I'm just wondering if anybody is lurking and afraid to take the first step and actually post something here. This used to be one of my first stops whenever I got online. I still check fairly often but seems like everyone has wandered off.

-- Anonymous, January 17, 2002

Answers

I admit I have Lurked and not posted. Reason being I didnt want to post my "real" addy so got myself (finally!!!) a yahoo email address. There now, dont we all feel better? LOL

-- Anonymous, January 17, 2002

I still stop by to see if there are any interesting discussions but it's been pretty sloooow lately. I read Gwen's stories and enjoy them also. But I've been so busy the past few months that I haven't had time to think of anything of interest to talk about, just what needs to be done next!

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

I know what ya mean about being busy Oma D. I have to admit that I really miss mostly lurking and watching the stories unfold. There is/was a diverse group of people here and a wide range of opinions.

Think of something to get a good healthy thread started! please.... :o)

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

I'll give it a shot. Hopefully there more people are out there lurking just waiting for a juicy topic to jump into now that the holidays are over (or it will become a conversation and not a discussion!).

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

I posted four new questions earlier this month and got nothin'.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2002

One thing I noticed is that the new questions aren't listed under "New Questions." (at least on my browser). They're listed under "Uncategorized". I know this shouldn't necessarily be a forum killer, but it did take me a while to find out where the new questions are.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Hmmmmm Well still no one responds , perhaps the subject matter needs to be slightly more shocking? ROFL

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Ok lyn, how about one of these as a choice ......

Have you ever been "intimate" with an Alien Gilled Monkey Princess Sex Goddess? More than once?

or

The grossest thing that I personly ever did to someone elses food at work, when they were not looking.

or

Impossible to fart while scuba diving... fact or fiction?

or

Lies that I've told that caused another person to do jail time.

or, just for the sheer shock value how, about

If I were Howard Stern what kind of fruit would you be?

Come on lyn, help me out here........ :o)

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

No alien sex, nothing at work in anyones food, no lies to cause jail time, and definitely a banana.

But I have done this lately; we have a paranoid type at work and I do things like take a screw and place it under his desk/chair and watched him search and go wonkers and sit gingerly testing the sturdieness of his proposed broken desk/chair. Used tap water to make the coffee which he is deathly afraid of, rearranged his desk belongings just to cause him to pause and furtively look right and left.

Juvenile but boring life I lead *snort*

And you?

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

I was just making suggestions for topics lyn.

I would never try or do any of those things, Well I did have this dream once, about this alien gilled mon..... ummm never mind. :o)

You might try a dead mouse, some duct tape, and the bottom of a desk drawer for some prolonged fun.... NOT that I did it. But the victim did nearly disassemble his desk trying to find the smell.

-- Anonymous, February 03, 2002

oh, just some ideas eh? Shoot, I was really trying to think of my answers carefully. LOL

Hey! thats giving me a good idea for my next sabatoge, not that I'll go touch a real dead mouse, but I have one of those plasticky ones from Holloween......Hmmmmmm.....OR find some other hideous smelly thing that I can find and stick there. LOL My last attempt was to fill my trash (when the trash by our desks gets 3/4 full he freaks that it'll contain contaminates and insists we change it before the whole place crumbles) so I really loosely kept the trash filled so that it looked overflowing. He made his snide comment and then I stood up and put my foot in the trash stomping it down several times. He almost lost his cookies. I was like, 'Its just a few days lunch containers, no bigee!' He turned green!!! lol ok..well...it made me laugh..you'd have to be there to know how iritating it is to have someone on your back and in your business. I mean the guy sprays my keyboard with Lysol everytime I get up. He sprays everyones back as they enter the building to get rid of germs so he doesnt get sick. The guy uses Lysol like mace.

-- Anonymous, February 04, 2002

lyn,

He sounds like the normal clean freak, but that ain't all bad.

I shared office space with a guy named Jim that was the complete opposite. He left a dirt trail like PigPen from Charlie Brown.

One day someone came in while he was out and without thinking sat in his chair which had Jim's coat draped over the back. About the time he leaned back I said " You know your touching Jim's coat?". He did the roaches crawling down your back shudder, jumped up ripping his shirt off and threw it on the floor stomping it like it was attacking him. The whole time he kept repeating Oh My God,OMG,OMG,OMG!!!!

Needless to say, I about wet myself laughing at him. When I finally was able to maintain, I grabbed my extendable pointer and picked the now completely ruined shirt up off the floor with it. After I put it in the trashcan I ask if he thought we ought to go out and burn it. He replied "You burn it, I'm going home for a HOT shower." Like you said, maybe you had to be there...... There are worse things out there than clean freaks, maybe.

No dead mice huh, hmmmm how about a small uncooked piece of fish or hamburger.

-- Anonymous, February 04, 2002

LOL What melodrama!

Yes, there could be worse things than a clean freak or as we refer to him a germ freak. I actually really pity him, his hands are raw from washing them with alcohol hourly.It was his birthday yesterday, we got him many fun gifts including tissue boxes in designer colors, he loved them!

A small bit of fish might work ROFL Actually he'd know for sure it was me then. ;-)

Since this is the Roll Call Question thread let me introduce myself; I'm a 37 yr old housewife who just returned to the work force about 5 months ago, I have an 8 1/2 yr old son and some various pets. Looks? Hmmm, well I'm short, blonde and smile alot. I'm not fat, not skinny, I have poor taste in shoes but have great jackets and skirts, but live for sweats and t-shirts. We live in the vast state of CA and in a house that is in the 'suburbs' and it looks like every other house as it is a 'development' I resent this. lol I am bucking aging and becoming a suburbanite and refuse to drive a van or a SUV LOL as everyone else has one. Nothing against those that do, just not for me. My music tastes are electic, I'm not a couch potatoe but would rather be 'doing' something. Some of my hobbies are reading, composting, decoupage and humor. I like to write and read voraciously. I have been reading Gwen's Forum for almost two yrs and lurking on the forum for about a yr. I love it. There.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

lyn,

I think I might know you....

You live in that one house with the front door and grass in the yard. Yeah, right down the road from that street with all the traffic on it! j/k

Glad to meet ya <<>>. Married/male/42/2boys4&11/found Gwens years ago and lurked forever before posting/built for wrestling not marathon running.

You could start diluting your "friend's" alcohol with distilled water, not so bad for the hands that way.

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2002

Yeah, like that! I could be anyone and live in any house around here. That is one major dissappointment with CA is the ""developments"" where everything blends in and all looks uniform. Meaning; the same.

He can smell the dilution, we've tried that. really.

I posted a new question. *looking right and left* It sure is quiet in here lately.

Thats why I started posting. LOL I wondered what happened to everyone.

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2002

Gwen redesigned her main page and there's no link to the forum. She's done this before. I think there may be some people who can't find it now.

-- Anonymous, February 09, 2002

Oops.

I never think about people trying to find it when I'm redesigning. I think, "Why put a link to a password-protected forum if it's just going to frustrate people who don't have the password?"

Those people could email me, I guess. Or they could always be detectives and go to www.greenspun.com and look for "Gwen's Trailer Trash Forum" there.

-- Anonymous, February 10, 2002

LOL thousands could be knocking upon their monitor shouting the Mervyns mantra "OPEN< OPEN< OPEN" LOL

I myself had the front page on favorites and used to click to forum from there and then entered password. Just recently I put the forum under my favorites too. ;-)

The new front page is sharp looking though.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2002

Well, it's not like it used to be in here, Gwen, that's for sure. I found the greenspun link in my history and added a bookmark this time.

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2002