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Not a tulip

Wow, it is beautiful! Grace above the turbulence...lol...I'm afraid I'm more like the ostensibly collected duck or swan or whatever it is--you know, paddling furiously underneath? How are you, Pups? You have a lovely garden! Bishonen | talk 23:17, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

Having a reasonably good day, thanks much. :-) Take the compliment! if the unruffled calm is accompanied by furious paddling, it is, after all, beneath the surface. KillerChihuahua 23:23, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Adding: thank you for the compliment on my garden, however honesty compels me to point out that you see only the parts I post, which are, of course, the pretty parts - not the parts which are suffering from drought, disease, or neglect. It brings me joy, though, and if some small bits of can be shared to bring others joy, I am twice happy. KillerChihuahua 23:46, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

A reminder

That is all! El_C 22:59, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh...don't tell me you read this? That wasn't for your eyes, Mr. Petting Zoo! A mere tasteless joke! I'm sorry! I don't really eat them! Bishonen | talk 23:17, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

Not to worry, Elsie - I had this happen to me, and I'm still yapping. KillerChihuahua 23:23, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was not privy to that discussion. Outside my house, I saw a chipmunk, sitting. El_C 23:31, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Stripey fellers are so cute! And timid also. The chipmunk, the wild boar piglet, the Typical Striped Grass Mouse, the lot. Bishonen | talk 23:45, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

Agreed. Chinchillas, too. El_C 23:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

And the striped suit! KillerChihuahua 23:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

And the 1930s gangster! Bishonen | talk 23:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

El C, thank you for extra bookmark. Bishzilla feelings expressed here, please endorse. bishzilla _ROARR!! 00:44, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

I hope you don't mind that I altered your caption for the striped mouse. I thought "plump" was a much nicer word than "fat". By the way, I have another photo of little stripey mice, to copy from Hungarian Misplaced Pages and to upload to Commons, but, having read this, I think I'll give them to 'Zilla instead! ElinorD (talk) 12:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I had noticed the monster seems to be developing a "kind heart", of all things. No fear of that happening with ogress Bishonen! Bishonen | talk 14:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

hey Bish

Hey! Did you see User:LionheartX newest edits? It seems like since I'm going to be on revert parole very shortly, he has started POV pushing all over again. Do you think we should take him to arbCom?? Thanks--Certified.Gangsta 01:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, lord, CG, I can't stand it. I'm sorry, you're on your own with Lionheart's edits, I'm not going to read them. Prolixity is his sharpest weapon. It hath magical powers: it putteth the reader to sleep. Also, well, I don't quite know how to put this, but if the arbcom sanctions you, which is looking likely, they'll be kind of predisposed to a rather negative view of view in any case you might bring in the immediate future. It's not a good time for it, I'm afraid. Bishonen | talk 02:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

If I can jump in, the best plan would be to ask an administrator who has subject-matter knowledge of the pages that are being edit-warred over to look in on those pages and make sure things are in decent order. (Please don't look at me, as I don't have the relevant subject-matter expertise.) Newyorkbrad 02:59, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

My Talk Page

You posted this on my Talk Page:

I notice that Real96 has asked you many times to not post on his talkpage again. Your continued and increasingly aggressive posts in the face of that are beginning to look like harassment. He was trying to help. Don't post on his page again, please. This includes non-apology apologies and other amusement. No posts at all. I mean it. Bishonen | talk 01:43, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

I am curious: (1) how do you define "many times"? I counted exactly once. But, I could be mistaken. Please direct me. And (2) how would it come to pass that you owuld "happen" to notice all of this? That strikes me as odd. And raises my suspicions. Thanks for your input! I await to hear from you! Thanks! (JosephASpadaro)

Oh, good. I'd love to hear all about your suspicions, do please detail them. If you think you'll be able to move smoothly from trolling a young user who did nothing but try to help, to trolling a Misplaced Pages administrator, you'll find you're mistaken. Bishonen | talk 02:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

Hi! Thanks for your reply! But ... I see that you neglected to answer BOTH of my questions. Shall I repeat them? Please let me know. Thanks! (JosephASpadaro 03:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC))

Four times. Real96 deleted your posts with an edit summary requesting that you take your concern to your own page for discussion here, here, and here. He requested the same on your page here. I saw you post repeatedly on his talkpage because his talkpage is on my watchlist. The watchlist shows edit summaries, and the increasingly distressed tone of his, as here, alerted me that something unusual was going on. Notice the blue words in this text? They're links. In order to understand what people say to you, you're supposed to click on the links in their text. This is a superior method to pestering them for information already contained in the links. Now don't post on this page - my page - again unless you'd like to be blocked for trolling. And in the future, if you suspect me of keeping an eye on your contributions, it'll be because I am. Please interact constructively with other editors. Bishonen | talk 07:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

Bish, thanks for your help. This maybe a troll or a new user who is confused. I am trying to act in good faith, but for my sake and your sake, we shouldn't go Bishzilla on this user. By the way, when are you going to archive? Have a good day! Real96 14:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I am on wikibreak for a week too.. Real96 22:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Systems thinking copyright violation fixed

See talk, Copyright violation fix —WikiLen 21:43, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Picture caption

LOL! I just saw this edit you made. Would you believe I had originally considered labelling the picture Giano, Kelly and you, but then decided to leave the other woman blank. Glad to see someone took up the challenge! :-) Carcharoth 23:01, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Frivolity Alert

This one caught my eye. Apparently it is now "against the rules" to be less than deadly serious on the talk pages. . Can't have that! We all better tighten up! --Justanother 00:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

VandalProof Mistake

In response to your message that you just posted on my talk page, I would like to say that that was not intended at all and I had accidently clicked on "Rollback - Vandal 3" - I believe there was some sort of a lag that had caused me to click on the button accidently. I knew that Ugajin was not a vandal at all and I immediately realised that I had made a mistake and removed the vandalism warning message from his userpage. For the note you suggested me to write, at first, I had thought about writing one, but I then had realised that he hasn't created a userpage nor does he reply to any of his messages so I thought it wasn't necessary. Anyway, thanks for the feedback. -- Bhavesh.Chauhan 02:40, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Bhavesh.Chauhan, I hope I didn't come across as too reproachful. I thought you might need alerting to the error (though now I see I was wrong), and that Ugajin would be unlikely to write to do it. FWIW, while he doesn't reply to messages, he does read them. I noticed that with this message of mine, where he immediately stopped adding the mistaken categories and started cleaning up the ones he'd done. Good luck with the VandalProof, I'm sure you're doing good work with it. Bishonen | talk 09:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC).

Whoa!

That's a big raccoon!! El_C 06:32, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

My dad has one about that size named Herman, who visits every morning to do duty as garbage disposal (Dad tosses his kitchen scraps out for him.) KillerChihuahua 11:23, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Edit war

I just loved being able to use "Restoring dream" in an edit summary. :) KillerChihuahua 11:23, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Apropos, why did you delete my reply on Geogre's talk page? Was I editing the "closed" discussion? -- ALoan (Talk) 18:46, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Dispute resolution -v- admin noticeboard

My off-topic comment got me thinking: while I totally agree that dispute resolution is not user-friendly, how user-friendly is the administrators' noticeboard? I've been monitoring it lately and it seems that most "open informal complaint about misuse of administrative powers" end with citations of "this is not the Misplaced Pages complaints department". I previously considered AN/ANI to be user-friendly, but it certainly doesn't seem so. (I could try to find specific discussions if you would like.) Anyways, that was my thought process, no need for a resounding "No." in your edit summary. :P --Iamunknown 03:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

This is not the Misplaced Pages complaints department, unless your complaints and/or departments relate to racoons and/or more timid critters. El_C 04:17, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

You want to complain? Look at these shoes. I've only had 'em two weeks and the sole's worn right through. And what's the point of complaining, anyway? It's not like you ever get anywhere. Utgard Loki 18:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC) (channeling Eric Idle)

Two weeks? You were lucky! We used to live in a lake! Bishonen | talk 10:58, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.--t'Alf 11:02, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm the kid that use to kick random stuff off the road... - Penwhale | 11:24, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Getting kicked in the head lessons is next door. Geogre 11:53, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Alf tells Geogre to hold his head "like this", then go "Waaah".

I would, but I've heard that Inspector Thompson's Gazelle of Scotland Yard, special "Getting out of comedy bits without a proper punchline" division is on the case. (Yes, I mean Thompson's Gazelle of the Yard!) Geogre 11:57, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Evening all, I'm arrestin' youse lot for acts of self-conscious behaviour contrary to the 'Not in front of the children' Act, two, always saying 'It's so and so of the Yard' every time the fuzz arrives and, three, and this is the cruncher, offenses against the 'Getting out of sketches without using a proper punchline' Act, four, namely, simply ending every bleedin' sketch by just having a policeman come in and... wait a minute...--Inspector Thompson's Gazelle

I wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition. Ben Aveling 12:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: CG-Ideo

I was reverting to the version at the moment the case was closed (in fact, Newyorkbrad asked other clerks as well as helpers to keep an eye on the page edits). Thought that you'd like to know. :) - Penwhale | 02:02, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Snap! Bishonen | talk 02:04, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

Because there's a (+1) after yours. I think you might have left a space somewhere. (if we both reverted to the same exact edition your edit wouldn't show up.) - Penwhale | 02:08, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

The (+1) probably means mine is better. :-P (And I left a space, too.) Bishonen | talk 02:12, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

Hmm... *gives you a 1up mushroom - Penwhale | 02:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Puppet Tags for Superburgh, Truth in Comedy & 24.3.194.217

The discussion on ANI was regarding the main 'puppet master' of the account, not the puppets. It was deemed that tagging ChrisGriswold's main account as a 'puppet master' was excessive and should not be done. But the other accounts are suspended and were used primarilly as tools by ChrisGriswold to deceive and abuse other Wikipedians. Those tags on those accounts should stay in place and not be removed. —SpyMagician 23:06, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

His name is on the puppet tags too. Sorry, but I won't play along with any quest for vengeance. Misplaced Pages is not a pillory. Bishonen | talk 23:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

See my talk for my thoughts on this matter. I'm not prepared to edit-war over it, but I agree with Bishonen. Newyorkbrad 23:12, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

This was not and is not a quest for vengance. It's quite unbelilevable that someone who was an admin and who would have done what he did is being protected in this way. If yu are going to characterize my desire to keep the tags on the sock puppet accounts as a 'quest for vengance' how would you descrbe ChrisGriswold's initial desire to create these 'sock puppets'—while an admin—to abuse others? You're defending someone who ruined the lives of others. Asking those tags stay in place is nt vengance. It's simply right. —SpyMagician 16:04, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

RevolverOcelot/Guardian Tiger/Apocalyptic Destoyer

...and now LionheartX. He was unblocked after this (which I didn't know about, was away from Misplaced Pages then). Have a look at the current discussion at WP:ANI#User:Certified.Gangsta_violating_Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration.2FCertified.Gangsta-Ideogram, if he's not already banned again before you get there. Dmcdevit·t 10:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Just reading it, thanks. You didn't know about that? What a pity. Yeah, the nicest thing I can say about LionheartX's editing is that he probably doesn't realize the disruption his flooding and spamming and repetitiousness cause simply as such. When he got going at the CG-Ideogram arbitration case, I ended up taking it off my watchlist — it was too irritating to constantly find yet another post from him with nothing new in it at the top of the list. What it must be like to be in his sights, as CG is, I don't even like to imagine. As for banned, Ryulong has deleted Lionheart's userpage, presumably on user request. Do you know if that means he's supposed to have left? I'm sure you'll agree that a move like that, even if sincerely meant at the moment, really shouldn't be taken as case closed and no banning necessary. Bishonen | talk 10:53, 6 May 2007 (UTC).

Thanks for the heads up, I've commented. I know this seems pointless and abstract to us, but these people represent two nations with a non-zero chance of going to war in our lifetimes so they both forget civility sometimes. Regards, Ben Aveling 11:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't talking about Lion's editing in mainspace, in suggesting there's simply too much of it. On talkpages and in Misplaced Pages space I believe he's way beyond "forgets civility sometimes." Bishonen | talk 11:43, 6 May 2007 (UTC).

Agreed. But likewise for Certified. All the best, Ben Aveling 12:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)