Backroom is closed

[TosaInu]

Merry Christmas.

[FactionHeir]

Out of curiosity, is it usual to close the backroom during christmas and new year's? Asking because last year around this time I still didn't have access to it in the first place

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

To my knowledge, yes, it is usually closed at Christmas. I think once it was closed for a few days as a "cool down time", but I can't remember.

[TinCow]

It's the Org version the Christmas Truce.

[Conqueror]

Darn, foiled my evil plan to post the Politically Correct Christmas Greeting there

Oh well, merry christmas to all .orgers!

[Gregoshi]

I always liked the "Christmas Truce" in the Backroom. I can stop worrying about coming up with the next pun for a few days and spend some time with the family.

[Odin]

I forgot they did this, to bad I really had the potential of another thread going down the path of religion and its failings.

Whats a grinch like me supposed to do? I'll have to go to one of the other sites I frequent, Im sure they cant wait. Although the org does have Gregoshi, which cannot be substituded.

come on lets open it up and have a good old fashioned bile filled back and forth.

[Marshal Murat]

So does that mean I can post this?

[Mouzafphaerre]

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[Odin] Go to the hosted mods fora.

/rant
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[Lemur]

Man, and there's some really good weird news coming out right now. Color me sad. How will Orgahs learn about the dancing vibrator scandal if I can't post it in its natural home?

[Boyar Son]

See? religious truce

[Viking]

I was wondering what nasty thing I had done since I could not find it.

[Charge]

not backroom related, but maybe ...

Amnesty of all warning points as christmas present?

[Veho Nex]

What is the backroom i've been able to see it just never see whats in it

[Lemur]

What is the backroom i've been able to see it just never see whats in it

Pretty much this:

[Vladimir]

It's the Org version the Christmas Truce.

History channel had a special on that today.

[Adrian II]

Man, and there's some really good weird news coming out right now. Color me sad. How will Orgahs learn about the dancing vibrator scandal if I can't post it in its natural home?

You mean to say that those of us - like yours Inquisitively - who work on Christmas this year shall be bereft of such carnal levities that help ease their workload?

I was just perusing a weird quote collection. Ponder this:

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of IBM, in 1943

[KukriKhan]

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, backroom best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other
cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. (Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere).

Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishees.

-OR-

Let's put aside our pointy sticks and lead-launchers, and play a game of football, and share our C-Rations. :)

Fond best wishes to all, and warm regards.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I always thought it was done to save the servers.

After all, many more of us are off, have time, and the zapping of posts would slag the thing.

Besides, wasn't all the charm of the Christmas Truce its spontaneity?

[LittleGrizzly]

Gah! Every year!

Bah! Humbug!

and a

Merry Christmas!

[Gregoshi]

Besides, wasn't all the charm of the Christmas Truce its spontaneity?

It is spontaneous - every year.

[Wladyslaw IV]

Lest I remind you all this is not the Backroom is closed subsiderary thread. When it is open again, you can have your OT discussions there. For now it is not. *THREAD CLOSED* (if I was a moderator )

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Backroom Watchtower is closed too.
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[Ludens]

What is the backroom i've been able to see it just never see whats in it

A forum for discussion about politics, religion and other heavy subjects. In order to participate you have to request membership via User CP => group memberships. This is usually just a formality, and membership of the Backroom carries no obligations.

[JR-]

have the rules changed in recent years, i swear i never requested access to the backroom?

[TosaInu]

Hello Furunculu5,

All current members also became Backroom members when this opt-in group was created. One can remove him/herself from the list.

[LittleGrizzly]

I think its something recent i never needed to request membership

[mrdun]

How do you post in the backroom. It says no messages have been posted to me

[Mikeus Caesar]

Is the backroom closed for the entirity of the festive season (boxing day and so forth) or just christmas? Because if it's only christmas then i demand you wake up right now and stop living on American time. I'm getting very impatient and fidgety without my fix.

[Gregoshi]

...and stop living on American time.

That is an incorrect assumption Mikeus. Tosa has the keys to the Backroom and he's Dutch.