For Shellhawk.

Because she's an artist.

My best to Ape.

O'ZOM-beeee!

Make it March!

This is my request to the audio hosting site Podbean, who have decided for some reason to no longer recognize my (paid!) account and will not let me log in.

For three days I've been trying to edit playlists and add new songs and radio shows as I do near the top of every month, and I have been unable to do so!

So until that time, I can't update anything in the radio or the player.

BUT... I'm making real progress on Edward Van Bone, and will have pictures very soon.

Oh, Podbean... why must you ruin my pub with your slow responses and fracked up software? C'mon, Podbean... make it March!


Oh, since this is a new post, I can at least show something neat and Hallowe'eny.

DDSPodbeansucks!

Oh no, wait... it's March, so
O'ZOM-beeee!

What's in a word?

I think this is going to be another pictureless post.

We'll see.

I've been a lazy layabout today -- a cold or something coming on, coupled with cold rainy weather, has made me decide that if I have little to do today, I will just take fluids and things and rest a lot to stave off anything too bad. I have four gigs, rehearsals and meetings over the next three days and cannot afford to miss any of it.

So, lounging about this evening, I was looking through the 'settings' of this ol' Skull & Pumpkin pub, and decided the word verification for comments needs to go away.

I still moderate the comments (they will not automatically post), but you will no longer have to type some indecipherable word that's all bent and warped beyond recognition just to leave a short quip or make a point.

Word verification is annoying, and I want to get rid of it.

But the reason all of this came up is because I found a text file about which I'd forgotten for some time, filled to the brim with some of the oddest and most hilariously goofy word verification 'words' I'd been asked to type just to prove I wasn't some spambot or other bad web thing.

So here are real word verification phrases I've been asked to type -- on my honor, these are true, accurate, real, not fake, not made up, honest-to-God words I've been prompted to type over the years.

The main thing is, they can be placed into some fairly obscure but pretty neat categories...

Very common are
Things Jerry Lewis Might Say:

PGSHMITEL

RACTOIBN

BGOYDEL

TLOHOYBN

MELMMODE

Next most common are
Things That Might Be Obscene But Aren't Really:

CHILF

CLETASTE

SHANTAT

PRIILK

CLOTY

RUBTIT (not making it up)


Also common are
Prescription Drugs or Tolkien Characters:

FLOIN

LEDAIN

THYDRAC

RINTOR

YEALF

FLEBTROS

Then there are
Possible TV/Radio Stations:

WUOI

KDRT

WEXZ

KWAX (no duck jokes, I beg)

What about
Partial Names of Famous Composers:

ZART

GERSH

BEETHO

KOFSKY (close!)

Or just the odd, loner phrase that makes you giggle...

HOCHEAP -- yes, usually

PYROPAL -- with friends like this...

IDEAD -- especially after hanging with my pyropal

SHPONSHA -- for a word from whom shtationsh take breaksh

DIDIA -- yes I did.

FARTIST -- how many of those do we all know?

Seriously, these are all quite real. And I have a hundred more on file.

Still, I am tired of the whole word verification thing.

So for now, you may comment with abandon, and never fear having to type things like VARFGRBAB or FLIRBT or AFTWAP ever again.

Oh, very well. I hate pictureless posts too. Here's one that is somewhat related:

I await the day when I'm asked to type
DUMDUMSHREKPEEPS!

Object lesson.

Someone always has to spoil the fun, or try to. Not unlike the bullies in the story just posted, a few people tried to inject this pub with loud, obscene drunken swearing and public displays of general annoyingocity, in the course of the last 6 hours or so.

Another fellow was not at all rude or vulgar, but obviously did not read the post about which he commented, and left a URL for his own blog which had absolutely nothing to do with what the S&P is about, or who any of us may be.

Baffling.

I was hoping to keep the feel of this fine little place as open and free as possible, but I think as we get a little more known and more often visited, it is now necessary (especially after the junk I had to clean out this morning) for your proprietor to moderate comments. That is, you can comment all you wish, but I have to approve it before it actually posts.

Of course, I'm easy. I mean really, really easy. I'll approve anything except vulgarity and ads/URLs for sites having no bearing on or relation to the essence of this site.

Do not make me send Spider after you!

This way, we can still be the family friendly (eh mostly), good-natured and free speaking place we want to be!

And to future obnoxious pub crawlers who try to ruin the fun for the rest of us, at least do yourself the service of reading the entire post and getting the feel of this place before commenting with low words, high volume and URLs for completely unrelated blogs. This way, we can actually enjoy each others' company in the future!

As Criswell says:
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I will spend the rest of our lives! And remember my friends, future events such as these, will affect you in the future!

Please keep visiting, commenting, and sharing your own stories.

Here Comes Spider!