Hi folks,

I am Madman from Bowie Zone. It's very nice to meet you all.

Hopefully you will all lend me your ears for a minute or two and allow me to put something to you - I hope so.

A little while ago a couple of people from TW joined BZ and made some silly comments and posted some silly pictures, so they were banned - fair enough? Maybe not, you might think - but so be it.

Then, we (at BZ) overreacted a little and started banning people from TW that had done no harm at all at BZ - yes, this was a bit OTT and I apologize for it - we all make mistakes don't we?

So, here it is - I have scrapped the ban list at Bowie Zone and would like to invite anyone that wants to join our site to do so, including all those that have previously been banned. As long as everyone sticks to our very simple rules there should be no problems - that I can see anyway.

I hope we can all put this silliness behind us now. Maybe you'll all just think I'm a prat and you won't to join us anyway - that's fair enough.

Hope to see you over at BZ sometime soon, but if not - oh well...

Best wishes,

Madman

Re-joining a board which holds ddogz in high regard and probably finds even his username fuhrerling funny? Rather not.

But then again I could register as Scary Saddam or as Abu Ghraibling, appropriate avatar included. Would that get me a new ban or would I be accepted among the in-crowd around fuhrerling?

And I want to believe that a light's shining through somehow

Wow. The only thing more amusing than the fact you felt nescessary to post this here (instead of posting it on your own board, which would have served the same purpose) is that you felt moved to start a separate thread for this (when there already is an active thread dealing with this subject).

"You don't Nomi."

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I hope we can all put this silliness behind us now. Maybe you'll all just think I'm a prat and you won't to join us anyway - that's fair enough.

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In the animal kingdom this gesture is known as "presenting".
We appreciate that you've gone to the trouble of greasing up first. :)

Oh come on, he's being nice, and apologizing and everything!

I mean, doesn't really incite me to drop everything and register at BowieZone, but I think we can drop the insults and acknowledge that this is kinda classy.

Oh wait, I forgot, this is TW. We don't do class.

I've got class dripping out of my ass you decrepit methwhore.

I'm curious to know what the BowieZone rules are, though. Not that I plan on signing up, but just a general interest question: what are y'all offering me there that I don't have at TW? Or more to the point, what TWisms that I'm accustomed to here will be on the no-no list at BowieZone?

One mans Bisto gravy granule is another mans short video on How To Be A Successful Bee-Keeper In Serbia

Well, calling Dogz dumb is verboten from the get-go, which kinda rules you (and, uh, a lot of people) out.

Kudos for Madman's response.

I'm not interested in posting at BZ, but I would browse the topics from time to time. For instance, I like to drop by at BWW once a month to keep my whine immunisation levels at a steady intensity for P-Lo's inevitable return, and to get a feel for anything urgent I think ought to be happening at TW. Hence, I would only register at BZ to read the fora.

Which begs the question, why are the fora 'hidden' in the first place? Why should I sign up when I've no idea what I'm signing up to? Or is that the pull?

Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head . . .

"BowieZone rules"
- Marquis of (the highly critical) TW

Well done, globule2, but you forgot these:

"I plan on signing up" - Marquis

"calling Dogz dumb is verboten from the get-go, which kinda rules" - WP

"I'm...interested in posting at BZ...I like to drop by at BWW once a month to keep my...intensity" - WP

"The only thing more amusing than...your own board...is an active thread dealing with this subject" - K

Audiences are raving!

One mans Bisto gravy granule is another mans short video on How To Be A Successful Bee-Keeper In Serbia

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...you felt moved to start a separate thread for this (when there already is an active thread dealing with this subject).

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Obviously bandwith isn't a consideration at BZ.

Stu
Get Bowie Back Downunder

I have a question: Is swearing allowed? Because last time I was banned before I could even post for registering as "Cuntman".

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Oh come on, he's being nice, and apologizing and everything!

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It was creating a separate thread that really bugged me. Plus I have to admit that bashing BowieZone has become a favourite pastime of mine recently.

Apparently they think I have registered an account there. Which is interesting as I've never been to the place.

"You don't Nomi."

I suggest you cunts update your list of rules: I just got banned again for swearing in my posts, even though the rules explicitly say that's not forbidden. Well, is swearing a bannable offense or not? If you're gonna ban people for such silly reasons, you should at least be upfront about it. It would be polite to warn any mildly intelligent potential poster that they shouldn't bother with your shithole, is all I'm saying.

By the way, TotalBlamBlam, about the PM you sent me before banning me... Do the views on TW you shared with me there represent BowieNet's official posture, or just BowieZone's?

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Oh, if anyone pays a visit to BoZone, be sure to check out the "What will you do when Bowie dies?" thread. Unintentional comedy gold. You'll see right away why Dogz fits in so well over there.

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Time to open the pm mailbag my good man!

Culture, alienation, boredom and despair

Hang on, have you been banned from BowieZone or BowieNet? It's confusing these days.

Stu
Get Bowie Back Downunder

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Oh, if anyone pays a visit to BoZone.....

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I can't. They fucking banned me.

Stu
Get Bowie Back Downunder

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It would be polite to warn any mildly intelligent potential poster

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But were you being intelligent, even mildly? Or was it something along the lines of 'fuck blah blah fuck fucking cunt fuck blah fuck blah blah bullshit cunt cunt fuck fucking'?

Just because that seems to be par for the course for you. No offense!

do you like girls or boys? it's confusing these days...

Strawie, your new alters are sucky. All this one ever does is complain.

Stu
Get Bowie Back Downunder

Your ban (like all the others) has been lifted.

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Just because that seems to be par for the course for you. No offense!

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I just want to say that I think your profile pic is fitting in that it a) features Daddy and b) really reflects the arrogant, unpleasant fucking prick that picked it out for a profile pic.

Goodbye yellow-haired toad...

Please provide an itemised list of what BowieClone provides for a typical fan that TW, BWW, BA, BNET, BASSMAN and a host of others do not.

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ADAM VS BOWIE MASH UP PROJECT - | - BOWIE DOWNUNDER

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Oh, if anyone pays a visit to BoZone, be sure to check out the "What will you do when Bowie dies?" thread. Unintentional comedy gold.

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Aw man, and I remember when TW used to have such threads on a somewhat regular basis. No wonder we aren't as fun anymore.

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Time to open the pm mailbag my good man!

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Unfortunately, I can't do that, since my BoZone account was deleted. But let's just say dear Blammo doesn't care much for this place.

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Stu said:
Hang on, have you been banned from BowieZone or BowieNet? It's confusing these days.

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BowieZone, but Blammo is a mod there too... Apparently, BowieNet's posters weren't sychophantic enough for him/her/it/effee.

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But were you being intelligent, even mildly? Or was it something along the lines of 'fuck blah blah fuck fucking cunt fuck blah fuck blah blah bullshit cunt cunt fuck fucking'?

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I made a friendly topic introducing myself, and dropped ONE curse word in it. Then I made a couple more posts with no more than two curse words each, and I got banned. At the same time, I was having a (probably) curse-free PM conversation with TotalBlamBlam.

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Hypocrite said:
Your ban (like all the others) has been lifted.

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Yeah, for five seconds.

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...Blammo is a mod there too..

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Holy Goddamned motherfucking Christ on a bike! Are you telling me that the famed administrator of the BNet message board is also a moderator at BZone? Does DB know that he's moonlighting for the free opposition?

Which one of the following is he, then?

Madman – Administrator
Kookie - Admin
Twozpots - Moderator (obviously not her, because she’s Melanie from NJ)
Shashkova - Moderator
Sassy - Moderator
MercyWraith - Moderator
Keith - Moderator
Shadowman72 - Moderator

Stu
Get Bowie Back Downunder

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Hmmm, I was once a member of BNet (I had to join to get tickets for the 2004 gigs) and had to give them my full name, address and credit card details to pay for the membership and receive my Live & Well CD. So, the inherent difficulties of actually proving a breach of data privacy laws on the other side of the planet notwithstanding, and …

a) given their stated antipathy towards me because I had the temerity to be pleased that the poison that was Dogz had finally been banished from TW

b) given the shit that I’ve stirred up across the online Bowie community in the last couple of days, in an effort to find out why I was banned, which has cast BZone in a bad light (at least to anyone with half a brain)

…this could mean that, potentially, Dogz could have access to my personal information. That psycho monster could know my name, know where I live (though actually I’ve moved since, but it wouldn’t take five minutes on White Pages to figure out where to), be able to quote my credit card number.

Time I got off the internet, changed banks and moved states. Goodbye all! I’ve always wanted to live in Queensland. No, Tasmania. No, South Australia. No….

Stu
Get Bowie Back Downunder

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Oh, if anyone pays a visit to BoZone, be sure to check out the "What will you do when Bowie dies?" thread. Unintentional comedy gold.
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Aw man, and I remember when TW used to have such threads on a somewhat regular basis. No wonder we aren't as fun anymore.

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Yeah, but when we had them it was a refreshing mix of comments like:

"Buy his ashes."
"Say, "aw fuck" and then go about my daily life."
"Thank Jeebux that the rest of his catalogue will finally be released."
"OMG HOW COULD YOU EVEN DISCUSS SUCH A HORRIBLE THING!"

I havent been to BoZone, so I'm only speculating here, but I imagine the BoZone thread involves something like the following:

"OMG WHEN IT HAPPENS I WILL TOTALLY WEAR ALL BLACK FOR A YEAR (NOT THAT IT'S HARD COS THATS WHAT I DO ANYWAY LOL)"
"I WILL HAVE TO GET TOTALLY WASTED TO DEAL WITH THE HORRIBLE HOLE THAT WILL BE LEFT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY"
"I CANT IMAGINE LIVING WITHOUT BOWIE SO WHEN HE DIES I WILL KILL MYSELF"

Tell me if I'm right.

WW

3 months of pregnancy may increase the length of pregnancy, banana. -Spam

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Holy Goddamned motherfucking Christ on a bike! Are you telling me that the famed administrator of the BNet message board is also a moderator at BZone?

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Yes! Outrageous, I know.

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Does DB know that he's moonlighting for the free opposition?

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Hmmm, you know, the last time I registered as "davidbowie" (seemed like a natural progression for "Cuntman")... Maybe Blammo panicked when he/she/it/effee saw my username, thinking I was the real DB, and PMd me to find out. Blammo didn't wanna risk his boss finding out what was going on over there, so hesheiteffee banned me to keep me from reading the forums. It all makes perfect sense!

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Which one of the following is he, then?

Sassy - Moderator

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That one. The full username is * Sassy ( aka TBB ) *. TBB, of course, stands for The Bowienet's Blammo.

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I havent been to BoZone, so I'm only speculating here, but I imagine the BoZone thread involves something like the following:

"OMG WHEN IT HAPPENS I WILL TOTALLY WEAR ALL BLACK FOR A YEAR (NOT THAT IT'S HARD COS THATS WHAT I DO ANYWAY LOL)"
"I WILL HAVE TO GET TOTALLY WASTED TO DEAL WITH THE HORRIBLE HOLE THAT WILL BE LEFT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY"
"I CANT IMAGINE LIVING WITHOUT BOWIE SO WHEN HE DIES I WILL KILL MYSELF"

Tell me if I'm right.

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Pretty much, yeah. The comments I read went something like:
"omg ill cry for a day"
"yeah well ill cry for more than a day omglol :( SAD"
"ill listen to all his albmus and wtach alll his moves spacially laborenth OMG HES SO HOT IN LABURINT :( SAD."

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Yeah, but when we had them it was a refreshing mix of comments like:

"Buy his ashes."
"Say, "aw fuck" and then go about my daily life."
"Thank Jeebux that the rest of his catalogue will finally be released."
"OMG HOW COULD YOU EVEN DISCUSS SUCH A HORRIBLE THING!"

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That's kind of what I meant, yeah.

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"OMG WHEN IT HAPPENS I WILL TOTALLY WEAR ALL BLACK FOR A YEAR (NOT THAT IT'S HARD COS THATS WHAT I DO ANYWAY LOL)"

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Omg, WildWind, ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF ME?

I'm going to go cry now. INTO MY BLACK LACY SHAWL.

We need to get conflicts with other boards more often. This thread is more fun than a bucket of monkeys.

"You don't Nomi."

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Your ban (like all the others) has been lifted.

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So I try to log in and I get:

Invalid username/password combination. Please try again.

So I say I've forgotten my password, enter my login ID and I get:

No user exists with the username "96dbfreak"

So I try to create a new account and I get:

Sign ups are currently disabled at this forum. Only staff members can create accounts at this time.

LOL. Catch 22.

Stu
Get Bowie Back Downunder

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Dear monkeyboy,

Our staff has opted not to approve your account, and therefore it has been removed.

(ed: they've also stopped allowing new posters to register at all, which makes this "peace offering" a giant pile of pure bullshit as well.)

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Mind you that this was before I had a chance to post even a single word on your piece of shit, fascist fuckhole of a site. You might want to let people know that while it's free to join, there are certain people who you won't let in at all.

I've sent an email back asking why I wasn't allowed in. I expect our coorespondence to be nothing but cordial. Don't worry, I'll handle this in the same calm, mature, and respectful way that I handle all of my other online disagreements.

Good thing I have my own message board now:

Please visit my Message Board so I can ban you.

...so is there maybe a legal problem with them saying on the site that "anyone" can join when this is clearly not the case? I'm not saying that we should sue or anything but maybe if someone sent a strongly-worded email to the site's host it would be nice. They might want to know that the people they are dealing with is causing their good name to be dirtied by associating with a group of people who advertise one thing and offer just about the opposite.

Oh, and it's been a full five minutes since I sent an email to them asking why I wasn't allowed in. This is inexcusable.

Please visit my Message Board so I can ban you.

To be fair, BowieZone is clearly far cooler than us... after all they even have their own Calendar created by Madman featuring pictures of prominent board members. Just imagine turning the pages of your Calendar to October to find a big picture of Dogz stood feet apart on a Turkish Cruise ship. Wow.

And it's a mere snippet at £7.81. It even has it's own copyright, clearly to prevent anyone from attempting to create the Unoffical Bowiezone Calendar which I'm sure many people would otherwise be tempted to do.

Seriously though, if I were to create an Official TW calendar and market it for about £10... how many of you would buy it? (If I get enough replies I am of course going to make one...)

http://calendars.lulu.com/content/475635

"Don't see what I do not want to see,
you don't hear what I don't say.
Won't be what I don't want to be,
I continue in my way."

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Just imagine turning the pages of your Calendar to October to find a big picture of Dogz stood feet apart on a Turkish Cruise ship.

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Or, better still, Dogz stood feet apart on two Turkish Cruise ships - sailing in opposite directions.

Stu
Get Bowie Back Downunder

I wouldn't spend any money on it, but a downloadable calendar that one could print out could be a cute idea. Or at least, not an alltogether awful one. (Kitschy, yes, but not awful...) We could have people pose with Bowie memorabilia and such, but classy-like, like this photo of a certain former TWer.

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I wouldn't believe it was possible but those folks there reach new levels of daftness every other day. Incredible bunch.

And I want to believe that a light's shining through somehow

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this could mean that, potentially, Dogz could have access to my personal information. That psycho monster could know my name, know where I live (though actually I’ve moved since, but it wouldn’t take five minutes on White Pages to figure out where to), be able to quote my credit card number.

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Yeah, but this is Dogz we're talking about. By the time he figured out how to operate a complex piece of machinery such as a telephone directory, your children's children's children would be long dead.

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The BowieZone Calendar

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Oh. My. God. That is absolutely priceless!

I think the TW calendar would rotate through Beltene's snatch, Strawman's nob, and tubgirl on a 3 month cycle.

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What? Only Strawski's nob, what about mine?

"You don't Nomi."

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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:06:33 -0500
To: "god"
From: "Bowie Zone Forum" <correspondence@mail4.proboards.com>
Subject: Account Denied: god

Dear god,

Our staff has opted not to approve your account, and therefore it has been removed.

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I tried to enter SimpletonZone with my old account - didn't work.

I tried to get a fresh password - user unknown.

I tried to register anew - no new registrations accepted.

What did their Madman say about mistakes that were made?

And I want to believe that a light's shining through somehow

That former TWer was fucking banging.

I'd like to have sex with her, if you know what I mean.

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre

Heh heh heh. I get what you mean. I'd go so far as to say I'd have "sexual intercourse" with her in my "bed" as soon as the "test results" came back from the "infectious diseases clini wait oh god what have I

Heh heh heh. I get what you mean. I'd even go so far as to say I'd let her ride my "magical pony" and by "magical pony", I mean "magical pony", 'cause I have a wait fuck what am I even

Heh heh heh. I get what you mean. And maybe after you're "done" with "her" I can have "sex" with "you" I mean "her" I mean

Fine. Okay. I want to have sex with you. There. You happy? ARE YOU FUCKING HAPPY?

It was never meant to be like this.


IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE LIKE THIS

Going on a tangent from the sexy TWers of olde, re-reading this thread brought back memories. At the time this thread was active I got a private message from I_am_what_I_play in which he claimed to be a CrapZone moderator who had "exposed" the "fact" that the TW and BZ user Ville is in my alter ego. Resultingly they had apparently banned Ville from their forums for the suspected crime of being me. Their paranoia at the time was delightful!

Trololololololololololololololololo

While this thread was resurrected, I had a quick glance over there to see how BowieClone were getting on. It's only a week in, and already the shit has hit the fan.

One of the most responded-to threads is John Galliano's sacking by Dior.

Madman (the admin) is sympathetic to Galliano's claim ('I love Hitler'). Madman believes that 'Dior acted too quickly. Galliano was obviously very drunk'.

Dogz (under a new name) replies with his characteristic series of oddly placed question marks and randomly capitalised words: 'Drink, drugs whatever?... Is NO excuse for this vile/evil behaviour. This revolting little man is only a clothes designer.' (Nowadays, clothes designers and other people/professions of base stock have the temerity to have political views. He is not revolting because he has fascist views, of course, but because he has a job on the level of, I dunno, a hospital floor mopper.)

Sensing that he is losing ground to one of the forum's heavyweights, Madman retorts with this precise putdown: 'Only a clothes designer? Why is that not an important profession? If there were no clothes designers we would all be walking around nude!' (Obviously. Without our prized fashion designers, it would never occur to anyone to tip the contents of a charity collection bag over their heads and wear tanktops constructed out of flannel dusters, christmas-tinsel laced loin cloths, and tri-cornered ten-gallon hats. )

Here, Claude makes a guest appearance to defend drunken fascists with a series of bon mots such as 'in vino vertias', and Bowie's 'I believe very strongly in fascism' from Playboy. The inference is presumably that Bowie once said it, so it must be true. And surely no one would be daft enough to jeopardise their status as a True Fan™ at BC by contradicting what Bowie once said?

Dogz makes the perfectly reasonable point that Galliano's thoughts had not come out of nowhere; that they were indeed his and liquor had released thoughts he had previously suppressed. He argues that no one of a compassionate and sensible mind would agree with or defend those remarks.

Madman (admin) replies with, 'So I am not compassionate and sensible?' Peculiarly, he's taken to defending Galliano's comments as if they were his own. Or he's preparing a defence along the lines that 'being intolerant of Nazis is fascist, too!!!'

The argument, however, terminates when Dogz tires of the stupidity of his gladiatorial opponent and unexpectedly unregisters himself: 'I find your attitude most disturbing. Therefore I must leave BowieZone.'

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows

Good old days!

I'm not sure if I ever even realized I had been banned. I must have visited BZ only once.

Back when I was still a student I wanted to give a presentation about TW and related things, but I decided I didn't have enough material. Though, I did mention the tubgirl thing and the Pink Floyd incident as side notes in some other presentation I did.

Ah, the memories ...

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The argument, however, terminates when Dogz tires of the stupidity of his gladiatorial opponent and unexpectedly unregisters himself: 'I find your attitude most disturbing. Therefore I must leave BowieZone.'

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The Dogz equivalent of when Paulie says "I must turn my back on you now" to Henry Hill in GoodFellas?

It also sounds like something Darth Vader might say before initiating a force powered choke hold. In many respects Dogz has the same effect in that I nearly died from laughing at the sheer inanity of his statement.

The more things change... the more irritating it gets

Yeah, I thought of "I find your lack of faith disturbing!" too. Also, Nixon's "Therefore, I shall resign the presidency, effective at noon tomorrow!"

Clearly I'm totally out of touch (what's new?). I have no idea what a Bowie zone is (I do have some frankly ambiguous memories of something called the Bowie Area).

Does Bowienet still exist?

Sorry, I'm all out of glib wit

What's a Bowie?

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre

Dogz was fully inline with the folks from fascistzone when they were praising George W. Bush for his war in search of the wepaons of mass destruction. I got banned there back then for speaking up against Bush and his supporters on that site.

TW GOD OF FOOTBALL

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I do have some frankly ambiguous memories of something called the Bowie Area

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You mean the Church of Areaology?

Bowie sites may come and go, but the Church of Areaology is always ... a prominant fixture.

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows

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What's a Bowie?

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I thought this was a website for people who like bowties but miss-spell the word?

Trololololololololololololololololo

Aye, that's the one Prism. A veritable giant in the ring of Labyrinth inspired sites.

Sorry, I'm all out of glib wit