The Hot Seat

Dynabertawe · Post by **Dynabertawe** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:53 am

I thought that I'd start this thread so that newcomers like me can get to know the more established members of the forum and vice versa.

One member will be on the Hot Seat for the next 10 pages and then this person can nominate another after this (sending a PM always helps). You can ask anyone anything, as long as it's not offensive!

Does anyone want to volunteer to be on the Hot Seat first?

Cow Patty · Post by **Cow Patty** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:38 am

I don't think this one belongs in word games.......

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:43 am

Dynabertawe: Welcome and hope you enjoy FG. Can you explain this a little better so we can understand what you want us to do? Or maybe you can go first if this is a game

Dynabertawe · Post by **Dynabertawe** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:49 am

Trunk Monkey;880635 wrote: Dynabertawe: Welcome and hope you enjoy FG. Can you explain this a little better so we can understand what you want us to do? Or maybe you can go first if this is a game

Sorry, my fault, maybe in the wrong section. It is a game of sorts, one person takes to the hot seat and invites all members to ask a question about them so that they can get to know them a bit better. Once this member has answered approximately 10 pages of questions, they pass the Hot Seat to another member.

Sorry for my vagueness!:(

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:58 am

Dynabertawe;880646 wrote: Sorry, my fault, maybe in the wrong section. It is a game of sorts, one person takes to the hot seat and invites all members to ask a question about them so that they can get to know them a bit better. Once this member has answered approximately 10 pages of questions, they pass the Hot Seat to another member.

Sorry for my vagueness!:(

I think this belongs in the Members News section :-3 You can PM spot or koan to have this moved for you. Again, welcome to the garden :-6

Post by **spot** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:17 am

Members' News? I think we'd need a new Members' Evasions folder!

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:20 am

Sorry Spot but If this is a game, we are all willing to play it. In your opinion, is this a game? Maybe there should be a Newbie News Section :wah:

Post by **spot** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:23 am

It sounds like a fun game so long as I don't get sat in the seat, thank you.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:13 pm

Dynabertawe;880449 wrote: One member will be on the Hot Seat for the next 10 pages

Ten pages??? !!!!!!!! At how many posts per page? About 10?

That's a heck of a lot of posts about one person! :-2:-2:-2

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:04 pm

Can we just play Musical Chairs?

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watermark · Post by **watermark** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:19 pm

Does the person have to be truthful? I nominate spot to be in the hot seat first. As far as I know he is an established forumgarden member, always has an opinion, never needs reminding about things, is attentive, lightly adversarial, informative and knowledgeable, has plenty of time on hand, as surmised by the extent of time spent on FG (not sure if this is accurate), and didn't want to play, which makes the best candidate for first nominee (since there are no volunteers). What d'ya say?

Erin

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:27 pm

watermark;881218 wrote: Does the person have to be truthful? I nominate spot to be in the hot seat first. As far as I know he is an established forumgarden member, always has an opinion, never needs reminding about things, is attentive, lightly adversarial, informative and knowledgeable, has plenty of time on hand, as surmised by the extent of time spent on FG (not sure if this is accurate), and didn't want to play, which makes the best candidate for first nominee (since there are no volunteers). What d'ya say?

Erin

Go on Spot let's see what ya got

Post by **spot** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:40 am

watermark;881218 wrote: has plenty of time on handThat's so startlingly inaccurate! I've got four notebooks open on my desk to make sure I don't drop anything from my schedule and it's filled for the rest of the year. Well, implicitly anyway, I know exactly what's going in there.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:54 pm

what would be the definition of an established member, so i would know who i could nominate if i wanted to nominate someone?:-6

Post by **spot** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:26 am

Hope6;881951 wrote: what would be the definition of an established member, so i would know who i could nominate if i wanted to nominate someone?:-6

This is stolen from Wikipedia, it says it better than I'd manage this early in the day...The Establishment is a pejorative term used to refer to the traditional ruling class elite and the structures of society that they control. The term can be used to describe specific entrenched elite structures in specific institutions, but is usually informal in application and pejorative. For example, candidates for political office are often said to have to impress the "party establishment" in order to win endorsement.

In the 1960s and 1970s, "The Establishment" was seen as representing restrictive, authoritarian policies. As the old fashioned way of doing things, it was associated with age and was said to be dominated by members of the war generation who had not yet accepted or adapted to the big societal changes of the decade. Sociologically, one who does not belong to "The Establishment" is an "outsider".

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:48 am

spot;881959 wrote: This is stolen from Wikipedia, it says it better than I'd manage this early in the day...The Establishment is a pejorative term used to refer to the traditional ruling class elite and the structures of society that they control. The term can be used to describe specific entrenched elite structures in specific institutions, but is usually informal in application and pejorative. For example, candidates for political office are often said to have to impress the "party establishment" in order to win endorsement.

In the 1960s and 1970s, "The Establishment" was seen as representing restrictive, authoritarian policies. As the old fashioned way of doing things, it was associated with age and was said to be dominated by members of the war generation who had not yet accepted or adapted to the big societal changes of the decade. Sociologically, one who does not belong to "The Establishment" is an "outsider".

ummmmm.......... so in relation to FG, are we talking about original members, members who have been here a certain numbers of years? or members with a certain numbers of posts maybe?

Post by **spot** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:08 am

Hope6;881989 wrote:

ummmmm.......... so in relation to FG, are we talking about original members, members who have been here a certain numbers of years? or members with a certain numbers of posts maybe?

Anyone who joined in 2004, basically. I'm a newbie.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:14 am

spot;881999 wrote: Anyone who joined in 2004, basically. I'm a newbie.

:wah::wah::wah::wah: and here i was gonna join the others in saying you should be first in the hot seat Spot! :wah::wah:

Post by **spot** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:23 am

spot looks hard in minks' direction and puts the hex on her instead

The way to get her talking is just to start asking her questions I reckon.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:51 am

spot;882011 wrote: spot looks hard in minks' direction and puts the hex on her instead

The way to get her talking is just to start asking her questions I reckon.

ohhhh that's right Minks is one of the members from 2004 isn't she?

okay Minks, i nominate you for the hot seat darlin! :wah::-4