What are good ‘board’ manners to you?

[Portia]

Write, I slept on my 'cognitive itch' and it seems to gone away…as long as I don’t scroll up and read those lyrics again…! I think it works as a round…well, we used to do it and I found it very difficult to concentrate on my lines with only a few singers – too easy to tune-in to someone else and forget where I was. (Oatcakes…. I remember that you make them. I still eat them but shop-bought, usually rolled up with melted Cheddar inside…oh not cheese again ).

Jacmac, is it terrible? Sorry if it is. I think you said “I don’t go back to old posts” and that got me thinking – why not? Is there something in this for me? Maybe you didn’t mean to be deep but I perceived it as such – so thank you!

Beth, ear-worm? Nasty! I worried about the insects ‘earwigs’ as a kid, I thought they would climb into your ear and eat your brain. Now I know they eat plants. Knowledge is a comforting thing sometimes.

Oh Hops you posted…what did you say? .....

"thereeeee (big long intro word then very fast - ) wasanoldmancalledMichaelFinnag
Drat!

[Portia]

Google is my friend!  You know you want it Hops….

Click it click it! (scroll down) http://www.gardenofsong.com/bobbyb.html

[Hopalong]

 

I did. Uggh. I am adequately punished!

Aaagggh. The sorta tune invented by gremlins.

Oh spare me, it'll be a long (da da dumdumdum) Friday....

Hops

[reallyME]

Hey I remember the Michael Finnegan song, but worse than that is a song made popular among little tikes, by Sharon, Lois and Braham, that goes:

"I am slowly going crazy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 switch, crazy going slowly am I, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 switch"  and it starts out slow and then gets faster and faster till eventually it either fades out or ends.

Even their song "This is a song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends, some people started singing it, not knowin what it was, and we'll just keep on singin it forever just because, this is a song that never ends...."

AD NAUSEUM...

I'm kind of glad my children are now older, we don't have cable and that show has not been on in my house in a long time; yet, there were some skits on it that I enjoyed.

~Laura

[Portia]

Laura those songs sound…..infuriating!

Reminds me of a story my nan would start off with me (it isn’t a story, it’s a bit of humour kids can understand so that they get to feel ‘effective’ when they do understand it):

It was a dark and stormy night, three brigands sat in a cave
One of the brigands said, listen and I’ll tell you a tale…
“It was a dark and stormy night, three brigands sat in a cave
One of the brigands said, listen and I’ll tell you a tale…”

…and so on until the child shrieks with laughter that they’ve ‘got it’. Good fun. 

[mudpuppy]

I used to get that song that never ends stuck in my head nearly every day when our daughter was a shrimp because Shari Lewis ended her daily Lamb Chops show with it. D still has her grubby little Lamb Chops she used to sleep with every night.

Its stuck there now as a matter of fact.

mud

[write]

not posting SPAM!

[gratitude28]

Ha ha, write!!!!   

[lightofheart]

Whoops!
Just found out today that sending personal messages are an option here, vs. posting on and cluttering a thread for everyone.
My apologies to everyone for posts I've made since starting here that would have been a better fit as PMs to individuals.
Thought I'd post this since other newbies might not know about the PM option either? (or just techno-dim newbies like me)
Mea Culpa, and thanks for tolerating my board etiquette slip(s)
best,
LoH

[Hopalong]

Hi LoH,

I don't know what you're referring to because I've found all your posts to be valuable and didn't experience any as belonging more appropriately to a PM.

There's no book of etiquette here, we just work things out together most of the time.

Hops