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  #101  
Old November 4th 07, 07:05 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.community
Ray or Fran
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Default Mietze! Questionz

Ize finks Mietze should only resign if that is what "shez really wantz" to
do. And ifn Mietze wants to resign weze needs to throw her a party and get
her a gold cat food bowl for all the years and time shez spent doing this
job. And rememfur effuryone, the job is a year round responsibility, not
just a few days in October.

Puddi Cat
(Not volunteering)

And also raising a toast to Mietze and Aunti Melissa
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Remove "spam" from addy to reply
Do Meitze really want to retire? Maybe Meitze thinks other kitties thinks
she shood retire? Inkwiring kat wants to know.
Burt


Dis kitty do NOT want Mietze tu retire. Shood dere be a petition?

Tess
:
: Deer Mietze,
:
: I just wants tu fank you an Anti Melissa fur all yur gudgud werk offur
: da yeers. Da Jellicle Ball iz furry important tu ourz kommunity an da
: Calling ov Names iz da most solemnist moment ov da yeer.
:
: Yu hab earned yur retirement an it will be furry hard fur anykitty tu
: fill yur pawprints.
:
: An I hopes yu rilly know dat yu didn make eny mistake, da kommunity
: counted on yu tu do it fur uz.
:
: Tess, raising a glass of nipwine to toast Mietze and Melissa



  #102  
Old November 4th 07, 07:46 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.community
Ellie
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I think you've captured it perfectly. It's exactly the way I think of this
community, but I could never say it so eloquently. Thank you for this
lovely post.
Ellie


"Sylvia M" wrote in message
...
Ofcourse the group has *evolved* over the years, possibly as some
of the membership has *changed*, but the understructure ...that seems
to have been there, helping the community to have *understructure* for
lack of a better word has been what helps keep the community together.

Those who come back for the Ball, for Kissamouse, for checking, in the
ways I have been taking for granted, they are like the angels who watch
over us. I'm getting gushy..sigh

Where I seem to be going with this is that we learn from history, from
each
other, that everyone is important to the community in different ways, and
that it's important that some things, the foundation, the walls, the roof
of
a building stay the same as much as possible, while the occupants, paint,
carpets, accessories change. The building thus evolves. We should expect
things to evolve, but change for the sake of change doesn't make sense to
me,
it's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

IMO,
Sylvia


"Me" wrote in message
...
Cory,

It's very interesting to see the statistics for "my" group (this is the
only one I regularly read on Usenet now, there used to be many).

I think part of the impetus for change has been the web - there are so
many more "community" options available now, back in the late 90s Usenet
and a few other mailing lists were the only options. Now there are forums
everywhere, they are easy to set up and easy to maintain.

But this group is special to many of us. My original kitties (Binkley,
Opus and Frieda) are all now at the Bridge, they were the original
posters in the late 90s for me.

When they were sick, or went to the Bridge, this was just about the only
place that I could go for some support and understanding. Nobody
understands how much you miss your kitty, except another lover of cats.

This group will continue to change, and like everything else, we'll
remember the good 'ol days.

But meanwhile, I shall certainly continue to enjoy the adventures, balls,
and relationships in rpcc.

Julie


Cory wrote:

The split happened in very, very early 1997, so I'm guessing that the
Great War took place during the last quarter of '96.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.p...ty/about?hl=en is a
link to an "overview" of RPCC, complete with a tally of posts for each
month from 2/97 to now. There were a LOT of posts until 2001, when
suddenly the number started taking a HUGE nosedive, as you'll notice.
The only time since then that we have numbers like we used to have is
around the time of the Jellicle Ball in late October of every year.

--- Unca Cory






  #103  
Old November 4th 07, 07:46 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.community
Storm and Skye
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In article , elliet1027
@earthlink.net says...
Itz sad dat sumwon wuld du dat, Azad. Most uf uz are furry grateful fur all
Mietze haz dun, an I hope when thuh time comes dat it will be Mietze hoo
calls MY name an I will habba place onna Walk of Remembrance.
Princess Pasha



Sqyooze mineselv fur introodin, Mr. Sebastian...Miz Pasha.
But Mietze dint say she wuz leefin.
Just retiring.
Maykin frets to leef...dat's just lame.
She wuddnt do dat, she'd just go.
Sept she's not.
Evin doh sumkitties got mad wenn she mayd a suggestyun.
Even doh mymom got flaymd in privit mayl.
We'ze not goin.
Not yet ennyway.

Azad
--
Remove the first m to reply


We've been grateful all these years that Mietze has been Calling the
Names and doing the Walk of Remembrance - things that need updating
quite often.

Ann and the boys
  #105  
Old November 4th 07, 07:48 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.community
Storm and Skye
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Well said, Ellie.

Ann


In article , elliet1027
@earthlink.net says...
Amen to this Kathy. New kitties have always been welcomed here, and that
much (AFAIK) has never changed in rpcc. And traditions can be carried on,
even if they change somewhat. The regular group that is here day after day
will be the ones to decide about new traditions and new events, but I'm glad
to hear that so many care about the Jellicle Ball.

I guess a little nostalgia comes over us at Jellicle Ball time. We begin to
think about the fun we had in the past and our loved ones at the RB. I wish
everyone here could read a few of the stories (and real life events) from
the past.

There is a long oral tradition that filters down from the past and keeps the
heritage of this group alive, so its roots are never allowed to whither
away. I gained my knowledge of the split and the original group in the same
way some of you are hearing it now, because I was not here during those
times. Some of the original posters were already gone (some had died,
others had lost contact) when I arrived, but I heard the names and the
stories of all of them. I wish there could be a grandmother kittie or
grandfather kittie who sits down with the youngsters every year and tells
the stories, much like so many cultures have passed down the tales from
their past. If it was ever composed, the job could be handed down when one
storyteller could no longer carry on and was replaced by another. Not just
the split, but some of the early tales too, like Spike and Shu, Finn's
Specialist Nip, the first hoomin Honorary Cat, Shadrach & Jezebel, Thaddy &
Bigman, the Rankincats, Major and Mahler, Shamrock & Thistle, Princess (the
dog who was an Honorary Cat), the Cadbury hunt... well, I'll stop here
because I can't begin to name them all and don't want to leave anyone out
either... so I'll not attempt it. Gosh, I love this group.
Ellie




"squiffer" wrote in message
...
oh, wow, I'm also from the old group preceding rpcc and Unca Cory makes
some
great points. Two of his points though are based on a misunderstanding.
Let me reference those two:
_____________________________________
1. An Rpcc'er wrote:

: I have been so impressed by the quality of writing that happens in our
: events, especially the Jellical Ball and wedwinks...the narratives
have
been
: so meaningful, and I have been remiss in not saying so quite often.
At
this
: Jellical Ball, I even cut-and-pasted much of it, to read from time to

  #106  
Old November 4th 07, 07:52 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.community
Storm and Skye
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Default Mietze! Questionz

We don't want her to retire!

Hunter, Patrick, Storm, and Skye [with Major and Mahler from RB]


In article ,
says...

Do Meitze really want to retire? Maybe Meitze thinks other kitties thinks
she shood retire? Inkwiring kat wants to know.
Burt
:
: Deer Mietze,
:
: I just wants tu fank you an Anti Melissa fur all yur gudgud werk offur
: da yeers. Da Jellicle Ball iz furry important tu ourz kommunity an da
: Calling ov Names iz da most solemnist moment ov da yeer.
:
: Yu hab earned yur retirement an it will be furry hard fur anykitty tu
: fill yur pawprints.
:
: An I hopes yu rilly know dat yu didn make eny mistake, da kommunity
: counted on yu tu do it fur uz.
:
: Tess, raising a glass of nipwine to toast Mietze and Melissa
:
: The mistake I made was not asking after every Ball whether anyone else
: wanted to do it, but instead went right back to collecting names,
: caught in the circle. It's meant a lot to me to perform what I
: believe to be a valuable service to the community, but it was never
: *mine* to keep.
:
: Mietze wasn't going to announce this for a week or two, but this is as
: good a place as any. She has retired as Gatherer and Caller of Names
: effective immediately. The position is officially open.
:
: Melissa



  #108  
Old November 4th 07, 09:41 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.community
Cory[_2_]
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In article ,
says...
Thanks for the history, Cory. When I first started lurking in rpc I
never read the MEOW posts. I've never had the patience for reading
dialect and wasn't about to start. Then one day I clicked on a MEOW
post by mistake. It was "I weared a skirt!" - the adventures of the
inimitable Bobbie Rankin under the Christmas tree -


I remember Bobbie's adventures under the Christmas tree. I don't want
to leave any kitties out, so let me just say that I REALLY miss a lot of
the "Veteran" kitties (the ones who were posting to r.p.c. before the
split) who are no longer here.

I *love* Meowchat. I view it as a type of creative writing, and there's
no right or wrong way to do it. It's free flowing. There are posts in
different threads that say that Meowchat started in '95, and I
personally don't understand how that's possible, because *I*/Onyx
started posting in '95/'96, and it seemed like Meowchat had been around
for a while. Anyway, I WAS VERY HAPPY when I came back to posting on a
regular basis after the split and found that the Meowchatters had their
own group. It's the only group, honestly, in the RPC hierarchy that I
subscribe, read and post to.

I can't understand people who lack enough imagination to be able to
comprehend why Meowchatters have as much fun as we do. I truly don't
get what they're not seeing in this being a fun activity.

and I was hooked.
For a time meowchat would make it's way into everything I wrote.

I think one reason for the split was that some very vocal folks felt
even have to see MEOW in a header was too much of an insult. Another
reason was there was an awful lot if traffic in the old rpc - it split
into three (or four?) groups.

Margaret


Six groups or more, actually. I've got six r.p.c.* groups on my Usenet
feed, but that doesn't mean that there are more that, for whatever
reason, didn't make it into my newsgroup list offered by my news server.

--- (Unca) Cory
 




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