BWW First Annual In/Out List

As the year 2004 rapidly comes to an end, let's reflect back on BWW over the past year and give our personal lists of what's in and out for 2005.

Mine:

Out; "I've become a legend" threads
Screen names that incorporate any refrence to Wicked
Citing the constitutional right to free speech
Multiple BWW identities and personas

In; Backing up your review of a show with intelligent statements that do not include the word Awesome
Starting threads or making posts that have some meaning or actually amuse others

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IN:
Snoopy (I'm sorry, I had to do that)
OUT:
Shills

Out: Assuming everyone here is an idiot and can't tell their Mary's from their Ethels.

In: Assuming everyone here is an intellegent and rational person. Until they prove you wrong. Then they are fair game!

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Seaweed, I used to like you...

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"Out: Using the off topic board as a chat room."

Seriously. If the rest of us weren't at/aren't going to your next gathering, it's really quite boring to read entire threads between 4 people about it. I'm sure you would feel the same. Also, constant referencing to outside gatherings on any thread - again, boring to the rest of us/them who weren't there. I hang out with other BWW people, but I don't feel the need to discuss it with them on the board. What's the point? To make those from Idaho feel left out? To prove how BWW popular you are? I don't get it.

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Updated On: 12/30/04 at 01:03 PM

Who else here is from Pigeontit,TN???? I love that one Orion...LMAO !!!

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Thankfully, I changed my username is August.

I don't feel left out. Just bored.

This is a public message board - private conversations should be just that - private. That's all I'm (and apparently Sueleen is) saying.

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Updated On: 12/30/04 at 01:15 PM

Again, simple solution - Read different threads. You know good and well which threads certain people talk about their lives and getting together with friends. Don't expect a pity party because you're not at these gatherings.

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OUT:
Moaning and groaning about members and or thread -- use the block or ignore feature or simply so not read threads or posts that you find boring, uninteresting or chatty

IN:
Be true, honest and yourself and let's drop all the damn drama (yes, even though this is a theater board, lets limit the drama to the stage and professionals)

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Updated On: 12/30/04 at 01:19 PM

In: Finding original ways to express your thoughts and feelings.
Out: Posts that consist of onomatopoeia, particulary "Ahhhhhhhhhhh." If actual words fail you, it's a failure.

In: Not suffering fools gladly.
Out: Being called mean for not suffering fools gladly.

In: Using your brain matter to engage with ideas and the world.
Out: Starting threads about how bored you are. Only the boring are bored.

In: Being real.
Out: Being phoney, including threads that are nothing but complimenting each other about everything from successful farts to meeting a chorus member at a stage door.

In: Developing real friendships in the real world.
Out: Having a 90 second interaction with a celebrity outside a theater and deciding at that moment that "they are the nicest person in the whole world" and forever after writing posts that imply you know them and you're friends.

In: Watching a show and loving a show.
Out: Feeling as if to prove your love of a show you have to see it dozens of times and memorizing the understudy/swing lists in Playbill and spending the rest of your life wishing you could see yet another three named performer go on as the fourth flying monkey from the left but that was the one night you couldn't do the lottery because you had a stupid paper due the next day. And ESPECIALLY wishing you could have been there that night when somebody dropped something onstage and your other obsessed friends tell you you should have seen it. It was hysterical!

In: Buying a ticket and seeing a performance.
Out: Worrying about whether or not a vacation is planned by a performer when you're supposed to see the show because your life will be ruined if you miss him or her.

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Updated On: 12/30/04 at 01:22 PM

Matt, I complained ONCE. A long time ago, for not knowing about a gathering. That's all. And I wouldn't have known about it if it hadn't then been discussed here.

And, not to make too fine a point, but I have, in this short period of time, received a number of pm's thanking me for my post. Again, it's not about feeling "left out." Okay, enough jacking of this thread, which is actually quite a fun one.

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Updated On: 12/30/04 at 01:23 PM

Out: WalliWoo
In: Buddy

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