Starting sometime tomorrow, there will be a brand new, shiny, officialised off topic forum! Come and join us! Bring your worries, bring your cares, definitely bring food. (The tavern is great, but Guido cannot cook!) This will be an excellent place for all those threads that don't quite fit in elsewhere. Got a picture of your cat? A good story about the ineptitude of mechanics? Something happen in your life, and you need to share? Use an app that no-one has has heard of, and feel left out? (Like me!) Or just want to talk? The rules and regs, well, I'll go there if I have to, but we all know the drill. Bring your commonsense- most people here carry it with them at all times, anyway. The word is fun! Besides, I want to get to know everyone I haven't meet yet! Any questions?

(and there was partying in the streets of Renderosity) Clint

Oh my god! A what forum?

How can it be called Off Topic, when the "topic" is to be off topic? There is no topic! I mean sure, O/T compared to the rest of the forums, except maybe the Tavern, but relative to itself, it will be very much ON topic when people post about their cats, what they saw the guy at McDonald's doing, etc., etc., etc. Ok, so the only real way to be off topic would be to ask questions about Poser and other apps we have forums for, maybe? Well, I'm glad to see it's gonna become a reality, even if I don't like the name. :P

No no MikeJ, You misinterpret! The topics will all be a little 'off'. As in "Off the beaten path" or "A little 'off' in the head"! So you see, the new new forum name is quite apt. :)~

Well, I believe it will just be the "OT" forum, so you can make the initials out to be whatever your heart desires! ;]p Hey, that would be a great contest to get things going! Name the forum! On Topic? OverTime? OnlyTalk? OddThings? OtherThan? OnTap.....

Out There?

By the way, congrats, Micheleh. But I still think we need hippies...;)

I object on no particular grounds.

Bread & Circuses Forum ???

"By the way, congrats, Micheleh. But I still think we need hippies...;) " I eat tofu, use essential herbs and oils, and make my own soap. Does that count? "I object on no particular grounds." Your objection has been taken on board, and will be thrown over the side as soon as we leave port. ;] "Bread & Circuses Forum ???" Only if you bring enough bread for everyone.

Sorry, Micheleh. Hippies don't USE soap.

Not even Patchouli?

"I eat tofu, use essential herbs and oils, and make my own soap. Does that count?" That's a pretty good start. But there are a few more questions I need to ask before I can confirm your nomination: 1. How many times have you watched the "Woodstock" movie? 2. Define the following terms: stash, narc, trip, The Man 3. Name 3 gurus. 4. What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me? 5. Who is the Walrus? Explain. 6. 1,2,3, what are we fighting for? 7. Do you own or have you ever owned a Volkswagen? 8. Have you ever thought the walls were melting? 9. True or false: Dylan is God. 10. Are you experienced?

Can I play? 1. I think I saw it once, but I can't remember. 2. 2a-Drugs of all sorts, but distiguished by the term "stash" as being that which is yours. 2b- Someone who tells The Man about your stash. 2c- Going to Woodstock without leaving your home. Usually your "stash" plays a large role in this. 2d- Everyone who is not a hippie, preferasbly having some form of authority. 3. hmmm... don't know 4. Yes, unless you were the one with the stash. 5. The walrus is Paul. Can't explain, just know it to be so. 6. I don't know. End the Vietnam war? 7. My first car was a '74 beetle. 8. Brother, I KNOW the walls are melting. I jujst don't understand why no one else sees it. 9. Dylan is good, but not God. Clapton is God. 10. Oh yeah!

I started to answer your questions x2000 but quickly got distracted by a MASSIVE bong. Does that make me a hippie?

Nah, truthfully- I'm an Xer. 1. How many times have you watched "Sid and Nancy"? 2. Define the following terms: dope, grip, def, G, word, posse 3. Name 3 rebels 4. Was something wrong, she said? Of course there is. 5. What is the matrix? Explain. 6. I've been out before, but this time it's much safer in.... 7. Do you own or have you ever owned rollerblades? 8. Have you ever known the walls were melting? 9. True or false: God is Kobain. 10. Like, do I care? ;]

Of course, 3 could have been "name 3 serial killers" and 1 "how many times have you seen Kalifornia". ;]

Hah Hah, Congratulations Micheleh-I knew you'd be a natural for a Mod! But the really funny thing is, they put possibly the most level-headed individual on the site in charge of the "Off Topic" forum. This should be great! Now, if they'd just turn the whole show over to you... Congrats, again! februus

hahaha, i just went looking for this new forum and belatedly came back to read the first post saying it will be up tomorrow... oh man...

LOL at februus.... I'm nervous enough as it is, thanks! (Nah, it'll be straight.) Hey, AprilYSH!

1. Twice.. but I was at a concert 2 years later that was larger ( Watkins Glen ) 2. drug horde, drug informer, LSD experience, authority figures 3. Sri Chinmoy, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Ram Dass 4. We get by with a little help from our friends (Beatles/Ringo Starr - Joe Cocker) 5. John.Lennon lyric from "I am the Walrus" on the "Magical Mystery Tour" album Goo goo ga joob 6. Lyric from 'I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag' by Country Joe and the Fish. Give me an F and be the first one on your block to have your boy sent home in a box. 7. '59 Beetle 8. My trip was seeing geometric patterns on walls. 9. Dylan is great, even if he did pay a college student to allow him to claim authorship to 'Blowin' in the Wind'. Clapton is God. 10. '67 Album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Ditto what everyone else said. Except for a few things which don't apply, and plus a few things that they should've added to which I'd ditto, too. :)

Varian, you win a new rainbow-colored VW Beetle on the sheer confusingness of that reply, alone!

1.I saw the sex pistols-God save the Queen! 2.never used slang 3.BillyJoe from GreenDay,Jello Biafra and me 4.a-n-a-r-c-h-y, in the u-s-a 5.It's the music industry who is raping the musicians 6. I wanna be your dominated love slave, i wanna be the one who takes ur pain... 7.93 vw fox, does that count? 8. E 9.um, who is Dylan? 10. WHATEVER! Welcome aboard, my captain,my captian... now get this bloody tub sailing so i can put some shrimp on the barbie! hehe salutes the new Mod nono, not that finger,kids! yikes.... corner time for bonbon now..... trudege,trudge

LOL! I was thinking about a round forum- good vibes, and no corners! For those still wondering about some points.... 2. dope- exciting/ grip- a handful, alot/ def- definitive, best/ G- valuable, worth a grand/ word- true, agree/ posse- friends, associates 4. "Alive" (Stone Temole Pilots) 5. You're using it right now. 6. "Breathing" (Kate Bush)

You might be taking away some of the Tavern's business. It's all domestic (I mean domesticated) anyway.

Wish you the best with this one. Off-topic should generate some real interest.

1. Four 2) Stash: what you keep your Columbian in. Narc: Slang for cop, but technially means "Narcotics Officer". Trip: What you take without ever leaving the farm... The Man: Any form of so called authority. 3) Sun Yung Moon, David Koresh, Timothy Leary 4) I'd lend you my ears so you could sing me a song... 5) Paul. And if I have to explain, you wouldn't get it anyhow. ;] 6) We're not fighting for anything - Hippies don't fight. 7) I owned a VW bus named Hoover - does that count? 8) The ceiling melted before the walls did. 9) False. Dylan is "The Jester". George Burns is God. 10) Good girls don't answer that question. ;] And I'm not even a hippie. I'm the outlaw type of longhair. So... did I win? What did I win? Does the prize have money in non sequential bills?

Sure! You get my non-sequential electric bill, my non-sequential web bill, my....

An Xer?!? EGAD!!!!

Welcomesite aced it, but his answers were a little too "straight". He didn't even say "man". Not once! I think he's a narc...>:(

Nah x2k, yer trippin' man. Welcomesite ain't no narc, he's a wannabe flower child. Just can't get into the groove, man, yanno? Peace, man. Starchild McGurk

I'm probably the only one here who has wandered the streets of Haight-Ashbury with violets in her hair.

okay i wanna know whose got those fractal mushrooms?

Hey, party in the OT forum! You'll never guess who I got to jump out of the cake....!!

Carolly, you're probably right. I would have but my Mom wouldn't let me and I was never good at saving up my allowance so I never had enough bus fare to get across the bay. g

I was a "certified" hippy in the early '70s. Lived in a "commune" with a dozen other stoned-out freaks, had hair down to my waist, lived in tie-dyed anything, and went for a good 3 solid years without taking one single non-stoned breath. (Aaah, the memories - if I could only figure out where I left them.) I used to make custom bongs (bamboo with LOTS of beadwork) & sell them in head shops. Answers to #1 - 10 (all I got, ennyhoo). Hey, man, I don't DO quiz things, yaknow. Don't just sit there bogarting that joint, puff'n'pass man, puff'n'pass. Who snagged my mesc, and why are the walls purple'n'green (and breathing)? (Izzat 'nuf experience?)

"Izzat 'nuf experience?" Sorry Allen9, but I'm afraid you're overqualified.

sigh That's been the story of my life ever since I moved to this little out-of-the-way backwater planet.

Will you lock or delete threads if they ARE relevant to some topic since this is the Off-Topic forum? How much OverTime is expected and what is the OT pay? Will you keep serving drinks here if we're tossed from The Tavern for drunkeness? How much payload can a swallow carry? What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite colour?

1. Nope! As HRH the OT Queen, we decide what is off topic, which is anything our subjects want to to be. ;] ;] ;] ;] ;] 2. You can do as much OT as you like. There will be a premium of one KK (Krispy Kremes, our chosen currency) for every hour. 3.Yes, sleeping here is allowed. (And encouraged, hem hem....) 4. It depends on who is being paid. 5. HRH Queen OT, of course! 6. Enlightenment through humor. 7. All of them.