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Sparky · 10-14-2006, 06:38 PM

That is one of the coolest stories I have ever heard, pbl.

And I've seen pbl's hand once, in a photo of one of her tarantulas. That's it.

Okay I had a dream last night! Mine was also about the forum. I dreamt that some big company bought the forum - I do not remember what company; I suppose it would make sense to assume it was Cartoon Network; though quite frankly it may have been their parent company Time Warner - or it may have even been Mattel. Somebody who would gain from the success of the show. Let me explain what happened as best I can.

I dreamt that the staff of the forum got together (apparently we were all flown out to some corporate office - and it being a dream, I didn't actually "see" the faces of any of the staff I've never seen before, but I know we were all in the same room) with a lady from the company that had bought the forum. And she was giving us this "pitch" or motivational speech about how we should be running the discussions on the forum. Now that the forum was owned by them, they wanted us, as the staff, to actually start a minimum number of discussions on the forum per week, and not only that, but we were to STEER the discussions in certain directions, as would suit the company. Such as, for character discussions we had to make sure everyone liked the character, and episode discussions, we were to convince everyone that the ep was great (I'm not kidding). At one point I (myself in the dream) got angry and was complaining to this lady, that that wasn't why we HAD this forum; that the point was people coming and voicing their own opinions. It wasn't right for us to basically tell them what to talk about and what to think.

And then this lady started manipulating what I said and thought and got us ALL to the point where we were agreeing with her. Some sinister corporate mind-melding trick, I guess.

That's all I remember. It was creepy! I dreamt that we were all sucked into a corporate nightmare from which there was no escape!!

(I wish I could say "October Fool's!" or something, but I really had that dream.)

10-14-2006, 06:38 PM	#74
Sparky Undisputed Ruler of Terrencania Am not Slave-O-Matic! Am Johnny Five! Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 5,718	That is one of the coolest stories I have ever heard, pbl. And I've seen pbl's hand once, in a photo of one of her tarantulas. That's it. Okay I had a dream last night! Mine was also about the forum. I dreamt that some big company bought the forum - I do not remember what company; I suppose it would make sense to assume it was Cartoon Network; though quite frankly it may have been their parent company Time Warner - or it may have even been Mattel. Somebody who would gain from the success of the show. Let me explain what happened as best I can. I dreamt that the staff of the forum got together (apparently we were all flown out to some corporate office - and it being a dream, I didn't actually "see" the faces of any of the staff I've never seen before, but I know we were all in the same room) with a lady from the company that had bought the forum. And she was giving us this "pitch" or motivational speech about how we should be running the discussions on the forum. Now that the forum was owned by them, they wanted us, as the staff, to actually start a minimum number of discussions on the forum per week, and not only that, but we were to STEER the discussions in certain directions, as would suit the company. Such as, for character discussions we had to make sure everyone liked the character, and episode discussions, we were to convince everyone that the ep was great (I'm not kidding). At one point I (myself in the dream) got angry and was complaining to this lady, that that wasn't why we HAD this forum; that the point was people coming and voicing their own opinions. It wasn't right for us to basically tell them what to talk about and what to think. And then this lady started manipulating what I said and thought and got us ALL to the point where we were agreeing with her. Some sinister corporate mind-melding trick, I guess. That's all I remember. It was creepy! I dreamt that we were all sucked into a corporate nightmare from which there was no escape!! (I wish I could say "October Fool's!" or something, but I really had that dream.) __________________ Custom Machine Embroidery & More Last edited by Sparky; 10-14-2006 at 06:39 PM.