If you ever find yourself in a dark, cold, clammy virtual cave for a very long time with no one to talk to but yourself, you\'re very likely to develop your very own Simmum.
Main Entry: Simmum
Pronunciation: \\\u02C8sim-um\\
Function: noun
Etymology: Posting possibly as result of going OT, from Middle Earth gollum
Date: September 2009
: a dysfunction which forms in the mind of a simmer who has recently been lightly reprimanded by the master; or isolated from other simmers for an indefinite amount of time; or prevented from entering a forum or thread for known or unknown reasons
: an entity who often becomes as real to the simmer as is the simmer to him or herself, making it impossible to remove from the brain without causing permanent damage (this form very often confused with a character from the LOTR created by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Common Symptoms: usually self-auditory
\r\nMost common internal dialogues:
\r\n\"Mustn\'t ask us, not it\'s business.\" left with only wondering and speculation \"And they doesn\'t taste very good, does they, plumbbob?
\r\n\"Look for your friends in the threads. But do not trust to hope. It has forsaken this account.\"
\r\n\"Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be simmers far from home.\"
\r\n\"You were not so very different from a Simmer once, were you?\"
\r\n\"You don\'t have any friends. Nobody likes you!\"
\"I\'m not listening... I\'m not listening... \"\"Master is our friend!\"
\"We told it to go away... and away it goes, plumbbob! Gone, gone, gone! [account name] is free!\"
\"We swears to serve the master of the plumbbob. We will swear on... on... the plumbbob!\"
\r\n\"We be nice to them, if they be nice to us.\"
You can erase that blog note to me now : P Like a dodo, I didn\'t bookmark my own thread, so I couldn\'t have joined in with all of you anyway. : ( How sad is that! Actually I find it quite hysterical but then I\'m easily amused.
The point here is, I want you and all the others to know how much your defense of our thread means to me [I gladly take full ownership/responsibility for it & the consequences that followed, and clap heartily cuz you all made it so funny to play on. It was such harmless fun with only good intentions, as we all know]. When I was stuck in my dark cave, you guys got me all teared up - cuz I was being utterly amused but mostly awed by your generous postings. At least the thread-slap was for one of the lesser infractions - OT ain\'t so shameful. Anyway, I can\'t thank you all enough. Seriously!
\r\nAnd speaking of serious, guess what \'Subject\' threads still come up when you search for fossil? They still need to do some more cleaning, me thinks. : / :P Look familiar?:
\r\n\"The OP was already permed ... I\'m no prude but I despise that word in the subject! I think it\'s highly degrading to all women no matter it\'s context. There.....I finally had \"my\" rant!!! \"
\r\nMy own thoughts as well!!!! The only nice thing about it still being there is that I had the honor of being able to read what you and ~ rflong7 had to say, and I agreed with your viewpoint, and I respect the stuffings out of both of you. In fact, I\'m very proud of how well we all tried to behave in response to this entire scenario. I admit I had a few bad blog moments though! But I erased them right away.
\r\nIt\'s an honor to know you all! Happy Simming Everybody!
I was locked out all afternoon and thought I was being given a time-out but then I thought the forum was just having issues.
I was so confused.
\r\nI\'ll just be as good a girl as I can so I don\'t have to wonder if I\'m in trouble or not. (bites bottom lip with eyebrows raised)
\r\nUpdate: OK finally. Seems to take some time (about 2 days), but eventually you get an e-mail saying you were naughty, and a very general category what for.
\r\nI still have no idea exactly what it was that set them/the peacher off in that thread, but AT LEAST I know I, in fact, got in trouble now.
\r\nSo there is that, at least.
\r\nA lot of \'At Leasts\' in this blog.
\r\nSad day for simming kind. Tied to the fencepost. Poor creative mind. Have to stay inside the box. I hate it in there. Soooo boring.
\r\nBut I\'ll keep having fun stream-of-consciousness conversations in my head, even if I\'m not allowed to share them with you anymore.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Internet_slang#O
\r\n I enjoyed talking to everyone who joined in on my thread - For FOSSILS ONLY - immensely. I look forward to saying \'Hi\' elsewhere when we cross paths again (I hope).
I TY you so much. (see, I used an abbreviation - no one can prevent learning. & That\'s a good thing)
\r\nIt was the closest thing to having \'Messaging\' but it would appear we\'re not allowed to chat willy-nilly with each other because there\'s no mechanism to do it.
\r\nYear 2009. Really amazing how technology has advanced. We may not Chat - We may not Message. We may not make Progress.
\r\nSilly, really. Oh well. I will always wonder what it was but they aren\'t going to tell me what I did wrong. [which reminds me - why don\'t they just remove the offending post and replace it with theirs giving you a warning and a reason why your being warned so you don\'t do it again --- instead of wiping out the entire thread? How are we ever supposed to know what we actually did wrong if they don\'t say? It\'s frustratin\'!]
\r\nNot my bad karma really so I guess I\'ll move on.
\r\nAnyway, somehow, if you can find me, and we can figure out how we\'re allowed to share information without getting exterminated , I sure hope to converse with you all again.
How to move around posts in the forum when the pages are \'broken\'
\r\n~CrescentMoonPye
\r\nI learned belatedly that using \'tab\' or \'shift+tab\' allows me to move around & read the post/access the \'edit\' buttons on the posts even though the page is broken.
\r\nClick in the center of the post you want to read/access, then use the tab/shift+tab until you see the area of the page that is obscured because it is broken.
