It's happened again. The culprit is quoted here. At 09:21 on Tue Apr 15th, Anonymous scribbled "hhhhhhsdjfjfjvnjdjnbbnbldslkfgkdjgdfgjdlfkjgdljgdlfgjdflgj dflgjdgkljdfgkljdglkdfjgkdgjkldgdfkgdfklgdflkgjkdflnfkldbfk dnldfkbnlblkbnfklbnflkbnlfbnsflkbnsflkbnlfkbnksnbklfnblsfbn lksfnblksbnlskbnlkfnblkbnlfnflbnfgbnlfnb ya! "

Anthony - that comment was made before the code changes were implemented. We didn't go through the database and modify old comments - just comments going forward are analyzed upon submission. Tommy Renderosity programmer

Can't all the posts in the wall be deleted and then members can start posting under the new analyzing structure, thereby eliminating long posts altogether?

Message edited on: 07/24/2005 11:14

Sorry.

Good idea Ardiva....{of course my personal favorite would be just to eliminate all the posts...period ~lol~} Can any of the staff answer the question I have asked over and over before? 'What' exactly is the graffiti wall for? {and please spare me "Its a form of art"}

"Tear Down This Wall" Sorry..couldn't resist. 8 )~ Tom

1. Re: Very long word spoiling the layout of the Graffiti Wall again, despite prom by jumpstartme2 on 7/24/05 20:38 Good idea Ardiva....{of course my personal favorite would be just to eliminate all the posts...period ~lol~} Can any of the staff answer the question I have asked over and over before? 'What' exactly is the graffiti wall for? {and please spare me "Its a form of art"} It would appear to me, to be simply another version of the ot forum.

oh OK ban it. Delete it. I don't know what it is so let's ban it. It's the last refuge. It's not art. It doesn't make any money. How can we market it? Maybe Thorne will sponsor it? HUH

Can't all the posts in the wall be deleted and then members can start posting under the new analyzing structure, thereby eliminating long posts altogether? No, that makes far too much sense. :-) bonni

LOL@Bonni ;)

What! Ditch the Graffiti Wall and miss gems like this?

At 18:59 on Tue Jul 19th, Mooselot screamed " Have you ever seen Sally P Water. She pisses one hell of a stream. she pisses a mile and 3/4, and you can't see her ass for the steam."

lol

Attached Link: http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin_Vulgar/Texts/Pompeii_Graffiti.html

It's been a few months since my last check-in with the GW.

You know -- one of the interesting discoveries uncovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (yes, the town that was destroyed by Vesuvius) had to do with the Latin idea of graffiti. And this graffiti was actually painted on a wall.........

It seems that the ancients had a more literary bent than we do today -- at least some of the time. Roman graffiti expressed such sentiments as "Someone at whose table I do not dine, Lucius Istacidius, is a barbarian to me."

Here's a link to the ancient graffiti of Pompeii -- listed both in the original Latin and translated into English.

The more things change......the more they stay the same.

Attached Link: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/roman/classes/graffiti.htm

Message edited on: 07/24/2005 23:25

Here's a good one from Pompeii:

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1904: O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin.

This statement has a familiar ring to it.........

** oh OK ban it. Delete it. I don't know what it is so let's ban it. It's the last refuge. It's not art. It doesn't make any money. How can we market it?** For some strange reason, Jurrasic Park flashed thru my mind while reading this post..ya know where they are all in the dining room talking about the outcome of what they have done, and the guy Malcom slams his fist on the table saying something like "You dont know what you have, but before ya know it, your slapping a price on it, and you wanna sell it..something along those lines anyways.. LOL

'What' exactly is the graffiti wall for? {and please spare me "Its a form of art"}

It is a fun area of the community to leave a quote, comment, etc. Just something fun. Not meant to be this serious:) Just for fun

Stacey
Community Manager

Blue Collar Zen #28 28. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. Tom

:) so true Tom.

(House of Pascius Hermes; left of the door); 7716: To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy.

Now that's serious.

I feel for ya Stacey.

I know all about it.

8 )
Tom

Message edited on: 07/25/2005 15:05

I am still waiting for one of the mods to tell everybody to "cool down".

But those Pompeii things are not bad. It must have been a real bummer having those locos scrawl dirty Latin limericks all over one's villa wall.

as requested.......

:-)

Guess that makes me "one of the mods"

Message edited on: 07/25/2005 21:55

This reminds me of a social sciences experiment that was performed in our staff restrooms (locked from the public). The students went into the restrooms (male and female), decorated them with flowers and other nice touches such as thick, soft towels, and hung dry erase boards, with dry erase markers attached, inside the stalls. We were encouraged to write on the boards as we liked while we were idling inside the stalls. The students came into the restrooms every evening, took photos, and then reset the scene for the next morning.

In the beginning there was a great improvement in the restrooms. People threw their tissues and extra trash into the containers. We even saw a more polite behavior between us...we opened doors for each other and had polite conversation while washing our hands (well, in the women's restroom...I don't know what was going on with the men). Thoughtful philosophy was written on the dry erase boards. Everyone commented on the great improvement.

Over time (I think it was a period of a month) the restrooms became increasingly trashed. People stole or destroyed the flowers. The writings on the dry erase boards became increasely vulgar, and then eventually edged off the boards as people took the opportunity to write vulgarities on the walls and floors. People tsk tsk'd at how bad things were getting (but did nothing to clean up the mess).

Apparently it took less than a month for the veneer of civilization to erode and the true nature of the human creature be revealed.

It was all very sad, really.

But it's human nature, I guess.

Which makes you think.

Well, some of us.

I hope the students got an "A" in their class. They invested a lot of time and money in the experiment. But I bet they never looked as us so-called adults the same way again.

Message edited on: 07/25/2005 22:10

By the way, none of us knew, until it was over, that we were part of an experiment. We all thought management was just being nice to us by upgrading the bathroom conditions. Silly us.

Hey, look, one of my early posts:

I.4.5 (House of the Citharist; below a drawing of a man with a large nose); 2375: Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.