Et tu, Brute.

[Mr. Peanut]

'Final' third thanks.

4 years ago I was worried i would run out. The enormity of that erroneousness has me reaching for the thesauraus lest I alude to alliteration.

And I've only fallen back on the open with a literary quote gambit twice.

"All the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts..."

And so it would seem our journalistic jester is playing his part in the great stage of life. One can only wonder what lies in wait for him as he enters his final third.

Beautiful...

[jonbuoy]

Carb cleaner is supposed to be used in a well ventilated area.

[The Pastor]

Yay one less mod.

[Big Dave]

One can only wonder what lies in wait for him as he enters his final third.

Valve bounce.

[Oakie]

"Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno" Sibyl said to me. I dare say this latest blood shed upon these Forum steps will not be the last.

Very clever! Linking the Roman Forum to an internet Forum. Impressive work! For accuracy though it needs to be said that the latin quote was more to do with "wars, terrible wars, and the Tiber foaming with much blood" which is I'd suggest is a bit more violent than the wee adjustment we're going through at the moderator level of KB at the moment.

What really struck me as ironic though was that this latin verse really became famous when a British politician (Enoch Powell) used it in a speech pushing his own views opposing proposed legislation to make racial discrimination illegal. He lost his shadow cabinet post the next day and never held a senior political position again.

Thus as Mr Powell stood by his (misguided) views and was no longer seen in his elevated position so has our Mr Ixion expressed and stood by his views of how things should be and is no longer in his elevated position.

Funny how history repeats itself.

(PS, I have no axe to grind against Ixion ... I just had to respond to such flowery prose)

[Steam]

I give it three months till the advertising / sponsorship begins...

[xwhatsit]

Sibyl paid me a vist today (no, not that Sibyl, she's got her hands full with Basil and Manuel. The wise and prophesying Sibyl. She of the Golden Bough)

The Quadrumvirate is now a Triumvirate, it seems. Aye, the Heaven Born have turned upon one of their own.

And a goodly man ,a gentleman indeed, has covered his face with his toga.

He's been here a long time , longer than most, and contributed a lot to the site, and to motorcycling. A biker of the fine old school (not many of them around now, wonder why) .

He deserved better than a knife in the back.

But perhaps we will hear that he was ambitious. And they are honourable men (and woman) the Heaven Born.Or perhaps he did not meet his infraction quota. If it were so, it was a grievous fault,And grievously hath he answered it.

"Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno" Sibyl said to me. I dare say this latest blood shed upon these Forum steps will not be the last.

Well at least you've got friends out there in the cold, O Elusive Pimpernel. Is this latest event vindication?




No real point in saying this, as I doubt you'll enter into discourse, but we're not all mods here. In fact 99% of us aren't. Just saying.

[Milky]

Of the mods, I can't say I am suprised about SP - he always seemed to have his head screwed firmly on his shoulders

[Winston001]

Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam

[Big Dave]

Funny how history repeats itself.

Funnier how no c*** learns from it.

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[Skyryder]

I tried to think of something intelligent to say but it's all been said.

So long Ix....................She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes, She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes. She'll be comin' round the mountain, comin' round the mountain.................she'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes.

Skyryder

[Ixion]

Very clever! Linking the Roman Forum to an internet Forum. Impressive work! For accuracy though it needs to be said that the latin quote was more to do with "wars, terrible wars, and the Tiber foaming with much blood" which is I'd suggest is a bit more violent than the wee adjustment we're going through at the moderator level of KB at the moment.

What really struck me as ironic though was that this latin verse really became famous when a British politician (Enoch Powell) used it in a speech pushing his own views opposing proposed legislation to make racial discrimination illegal. He lost his shadow cabinet post the next day and never held a senior political position again.

...)

I did not intend to respond , but getting the original quote in context AND the association to Mr Powell deserves recognition.(Did everyone else sleep all through fifth form Latin?). I always had a great deal of time for Mr Powell, be his opinions right or wrong, he was never prepared to sacrifice principle for expediency. I admire that.

Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam

I never retreat. More of a die in the last ditch chap, m'self. And I am only a poor old man, with a verra hard head, so I scorn your catapult, and have no money to give you, be your stones ever so big.

A Latin pissing contest is always fun, but cannot disguise the fact that a bloody good bloke has been knifed, shamefully treated.

I had already been gone for a month , after refusing to toe the party line on the brave new KB world ,before I was bounced (I originally intended to do a Lou Giradin, and just slip silently away) so I can't really complain. Mr SPMan's treatment was more brutal,shameful, a chilling indication of the sort of ethics KB's new rulers will impose on it.

Welcome back Ixion and I'd say there's no need to ever go away again.

Now can you go retrieve grumpy old Motu and get him back? He'd be enjoying Paul's story on the FZR400EXUP and offering advice I am sure.

I fear not. I have spent my life fighting elitism, bullying and censorship. It is impossible to pretend that the new regime is but a continuation of Mr Spankme's wise rule (*he* never tried to Leader us).I could not , with regard to my conscience , endorse it, when it represents all those things I oppose . And silence is consent. Things *have* changed, others beside me have commented upon it. And they will change much more as the new regime gets to work. Of course, those of a right wing and authoritarian persuasion will notice no change, just a (to them agreeable) lack of opposition to their opinions.

Moreover, if I did not voluntarily withdraw, it is very certain that it would only be a short time before I was infracted and sin binned out anyway, like others before me. I certainly am not going to strike my colours, to toady up to the NeoCon opinions of the Heaven Born, and it has been made very clear that dissent will not be tolerated.

BTW, both Mr Motu and I (and a good many other ex KBers ) can be contacted at www.advrider.com

I have also joined Mr Spankme's SV1000 site , now that I "qualify". Nice place, like KB used to be. Mr Spankme is God, indeed, and we shall all revere him. But no matter how much I revere God, I see no reason to worship his bishop, Brian tamaki, no mayter how much he may declare himself my Leader. Nor any of God's other Vicars on earth, Leader they as they will. It's spelled mod, with an 'm', not a 'g'.

[Pixie]

(I originally intended to do a Lou Giradin, and just slip silently away)

Lou's absence is not of his own choice. Got castigated at work.
His mouth prevents him from doing anything silently.
He is currently living in a cave in Tuscany.

[oldrider]

I have no opinion about your issues with Spankme but do wonder how long this resignation of yours is actually going to take.

Have you resigned from KB or have you not?

Have I simply misread your thread? John.

[Hitcher]

I'm still not sure what people think is actually "different" around here since... whenever?

Apart, that is, from the workload that now falls on the moderating team since Spankme's departure. The crap that that guy used to deal with largely on his own beggars belief.

If some people get their jollies by making all sorts of allegations about "knifings" and other perceived scurrilous innuendo, good luck to them.