Re: Pendragon the folklorist / GJD

[email protected] (Will-Dockery) posted:

> > George J. Dance wrote:
> > 
> >> BiteMeSharpEnt wrote:
> >> 
> >>> HarryLime wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Will-Dockery wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
> >>>>> Pendragon the folklorist
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> One Michael Pendragon, in mockery,
> >>>>> Would lie all the time about Dockery.
> >>>>> When called on each lie
> >>>>> He'd whine and he'd cry:
> >>>>> "That wasn't a lie -- it was folkery!"
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> - gjd26
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> So, to continue the continuity of the "folklore," other characters such as  Nasty Gene, Senile Senetto and "Voodoo Boy" (as told by Zod) should logically follow?
> >>>> 
> >>>> 😏
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Michael Pendragon, NancyGene, and Jim Senetto each have their own page in the folklore.  I have not mentioned any of the above-listed childish names, because none have permanently attached themselves to the persons they were directed at.
> >>> 
> >>> Folklore comprises the stories that continue to be told about someone long after the events described in them occurred -- assuming that they occurred at all.
> >>> 
> >>> "Voodoo Boy" was only used by Stinky G -- fell out of usage entirely after a couple of weeks.
> >>> 
> >>> Compiling a comprehensive list of usernames, aliases, and nicknames for the individual A.A.P.C. members sounds like a worthy project -- but for a history of A.A.P.C., not for a record of its folklore.
> >>> 
> >>> *I'm getting the distinct impression that you don't understand the difference between folklore and history.
> >>> 
> >>> Dumbass.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The "fokelore" is always hilarious right up until somebody starts fact-checking the legends.
> > 
> > 
> > Like Ernest Dowson, HarryLiar's "folklore" is true in its own fashion.
> > 
> > For about 7 years starting in 2017, aapc was infested by a gang of as many a dozen trolls,
> > nicknamed the "Bandar-Log" after /The Jungle Book/ (Disney version), with Harry as their
> > Monkey King. He'd make up stories about other people, and they'd repeat them ad nauseam.
> > Most of them left when google shut down usenet support, but Harry and a couple of
> > others just couldn't let go.
> > 
> > The "folklore" series is a true record of the stories the Bandar-Log used to tell, and the
> > format gives Harry a way of spreading them once again (and, if he's lucky, getting some
> > new trolling in). At least this time he's admitted the stories are not true, and without his
> > Bandar-Log subjects there's little chance of them being believed.
> 
> 
> 
> Well put, GJD. 
> 
> 
> This response appears in the discussion at:
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> 

Folklore is what folks remember long after the historical facts have been forgotten.