Tag: frog
member name: Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom
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November 20, 2008 06:19 PM EST --
A Gather member has recently adopted as his icon a poster like image that harks back to the Reconstruction era of US politics. For years the " bloody shirt " was a mainstay of the Republican . . .
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January 11, 2009 05:40 PM EST --
I posted these stories in 2007 as three separate articles. I've always wanted to put them together in one place, so here they are.
The Frog and the Kitten
There was once a lonely . . .
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November 03, 2008 11:56 AM EST --
I'm old enough to have had a fair sized number of jobs. I've been a retail clerk, service station attendant, fast food worker and manager, street musician, professional student, heat treater, . . .
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November 27, 2007 05:21 PM EST --
A recurring theme on Gather is the anonymous low rating, the DB1. Some people find the low ratings disconcerting. I don't care. Maybe because I went to high school in the early 60s, . . .
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July 30, 2007 12:24 PM EDT --
San Francisco, CA
July 30, 2007
Nippy Katz, well known frog about town has met his match. The inveterate prankster's latest jape backfired on him today. He had taken a job with . . .
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December 07, 2007 05:20 PM EST --
There's a first chapter contest going on. Entrants are begging for people to read and rate their work. It seems like a good time to mention a set of rules for writing that I find invaluable. . . .
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November 26, 2008 06:55 PM EST --
Johnny Guitar Watson recorded this song twice with different titles and different arrangements. He wrote it, sang it, and played piano on both of these. Yup, it's the disco guy from the 70s . . .
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March 04, 2008 10:22 AM EST --
In "Through the Looking Glass" Alice has an interesting discussion with Humpty Dumpty on semantics. It goes as follows:
'I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' . . .
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January 08, 2008 06:10 PM EST --
I haven't posted an article or even a game in a long time. Some might say "Not long enough." My father lived by the dictum "They don't have to like you." I'm taking his . . .
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May 01, 2007 08:19 PM EDT --
There once was a kitten that lived in an animal shelter. She wasn't sure how she got there. She knew that she'd had some memory lapses. The humans treated her well enough. . . .
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May 18, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
I'm a chronic procrastinator.
I have a sick/sarcastic sense of humor that puts people off.
I'm very sloppy in my personal space--my office/studio. Sometimes there's not even a path.
I don't . . .
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November 28, 2008 02:00 PM EST --
Nippy News Network, (c) 2008
WARNING: This article contains immature and narcissistic material. Readers may suffer loss of sphincter control or experience powerful stimulation of the gag reflex. . . .
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September 04, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
Dublin, CA
9/4/07
Two weeks ago I received an email from the payroll department at my work advising me that I'd maxed out on vacation and would not be able to accrue any more. . . .
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April 13, 2007 07:32 PM EDT --
Search engines are a wonderful thing. Today I searched for Froggy the Gremlin, my favorite TV character from my grammar school days and found him. Froggy is my icon/avatar. He's also . . .
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November 23, 2007 03:29 PM EST --
When I first moved out of the house my mom gave me a deep dish cast iron skillet with a lid and her 1941 edition of The Boston Cooking School Cookbook by Fannie Farmer. I still have both. . . .
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June 07, 2007 07:11 PM EDT --
I'm tired and dishearted. I don't know what it is about human beings. They seem not to have no respect for amphibians. I do my best to share my wisdom, expecting nothing . . .
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June 15, 2007 04:28 PM EDT --
Somewhere in cyberspace, July 15, 2007
Yesterday another skirmish in the Gather War took place. Your reporter was there, embedded with the troops of one of the sides. Since the details of . . .
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February 21, 2008 08:38 PM EST --
I got to work yesterday morning and started to look at my email. Before I'd taken my first sip of coffee I noticed that there was a company wide meeting that had started two minutes ago. . . .
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December 03, 2008 03:45 PM EST --
Nothing. I'll accept it in any size up to a 45' ship container.
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November 05, 2008 12:58 PM EST --
By Digger Burrows, GNN Obeah and Reanimation Correspondent
Fremont, CA November 5, 2008
At the intergalactically famous Mojo Lounge in Fremont, CA before a crowd estimated at thirty seven people, . . .
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