I've never really understood what The Meadow was. Perhaps Skin or someone can explain. http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?23092-The-Meadow
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I've never really understood what The Meadow was. Perhaps Skin or someone can explain. http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?23092-The-Meadow
I think my favorite mean from another board was when one of our posters fresh out of a free public school system pointed out that hindsight was 50/50.
That meme even has deeper levels of meaning. Maybe hindsight is 50/50.
actually 50/50 would be the equivalent of 20/20 so he isn't wrong per say:
"It's essentially equal to 20/20. It means that when standing fifty feet away from something, (let's assume you're reading) you can read what the average person would be able to from fifty feet away. If you had 50/100 vision, it would mean that you would have to be fifty feet away from something to see what the average person can see from one hundred feet away."
There are no cement blocks in the Meadow.
The Meadow: Exists currently as a thread in the Garbage Can where one can hurl insults and witticisms of all varieties at other posters without fear of being punished for vulgarity, rudeness or transgressions of one of the seven deadly sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth for the forgetful). http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?23092-The-Meadow
Which reminds me, there should be seven deadly PackerRats sins thread.
But back to topic. Poster Woodbuck, who might get his own entry in the PackerRats encyclopedia covering several long pages, would express his frustration with posters who vexed him by indicating he desired a place to take whippersnapper posters and teach them some manners. There was a suggestion of violence, but it could also have been an invitation to sit down for a very long conversation (think Entmoot) and tea. Confusion reigned as the Meadow could have been anything between a gunless OK Corral and a parliament meeting in an amphitheater, though we dare say it always seemed slightly foreboding.
The Meadow seemed an important place or concept initially, where men could hash out their differences, but after initial confusion, the lack of details resulted in the Meadow, for PackerRats anyway, simply being another thread in the Garbage Can that is also ignored by most of the posters.
Next up: Soft 'N Small!
I pray a universe exists where Woodbuck is a fist-fighting superhero.
Found this after wasting time reliving fame wars.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodbuck
I am the ruler of The Meadow! and I'm not even sure what it is. All I know is that Upnorth still owes me 3 bags of double stuffed Oreos.
But that is exactly the duality of the Meadow and of woodblock's entire oeuvre. Its a place to meet online to take disputes (like a message board!), accompanied by reminders of how you won't be able to win a physical battle (somewhere in Canada). And that people better than posters have taken their shot and lost.
Its a true mind bender. The Meadow is a place an argument can be settled, except that the final form cannot exist in this space.
Maybe its Part II of a trilogy?
I am Dunderdummy!
Jesus, Woodbuck was a lot nuttier than I thought.
If his rant was real, we are almost the same size.
He is a good bit goofier than I am, but he is Canadian, so It's OK
I'm not dunderdummy, but the rest of you are :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfbQdxHfxgY
I think you got it, Wist.
It was the old Spartacus routine.
Hey Bye George I think you got it.
The Meadow was to be a place where 'only' two verbal combatants could begin a take down of the other (without any posting input by any other member).
It was to be the equivalent to the arranged Street Fight between 'only two combatants' like I was used to, in the tough streets of my Hometown the Port City, Saint John, New Brunswick Canada. That literally without any threats of actual physical violence 'of course'.
It was to be a posting duel with one member having the objective of out duelling the other. Using any writing means possible, except threats of violence was 'off limits'.
That duel may go on for hours to even days and the loser is the member that gives up and fails to post for say 20-30 minutes 'Time Limit'.
My Name Is Ed..woodbuck27