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Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 10:05 am
by Jim the old guy
.....and everyone one was invited. They didn't have to bring gifts or cookies of cake; they just needed to show up! For if they show up there can be...yes!....well, a CHAT! Because that's what a chat is! People show up and we talk and exchange ideas and talk about goulash and shoe polish and...and...oh my God! We can talk about TEX! (big sigh) But, nobody came and McD and TOG got lonely and ran out of things to say to one another and departed - sad, but still friends.
The moral of the story is: It is amoral to hold a chat and no one shows up! Ah! But we are not alone in the galaxy and I'm sure an alien will drop by any minute and I can chat with him...or, her....or, it. This is TOG signing off. May the waters of the muddy Mississippi back up into your underwear - snapping turtles and crayfish and all.
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 1:17 pm
by Cubase
OH MY GOD!
I am SOOOOO sorry.... OH MY GOD! (Says Cub over and over)...
I woke up at 4am yesterday morning, and then when it came to 10pm that evening I literally collapsed from exhaustion. I had set my alarm clock on my phone for 12:45 am (15 mins before the chat time here in Aus)... but the darn thing had ran out of battery before then!
It is not 5:00am (3:16pm EST US) and I am in the chat room, and understandibly nobody is there.
OH my god I am so soffry... perhaps the powers at be did not want me to join in! But god damn it I was looking forward to it!
Oh my god!
-Cub. =o(
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 1:52 pm
by GarySogar
I tried to join, too, but I had trouble with signing on to MSN. I won't bore you with the details, but I could not get around the username/password problems I was having. Sorry I couldn't make it.
Re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 3:07 pm
by michel pronk
Jim the old guy wrote:.....and everyone one was invited. They didn't have to bring gifts or cookies of cake; they just needed to show up! For if they show up there can be...yes!....well, a CHAT! Because that's what a chat is! People show up and we talk and exchange ideas and talk about goulash and shoe polish and...and...oh my God! We can talk about TEX! (big sigh) But, nobody came and McD and TOG got lonely and ran out of things to say to one another and departed - sad, but still friends.
The moral of the story is: It is amoral to hold a chat and no one shows up! Ah! But we are not alone in the galaxy and I'm sure an alien will drop by any minute and I can chat with him...or, her....or, it. This is TOG signing off. May the waters of the muddy Mississippi back up into your underwear - snapping turtles and crayfish and all.
Im sorry i messed up the timezones once again "spans himself"
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 4:37 pm
by Ender
I'm really sorry too... I just wasn't sure when the chat is and I forgot
But I've got an idea, maybe next time we can try some improvements:
1) We can write in a thread the _exact_ time of the chat (in every timezone which is important for us) - then everybody will be able to momorize it
2) We can use a web chat (and not through MSN) to avoid any technical problems
Next time I will try much harder to be there ...
Sorry ...
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 5:16 pm
by Jim the old guy
Oh...OK! Everyone is forgiven!
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 7:06 pm
by Jen
I'm in chat right now...... and I'm all alone... there's no one here... besides me.
Long day at work today, just got home.
Jen
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 7:20 pm
by Cubase
I see you.
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 8:31 pm
by Vracar
I was in Wisconson. Without internet. Or a computer. Or air conditioning.
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 06, 2005 • 9:57 pm
by McDonis
Ok lets call this a dry run...... lol
We can work on another date soon, so just keep looking out for another chance for a Tex Chat!
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 07, 2005 • 11:23 am
by michel pronk
Not to have another excuse for being too late on the TEX chat but i just got this mail.
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Anyways just wanted to chare it with u all Points at date HAHAHAAHA
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 07, 2005 • 3:41 pm
by Jim the old guy
Yeah, me too. Just got an email saying there is a chat scheduled for Aug. 6, 2005. Only a day late. That's not too bad....I guess.
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 07, 2005 • 4:06 pm
by Cubase
Hmmmm... I sent that group notification 7 days ago! The MSN postal service must be realy slow nowadays.
They need to increase the stamp prices to $10.
-Cub. =o)
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 07, 2005 • 5:43 pm
by dcat151
Yea I got the reminder email today. M$ at its best, I suppose.
re: Once upon a time there was a chat.....
Posted: August 07, 2005 • 7:44 pm
by DrPaul
I had all kinds of trouble getting to the chat site. First, I didn't know where it was. After re-reading every comment on every thread that had any mention of the chat, I finally found one and only one comment that had a link to where the chat was supposed to be.
I linked there and spent a LOT of time trying to get MSN to accept a nickname.
Then I tried clicking on the calendar, hoping to get a confirmation of the time and place for the chat, but was informed that the calendar had member-only access. Then I tried clicking on 'chat' to see what would happen. Again, members-only.
So I clicked 'join now', trying desperately to become a 'member' and was told to wait for some kind of confirmation. Now, two days later, I'm still waiting to be admitted.
In the meantime, I thought maybe I'm in the wrong place. So I come back to the message board and found a thread entitled, 'Tex Murphy chat going on right now' - or something to that affect. It would have been nice if that thread would have had some information - ANY information - about where the chat is and how one is supposed to get into it.
Maybe I had the wrong location. I was trying to reach the chat from here:
http://groups.msn.com/texmurphy
Is that the right place. If not. Where?