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Started by DanG, March 06, 2006, 02:22:07 PM

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DanG

Look it up. ;D

It isn't the perfect term to describe what I'm talking about, but it will do till one get's here.

One of the most delightful things about The ForestryForum is the conversational style that most of the topics take on.  Things are allowed to drift away from the original subject, to a certain degree, and that is part of what makes this a fun place to be.  However, I notice a lot of unnecessary commentary in the threads where one is seeking help with a techical problem, to the point that the problem isn't being addressed.  I'd like to see us all try to minimize the persiflage in those threads where a specific problem is being discussed.   There are more than plenty of threads where it is appropriate to drift away from the subject, and I hope that tradition will stay with us. :)
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

DoubleD

Dang this is the best forum I found on the net I really like the conversational style. I've been to one Italian  forum and I never joined because if someone change the subject of the topic the administrators start to yell at you :-\ That is not pretty even if I'd like to join because in that forum talk about tractor and earth moving equipment.
The FORESTRY FORUM IS THE BEST 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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TexasTimbers

That's a good point. Persiflage sort of sounds like entourage, only different. This reminds me of a time when I was leading a group of GEMs (Grit Eating Mongrels) through the Amazon Desert in Upper Volta. We encountered a large, as-yet-identified reptilian-like creature hell-bent on our destruction.
Right before we went into battle with this gargantuan-like beast, I turned to the coterie of rag-tag cohorts and misfits and exclaimed "I hate it when people over-use hyphens in text!" and the would-be attacker, seemingly without any semblance of intellect up to this point, let out a belly laugh that sent shockwaves throughout our now ever-more-panicked contingent of stunned carbon-based units infesting the Starship Enterprise .......
I think I got side-tracked.

The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

DanG

 :D :D :D

Perfect example of persiflage at it's finest.  It was masterful how you segued my plea for sanity into a case study of your own lack in that department. ;D ;) :D :D

I haven't forgot about the pics of the sticker jig, but I've run low on round tuits.  I have a case of them on backorder, but I think they're hung up in Customs on the West Coast. 
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

jon12345

I've never been to the desert, what is it like there?


:D :D :D
A.A.S. in Forest Technology.....Ironworker

leweee

DanG....that dar word sounds like a disease....youd get in the army :D :D :D
just another beaver with a chainsaw &  it's never so bad that it couldn't get worse.

Tom

.....Put Absorbine Jr. on it!

RichlandSawyer

I think i've been persiflaged!! starship enterprise, desert, absorbine jr., I've forgotten what DanG even wanted in the first place.
Every log i open up, a board falls out!!!

leweee

just another beaver with a chainsaw &  it's never so bad that it couldn't get worse.

RichlandSawyer

Hey as long as we are persiflaging i just noticed i have two trees below my name and it says full member. What does all this mean. How can i be a full member i havent even had lunch yet.
Every log i open up, a board falls out!!!

IL Bull

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Don_Papenburg

What has viagra to do with a full mem..nevermind
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woodbowl

DanG, I'm glad you finally decided to try that word out on somebody else besides me. I was starting to get a complex. I've got a better understanding about it now. I even looked it up. Can't say that I know what it means yet, but I understand about it.  ::)
Full time custom sawing at the customers site since 1995.  WoodMizer LT40 Super Hyd.

J.Hercules

I agree with DoubleD and like woodbowl I looked it up and discovered we do this at home everyday only we call it bantering.  I think this is what makes this forum so great because the persiflage (bantering) brings out everyones personality and makes the threads so interesting and entertaining to read. 8)
8) 8) 8)
Jim

isassi

I believe what we do is digress...DI-GRESS...to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of discussion..(Webster)...and we do it LOTS  :D

woodbeard

I thought maybe it was a new camo pattern using persimmon leaves, like for sneaking up on unsuspecting possums, except why would anyone want to do that? So, once again, the dictionary is probably right. Not necessarily well reasoned, but more or less correct in a rather objective sort of way. Because, as we know, possums are not always as unsuspecting as they might appear to be.

TexasTimbers

Has anyone seen my bag of cheetos? I can't eat them but the parakeet likes them.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

getoverit

DanG, I thought persiflage was some kind of new camo wear that those californians thought up... you know.... like that pink and white camo.... or the yellow and white camo.... or that all color stuff.... they only wear that stuff in california.... I guess it helps them blend in with all the fruits and nuts??

what was we talking about now???
I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I work all night and sleep all day

Tom

I went to Alabama one time.

getoverit

the song or the group?
I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I work all night and sleep all day

Tom

The State.  It's just the other side of Georgia.

etat

Thats odd, I was in Florence Alamaba last weekend. 



edit.......  *Alabama*
  :D
Old Age and Treachery will outperform Youth and Inexperence. The thing is, getting older is starting to be painful.

Radar67

Alamaba?.....is that a new country or something?  :D

Stew
"A man's time is the most valuable gift he can give another." TOM

If he can cling to his Blackberry, I can cling to my guns... Me

This will kill you, that will kill you, heck...life will kill you, but you got to live it!

"The man who can comprehend the why, can create the how." SFC J

DanG

It's over yonder, east of Missippissi. ::)
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Radar67

You got a map of that DanG?  ;)

Stew
"A man's time is the most valuable gift he can give another." TOM

If he can cling to his Blackberry, I can cling to my guns... Me

This will kill you, that will kill you, heck...life will kill you, but you got to live it!

"The man who can comprehend the why, can create the how." SFC J

Roxie

Who left the door open on the parakeet cage?!?
Say when

DanG

The cat.

Hey Roxie!  Where ya been?
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Roxie

Watching your makeover on the phone call thread!!   :D :D :D  You look like the guy the Canadian Mounties are after for tieing a woman to the rail road tracks so you can get the deed to her ranch!!   :D
Say when

Jeff

Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

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Ezekiel 22:30

TexasTimbers

The answer is: No one in their right mind.

The question is:____________________?
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

thurlow

Who was it that recorded, "Turn out the lights, the party's over?"  Not the Willie Nelson version............Hint.......  it wasn't Don Meredith and Howard Cosell. 8)
Here's to us and those like us; DanG few of us left!

isassi

"Life is like a box of chocolates...."

Engineer

i found yore cheetos.....

jon12345

meet me at high noon in front of the saloon  smiley_horserider
A.A.S. in Forest Technology.....Ironworker

Radar67

DanG, speaking of cats, what do you call it when you get a female cat "manizzled"?  ;D

Stew
"A man's time is the most valuable gift he can give another." TOM

If he can cling to his Blackberry, I can cling to my guns... Me

This will kill you, that will kill you, heck...life will kill you, but you got to live it!

"The man who can comprehend the why, can create the how." SFC J

DanG

An exercise in futility? ??? :D :D
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

DanG

Hey y'all!  jon12345 is gonna buy me a drink! ;D 8) 8)
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Rockn H

Does anybody remember that post a while back about reading words that were spelt wrong as long as they started and ended with the right letters.
For some reason ctate reminded me of that post.  I'd of never noticed if he hadn't went and fixed it. :D

crtreedude

Just what were we talking about anyway? Zumbas?

Or was it herding cats? I think getting this group to stay on topic and not bring up food would require more divine intervention than we can probably expect.

So, how did I end up here anyway?

Roxie

A mime is a terrible thing to waste. 
Say when

thurlow

If a mime falls down in a forest and..................his wife is not there.............does he make any sound ?
Here's to us and those like us; DanG few of us left!

crtreedude

If a mime falls down in a forest, is it considered a good thing?  ::)
So, how did I end up here anyway?

submarinesailor

Sometimes, you guys are berry, berry, strange/odd/bizarre/outlandish/weird. :) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::)

Engineer

tell us sumpin' we don't know......   ::)

woodbeard

If Rene Descartes thinks he's in a forest, is he?

Tom

Only if it is he, who is.

isawlogs

  I think that winter has been too long for a lot of people  :D :D :D ;)
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

Sprucegum

Past Matin

Perused Persiflage Post

Pertinent? Perfectly!

Persnickity? Possibly.

Polite? Perchance.

Posthumous posting? Preposterous!!

Pleasant Policing?  Predictably.

Pictionary Sprucegum



I respect the truth to much to drag it out on every occasion

jon12345

A round for the FF would cost several thousand dollars  hope there isn't a rush.  :D
A.A.S. in Forest Technology.....Ironworker

TexasTimbers

Thanks Engineer, but you can have 'em. The cat ate the bird.

But like I was saying, in the old days, students in rural schools liked to lead cows up the staircase when the teach was away and then let the teacher figure out how to get it down. Seems cows can walk up 'em, but they can't go down. Cows. Ya gotta love 'em. I like mine medium well.

Try saying "Medium good" at your favorite resturaunt and see how far that gets you.

I can juggle fairly well.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

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