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Via:  magnoliaave  •  7 years ago  •  68 comments

What's wrong?

News Talkers gets no play......why is that?  A few posters and a few responders, 


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magnoliaave
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link   seeder  magnoliaave    7 years ago

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JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell    7 years ago

You get the award for the most mysterious article of the day , anyway.

 
 
 
PJ
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link   PJ  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Not so mysterious - It's a question/observation.  They are asking/wondering why there isn't more traffic on the site.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell  replied to  PJ   7 years ago

ending the "article" with a comma

News Talkers gets no play......why is that?  A few posters and a few responders,

is mysterious. Was something lost?

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Ending in a comma is mysterious. Still if one takes it as having been meant to have been ended in a period, then the answer is that sometimes it's quieter on the site then others and sometimes it's busier. Sometimes a lot of members are on and sometimes only a few are. It ebbs and it flows with no discernible pattern, IMHO.

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy    7 years ago

Friday on a holiday weekend?

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient    7 years ago

It's no mystery to me why NT has lost probably half the members it once had, and I'd be surprised if anyone who has remained active wouldn't be aware as well. You would have to be completely obtuse not to know why.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell  replied to  Buzz of the Orient   7 years ago

Humor us Buzz.

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  sixpick   7 years ago

EXCELLENT!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

I'm trying to as best as I can John. LOL

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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link   Hal A. Lujah  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Comment removed skirting the CoC [ph]

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Hal A. Lujah   7 years ago

Buzz,

You make it sound like a mass exodus, (see Hal, I could bring it back to the Jews, LOL), but that is not the case. There has always been a core group of members and then members who come and go. We actually have a good Alexa rating for non commercial website (meaning that we are not affiliated with any major publication or media outlet). 

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  Buzz of the Orient   7 years ago

It's no mystery to me why NT has lost probably half the members it once had, and I'd be surprised if anyone who has remained active wouldn't be aware as well. You would have to be completely obtuse not to know why.

That was exactly what I was about to say!

Anyone who doesn't know why is in la-la-la land-- its so obvious.

 

 

 

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  Krishna   7 years ago

Obvious! Yes, 100% obvious!

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   XXJefferson51  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

Well, we could bring back Oliver and BF.  We could make our conservatives more happy.  Our moderate independents could be just that rather than siding with liberals in every debate with conservatives while denying they really are on the left.  We could avoid trying to content control what others seed or post here.  We could engage in civility and comity no matter how much we disagree with what someone we disagree with says and really be like Fox Nation where all opinions are welcome.  Always happy to help.  

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient  replied to  XXJefferson51   7 years ago

Unfortunately....

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JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell  replied to  XXJefferson51   7 years ago

I think there is a time slot open on the Comedy Channel for you XX. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   XXJefferson51  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Comedy Central only has openings for liberals and I don't qualify as such.  

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  Krishna   7 years ago

BTW Krishna I've been meaning to tell you, fantastic new avatar!

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

BTW Krishna I've been meaning to tell you, fantastic new avatar!

Glad you liked it!

 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
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link   Mark in Wyoming     7 years ago

I can only speak for myself as to why I haven't been around.

 1. nothing worth commenting on being posted that wouldn't end up in a free for all is the main reason.

 2. decided to go out and get a part time job to keep myself busy and active , started 2 day ago at a local Wal-Mart.

 least I am not asking people if they want fries with their purchase.......

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick  replied to  Mark in Wyoming   7 years ago

Now I like that Mark!

 
 
 
Petey Coober
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link   Petey Coober  replied to  sixpick   7 years ago

Ahhhh ... Norah Jones . I saw her perform live .

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Petey Coober   7 years ago

Love that song!

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A.   7 years ago

Didn't see your comment Perrie, but I agree and here is another one I like, not as much, but I just like the sound of it.

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick  replied to  sixpick   7 years ago

Not Noah, but still a great song to me.  You know my comments with songs are a a vanishing comment for future reference, which is perfectly OK with me since I don't want to hog the CPU. LOL  Better listen while you have a chance. 

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick  replied to  Petey Coober   7 years ago

That was a beautiful song. 

 
 
 
Petey Coober
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link   Petey Coober  replied to  sixpick   7 years ago

Here's Norah Jones "Chasing Pirates" ...

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  Mark in Wyoming   7 years ago

 least I am not asking people if they want fries with their purchase.......

UGH! When I was 16 I had a job in a fast food place (Ritzee Restaurant) making fries 4 hours a night after school and several hours on Saturdays for several months. All I did was fry French fries. That's it. That's all. I grew to hate fries!

 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
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link   Mark in Wyoming   replied to  Randy   7 years ago

they decided I should go in lawn and garden , but some of the other managers have been peeking at my resume and seeing what I have done in the past , now I am being told that L&G may not be all I end up doing....damn experience......never know what in your p[ast will rise up and bite ya.

 
 
 
PJ
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link   PJ  replied to  Mark in Wyoming   7 years ago

never know what in your p[ast will rise up and bite ya.

I would suggest you not wear your kilt to work.... or they might put you in the kitchen area where all the women shop - on the other hand it could help increase sales.  

 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
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link   Mark in Wyoming   replied to  PJ   7 years ago

HEHEHE, I asked about that since I will most likely be outside , and was told as long as it is one of the dress codes core colors , and meets the requirements for shorts , it might not be a problem if it was not a safety or distraction issue.....now just to find a day when it isn't windy....

 
 
 
PJ
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link   PJ  replied to  Mark in Wyoming   7 years ago

Bring on the WIND!  hahahahaha

 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
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link   Mark in Wyoming   replied to  PJ   7 years ago

it could be awkward in lawn and garden , especially around all the potted flower plants having someone ask if we carried any Scottish roses and if they could see them.....

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  Mark in Wyoming   7 years ago

now just to find a day when it isn't windy....

Reminds me of an olde joke:

There were 3 partially deaf Englishmen on a train. Suddenly the window flew open.

"Close the window, its windy!" said the first.

"No its not...its Thursday" said the second.

"I am too-- let's have a drink!" said the third one.

 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

Potato salad is much healthier - goes well with a corned beef sandwich and dill pickle.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Buzz of the Orient   7 years ago

How about a Knish, Buzz? The square ones, not the round ones... 

with some onions and a little mustard in the middle.... yum!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A.   7 years ago

Well, I don't know, Perrie. If I say anything about that Hal will say I'm being too Jewish. Funny, I don't look Jewish.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Buzz of the Orient   7 years ago

Funny, you don't look Blueish, either. 

Image result for blue meanie

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A.   7 years ago

Back to Sargeant Pepper we go - In Spaceballs, It's "Funny, she doesn't look Druish"

 
 
 
Enoch
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link   Enoch  replied to  Buzz of the Orient   7 years ago

Dear Friend Buzz: Speaking of space jokes.

Young people go to a singles space bar to make new friends.  

A gentleman and a lady meet.

Over cocktails, they get acquainted. 

He asks, what is your name?

In the universe, they long ago ran out of letter combinations for names.

Now they use the intergalactic social security number as a name.

She replies, my name is 10293847566.

He says, that is pretty.

She asks, what is yours?

He retorts, 0908070615142332-91726.

She observes, funny you don't look Jewish!

Enoch, Orbiting Jay's Interstellar Diner.

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  Buzz of the Orient   7 years ago

Well, I don't know, Perrie. If I say anything about that Hal will say I'm being too Jewish. Funny, I don't look Jewish.

Anyone remember these-- a classic ad campaign (for "Levy's Jewish Rye" bread):

Image result for you don't have to be jewish to love levy's

 

Related image

 

Image result for you don't have to be jewish to love levy's

 

(Normally I'd tried to re-size them to be the same size-- but I'm not in the mood to deal with "The Html From Hell" that the morons who wrote the code for this site [jamroom?] created).

 

 
 
 
Enoch
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link   Enoch  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A.   7 years ago

Dear Friend Perrie: When in NYC, try Yonah Shimmel's Knishes.

Geshmacht!

Enoch

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Enoch   7 years ago

Enoci,

I have!! They are da bomb, as the kids say!

 
 
 
Enoch
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link   Enoch  replied to  Buzz of the Orient   7 years ago

Dear Friend Buzz: Potato salad with dill, corned beef on seeded rye with caroway, lettuce tomato and Batempte or Shofar sharp deli mustard (the kind with flecks of black pepper in it for zip), A dr. Brown's Cel-ray Tonic or Moxie.

Ah a party on the palette.

E.  

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Enoch   7 years ago

I have a slightly different taste than you, Enoch, though not THAT different. I would pass on the lettuce and tomato whch would make a normal deli sandwich into an imitation BLT one, and Dr; Brown's diet cream soda instead.

 
 
 
Enoch
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link   Enoch  replied to  Buzz of the Orient   7 years ago

Dear Friend Buzz: Dr. Brown's Cream soda works for me.

So do the root and birch beer sodas.

A health salad, mango cole slaw,  or a garden salad on the side can sub for the lettuce and tomato slices. with ease.

We are both brothers in ta'am tov (good taste) at the full belly deli.

When a full time pulpit Rabbi I used to run Torah with Ta'am (Torah with taste) luncheons for business men and women in local business district hotel private rooms during their lunch hours. They would dien and I would go over the parshat ha shavuah (weekly Torah portion).

It was a chance to for anyone wh9o wanted to attend to enjoy a good deli meal and study Holy Texts.

All who came were welcomed.

If they could pay they did.

If not, they got a free meal.

Those who could sometimes paid extra to cover for those who could not.

We had as many business executives and workers as we did homeless and elderly center city residents whose only warm meal in a warm or cool place depending on the season. 

Peace, Abundant Blessings, and Trays of New and Old Dill Pickles, and Sour Tomatoes.

Eppes Gut Tzu Essen.

Enoch.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell    7 years ago

I wonder if Norah Jones can eat potato salad and sing at the same time.

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Probably not.  I like a clean cut of the song without all the background noise, but during the meantime.  And soon to be gone is .....,

 

 
 
 
magnoliaave
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link   seeder  magnoliaave    7 years ago

Thank you for your comments.

Nothing mysterious about the comma....put my finger on the comma rather than the period.  Sorry, John, no hidden agenda.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  magnoliaave   7 years ago

Magnoliaave,

This was fun! I plan on starting an ad campaign to see if it attracts new members. If I had associated with a publication, I would have had many more, but then we would be partisan, since most publications lean one way or another, and I never wanted that for the site. 

 
 
 
magnoliaave
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link   seeder  magnoliaave  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A.   7 years ago

Yes, it was.  Sort of a "break away".  You have a good site and would like more interaction.

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A.   7 years ago

I plan on starting an ad campaign to see if it attracts new members

I don't want to get into a lengthy meta discussion now, but IMO this is a key point: (Yes, an opinion, but I'm pretty sure its accurate): the reason that membership (and/or participation of existing members) isn't higher is not because we don't have enough members. 

Or-- to put it another way-- finding new ways to attract new members is definitely not the way to increase activity here*.

Rather-- the solution is to keep the members that sign up!

My experience here is that we are constantly attracting new members. Who sign up, participate for a while. and then leave. (As with most websites, when people want to quit they rare delete or cancel their account They just fergeddaboud the site and move on).

And why do they move on?

Only da Shadow Knows!

And based on my observations, in addition to the Shadow-- myself, Buzz, and Bob Nelson knows...but most others here apparently don't. 

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  Krishna   7 years ago

I know, but I have a Top Secret Security Clearance.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   XXJefferson51  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

An ad campaign would be a good thing.  Maybe affiliate with more than one publication  to be bipartisan?  How about adding non msm news feeds?  

 

 
 
 
Bob Nelson
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link   Bob Nelson    7 years ago

Personally, I have no opinion concerning either commas or periods. 

But of course... Not having anything to say has never prevented any of us from posting!  😞

 
 
 
magnoliaave
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link   seeder  magnoliaave  replied to  Bob Nelson   7 years ago

I didn't post an opinion....I asked a question!  Not having anything to say as in your post.

 
 
 
Bob Nelson
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link   Bob Nelson  replied to  magnoliaave   7 years ago

Is a question, in the absence of any answer, like a tree falling in the deep forest? I have no opinion on this, either. 

🤕

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  Bob Nelson   7 years ago

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

(Not one of their greatest hits. But these two are  better known I believe?):

Cream Always Rises to the Top:

Also this one-- "Risky Changes":

 "Bionic Boogie"(1978), Produced by Gregg Diamond, featuring Luther Vandross (Chic's 1st choir leader) on lead vocals Just before the peak of the disco era (1979). Played mainly in gay and Black/Hispanic discos of the era.

[Just a bit of trivia-- I do realize that most people here tend toward Rock 'n Roll rather than Disco :-)

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  Krishna   7 years ago

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

64,219. I counted. Or was I just stoned?

 
 
 
magnoliaave
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link   seeder  magnoliaave    7 years ago

So many years ago, my husband and I were in Chicago on business and went to a disco club.  We had a blast!  "I want to be a disco man". 

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  magnoliaave   7 years ago

At the time disco was popular, it seemed I had two groups of friends: those that were heavyily into Rock-- and those that were into Disco. And strangely-- most of them loved one genere but hated the other! And the Disco crowd really bashed Rock-- and vice-versa. But I always liked both. I always really liked both.... went to some Rock clubs-- and went to some very far out discos!

I loved dancin' at the discos-- the flashing lights,...the smell of poppers (heh)-- the whole scene. It was a kind of fantasy world....

 

 

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  Krishna   7 years ago

 So many years ago, my husband and I were in Chicago on business and went to a disco club.  We had a blast!  "I want to be a disco man"

Here's the sort of music I liked (I seeded the one with Sylvester partially because I'm in the mood to do a little fun trolling today-- the first video should hopefully give some of the more straight-laced NT members canniption fits...Hehehe. Sylvester was of indeterminate sex (sexes?) but when it came time to get down and boogie his music was hard to beat). I always found it hard to stay seated when most of these tunes came on. These aren't for "easy listenin""-- they are meant to be danced to, high volume with very high volume bass.  Often dico dollies & disco dudes has a little sumpthin' to eat or drink beforehand to enhance the mood, so to speak. (Many of these start off slow and build-- so if you want to get a quick taste of each start somewhere past the middle):

1. Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk?

2.  Jackie Moore - This Time Baby 

3. Claudja Barry - Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes

(cont'd in next comment)

 
 
 
Krishna
Professor Expert
link   Krishna  replied to  Krishna   7 years ago

 (cont'd from previous comment)

4. More, More More - Andrea True Connection

 

5. Shirley & Co - Shame Shame Shame

6. Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood

7. Patrick Hernandez - Born to Be Alive

8. Paul Lekakis - Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)

9, Anything by Donna Summer!  

10. Anything from "Saturday Night Fever".

Any Questions, comments, suggestions? 

Nasty Personal attacks?

 

 
 
 
Randy
Sophomore Participates
link   Randy  replied to  Krishna   7 years ago

IMHO disco is a nasty personal attack! Laugh

 
 

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