The Bar, Volume #4

[Tinkerbell]

Morning everyone!! have a fantastic day!

[Elderberry]

I can so relate to this post.

*walks into an empty room, bare floors, blank walls, a janky piece of plywood held up on two sawhorses pretending to be a bar, and a creaky lonely chair in the middle of the room*

Sigh

*heads to the chair & sits down*

This, my friends, is the sorry tale of how, while battling the hordes of spammers, I killed a popular thread. Oh, I assure you, it wasn't done out of malice, but, bleary-eyed and dust-encrusted, I returned home to find our beloved board buried under an assault of spammers. I was tired, I was hungry, I was stupid. Emphasis on stupid. I decided to start fighting when I should have waited until I was rested, but I was the first mod back & the board was unusable.

*looks around the emptiness*

I made some coffee and entered the battle Sunday night, knowing that I could only remove posts but not block the spammers, but determined to try to get some breathing room. I started hacking and whacking, chipping away post by post for over an hour, and when I realized quite a lot of them were complete spammer topics I knew I could take out 20 or 30 at a time, instead of one by one. I attacked, I was knocking out the bastards by the handful...

and then I fucked up royally.

It was a wall of spam posts in "Open Topics", a long row, some marked as spam, some not. I was checking the boxes & trying to make sure I was only getting "zero follow-up post" while comparing the last post to known spammers when I checked the Bar 3, since the last post was a spammer, and somehow between cross-eyed & stupid I didn't notice the thousands of posts, and I didn't even realize I'd checked it until after I said "yes", delete topics...

I screamed loud enough my upstairs neighbor called to make sure I was okay.

It's unrecoverable. Gone. I've checked, but there's no way to recover a single thread.

I even checked the "wayback machine" to see if I could find any of it. It doesn't look like it's there either.

I am unbelievably sorry, and was so frozen by what I'd done it took me until Tuesday to even start going after the spam again - I seriously didn't want to fuck up more. I made it through over 8 hours of spam-whacking fine the last two days, so there's that at least.

Hopefully this empty space will get some love, and some of the memories created in Bar #3 can live on.

*sets up a round of drinks on the saw-horse bar, waits*

[pink]

Knowmad! I'm honored! I think that's the first time one of my quotes made it to a sig line.

*goes for another cup of coffee*

Knew I should've asked for help with that sasparilla!

[knowmad]

Knowmad! I'm honored! I think that's the first time one of my quotes made it to a sig line.

*goes for another cup of coffee*

Knew I should've asked for help with that sasparilla!

Hey Those words summed up my burn, 'Cept I started asking for it on Tuesday. Actualy Didn't ask as mutch as I said yes. but same effect.

[magicmarty]

I shall certainly remember that, (((LF))).

[maryanimal]

I was lured into The Bar, Volume #4 from the what happened to Da Bar 3. As I said in that thread, what's better than a fresh start! *hugs for everyone*!

[Eric]

Making a periodic dart-in, slinging a plate of quesadilla's (good for breakfast, lunch or dinner!) - the bacon is magically either real or vegetarian, depending on your needs...


Knowmad- it was lovely to get to meet you for a hot second!

It's great to hear that so many people had a Good Year. Usually if I have a good one I'm going to hear more people saying there's was bad.

[Thorormr]

So this is where everyone wound up . . .

How about a Dark and Stormy?

[knowmad]

....

Knowmad- it was lovely to get to meet you for a hot second!

It's great to hear that so many people had a Good Year. Usually if I have a good one I'm going to hear more people saying there's was bad.

Yeah was nice to see you as well. Funny thing I saw you chatting to a friend and thought Damn that guy looks like Eric then I saw the BRC Weekly [*Derp*]
but yeah this was like my virgin year all over agian. And it keeps getting better! Someone just found my Phone!!!! yeah!
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[forty_eight]

i like to drink and shit

sucks about that other bar

[ygmir]

*wanders in, rubs ECM, makes CCCP*

Hi gang!!!

I ended up in Reno for the last couple of days, so missed the inagural run of Saturday morning cartoons here.....sorry.

so...........

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dang knee and leg below, and foot are still swelling and turning purple from bruising from my antics on playa.......it's tough getting old.

[Kinetik V]

Making a periodic dart-in, slinging a plate of quesadilla's (good for breakfast, lunch or dinner!) - the bacon is magically either real or vegetarian, depending on your needs...

Damn, that looked so good I'm making some for breakfast.

[grenadine]

Good morning everyone *puts out a pitcher of bloody marys*! Who wants pancakes cooked in bacon fat?

[ygmir]

Hi grenadine, and welcome!

sounds like a good lunch, thanks.

[magicmarty]

Hi YG, welcome Gren. Good pic of us, YG, posted by LF on FB. Got most of my playa stuff cleaned and stashed. Haven't decided what to do about my injured tent. 3 out of 5 tent poles destroyed. Got 5 good years out of it, likely time to think about an alternative for 2013. Never too early to start planning for the next burn!

Time to make some pottery

Cheers

[ygmir]

HI Marty!! yeah, any pic with you, is a good pic........you're "da best".

you can get new poles.........(redacting German military humor).................

there were some fun pics from the MnG......I wish they'd get posted.

[maryanimal]

Afternoon all! Had a great lunch here. sauteed zucchini with red and green bell peppers, onion, garlic, and quinoa! yummy! Good-for-your-soul food!

[theCryptofishist]

you can get new poles.........(redacting German military humor).................

Smart move. Everyone knows Germans have no sense of humor.

[ygmir]

you can get new poles.........(redacting German military humor).................

Smart move. Everyone knows Germans have no sense of humor.

it'd not be lost on Prussians or Bohemians, though!!

[theCryptofishist]

Bohemians, of course. But Prussians are the most german of the germans. Should've stuck with Bavarians. They are drunken oompah types. They gotta at least like falling down humor.

[ygmir]

but, IIRC, Prussia included parts of what is now Poland....and well, Pole jokes and all........they're over run with 'em..........

[theCryptofishist]

Yes, Prussia contained parts of Poland. So did Russia. So did Austria. Poland was a plain and therefor oft-conquered. And then famously carved up by the "Big Three". And, of course, there was a whole lot more intermingling than we can possibly list here.

[littleflower]

give me my pole



you can keep the prussians

[knowmad]

Kein kommentar!

[magicmarty]

Hey Yg, Fishy and LF. LF you have the best of the Pole thoughts!

Snuggles in the NEB with the ever present LF

Night kiddies

[MisaBlue]

*walks in followed by playa cloud*

Hey peeps! Great to see you here. I am still kind of playa covered...got off of there yesterday...it was crazy week...
I am going to crash on the couch...ohh, finishing beer first

[knowmad]

[*pulls a corner of the NEB over Misa*]
Träum was Schönes, my dust coverered Angel. thank you.

[ygmir]

*limps in, starts ECM for CCCP*

Hi Misa!! glad to see you got off the playa ok.......you in the Bay Area?
Hi Knowmad!!! still in Reno?

ah.....first Monday Post-Playa..........seems defaultia has its grip on me again.

[AntiM]

Defaultia means laundry, doesn't it?

Mmmmm, coffee.

[shroom]

coffee sounds great today