Satirists needed

Well, I know from school: Difficile est satiram non scribere, and Aristotle said that the gods too are fond of a joke.

My only problem (besides the time) is that my fine humour (hear! hear!) is generally called cynicism (ugh!, yuck! ). :wink:

I can be funny.

(Bet you laughed at that!)



But I cannot play the satir.

(I thought that was spelled "sitar.")

Thanks for the nomination, pueo. I'm honestly flattered.

Now, is it sarcasm or satire that you need?

I think I could contribute a piece or two and leave it up to Craven to decide if that's what he's looking for. Or maybe post a short piece on A2K to see if it's what people would read. I'll defer to Craven.

Thanks Farmerman. Misery loves company.

Frank- Are you sure that it isn't spelled, "satyr"!

That could be, too.

Oh, my aching hoof. :wink:

There's a link on the Home page. Yes, it helps. Thanks!

So, the gf and I were talking about satyrs the other night. (Okay, really just thinking of various ways to call somebody a goatf*cker; I think it's really funny to call somebody the king of the goatf*cker's -- which is to say, Pan -- but she seems to find that the grandiose title detracts from the humor -- but I digress.)

Anyway, we were talking about satyrs: top half is man, bottom half is goat. It would be a very nice way to justify in one's prurient mind something they might see if they came across a goatherd and one of his charges. Sure, you could admit, "That man is having relations with a goat." Or you could tell yourself, "I just saw a satyr!" Far less disturbing. Naturally, then, goatherds would be inclined to worship Pan. Course, so would any number of libertines who understand what he really stands for.

And then there are the centaurs...

And the Egyptians, who put the heads of animals on the bodies of humans. Guess they're tastes ran a little more toward the passive end of Caligula's scale...

Why is it that the phrase 'dog and pony show' always makes me think of Catherine the Great?

I could sing a lengthy Czech song about Pan here at this very point, but I shall not. Suffice it to say I'm up to any mischief. When is the off-site coming up? Too curious, I must know quickly.

Noddy, can you email support? Here's the link http://www.able2know.com/contact.php

You can use that when you have access problems for the best way to get help.

As to what it will be about this will vary. Basically I'm going to let each user determine this for the most part.

Here's how I envision it:

The domain is waggery.com, yes it's a damn cool name.
The software it will run on will either be a open source blog software like Moveable Type or it will be run off software that I've already prepared to plug into the forum. This has not yet been decided and I'm open to input.

There are technical considerations, namely that one integrated with this site's forum would have huge advantages but be hard to move to a new server, so there's a load balancing issue.

Anywho this will be resolved later on.

The theme of the home page and main "blog" will be satire. Think "Onion".

Beneath this there will be the option for individual blogs. These can be about almost whatever.

There might be a joke database added to waggery and maybe online games as well. But anywho it's just about having a funa nd funny site.

Hellifino. The magic 8 ball's was kicked over teh weekend and isn't answering.

It would take me about 5 hours to setup, everything really depends on how soon I get other ducks in a row (e.g. decide on technical details etc).

aaah, dem ducks. always so unruly, causing trouble. baked ones, with cabbage and lokshe, is another story.mmmmm.

Craven - there's also WordPress. I've been looking into it a little for myself but haven't made the switch yet. It's supposed to be a great alternative to MT and more user-friendly.

Watching the ducks in the river the other day I marvelled at the panpinniform plexus that enables them to stick their feet in the ice-cold water without freezing their blood.

I've got a similar plexus, but I won't tell you about it...


(God, what a geek.)

(Sorry 'bout the hijacking.)

I had a look at the demo. Looks ok, the demo didn't show some pages so I'll install it on a box somehwere and check it out. Thanks for the lead.

The more I look at blog software the more I want to tackle an in-house solution. All of them have limitations I don't like.

Maybe if you advise CdK how to train his plexus, the ducks would get alined easier?

Hmmm... There are swimmers who benefit in both fecundity and organization from my plexus, but they be not ducks.

Do not know what either fecundity or plexus is, but I'd rather not speculate. I am a shy and well brought up maiden...

Hmmm. When did this happen?