Once in a while, I'm plagued by odd and wacky notions and thoughts that
are either surreal or psychotic, depending on which side of the thought
I'm on at the moment. Yeah, okay. It's one of those mornings. I had
terrible dreams, and was jarred awake in the midst of the worst one,
which always influences my brain in less than pleasant ways for a few
hours, or the rest of the day.
In reading the thread that used to be this one, before I hijacked it with
this post (I just had to make this one self-referential - oops, I did it
again), I was wondering if this was all part of my own imagination, a
creation of my own mind, a product of my nightmare induced temporary
irrationality. I left that notion behind pretty quickly, but another
thought hopped right on that one's heels. What if there was only one
other poster on ASP, posting under all these different names. People
participate in some odd folly on occasion. Why not that?
Ridiculous. No one could adopt THAT many personnae with clarity, without
losing track of who was whom. After a bit of adjustment, though, the
theory returned in a less universal form. What if Buck and Steve were the
same person? Neither of them has other pipe smokers in their vicinity to
corroborate their individual or collective existences. They both lament
not having a pipe smoker in their locale to talk with, to share ideas
with. So, one of them created the other as a sort of pipe smoking secret
friend, a briar puffing Harvey. With a few strokes of the keys, they gave
their halucination life. It started out innocently enough, but quickly
escalated. Now, one of them would have to kill the other off somehow to
be free of the multiple personality disorder.
And, what if it WAS more than one alter-ego? What if it was ten, 20, 100?
What if that single individual, with a need to surround himself with
secret friends, was responsible for 50% or more of the newsgroup's
traffic? It would become increasingly difficult for this poseur to
extract himself from the group. Of course, if any one personna became
burdonsome to him, he could simply engineer the character's exodus,
preferably after a carefully orchestrated flame-fest, and carry on. But,
if something were to happen to the mastermind behind so many characters,
*poof*! All at once, no more newsgroup.
After chewing on the fat of this for about 30 seconds, I realized it was
a silly notion, no more valid than a bathtub full of brightly coloured
power tools. Still, it entertained me, however briefly, and I figured I'd
share. If, in fact, it's really me. I may be a product of someone else's
imagination, after all...
Be seeing you.
Number Six
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 7:45:11 -0700, buck12ga wrote
(in message <MPG.1909d966daa7e2d0989...@news.netpluscom.com>):
> I'm glad someone is in the boat with me Steve,LOL.Amazingly my two very
> close pipe smoking buddies were killed,not murdered but bad
> nonetheless.One guy shot himself over a woman he loved,the other guy was
> killed on a motorcycle that I encouraged him to buy.The plant where we
> all worked closed, that was sad enough.I'm so glad I have ASP to come
> to.This is why I hate it when good guys like Art leave us.
> buck
> In article <3EA004C3.AB836...@frontiernet.net>, stevew...@frontiernet.net
> says...
>> Buck, it seems you and I are in sort of the same boat. ASP has become
>> my pipe club. It is the place I can hang out with other smokers and
>> enjoy pipe and tobacco talk, jokes, kidding, and everything that is
>> pretty much absent in my real life (there is a big story there, but I
>> will not tell it here...it makes a certain person look very bad). I
>> have traded tobaccos and pipes, learned what is good, what is bad, what
>> I like, what I dislike. Although ASP is a cyber-hangout, you people are
>> all very real, I have come to enjoy the company, and I enjoy listening
>> to just about everything you all have to say or rant about or flame.
>> Steve
--
Gregory Pease
Principal Tobacco Alchemist
G. L. Pease Tobaccos, Intl.
http://www.glpease.com
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