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Too clever for barbelith

Cat Chant

20:41 / 31.03.04

Sax, in this thread:

called myself Citizen Smith, but no-one got it

I myself:

persistently ask Barbelites to come up with a source for obscure Latin quotations which they clearly do not recognize and start threads in the Head Shop which languish after five posts or so, unlike all those [yawn] oh-so-populist threads that get hundreds of responses.

So what makes you too clever for barbelith?

Warewullf

20:58 / 31.03.04

Nothing. If anything, Barbelith's too clever for me and I just hope nobody notices.

Bugger....

spake

21:41 / 31.03.04

Agreed, Warewullf. I dont think it's possible to be cleverer than the average 'Lither here. I hope to one day be counted amongst their number. [sigh].

unheimlich manoeuvre

21:56 / 31.03.04

it depends. i don't mean to joust with presuppositions but what do you mean by too clever. surely no matter ones intellect ze may feel the NEED to engage with the barbelith and have [yawn] dialogues about the Thing-in-itself.

Mazarine

22:02 / 31.03.04

Easy. I know when to keep my mouth shut.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

07:33 / 01.04.04

I don't think you can be too clever for Barbelith, just differently clever.

Or you aren't really clever, but think you are, which is my situation.

Olulabelle

08:08 / 01.04.04

Or you really are clever but you think you aren't? That's quite Barbelith too.

It's the fine art of not saying something in case you get it wrong, then someone clever posts it and you think, "Goddam it, I knew that."

Sax

09:16 / 01.04.04

I'm by no means too clever for Barbelith, but I might be too good-looking.

Cat Chant

10:42 / 01.04.04

[shamefaced] meant to be funny; on rereading this morning, less drunk, discover I wasn't...

Which, actually, is quite a good illustration of my personal belief that too clever for barbelith always = too stupid for barbelith.

Mourne Kransky

12:09 / 01.04.04

I'd rather have a clever dick than be a Clever Dick.

Tryphena Absent

12:34 / 01.04.04

If I could tap dance than my feet would be too clever for barbelith!

gridley

12:35 / 01.04.04

I'd rather have a clever dick than be a Clever Dick.

Not me, buddy. I'm worried that it's trying to bring me to ruin as it is. If it was clever as well, I'd be in a world of trouble...

Mourne Kransky

12:37 / 01.04.04

Nonsense, gridley, you just need to make sure you keep a tight grip on it.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:45 / 01.04.04

Nobody else on this entire board understands Martin Millar's "Ruby and the Stone Age Diet" quite like I do.

*sniff*

I'm so alone. I may have to assassinate someone.

Axolotl

14:10 / 01.04.04

I love that book, though not quite as much as I love "Suzie, Led Zeppelin & Me". I am unsure if I understand it just like you however. Does this get me off the assassination list? Or merely place me further up it?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:16 / 01.04.04

Ah. In a case like this, we have to judge it on your interpretation of "Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation". Specifically the treatment of the hamster as defining character.

Or, how much exactly did you laugh at the "tin-opener bit" in "Ruby..."?

Excellent. More Martin Millar fans. We're an endangered species, you know.

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