Every good movement needs clearly expressed rules and regulations! The Org is such a movement! It is bigger than any one of us (well with the possible exception of Billy). In the absence of clear cut guidelines I hereby offer the First Org Manifesto (Apologies to Filipo Marinetti):

• We intend to post the love of Prince, the habit of energy and fearlessness -- and also bitch and moan when that goes slightly askew.
  
  
• Courage, audacity, revolt, nonsense, and the occasional fake tracklist will be essential elements of our posting.
  
  
• Up to now these boards have exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggresive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer's stride, the mortal leap, the flame and the devote-a-thread, plus we will try to stick to the right forum.
  
  
• We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of moderation.
  
  
• We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit, in other words Ben, Matt, Kevin, and Val.
  
  
• The poster must spend himself or herself with ardor, splendor, and generosity, to swell the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements. (Sounds grosser than it is)
  
  
• Except in struggle, there is no more beauty. No work without an aggressive character can be a masterpiece. Posting must be conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce and prostrate them before man. (This goes for everyone except IrishEcho who has done more than enough in this area!)
  
  
• We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!... Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent threads. That and we're sick of not having a General Discussion board.
  
  
• We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism (Sorry JDODSON!), feminism (Sorry Anotherloverholeinyourhead!), every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.
  
  
• We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of mesage boards and chatrooms blazing with Violett, Spookyelectric, Moonbeams, Teachers, ChandraSonics, Shauslers (Yes even Shauslers!), Battiers, bkws, Wellbeyonds, AzureStars, SummerRains, subydubys, skeletonkees, Aarons, Sag10s (and all the other people who will get pissed because I left their names out); Grafitti bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives! (But we will probably still not be thrilled with NPS...)
  
  
• And of course, a special point for bkw, (couretsy of AzureStar): Make not thyself helpless in drinking in the beer shop. For will not the words of thy report repeated slip out from thy mouth without thy knowing that thou has uttered them? Falling down, thy limbs will be broken, and no one will give thee a hand to help thee up. As for thy companions in the swilling of beer, they will get up and say, "Outside with this drunkard!" -- Wisdom of Anii
  
  

Sign your name below and let's get this party started right!
[This message was edited Fri Jul 12 21:21:31 PDT 2002 by 2the9s]

Consider this my Hancock...John that is

Count me in

2the9s

you be jerkin my mental gerkin with this one

Not for me...

Hmm.

9's, you really need that general discussion forum back, huh?

i dunno who this man 'ifesto' is, but i like what 2the9s posted up there and so hats off to mr. ifesto!

2, I'm with you!

2, nevermind.

confused, belle? lol



I guess that wouldn't be confused...that would be undecided...lol



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[This message was edited Fri Jul 12 20:30:01 PDT 2002 by AzureStar]

AzureStar said:

Yes...

ChandraSonic made me post this! She told me that it would be a winner! Grrr!

AzureStar said:

*giggle*...Hi, Azure...I just had to "do" something...because 2 () forgot my name...lol...

Maybe I deliberately left it out! Did you ever consider that?

No!

Hmmm...so, 2...you were thinking about me, huh?

2the9s said:

Ahem! I thought no more of the eh?! You couldn't even do it, not even for a day!

9's can't live without 's

Diva said:

Damn, busted! I thought of that as soon as I did it!

Tomorrow! I promise!

Belle said:

No!

2the9s said:

D'Oh!

2the9s said:

Yea, I know all about you and your promises! It's not gonna happen, we all know that...it would be like asking you to stop breathing!

I found a quote that I think should be added somewhere. For bkw, of course.

"Make not thyself helpless in drinking in the beer shop. For will not the words of thy report repeated slip out from thy mouth without thy knowing that thou has uttered them? Falling down, thy limbs will be broken, and no one will give thee a hand to help thee up. As for thy companions in the swilling of beer, they will get up and say, 'Outside with this drunkard!"

-Wisdom of Anii

2the9s said:

Oh!

AzureStar said:

Done! Check above!

Belle said:

I was dreaming about you!

2the9s said:

2the9s said:

2, where do you want me to sign?...Is right here "ok"?...

I don't know if your manifesto was a success, 9s. Not enough signatures, or something's missing...because I don't see that party you were speaking of.

Fix It!

AzureStar said:

You're not the boss of me!