Limerick is a Lie
JN Cotton
Okay, folks, I'm coming clean.
This whole Limerick deal is a lie. A silly joke that got a bit out of
hand, I think.
I knew about it from the beginning. I even collaborated a bit on this.
It was just a prank. And for a while, it was a good one. No harm done.
But when people I consider friends start taking this stuff seriously
and asking me if I believe it's true, well, I just can't lie to them.
It's not right. I knew it, and I still didn't say anything. I
apologize. The Blessed One would be disappointed, I'm sure. :(
My humblest apologies to all, especially Sister Autumn, who I consider
a dear friend. She told the truth and got bashed for it. And I didn't
say a word. It was wrong of me. I assure you, it won't happen again (at
least my involvement).
Nancy (no clever sig)
Erika Peterson
I know *nothing* about Limerick one way or the other, so this post should
not be construed as reflecting in any way on the truth or untruth of the
rumour/hoax.
All I want to point out is this:
As good little X-Philes, what should your reaction be when conspirators
admit a misdeed and apologize? Right! You should immediately think,
"THEY'RE LYIN'!". Apology is always a cover-up for deeper, darker sins!
WHo knows what their REAL agenda is?
The Truth Is Out There!
(remember, being paranoid takes practice).
;)
EP
Osu
In article <5if0la$b...@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com>, JN Cotton
<jnco...@ix.netcom.com> writes
>Okay, folks, I'm coming clean.
>
>This whole Limerick deal is a lie. A silly joke that got a bit out of
>hand, I think.
>
>I knew about it from the beginning. I even collaborated a bit on this.
>It was just a prank. And for a while, it was a good one. No harm done.
>But when people I consider friends start taking this stuff seriously
>and asking me if I believe it's true, well, I just can't lie to them.
>It's not right. I knew it, and I still didn't say anything. I
>apologize. The Blessed One would be disappointed, I'm sure. :(
>
>My humblest apologies to all, especially Sister Autumn, who I consider
>a dear friend. She told the truth and got bashed for it. And I didn't
>say a word. It was wrong of me. I assure you, it won't happen again (at
>least my involvement).
>
>Nancy (no clever sig)
Oh no!! reality as i know it is disintegrating!! It wasn't true? My life
is now devastated!!;)
As one who was sucked in with the best of them, I'd just like to say,
good on you for owning up (The Blessed One would approve of that I'm
sure!) but I don't think you should feel too guilty. I believed, I had
fun, and now I know it wasn't true, no harm done, I can appreciate a
joke. Things were getting a tad boring round here anyway, and whether it
was true or not, it certainly brightened up my day for a few weeks!
(P.S. Ever tried to write a limercik using XF characters? it's a
nightmare! Nothing rhymes with Dana, or Mulder, or Scully, or Frohike,
or Krycek!!! The only ones that work are Skinner, and Fox, and you try
writing a limerick about Fox that doesn't include socks!!!)
Laughing at my gullability,
farewell
--
Osu
Proprietor of XVille's staionery store-The Paper Clip Project
Novice of OBSSE
And transcriber extraordinaire
"You have no power over me." - Sara, Labyrinth
aut...@aol.com
>This whole Limerick deal is a lie. A silly joke that got a bit out of
>hand, I think.
Thanks for being honest Nancy. I for one appreciate it.
Autumn Tysko
"Mulder, they're worms" / Sister of OBSSE
My episode reviews available at (email me for mailing list info):
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1411/main_rev.html
Coleen Sullivan-Baier
>As one who was sucked in with the best of them, I'd just like to say,
>good on you for owning up (The Blessed One would approve of that I'm
>sure!) but I don't think you should feel too guilty. I believed, I had
>fun, and now I know it wasn't true, no harm done, I can appreciate a
>joke. Things were getting a tad boring round here anyway, and whether
>it was true or not, it certainly brightened up my day for a few weeks!
I'm reserving comment , until I finish reading this whole
script. Right now, I'm at the part where the Leprechaun and the Elf
are engaged in the magical battle, while Mulder is frozen by the Druid
spell. I'll let you know, but if it LOOKS like "Limerick" and it
SOUNDS like "Limerick"......
>P.S. Ever tried to write a limerick using XF characters?
These sexy X-agents, quite boring
Decided to get laid one morning
Said Scully to Mulder
"If we do it in water,
It's bound to send our ratings soaring"
.....not hard at all >:D
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXgizzieXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"Weather or not it's imagination is not the point, because the
products of my imagination are real to me." David Duchovny
Pat Gonzales
In article <5ih2ko$p...@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com>, giz...@ix.netcom.com(Coleen
Sullivan-Baier) wrote:
> I'm reserving comment , until I finish reading this whole
> script. Right now, I'm at the part where the Leprechaun and the Elf
> are engaged in the magical battle, while Mulder is frozen by the Druid
> spell. I'll let you know, but if it LOOKS like "Limerick" and it
> SOUNDS like "Limerick"......
Giz, I think you should give us a Giz-summary of the script when you're
done reading it.
Your ever faithful servant,
Pat G.
Cult of Gizzie 4
Independently Owned and Operated
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Bernardine
pag...@pop.uky.edu (Pat Gonzales) wrote:
There once was a trickster named Giz.
Whose prankishness caused quite a tiz,
Like a missing Sea Scroll,
Her "lost ep" was quite droll,
When nabbed she smirks "Hey, that's show biz."
- Bernardine (April Fool's Day is easy, you REALLY gotta watch out for
St. Paddy's)
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Anasazi
Osu <da...@sgarden.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <5if0la$b...@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com>, JN Cotton
><jnco...@ix.netcom.com> writes
>>Okay, folks, I'm coming clean.
>>
>>This whole Limerick deal is a lie. A silly joke that got a bit out of
>>hand, I think.
>>
>>I knew about it from the beginning. I even collaborated a bit on this.
>>It was just a prank. And for a while, it was a good one. No harm done.
>>But when people I consider friends start taking this stuff seriously
>>and asking me if I believe it's true, well, I just can't lie to them.
>>It's not right. I knew it, and I still didn't say anything. I
>>apologize. The Blessed One would be disappointed, I'm sure. :(
>>
>>My humblest apologies to all, especially Sister Autumn, who I consider
>>a dear friend. She told the truth and got bashed for it. And I didn't
>>say a word. It was wrong of me. I assure you, it won't happen again (at
>>least my involvement).
>>
>>Nancy (no clever sig)
>Oh no!! reality as i know it is disintegrating!! It wasn't true? My life
>is now devastated!!;)
>As one who was sucked in with the best of them, I'd just like to say,
>good on you for owning up (The Blessed One would approve of that I'm
>sure!) but I don't think you should feel too guilty. I believed, I had
>fun, and now I know it wasn't true, no harm done, I can appreciate a
>joke. Things were getting a tad boring round here anyway, and whether it
>was true or not, it certainly brightened up my day for a few weeks!
Seems I was sucked in hook/line and sinker, too. I wanted to believe
and damn if I didn't. You guys sure went all out on this one. Talk
about well orchestrated conspiracies!
Thanks Nancy, it was very brave of you to speak the truth.
**Anasazi**
(who shoulda known better and will in the future)
--I have not lost my mind, it's backed up on a disk somewhere.
Leigh A Vrabel
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, it was written:
I was really skeptical about the veracity of "Limerick" until
gizzie mentioned she saw the tape in my hometown...then I swallowed the
bait, luxury hook and all. It was a splendid joke, folks, and made for
some great reading...but thanks for 'fessing up.
Feeling really gullible (sp? never could spell that) now...
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Leigh Anne Vrabel, Head of 4/27 Productions, X-Ville
Doing whatever it takes to make your life stranger and stranger...
"We can face the knowledge that the truth is not the truth." RUSH
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Coleen Sullivan-Baier
>I must say I'm a little bothered. Not just because I was four-fifths
>of the way towards believing.
I *want* to believe.....
> But giz, I have to say, now I doubt everything of yours I read.
Even the part about my five year mission from Gizatron to collect
breeding specimens??? My, my...the Most Highly Exalted Queen Gizabella
is going to be MOST upset about THIS....
> For one thing, I don't believe for a second that you actually
>murmured "unruhe" while at the dentist's office.
It wasn't the dentist,it was the oral surgeon...and I'll send
anyone who wants them the bloody gum tampons (what ARE those things
called, Doc Aay??)...you can also have, as an extra added bonus, what
is left of my Percoset (cool drugs)
> I don't even believe you work in a grocery store.
Giant Eagle Market, Bridgeville, Pa--we're in the book-- Deli
Manager...stop in, I'll give you a piece of BALONEY...free...no lie....
just don't ask for "gizzie", they make me use the "C" word there
> I dunno. Lying over the net is just too darn *easy*, you know?
"Lying" is such an UGLY little word...let's try this....HOAX
......PRACTICAL JOKE.....creative provarication...willfully
participating in a campaign of misinformation.....Orson Wellsian
....factually challenged.....
>Like shooting caged rabbits or something. Where's the sport in it?
It's FUN to be BAD
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXgizzieXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"...and don't tell me it's a dream, 'cause dreams are the children of
my mind"
Nina Karp
Another person's vote on the subject, just so's you know -- I agree with
TF&TR. Fucking with peoples' heads over the Internet is, I think, a little
too easy to be clever. And also sort of mean. It doesn't qualify as REALLY
mean because, presumably, we're all cool enough to realize that this is just
a television show and not get seriously emotionally involved (right?
right?), but I think sort of mean is right on the money. And not cute mean
like making fun of trolls. It's making fun of people who trust you, which
is just mean mean.
I guess I have a pretty well-defined set of intuitions regarding the funny.
"Do you have any idea what a plate of liver and onions goes for on
Reticula?" is funny. Gizzie's summaries are frequently funny. Merna
Anderson's press release was funny as heck. Scully giving Mulder a blow job
is funny. Anything I say when I'm drunk is FUNNY as HELL. Setting out to
trick people so you can sit back and laugh at them is not, I think, funny.
P'raps I'm a stick-in-the-mud, but I call 'em as I see 'em.
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Nina K. (the hyacinth girl) 20 minutes into the future.
nr...@cornell.edu / sil...@gnu.ai.mit.edu / ni...@headbone.com
Fear death by water.
In article <5imrl1$7...@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com>, giz...@ix.netcom.co
says...
mads...@home.edu
In article <5imrl1$7...@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com>, giz...@ix.netcom.com(Coleen Sullivan-Baier) wrote:
>
> > For one thing, I don't believe for a second that you actually
> >murmured "unruhe" while at the dentist's office.
>
> It wasn't the dentist,it was the oral surgeon...and I'll send
> anyone who wants them the bloody gum tampons (what ARE those things
> called, Doc Aay??)...you can also have, as an extra added bonus, what
> is left of my Percoset (cool drugs)
>
The technical term is BGT or Bloody Gum Tampons. Sold by Patterson Dental at fifty cents per gross, marked up to $1 each when actually used (medical supplies are expensive you know). I can testify as an expert witness that Mz. giz was spitting bloody murder for the last few days and was, indeed, suffering from impacted popcorn hull syndrome (IPHS). So there.
--
Doc Aay
"She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper"
Ruth or Ray
Coleen Sullivan-Baier wrote:
> "Lying" is such an UGLY little word...let's try this....HOAX
A hoax is a mischievous deception. Mischievous is defined as harmful or
injurious. Is that what you intended? As a joke for St. Patty's, fine.
Stretch it out to April Fool's Day, Ok. But then let it go.
> >Like shooting caged rabbits or something. Where's the sport in it?
>
> It's FUN to be BAD
Well, the analogy to 'rabbits' isn't correct. Perhaps in the sense of
trusting, but not necessarily in terms of being defenseless. To repeat:
fooling a clueless newbie is accepted to a point, misleading a troll is
encouraged. Tricking your friends a bit is cool. But this was
different.
This seemed to be a topic that could have easily veered into doing some
harm to readers of this newsgroup. People could be out looking for
tapes, spending money chasing down rumors... 'fess up, Gizzie, this one
went too far.
Ray
Merna/Michael Anderson
Lie, joke, hoax. Meanspirited, not -mean spirited
WHAT-EVER!
You people DO realize that Gizzie wasn't the only person involved in
this don't you? If you're going to vent your moral outrage, try being
doing it theoretically from now on. As in,
"I don't appreciate this kind of stuff!"
To make Gizzie the scapegoat is unfair. She's owned up about it being
a hoax.
MYRKE
r...@email.unc.edu
Merna/Michael Anderson wrote:
>
> You people DO realize that Gizzie wasn't the only person involved in
> this don't you? If you're going to vent your moral outrage, try being
> doing it theoretically from now on. As in,
>
> "I don't appreciate this kind of stuff!"
>
> To make Gizzie the scapegoat is unfair. She's owned up about it being
> a hoax.
>
> MYRKE
I have been emailing with gizzie since late last summer. I contacted
her because she made me laugh, and for whatever reason, she deigned to
correspond with me. (Well, MAYBE it had to do with the story I told
her about winning $100.00 off our boy David last summer when he had
the nerve to say to my face that a woman over 40 didn't have a chance
in hell of dunking a basketball). Giz and I *talk* every few days or
so, about all kinds of stuff, some serious, a lot not serious. So.
About "Limerick"...I admit, I had a hint of a doubt when she said that
Scully and Phoebe did that Irish jig. I mean, what are the odds that
both Gillian and Amanda Pays had the skill to do that complicated and
demanding dance? But, aside from that, I BELIEVED the other 94% of the
story...and giz never even gave me a hoaxing clue. Was I offended?
Nope : ) This is quintessential giz. She's perverted. She's eclectic.
She is drop dead funny. And she KNOWS stuff...the gizster, gizarama,
Goddess of gizatron, the GIZINATOR! I want to take a road trip with
this woman!
gizz-IE
gizz-IE
gizz-IE
Jen P. (CPFOD's)
(Outed as a pervert and a liar, since meeting both David AND gizzie,
Summer of '96. It was a very good year)
Ruth or Ray
r...@email.unc.edu wrote:
>
> Merna/Michael Anderson wrote:
> >
> > You people DO realize that Gizzie wasn't the only person
> > involved in this don't you? If you're going to vent your
Gizzie wasn't singled out due to her part in the hoax. It was
her attempt to continue it after its death that isolated her.
Ray
RedCrow
In article <5ioogi$c...@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>, Merna/Michael
Anderson <my...@ix.netcom.com> writes
>
>
>Lie, joke, hoax. Meanspirited, not -mean spirited
>
>WHAT-EVER!
>
>doing it theoretically from now on. As in,
>
> "I don't appreciate this kind of stuff!"
>
>To make Gizzie the scapegoat is unfair. She's owned up about it being
>a hoax.
>
>MYRKE
Okay, so some people fibbed, you have to admit it was fun, don't ya
think? It had me laughing for weeks! Lighten up, at least everyone owned
up about it. All I have to say to the people involved is: You guys and gals
are great!
Peace Red.xxxx
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