yea, Pam, a celery-time speed Bump-er, thingy, sorta.....

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When bumper posts and reposts real fast ... is that a "speed bump"??<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

ROFLMAO!!!!! I LOVE puns!!! That is incredibly funny. I'm not kidding, I'm really laughing v.v. hard...Puns are like bannanas: some people find them very appealing!!! *GONG*
But seriously folks...
Bumper I am sooo sorry I left you hangin' way back when in this thread about me Iroish blood, this is final exam week at my college, and I haven't really had time to keep up with what's goin' on in Blunderland! But thank's fer callin' me luvley and begoylin'. Now if only I could get those RPI boys to say that...<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/naughty.gif" width=15 height=15>

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Good to see ya again shannon, yea, that's the problem, with postin, here, sometimes, what we label as "real life" intrudes, hope you nuke your tests!! keepin a poynt handy for ye, lass..

YUmmy! I found a web-site of my fav brand of sociology.."Ethnomethodology" & no, I didn't make that up...."societal members methods of generating the mechanics of social interaction"
the founder, Harold Garfinkel, was mentor to Carlos Casteneda, at UCLA,
can you hear the relationship, to selective Obliviosity?" heehee this is gonna be fun.....

Bumper, what's the url? I love ethnology. Studied it in a former life.

me too, this is different, though, ceashel, its ETHNOmethodology, how we keep the mechanics of nteractions, together. the unseen "work" we do, to be understood, maintain tacit agreements out of chaos or social void. Garfinkel started by studying how juries "reached" verdicts, then, applying the principles that, beyond general cultural and social norms, we "create" each social interaction with series of tacit, almost unconscious, yet observalbe, study-able behaviors and languages. for instance, I "assumed", by contextually deducing your interest, you wanted this rambling explanation, also, I know others may read this, and am being selectively oblivious as to whether they want to read this, as well.... try a search, under ethnomethodology, or Harold Garfinkel, it's fun......

ceashel, I think we live parallel lives, kinda.........didja find ethnomethodology, yet?

I did, Bumper, and found a lot of good (and some way too elitist and condescending) stuff. Good(?) to know the social sciences haven't changed too much. I found one quote that might be pertinent here: "...what is
interesting about social interaction is not that it is so totally screwed
up, but that it is not even more screwed up than it already is." Amen.

One place I found was a discussion on whether online communities like ours are valid, real communites, 'cause if they are, they're the perfect place to do research without the researcher changing the dynamics as much. I had been thinking that myself, and I know where I'd be doing my research if I had stayed in the field. Also, you wouldn't need so much in the way of grants. So the ever-present Guest may not just be surfin'. Now that I've said that, the dynamics are changed, of course, for everyone who reads it. Sorry, Guest. Anyway, thanks, Bump. It stretches the mind. Probably we should switch to e-mail if we talk about it more, or we'll be shunned or something.

Parallel? Seems that way. As one of my customers says, "The same but different."

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Some of us that practice selective obliviosity can take pleasure in studying the people that study us, but we don't tell them we are doing it....so whom is really studying whom??? Hmmm?

How right you are Larry. And we could call the study of those who study the studiers "ethnoBLUNDERology."

you are right, ceashel, they'll accuse us of skinny dipping in the lagoon of linguistic millieu meanderings and cerebral cyborgastic behavior...or somtin like dat, ya kno, gyaal!

you are right, ceashel, they'll accuse us of skinny dipping in the lagoon of linguistic millieu meanderings and cerebral cyborgastic behavior...or somtin like dat, ya kno, gyaal!
thats the carnival ride of it, Larry!!!! we invent it & study it, Pam named it...ethnoblunderology" perfect!

I'm studying you people ya know! (not really) Somehow, even though I like almost everyone, I don't often care for people who study people.....they tend to have sociopathic sides to them that turns me off. It's ok if I do it though. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

i know whatcha mean larry, though this is studying what people "do" or, more accurately, type, and how they communicate what they do, and don't obliviate....i better stop, I'm studying what I just typed.......makes me want a berry pie! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/yum.gif" width=15 height=15>

Those folks just don't know how to be selectively oblivious,or,at the very least, they are curious about the fact that folks that practice selective obliviosity understand that all people cannot be selectively oblivious about the same things at the same time. For if it were true that they were, time as we know it would cease to exist, and something akin to celery time would take over, and the community blunderite brain cell would no longer need to be passed from blunderite to blunderite, because it would be with all of them at the same time. So, those folks that like to study other folks, just seem to want to learn more about the subtle differences of stuff like this; not that it will get them anywhere. I choose to be oblivious to them, unless of course I care to f*** with thier minds. Ya know what I'm sayin'?