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OZ Is Hit with Link Leak Virus

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Tueday Comment Night in OZ

Open Comments was held in OZ last night. The conversation opened with a musical number and went from black and white to color in a matter of two comments. At some point in the wild forest, the flying monkeys dropped the evil link leak virus on the fair citizens of Successful Blog. Perhaps it was as we traveled through the poppy fields right before the Emerald City. Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes edged its way in.

Cool links were shared.

Precious Moments

There were scads of precious moments and funny response that read particularly well taken out of context.
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Advice Librarian Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 7:13 pm e
Hehe – I suppose it can be something of an Oz moment when a long-haired heavy metal-listening Unix hacker like me confesses to quite liking the Dixie Chicks

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Joe Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 7:18 pm e
You know, where they rip the Scarcrow apart and take Toto to the Haunted Castle.

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Rick Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 7:27 pm e
Hi Liz, Joe, AdLib!

My wife’s name is Glenda, so you know who her favorite character is. Me, I kind of like the doorman and the Wizard while he’s still in Kansas.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
Ahhh…sorry, I’m not that familiar with Wizard of Oz. Sure I’ve seen it, but I didn’t catch all those details!

I can’t be sure if Basil likes the horse of a different color or not. Secretly I think he’s into romance novels but he’ll deny it.

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Chris Cree Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 7:51 pm e
Oz never did give nothin’ to the Tin Man,
That he didn’t
Didn’t already have….

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Susan Reynolds Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 7:51 pm e
Hi all! Speaking of the horse . . . I come bearing goodies in the form of a big Liz Strauss, Open Mic surprise – and it’s even on your assigned theme Liz. Click on my name and look for an image . . .

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cat Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:06 pm e
* Dorothy and Toto
* The Scarecrow,
* The Tinman,
* The Cowardly Lion
* The Munchins,
* The Witches,
* The Flying Monkeys
* A Horse of a Different Color
* and OZ himself

and Jade …

Never heard of Jade? I thought not.

When I was growing up, my father was a producer of musicals. For a handful of years he was involved with a struggling family theater in California. We (yes, I was pulled in on a rouse) ended up doing over 100 shows of the Wizard of Oz. All up and down the state of CA.

Since I’ve never seen nor heard of a Jade in any production of the Wizard of Oz before or since, I can only assume the part was written in for me at the request of my father. He was like that.

Jade was dressed up all in green (surprise) satin. Just like the lass in ‘I dream of Jeanie’. A midriff outfit, it had a tiny top fitted with sequins and shiny bits and long satin green skirt that twirled.

My part? The personal assistance of the Wizard. They even threw in a dance number, a song, and a scream scene when the storm hit.

Memories. I have a few. And if you know anything about theater groups, you’ll know exactly what I mean.

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:16 pm e
Speaking of joggers, I’m not one – and I always find it strangely comforting that the founder of the jogging movement diend of a heart attack while out running, at age 54.

Shameful, really – someone dying is mostly just tragic.

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Chris Cree Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:30 pm e
Ad Lib, What was that? Alien? Photoshop? What???

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ME Strauss Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:32 pm e
AdLib’s thing looks like a snail I dated once.

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Susan Reynolds Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:33 pm e
Now THAT is what I call a line that will make the highlights, liz

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:35 pm e
I’m not even going to venture a guess as to what that image was…something popped into my head, but I don’t think it’s appropriate here. Not when we’re talking about children’s favorites like Oz…

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Chris Cree Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:35 pm e
Liz, comment 102 won’t look good out of context. I’m just saying…

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Christine Kane Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:48 pm e
Who’s representing the Lollipop Guild?

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Christine Kane Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:52 pm e
Chris has been singing? If I only had the nerve

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ME Strauss Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:53 pm e
If I only had a heart!

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Rick Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:55 pm e
If I only had a brain…

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Service Untitled – Douglas Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:57 pm e
Hey everyone. I apologize for my late-ness. I was distracted by the Herman Miller Aeron chair equivalent of cordless phones.

ALL OF PAGE 6 IS A COUNTERPOINT THAT DESERVES TO BE SET TO MUSIC.

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Service Untitled – Douglas Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 9:16 pm e
Ben – unfortunately, like most of his colleagues, Paul (which I don’t think was actually his name) was a moronic idiot. I could post:

“Do not hire moronic idiots.”

on Service Untitled, but I don’t think people would take me as seriously.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 9:22 pm e
Doug – ask Brian too. He’s the headline writing guru.

I think if you added in a number, so it was a numbered list it would be even better:

5 Reasons Not to Hire Moronic Idiots.

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Chris Cree Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 9:23 pm e
Hey Brian!

And Joe. Unfortunately the record must be set right. I didn’t actually fly the jets. I merely rode in them and told the pilot where to go.

Sometimes using very colorful words.

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 9:23 pm e
Chris – that’s what my sensei said!

First time in the beginner’s karate class, sensei said “Ok, we’ll start out with the best way to avoid losing fights”.

Then he made us run for 20 minutes.

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Christine Kane Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 9:25 pm e
Chris, you did ALL that, and now you’re in a chat room singing “if i were king of the forest.” You’ve worked your way up in the world baby!

Hi brian..

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Brian Clark Says: August 1st, 2006 at 9:30 pm e
Who Else Wishes There Were No Moronic Idiots Working in Customer Service?
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Chris Cree Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 9:33 pm e
Brian is the headline MASTER. But I read his post and want to take a crack at it.

Who Else Wants the Secret of Little Known Ways to Get rid of Hired Moronic Idiots Once and For All

How’d I do?

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Brian Clark Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 9:34 pm e
You forgot “sure-fire” in between “known” and “ways,” but otherwise I think you hit them all, Chris.

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Scot Herrick Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 10:22 pm e
High today here in Seattle-land was 73 degrees and they don’t understand what dewpoint means, unlike me who lived in Chicago-land for 6 years and was born and raised all the way up to Chicago-land in Wisconsin.

I even have the Wisconsin accent when I type…

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Starbucker Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 10:46 pm e
I’m doing great Liz – I’m in Helena, Montana tonight. Thank goodness the temperatures are cooler here – it was 100 back east today!

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Trisha Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 11:20 pm e
wizard of oz scares me

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