping.


She's overwrought. She's drunk. And she really, really, really hates Topazz.

;-) Ah, a temptation far too hard to resist...
by Nightengale2
08/29/2007, 3:54 PM


Starting with the laughable notion that two ex-barmaids
like yourself and Iso, so amusingly and continuously appear to live under some
sort of illusion that you know more than most on The Fray, that's laughing point
number one.

Moving forward to Iso becoming critical of someone elses
advice on a list of excellent poets...for catnapping's consumption, (a person
who, generally, doesn't posess the acumen to know her tailbone from her shin
bone, even on a good day)..that's a gargantuan ,laugh number two.
moving on
down the list of ironic giggles, comes your predictable ,sillly ,hysterical,
rightious indignation that anyone like Nairobi would complain about the ex
barmaid being affronted in the first place.

It's just an incredibly funny thread..but I doubt you can
see why..shades of The Emperor's New Clothes syndrome..comes to mind,
too.

luv ya, toe! ;-)

Re: This Week's MBTU Winners & Losers
by lapnapping
08/29/2007, 8:41 PM


Real loser:

Topazz -- at life.

Antipasto is Deactivated

Let's take a look. How has little Tempo been doing?


Social Emotional Readiness

Spamming Boards? .................Yes
Attacking Respected Posters? .....Yes
Inordinate Number of Nics? .......Yes
Center of Every Pissing War? .....Yes

Substantive Posts? ...............No

The Gods are getting muddy.

Zeus' son has been sucked into the ancient Lillith - Dreambird - Tempo pig dung tub-o-tarbabies. I'm still puzzling the CatNapping connection. Isn't Cat an old timer from Mickey Kaus' board?

For those trying to keep up with disposable nicknames.

Dreamweaver is Dreambird.
Lillith's Jumbo Tush is Dreambird.
Catovanni Iroquoinelli is Lillith.
TheOddNebber is Lillith.
Nightengale is Loriboo.
mlj is Loriboo.
Antipasto is Tempo.
Catnapping is Catnapping.

Want to know who Zeus-boy is?

UPDATE: Mud on My Face

The infection that started out a canker sore on the Chatterbox Penis has spread to Poems, Fraywatch, Dear Prudence, and Kausfiles Special. Our Gonorrhea Gals -- NightlyDrunk, Tempo, and Lillith have spent most of their nights and days spamming and threadjacking at the top of their lungs. So much for substantive posts.

I never objected to your fat

Tempo. I like a little fat on a woman when arranged properly.

Eat all the ice cream you like. But please darling *for me* do a few sit ups after each quart.