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Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:26 pm
by 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
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:31 pm
by zuluhour
please ignore the sweater Bill
**poof**
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:41 pm
by 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.
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:24 am
by Canoerebel
Kenneth, what is the frequency?
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:28 pm
by btd64
Messages from the great Gorn beyond....GP
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 5:08 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Kenneth, what is the frequency?
That's trivia![:'(]
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 6:17 pm
by 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]
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:34 pm
by 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.
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:55 pm
by 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]
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:32 pm
by 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
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:35 am
by geofflambert
STENDEC
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:10 am
by Zorch
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
STENDEC
Is STENDEC the Gorn word for FUBAR?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA ... t_accident
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:10 am
by 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
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:44 am
by 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.)
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:50 am
by 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.
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 11:33 pm
by geofflambert
We gorn attempted to capture some humans on an airliner for interrogation. Unfortunately we botched it. So sorry.
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 11:36 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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.
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 11:41 pm
by Zorch
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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?
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:33 am
by geofflambert
STENDEC is a coded message only gorns could interpret. Unfortunately I lost my codebook and therefor cannot tell you it's meaning.
RE: Is Someone Trying To Contact Me?
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:52 am
by 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.