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Are the BC Discussion Forums One Giant Game of Tag?
Posted by gtally • 3/03/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: discussion boards, tags
I love the Blog Catalog main boards, and find that they are the adult equivalent of playing tag on the playground when I was a kid. You chase your friends around the discussion threads, tag them with a silly or serious comment, then run away.
What do you think? Are the discussion threads a game for you, a place for advice, support and best practices, a promotional tool, or all of the above?
If this is a form of recreation, what kind of game would you compare the BC main board to? What do you think?
User Comments
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You're it! [runs away]-
Bugger! beat me to it, so you get a wet willy and a wedgie. -
Quit it! Mo-o-o-o-om! Claire's picking on me!
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Hey, no fair! We hadn't started the game yet! Plus I was on base and had called "time out!"
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Stop crying, your out.
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I shall go with all of the above, they are what you make it
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I think of it more like dodgeball.....
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Ahhahahah! It for your own good.
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Yes - it's help my interwebz agility by + 10!
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I think this is also sage advice:
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I am wearing my tin foil hat as we speak. It keeps the CIA from broadcasting their Langely cafeteria lunch specials into my fillings.
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Oh excellent, I lost my original plan for one!
Now I won't be forced to hear Abba while I'm in the shower anymore!
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It reminds me of lesbian porn, it's full of women moaning.-
LOL! You would come up with that! I wasn't aware that pink donkeys had such vivid sexual imaginations. -
Bad donkeh.
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I'm here looking for followers...not for my blog, but to join my cult and worship me as their God.-
{kneeling before Dr. Jay, waving arms up and down}
I'm not worthy!
I'm not worthy!
I'm not worthy! -
There's one!
Awright! -
I already have the tin foil hat on, so make it two. When's the ascension to the Mother Ship you promised, DrJay? And how does my giving you all my credit card numbers further that along?
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@gtally: yours is not to question why, yours is just to give me your credit card numbers (with expiration dates and that little number on the back) or die....
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Yes Bagwan. I shall obey. Where do I send the title to my BMW? Or will the Enlightened Bagwan be driving it, himself?
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I won't dignify the donkeh with a response (as though anything could). Regarding the original question, though, I think a part of the "tag" aspect comes from people who have similar timing with their on-line activity simply being on the boards at the same time most days and thus interacting more tahn folks who drop in from time to time but, erm, don't have the sort of commitment we do to the discussions. That, and we're all a bunch of kids.
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That was a well thought-out, mature answer, legbamel.
Now, [tag]! You're it! -
"Ooooo look at me I'm a shoe girl and I'm soooooo dignified oooooo"
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Down, donkeh, down! It's okay. *I* think you're quite the fancy aardvark, with dainty manners and a fine sense of decorum. When I reply to you, I always hold one pinky in the air.
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Hey, no tag-backs! Did you hear something? It sounded like a tiny donkey, moaning and whining.
Gtally, that's not the finger I hold in the air when replying to anin. -
It's the shoe girl she is rampantly anti Aardvarkite, I thought we had seen the end of those days when you could parade your prejudices openly and without the slightest shame.
Just because we are a spreader of diseases and carriers of filth some people seem to think it's ok to blatantly abuse us, this is how dung beetles got a bad name. -
And rats, aningeniousname!
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Hey Anin - the new Oldspice commercial makes me think of you.
"That's two thingsism!!!" -
You spread disease, too?! Here I just thought aardvarks were just perverts and poor spellers--two a's at the beginning indeed. [rolls eyes]
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What new old spice commercial? You seem to forget I'm a proper person not a war obsessed burger chomping tea dumper from the wrong side of the Atlantic.
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That's "the left side of the Atlantic" to you, royalist.
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Yeah left or in Latin sinestre therefore the sinister side of the Atlantic, that sounds about right.
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Every time I see this commercial, I think of a dirty little aardvark:
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I thought aardvarks were from Africa. How did you end up in cold, rainy dreary England?
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@Anok
I bet his hooves play havoc with the bathroom floor tiles I'd put some sort of metal grill down.
@Gtally
Haven't you ever heard of slavery??? In the late 1880's it was believed Aardvarks were probably better than police dogs at detecting crime due to our peculiar smell and our love of informing on others. It was only after they had shipped over 2000 that they realised we are quite naughty and totally unsuited to police work of any kind. So they just set us free and that is how there came to be a sizeable Aardvark community in the north of England. -
What, Anok, you think anin showers?!
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Oh Gawd, you mean to tell me there are giant feral herds of aardvarks roaming the motorways and A roads?
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Actually shoe girl, I have a very posh and expensive shower with a twenty five karat gold shower head. There's nothing I like better than coming home after a hard days Aardvarking and having a golden shower.
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OH! Anin! - That's a new and sneaky low! LOLLOL
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Ugh. I missed that the first time. I somehow knew Anin liked getting pissed.
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[Is not surprised.] As a lefty, I'm shocked and appalled at your blatant attempts to discredit me and all left-handed people. Everyone knows that the Ancient Romans were rightist, and liked to bathe together in the altogether after a hard day's wrestling. Wait, those naked wrestlers were Greek, weren't they? Still,
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I have nothing against the left handed people as long as they make it clear upon meeting normal people that they are "one of those" I believe once forcibly sterilsed they should be left in peace to live out their remaining days in some kind of camp, somewhere were we can concentrate them and they will not be a danger to us or indeed themselves.
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No goose stepping! Bad donkeh!
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I'm so relieved that I'm way over here, free from the oppression that your kind attempt to visit on the right-thinking lefties of the world.
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Duck, duck, duck...GOOSE! *runs away* -
Hey, it's a good thing it's not freeze tag. Otherwise we wouldn't get anywhere!
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I'm here to watch the oldies play-
[is shocked at the impudence] Whippersnapper!
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Consarn kids. In my day, we knew how to respect our elders.
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Greenhorn!
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hoping to play like you guys in da future
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It's taken us years to perfect this sort of immature front. Someday you, too, can mock people this well, if you practice and learn from us (i.e. the best).
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@legbamel LOL learning.. Maybe you guys got a part time job out here
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Yes, but it will take years of practicing how to stick your tongue out, and a few regression sessions that you never really snap out of...
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Like this? neer neer neer neer neer
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Yes! Now you've got it!
Or Thhhbbbppppt! -
Or this!
(Rolls eyes back in head and pulls nose up into a pig snout).
Oink! Oink! Oink! Oink! Oink! Oink! -
neer neer neer thhhbbppptt oink oink...
Learning a lot -
You're a quick study!
No get your sarcastic face on, and make snide - but funny - remark about the aardvark. That's the best way to learn. -
All right, dosox! That's the spirit!
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That's an excellent start! Don't forget to roll your eyes when making wisecracks about donkeh-shaped aardvarks, though. It's a critical piece of "body" language.
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Yes and genuflecting to ward off the donkeh evil, helps too. He is the Anti-Aardvarky Christ. No, wait the devil discussion thread is somewhere else...
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Good Night
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Night. And before you go to bed -- [tag]! You're it!
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Awww, a perfect mockery opportunity left untaken. I suppose you young'uns need your sleep. Good night, chicken.
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Ooops! Meant to post below. Carry on, people!
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So..who's it again? (NOT IT!)
Hehehehehe -
Not it!
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We really are just a bunch of over grown children aren't we....
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Yahtzee! Bingo! Jenga! Connect Four!
Wait, am I in the right game? -
No - but you should probably be wary of large flying dodgeballs aimed at your head!
DUCK! -
[Thwack!]
Ow.
Damn you, Anok! -
I didn't tell you?
It's ninja dodgeball! -
I need stitches...
Is that blood? Why is my ear on the floor?
Oh, everything is growing so dim...
Come closer...closer...I have one, last dying request:
[Tag!]
You're it!
Hee hee hee hee hee hee...
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Oh you rotten little...why I oughtta.....
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Not It
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Gotta love the Bugs Bunny. He taught me so many life lessons, like how to cross dress to fool lovestruck hunters and how to fool sassy ducks.
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Damn! Look at dosox sneaking back into the forum and tagging me! Sneaky sneaky!
Now *that* was a ninja attack. -
Hahahahahaha!
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Well, I always heard that tags can improve your blog's search ability, but this is ridiculous!
And there's no one left in the room to tag.
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We'll have to wait until later - when everyone else comes out to play again.
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2 pawed tag ....scampering away.
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Ugh! And with muddy paws and all!
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well you should see what i did on gtally's rain gutters.
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OoooOOoohhhHHhhh! I'm teeeellling!
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What? What's all this? Why are my rain gutters all rusty?
Oh no! Bad Jingle!
Wellington, get her!
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Tell Wellington to be careful stepping off the front porch ..i think you have also been visited by a leprechaun.
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Now Wellington is scraping the "leprechaun magic" off his butler spats. Damn you, Scott, quit feeding Jingle those "Greenies" treats!
Hope you're happy.
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Any other big kids in the room?
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I'm here!
Red Rover Red Rover Send GTally right over!
Run!-
Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!
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Man, you leave the room to heat up some leftover Chinese food, and everyone gangs up on you!
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----------------------- > POKE!
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Talk less, run more!
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I...can't...run.
Too full of Mu Shu pork and orange chicken and lo mein.
I must weigh a ton, right now! -
Man, I feel full listening to you!
I had a big, late lunch today. Thai shrimp and pork dumplings with fresh bean sprouts, cilantro and peanuts. Just thought I would share. -
Oy. I had eight pork and ginger pot stickers, too.
I think I'll go nappy bye right here in the discussion thread.
[puts head down on ground and passes into a food coma].
SKNZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... -
Oy or Oink! I'm just teasing you. I love my Cantonese too...
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Hey, I already oinked earlier in the thread. (see above).
But fortunately, I'm not Augustus Gloop. I was eating with my colleagues last night, not all by my lonesome. So I was grazing on a little bit of this and a little bit of that, today, not full dishes.
Aaand...
[tag!]
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I had a light supper and I'm ready to play!!!!!!!!
(Ok, anything to avoid doing the monthly budget and bills. I really don't want to know how little money we have this month or decide which bill not to pay )
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Runs around, flapping hands and laughs. Sneaks up on Anok and tugs on her ninja mask
"I got the mask!!!"-
Dammit cat! You're worse than the ferret!
Come back here - put those claws away! I'll make Kung-pow kitty!
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Darts up a tree and hisses. Drops mask and begins grooming.
"Gotta be clean."-
Fortunately, Anok wears three backup masks one under the other, so that no one finds out that her secret identity is really that of mild mannered Peter Parker.
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You are certainly correct about the playground part LOL!-
Drops Anok's ninja mask on rubber doll head.
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Bad kitty! You're worse than Jingle the dog!
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Ok which am I? Worse than the dog or worse than the ferret?
By the way, I saw a PBS documentary on ferrets (in HD!) that was hilarious. There was this lady who sings songs to her professional show ferrets. I was at once disturbed, fascinated, and amused. -
Maybe a little worse than both the dog *and* the ferret. I make tiny peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Pip the fancy rat. That probably makes me weird and disturbing, too.
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No way! That is so funny. Tape Pip eating one and put it on your blog.
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As a matter of fact, I'm actually trying to produce my first YouTube video as we speak of our Jazz 777 Club events. I didn't shoot the video, so I don't know how good it will be. But I will keep everyone posted as soon as I edit the finished product.
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This looks like it was so much fun... I missed it... Drats!
I guess I will get me some chalk and a small stone, draw a hopscotch on the sidewalk, toss the stone on it and start hopping... -
YOU'RE IT!!!-
Man, Me Me, that's one Big Sale!
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Or one B-I-G tag!
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[Peeps in carefully, so as to avoid flying dodgeballs and various animals, only to get tagged in the eye.]
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[tag] Now you're it, gtally!
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Now, dang it, legbamel! My garbage cans just blew down the street and I had to go chasing merrily after them! See what happens!?!? I leave the room for a few minutes and get ganged up on!
(and other various whiny, grumbling remarks). -
Anyone else want to be silly?
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You guys remind me of the Twilight Zone episode where the old folks play kick the can and turn back into kids... -
Yes, well, you can't regress when you're already regressed.
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[tag!]
You're it! -
Nah nah nah nah nah - you can't tag me, said she,
while mounting her painted pony and cantering
off into the distance with the can tucked under her armpit.-
No fair! You didn't cry "dibs" first!
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Ooops. Meant to post below. Carry on, people.
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If it is a game then the game is snap!-
Isn't that a card game?
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Go Fish!
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"Uno!"
"Old Maid!"
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Whoah! The heavy vibes in the other discussion threads are harshing on my mellow, man!
Harshing - on - my- mellow!
Anyone for some general stupidity?
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