Meranda_Jade
Fanatic   Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 31/3/2007 at 08:36 AM |
"Monolycus. Never there was a man that lived up to his name so well as did
the Lone Wolf. Demonised, hated, revered for taking the unpopular position
and for playing the devil's advocate when the part needed playing. If you
bother to dig beneath his crusty exterior, well, there is a spiky and
unforgiving interior, but beneath THAT beats a heart of gold. Few have the
patience for gold mining."
I wanted to take this opportunity to point out in a separate forum that
Rogue's words here are more accurate than even he realized.
Also, so people would pay extra attention.
Some of you may not have realized this, but Mono hasn't been here for a
long time.
He may not have made a big, dramatic announcement about the fact... but he
is gone. Never coming back. His feelings were bruised one too many times,
by people he'd had respect for and who he had thought had respect for him.
He now believes that nobody has even noticed that he is missing.. or even
cares.
Well, I care.
I am sure that there are those of you who miss his voice around here as
well.
If so, say something about it.
Maybe someday, he will peek in here out of curiosity... and then he will
see how much he really means to people here....
and how much he is valued and how deeply he is missed.
And if he really is gone for good, let this forum stand as a memorial to
one of the greatest and most colorful members that Shmeng has ever had.
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 14/4/2007 at 07:11 AM |
*hugs to Callei* We have all missed you around here. I'm glad you came in
here for a peek.
Hope you'll be spaceworthy soon, Mono darlin'. ____________________
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/4/2007 at 01:37 PM |
Why Mono, I'm sure you always taste good!
I am glad you have a good mechanic... make sure he doesn't overcharge you! ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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Monolycus
Fanatic  Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/4/2007 at 10:30 AM |
Schiz: I'm working on it, but I don't need anyone overdosing on
me.
Had some problems. Still not entirely spaceworthy yet, but I've got a
genius mechanic on my side who's helping me to keep this thing afloat.
I'll check in as often as the combination of technology, time and good
taste permit.
Promise. ____________________
"I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again."
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/4/2007 at 09:49 AM |
| less prolonged absenses for the both of you, if you please! ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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Monolycus
Fanatic Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/4/2007 at 08:10 AM |
callei : Love you, too, sweetie. And missed you something fierce.
I know you've lost more than your fair share, and I'm not going to do any
one-upmanship on that score... but I've quoted Heraklitos of Ephesos here
before. The only constant is change. You really CAN'T step into the same
river twice. I'm just thankful that we stepped into that river once
together.
Thanks for all that you do and all that you are... except for the prolonged
absences. Less of that, please. ____________________
"I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again."
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callei
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 759 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/4/2007 at 12:28 AM |
He smells like sunlight and smiles. and cigs and incense. and gets the joke
about the bucket of balls.
And he is much taller in person.
I miss you, but that is because I am gone, too much loss too fast and from
too many directions. The irrational belief that this site is still here and
still being what it was helps me get through the night sometimes. I dont
check usually because I am too afraid to face the loss here.
I love you Mono. and you make a great dance club buddy. ____________________
Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
away.
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Monolycus
Fanatic Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/4/2007 at 10:59 PM |
| feralucce: We both seem to have a lot of first-person pronouns
standing between us, but the sentiment is appreciated. Thanks. ____________________
"I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again."
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feralucce
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 1810 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/4/2007 at 05:46 PM |
| in spite of the jabs, and vitreol being thrown my way...I am glad he is
back too.. ____________________
The earth turns on a tilted axis - just doing the best it can.
Hohenheim of Light~Full Metal Alchemist
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/4/2007 at 01:43 AM |
| if you are a baboon, does that mean you have a cute pink heinie? ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and
the
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dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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Monolycus
Fanatic Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/4/2007 at 10:51 PM |
Rogue: There's no reason to wish either of our lives on anyone.
We've both done what we can with what we've had, and I have no complaints.
The "P" actually is silent.
Domkitten: If I had a nickel for every drunk I've borne on my back
to a taxi stand at the end of the night, I'd be able to make a phone call.
Amokutdo anida.
pale-face: The story is this:
When a Bushman wants to capture a baboon, he puts a handful of seeds into a
narrow hole in a tree stump. The curious baboon will wait until the
Bushman has gone and then insert his hand into the narrow hole to steal the
"treasure". He will then discover that the hole is too narrow to allow his
closed fist to pass through, but he will be too curious, greedy or stubborn
to simply let it go and allow himself to escape.
Sometimes, I can be a real baboon. ____________________
"I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again."
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pale-face
Fanatic  Posts: 478 Registered: 22/9/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/4/2007 at 06:58 PM |
i'm glad mono has at least decided to show his face, hope the difrences can
be mended and all will be back to happy goodness eventually. undill when i
will continue to five mt toaster funny looks untill i get the full story
from our compadre mono.
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fucking classy.
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/4/2007 at 07:18 AM |
He smells like incense and cigarettes. And something else I can't put my
finger on, but it's uniquely him.
He smells like Monolycus.
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Domkitten
Fanatic  Posts: 470 Registered: 23/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 4/4/2007 at 04:39 AM |
I know I"m coming late to the party. I always am. I just wanted to say that
while I did not post here I'm almost positive that I drank a good one to
Monolycus with that rat bastard at least two weeks ago. He carried me most
of the way to the cab and put me in it, even after I vomited on his shoes.
What can I say. He's one of the good ones.
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It's like kegel exercises for your throat.~Monolycus
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic  Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/4/2007 at 10:13 PM |
| Mono, I imagine that you smell like pine trees. I wanna put you on a string
and hang you from my rearview mirror. That's fresh, baby. ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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Rogue
Member   Posts: 199 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/4/2007 at 08:40 PM |
| I want to perform fellatio on him. Again. And to find a firefly and give
it to him. And to show him the peace and love that is hiding in his golden
heart beneath the defence walls that he needed so long ago, but are getting
in his way these days. And to remind him that we are still just two lost
souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year. And to let him know the
van was useless and I felt like the widow giving a mite to Jesus, but it's
all I had. And to take back the "the P is silent" remark. And to remind
him that Jagdfreunde has two parts, literally and figuratively. I want to
switch lives with him because he deserves mine more than I do and I deserve
his more than he does. I want people to not hate him, and I want him to
not hate people, it's a huge waste of time and energy for everyone. Also,
I want some cottage cheese. ____________________
Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time.
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/4/2007 at 03:08 PM |
But I will say one thing in Feral's defense, whether you think I should
defend him or not - Feral may have enjoyed LARPing as a game once upon a
time, but here and in the rest of his life, he does not role play. What
you see is the real Feral... no mask and no editing to make him more fit
for general consumption. You may love him, you may hate him, you may be
indifferent to him, but more than any other person I have ever encountered,
he shows himself for exactly who he is... warts and all...
He will be the first to admit he is a damaged, fucked-up, often unbalanced
person... but he IS honest and genuine. If he says he is confused, then he
is confused. If he asks a question, it is because he desires an answer.
If he is angry, he will say so. If he is attacking, it is unmistakable.
Everything he says he would do in person, he would actually do in person
under the described circumstances. That is just Feral. I hoped that with
a little explanation, that people would care enough to see him for who he
is. That's why I urged him to post his two most recent articles.
If you are going to despise the guy, at least despise him for who he is.
And if you are going to despise me... well, I am willing to admit you are
at least partly in the right. I am a know-it-all busy-body who is in love
with my big Mother Confessor role. I just love playing the mediator...
dishing out the love and the spankings, and lapping up the attention. This
is all true - I will admit it. But I am also genuine in that when I say I
love someone, that means I love them. Doesn't mean I'm perfect - just that
I mean their help and not their harm. This time I screwed up. In trying
to defend a man who, in this case, was not able to defend himself because
he was not able to communicate himself... I became over-zealous. I do
that. Yes, it is a flaw. But I was right to defend Feral. You were
mistaken about him. And still are. And I had no clue that you felt
attacked... if I had known that, I definitely would have handled things
very differently.
If friends cannot be mistaken, and if friends are not allowed to get
angry... then you are not going to find many people fit to be your friends.
I am sorry you do not find me fit to be your friend. But this is me.
Flawed like us all... like you, like Feral, like MJ and Rogue and Dolo and
all the rest of humanity. I'm sorry my flaw hurt you... it does not mean
that I am not your friend - it just means that I am human. ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and
the
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dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the
carefullest
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of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/4/2007 at 09:59 AM |
I take the rebuke, Mono... can't say I don't entirely deserve it.
All I can say is, there are two sides to everything... at the very least...
and there was never any degree of attack intended towards you in the forum
in question. And when no attack was intended, a strong defense always
seems like an offense...
I am very sorry for the loss of your esteem. It was always very valuable
to me.
It is a fact. You ARE quick to see attack where there is none attended...
and also to see rejection when in fact you are welcomed. My anger at that
circumstance was almost certainly over-zealous... but I was not attacking
your character, but finding variance with your behavior and view of someone
who was struggling to make himself clear. You did mistake the man. But I
am sorry I was overly harsh and neglected to make clear at that time the
regard I hold for you.
But if you do not hold the same regard for me any longer, I guess there is
nothing to be done. Except learn from the experience... I am sorry... ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and
the
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dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the
carefullest
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of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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Monolycus
Fanatic Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/4/2007 at 08:47 AM |
Safe to say I wouldn't be the man I am today if it weren't for Mono.
Been hearing tell there was something saccharine afoot, so it's a good
thing I loaded up on insulin before I swung by to check it out. Thanks go
out to those to whom it applies. As for the rest of you y'all, don't think
I'm such a softie that a few kind words for the benefit of an audience are
going to dilute my disagreeable disposition any. I'm still as mad as a
scientist about some past precedents, and it's going to take more than a
pretty eulogy before it's air through my engine.
That having been said:
Rogue: "...beneath THAT beats a heart of gold. Few have the
patience for gold mining."
I keep meaning to have that looked at. I wake up with prospectors in my
pleural cavity.
Meranda_Jade: "Well, I care."
I never doubted that.
"He will stick by a friend until there is no way that the friendship
can be salvaged, and will only let go with great reluctance."
I've gotten a little more elastic on that point in my old age. Maybe I've
just gotten quicker at figuring out what's not salvageable.
Schizo: "I would not take those words back... but knowing what
I do now... I would have added some... something to let him know the love
that backed the rebuke... Hind sight, they say, is 20/20... if only I had
known what that rebuke would do to him..."
There's a bit of a sticking point there. What's done is done, but what's
done was unnecessary. You came down on the wrong side of that one, plain
and simple. I was the one playing defense when you had such lovely things
to say about my character, not the other way around... but I am not at all
surprised that you felt you needed to defend your "certified" tuff guy from
the Big, Bad Wolf. His record for finishing his own battles isn't as high
as his record for starting them.
Since just about everything in this craphill world has some arbitrary trade
value attached to it, I'd say it's a pretty safe wager that there's those
as make their living working out the worth of everything. I don't know any
of those folks up close and personal, but I conjure that if I asked to see
their calculus, the scarcity of a commodity would go quite a ways towards
bumping up the numbers on an item's price tag. That being the case, I'd
expect to pay more for loyalty than I would for gold, pound for pound. And
I'd expect to drop even more for fair dealings.
Interesting the rôles that get played here.
Dolo: "HE EVEN YODELED BACK!!!"
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICOLAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Merry_Widow "I've noticed. It's impossible not to. "
Oh, come on. I didn't smell THAT bad!
Comte: "The way he gave a solid drubbing to Rogue in the
democracy forum was classic, as many have not the fortitude or nerve to
stand up to him due to the velvet rope effect..."
Thing about Rogue is you can disagree with something he says without him
taking it as some kind of personal invalidation. Rogue doesn't need
anyone's damned validation. I don't see a "velvet rope" so much as I see
them as can dish out but not take. Rogue definitely ain't one of those.
You might want to address him yourself sometime.
I will have to tip my hat to you, though... I've seen some trolls in my day
and you are beyond any doubt the most brilliant one of all. You can get
folk to twitch faster than Abbadon himself. One post out of you has them
churning out more rubbish than FEMA could cart off in a year's time. +10
and a cheese danish for at least being a master of your art.
Starlight: Thanks for being such a great friend when I needed
one. You are very much appreciated.
Sardonic-Pain "Come back soon please...We need you around
this place."
Looks to me like you could use a good cleaning staff 'round here, too.
feral: "this was about mono... not your beef with Rogue... Period...
no debate... stop it..."
It still is about Mono. Go LARP up your own damn memorial. Full stop.
dead-cell: "His reserve and culture never giving into sway,
his humility, his polite welcomes"
I could take lessons in comportment from whomever YOU'RE talking about. I
don't ever remember being that genteel. Thanks, though.
pale-face: "straight up. mono was the reason i ever considerd
joining this sight."
Now, now. Let's not play the blame game.
"i hope he finds this thread and realises that he is cared for and highly
respected."
Actually, thanks. Means a lot, as do the majority of the comments here. I
usually find mutual admiration displays a little tasteless, but with some
of the fellating that has apparently been going on in my absence, I'd say
it's high time a bit of it got thrown my way. Muchos gracias.
As you were.
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"I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again."
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pale-face
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posted on 2/4/2007 at 07:46 PM |
straight up. mono was the reason i ever considerd joining this sight.
i hope he finds this thread and realises that he is cared for and highly
respected. ____________________
fucking classy.
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