Miriam (onceadancer2) Is Back!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 12:48pm

On the main board, in the Ethel Merman thread.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 12:58pm

Thanks for the head up! I've wondered about her.

(what's a 'main board'?)

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 12:59pm

Yay! I love reading her stories.

[DG]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 2:23pm

Thanks for the heads up, PalJ - that was a wonderful surprise

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 3:15pm

Thanks PJ, I am so glad I didn't miss a Miriam appearance.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/18/07 at 3:17pm

I'll check it out. I've heard so much about her.

Updated On: 7/18/07 at 03:17 PM

[Q]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 2:51pm

*bump*

Because it's always a treat!

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 6:54pm

YAY!! She's still here! ( or Israel) Glad the old gal is still kicken it!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 12:22pm

Finally told that lying old bat off.

She's no more real than Bitter Betty was.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 12:45pm

Whatever happened to Jose?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 12:53pm

I just deleted the post where I called her "an old bat" and told her to get her glasses fixed.

It was too mean--even for me.

[Q]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 1:03pm

"She's no more real than Bitter Betty was."

Really? That would be a shame.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 6:17pm

Bitter Betty bought some butter.
But, she said, my butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
it will make my batter bitter.
SO she bought some other butter,
better than her bitter butter,
so her batter wasn't bitter.

Apropos of nothing in particular.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 6:40pm

It has been brought to my attention the poster currently posting as OnceADancer is not the same sweet Miriam whose posts we all used to enjoy.

Apparently, this new OnceADancer is a sockpuppet.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 7:00pm

Oh, that is TERRIBLE. Who would do such a thing?

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 8:46pm

Really? Well now I feel like an idiot. I guess I'll also have to go back to wondering how and what the real Miriam is doing.

Santa Claus is still real, right?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 10:58pm

Santa Claus is a sockpuppet?

[Q]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:16pm

". . . the poster currently posting as OnceADancer is not the same sweet Miriam whose posts we all used to enjoy."

Please pardon my (usual) ignorance and confusion. The posts I'm reading currently (ie. the Van Johnson thread) are made by Onceadancer2, with a stated join date of May in 2003.

So, was this person always a fabrication, or has someone gained access to the account? As far as I know, that's what Miriam always posted under.

And while I'm asking questions, PJ, are you able to shed more light on how things 'come to your attention'? I frequently feel like I'm stumbling blindly around these parts, so I'd love to know a few 'tricks of the trade' that allows one to draw such conclusions.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:29pm

Sock puppets always give themselves away when they cease speaking in their established characters.

A lot of screen names and passwords were created in May 2003. Some were even shared with others.

The rule always spoken of was "One screen name per poster."

But nobody ever made a rule of "One poster per screen name."

Miriam was no more real than Brendan Stryker or Phantom2.

[Q]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:34pm

"Miriam was no more real than Brendan Stryker or Phantom2."

I gave up emotional investiture in this joint awhile ago, but that little tidbit honestly makes me a little sad. I liked the idea of her a lot.

Oh, well.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:03am

DG, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, DG, whether they be men’s or dancer’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, DG, there is a onceadancer2. Miriam exists as certainly as love and generosity and the meticulously recreated works of Agnes de Mille exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no onceadancer2! It would be as dreary as if there were no DGs. Or Qs. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which the idea of a gifted dancer who rubbed elbows with the greats of The Golden Era fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in onceadancer2! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your daddy to hire men to watch all the kibbutzes in Israel to catch Miriam, but even if you did not see her pirouette, what would that prove? Nobody sees onceadancer2, but that is no sign that there is no onceadancer2. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, well, actually probably you have, but most people haven't and that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the battery operated vibrator and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal dancers and their glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, DG, in all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding.

No onceadancer2! Thank God! she lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, DG, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, she will continue to make glad the heart of people nostalgic for a time they were born too late to live through.

Updated On: 12/15/08 at 12:03 AM

[Q]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:08am

Namo, that absolutely made my night!

Well, that and getting the laundry caught up.

You really are VERY good.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:12am

And that is why some of us miss Namo so much when he tires of the shenanigans of this board.

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:13am

Big fan here, big fan. But he knows that.

[Q]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:21am

My favorite part:

"Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, well, actually probably you have"

Hell, most of the time I WAS the fairy dancing on the lawn! But, other than that, I can only thank the chemicals man was intelligent enough to create.