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Please to meet you, hope you read my name

Son of the Soil (aka Joe Dirt)

20:22 / 05.11.02

greetings denizens of barbelith

i wanted to take this oppourtunity to intoduce myself, in order to avoid being flamed

my name is luthor blisset,and after a long time lurking, i have finally decided to become an active part of barbelith,if you'll have me

i have been drawn to this place for the intellectual conversations spouted out by the theory bitches

on this board

you all are way to smart for your own good

now please direct me to the FAQ

thank you and nice to meet you all

1080=LB

20:33 / 05.11.02

Love the name: Superman meets the Situationists.

Wlcome. We won't turn you away, and we won't flame you unless you act like an arsehole. So don't. That's your first, last, and only warning.

Punctuation is your friend. If there's one thing Barbelith values above all, it is clarity.

There's no FAQ as such. Feel free to ask any question you'd like; we never get tired of answering them--it's a way for us to show off how smart we all are.

First, though, we have a question for you...

Ninja or Pirate?

Son of the Soil (aka Joe Dirt)

20:37 / 05.11.02

rrrrrrrr

pirate

just because they are snazzy dressers

but the ninjas look good in black

21:00 / 05.11.02

Diplomatic.

I like you.

21:09 / 05.11.02

Welcome LB. Are you a man of wealth and taste, then?

*shouts out* Who killed the Kennedys?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:13 / 05.11.02

I think it was you.

And, er, me.

21:38 / 05.11.02

Oh! Oh! And me, too!

Gimme sum Sheltah!

Yowza.

02:35 / 06.11.02

You were great when you played for Watford.

Oh, you neoists...

Or is it discordians? I can never remember.

06:16 / 06.11.02

Luther, you aren't actually four Italian novelists, are you?

The Natural Way

07:38 / 06.11.02

I'm sure we've had a Luther Blisset before......

And why assume you'll get flamed unless you introduce yrself?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:06 / 06.11.02

There was/is a LuthEr Blisset- I know, because I originally tried to register under that name myself, and it was taken.

Now, if Watford fielded a team consisting entirely of people called Stewart Home... then I'd probably find football slightly more interesting.

Tryphena Absent

14:17 / 06.11.02

Hello Luthor, hope you're well, now everybody stop talking about Watford. Dreadful town, dreadful team, dreadful Watford slappers.

Son of the Soil (aka Joe Dirt)

18:45 / 06.11.02

And why assume you'll get flamed unless you introduce yrself?

i was combing through the threads and felt it would be better to introduce myself rather than start posting right away

Luther, you aren't actually four Italian novelists, are you? close. actually two

I originally tried to register under that name myself, and it was taken.

if yopu want it, it's yours chairman

18:55 / 06.11.02

Oh Janina, come come, you love it really.

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:05 / 06.11.02

i was combing through the threads and felt it would be better to introduce myself rather than start posting right away

Ah, if only you'd been warned about those of us who *only* take an instant dislike to people who start threads introducing themselves...

Son of the Soil (aka Joe Dirt)

20:46 / 06.11.02

i look at it this way:

you wouldn't want some starnger bursting into your living room shouting conspiracy theories and magickal formulas would you?

errr

maybe you would?

21:28 / 06.11.02

I'll listen to any former Serie A pro who died in a car-crash.

Son of the Soil (aka Joe Dirt)

21:49 / 06.11.02

'vroooom" from beyond the grave duncan

Son of the Soil (aka Joe Dirt)

22:09 / 06.11.02

The Luther Blissett Project has been launched in the Summer '94 by an international gang of revolutionaries, mail artists, poets, performers, underground 'zines, cybernauts and squatters. A multiple name, if it was used outside small circles of radicals, would be a practical solution of problems such as the relation between community and individual, or the quest for identity. All the debates on the necessity of a 'Nomadology' and all idle talk on 'situations' are superseded by this concept. Luther Blissett is a -dividual, because the character has many personalities and reputations; Luther Blissett is also a con-dividual, because many individuals share the name; Luther Blissett is a multitude as well as a 'decentralized subject', a project aiming to what Karl Marx called 'Gemeinwesen' (i.e. the common essence of the Wo/Mankind, the awareness of the global community). Luther Blissett is not an (anti)artist like KAREN ELIOT: s/he's a cultural terrorist who supports the religious programme of the NEOIST ALLIANCE. Sabotages, hoaxes, urban legends, performances, magazines, bulletin boards and TV or radio broadcasts are spreading the name all over the world. Especially in Italy, this merry prank is reaching new heights of subversion and mythopoiesis. Anyone can be Luther Blissett simply by adopting the name. Become Luther Blissett.

from the manifesto

i had no idea!!

15:00 / 07.11.02

Blast it, competetion for my Chris Carter conspiracy! I'll have to step up my plans to keep up. Then again:

Google search results:

Luther Blissett - 8,960
Chris Carter - 1,020,000

It looks like I'm still well ahead of the game, so there's room enough for another. Though I still have a ways to go to defeat my arch nemesis, John Smith (4,280,000). Perhaps diplomatic relations are in order, yes? My avatars will have lunch with your avatars, and all that.

Tryphena Absent

15:32 / 07.11.02

I suggest you don't undermine my hatred of Watford or I might perform a trick I learnt there. It goes something along the lines of squealing in a high voice and punching someone in the face. Of course you're not another girl...