regarding the perceived lack of serious conversation of a technical
nature:
may I submit the following for the membership's consideration....
perhaps some members have not fully grasped the importance
of item #1, and ought to revisit gab and eti ........
(who, may I add, are near and dear to me, as I not only happen to
personally know a privy excavator, but I have been called upon on
several occasions to restore/rehab toilet partitions)
and if there are members who do not find that gab and eti speak to them,
then perhaps they should proceed immediately to the OTHER LISTS section
near the end of this message and begin their search for a home in which
they feel more comfortable.... ;)
Deb
(PS- let the record be noted that I was correct about Ken being a
back-channel communications person! )
the following is the text of the welcoming message I received upon
re-subscribing to BP.....
please take the time to read it carefully, as it may have been a while
since you first saw it:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Subject: Usage guidelines for BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS
Welcome to Bullamanka-Pinheads
Your first task is to send a message to BP introducing yourself.
“Hello,” is technically accurate, but, if you are capable of stretching
sentences beyond one or two words it makes for more engaging conversation.
Feel free to be irrelevant, irreverent, and irrational. If you want to sit
for a while and watch the foliage, feel free, but remember, you will be
expected to say something once in a leaftime.
If you do not know what a leaftime is, ask BP, “What is a leaftime?” The
preservationeers, like mad linguistic elves, will be glad to NOT leaf you
alone. They will be leafing all the way. If you decide to leaf you will find
instructions below.
The purpose of Bullamanka-Pinheads is to provide a forum of communication
between preservationeers: practitioners, craftspersons, and ANYONE of any
persuasion, employment, education, background, or simple curiosity regarding
preservation of the built, natural, and imaginary environment -- to do the
following:
1) Fully explore and develop relationships. A place where creative, garrulous
individuals can feel free to spit, belch, and go ducky muck without denting
nobler sensibilities. Not promoting foul language; promoting the freedom to
express stupid ideas awkwardly. If you do not like Gab & Eti Orgrease then
you do not want to be here -- http://www.geocities.com/~orgrease
2) Provide a support network, to build a sense of community, to populate a
virtual community of preservation with heroes, children, tricksters, Gods,
demons, wise old men, earth mothers, and a proficiency of smaller animals.
3) To aid preservationeers working in isolated areas, or confining career
positions, to feel in-touch, to be in the loop.
4) To provide a forum where preservationeers can feel comfortable to
congregate and meet with others who will be sympathetic to their stories. A
place to drop your rocks.
5) To ask WHY? Is there a Secretary of the Exterior?
6) A place where the serious minded person can get practical answers: playing
with the messy parts of preservation -- emotions, strategy, facing the
developers, communicating, managing the project, wallowing in the absurd,
laughing.
7) To share strategy on preservation of the built environment, which is an
important ecology within the global environment. In respect of a sustainable
planet Bullamanka-Pinheads is a space to explore these issues.
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