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The zombie dead horse beats on: the latest update from RWOL (Read 881 times)

happylily


    I think I hear the phone ringing... Maybe it's Pluck calling? I'm so excited!!!!

     

    Big grin

    PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013

            Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013     

    aponi


    never runs the tangents

      I figure that they have until New Years to get their mess together. If all the new runners that are born each Jan 1st have the same issues then they'll wander off. If they get everything fixed then some of them will stick around. They'll probably be a new wave of runners again when spring comes and the weather gets nice. Eventually the place will be off and humming but I really don't think I'm going to bother going back.

       

      It's just too slow. Most of what I do online is when I'm at work. I take a break, screw around online for a few minutes and then go back to doing what I do. If it takes too long to open a post then I lost interest and/or run out of srew off time.

       

      Hey in the immortal words of George W Bush, "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

      Sometimes I forget I'm still awake
      I fuck up and say these things out loud


      Bad Ass

        RWOL is not slow for me, but I'll bet you they will get a gazillion spam threads during the holidays.

        Damaris
        Marathon Maniac, Ultra Runner

        PRs: 24:57 (5K); 51:25 (10K); 42:46 (5 Miles); 2:04:31 (HM); 4:34:09 (Marathon); 8:00 (Trail 50K)

         

        Damaris Runs with Asthma

        MrNamtor


          Pluck probably sounds exactly like HAL in 2001 when it calls back. "Sorry Dave, I can't do that Dave"...

          ilanarama


          yeah, that's me.

            Ouch, I have been caught by the auto-subscribe.  What a freakin' PITA.

            PRs: 5K 21:03 (4/2012) 10K 43:06 (12/2011) 13.1 1:37:01 (3/2010) 26.2 3:29:13 (1/2012)

            mucknort


              Pluck probably sounds exactly like HAL in 2001 when it calls back. "Sorry Dave, I can't do that Dave"...

               I was thinking the same thing!

              (I'm sorry, Kevin. I'm afraid I can't do that.)

               

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEu4Iq5KL-Q

              Jamezilla


                If you google runners world, the caption under the Forum's link is "please wait while we process your request" ...no joke

                Are you doing this for world peace? For the homeless? Are you running for women's rights? The environment?

                They couldn't believe somebody would do all that running for no reason.


                Eye of Sauron

                  ilana, no foolin.  Believe me, I mean it as a PSA when I tell people about this new "we got tired of spam, so we figured we'd spam you" feature.

                   

                  As for pop references, Pluck as Hal is kind of interesting.  But I picture a phone call to Pluck going like that bit from Pink Floyd's The Wall where the operator tries the English number and the dude hangs up on her.  "He keeps hanging up..."  "This is Runners World calling, are we reaching you?"

                   

                  Then again, I picture Kevin as a mischievous badger.

                  And once again Mr. Wizard (aka: Stevie Ray) explains the internet.


                  delicate flower

                    If you google runners world, the caption under the Forum's link is "please wait while we process your request" ...no joke

                     

                    LOL...now that's funny.  Cool


                    Eye of Sauron

                      And once again Mr. Wizard (aka: Stevie Ray) explains the internet.

                      FlippyNoodle


                      Not a dude

                        That's hilarious!

                        crazyrunninglady


                        Warrior Princess

                          Ok that "cool kids" comment kind of pisses me of.  Seriously.  The whole thread was kind of humor wrong but the cool kids comment really annoyed me cause if it weren't for the annual mileage game, I would be gone.

                           

                          Then again, I'm not particularly cool.


                          Bad Ass

                            Ok that "cool kids" comment kind of pisses me of.  Seriously.  The whole thread was kind of humor wrong but the cool kids comment really annoyed me cause if it weren't for the annual mileage game, I would be gone.

                             

                            Then again, I'm not particularly cool.

                             

                            But who would be considered cool.  All of us that post here?  If so, they are so screwed because we (in general) are not going back.

                            Damaris
                            Marathon Maniac, Ultra Runner

                            PRs: 24:57 (5K); 51:25 (10K); 42:46 (5 Miles); 2:04:31 (HM); 4:34:09 (Marathon); 8:00 (Trail 50K)

                             

                            Damaris Runs with Asthma

                            crazyrunninglady


                            Warrior Princess

                              I read it as the cool kids are the ones who stayed.


                              Bad Ass

                                Then he mispoke. Cool kid then. Moth.

                                 

                                I read it as the cool kids are the ones who stayed.

                                Damaris
                                Marathon Maniac, Ultra Runner

                                PRs: 24:57 (5K); 51:25 (10K); 42:46 (5 Miles); 2:04:31 (HM); 4:34:09 (Marathon); 8:00 (Trail 50K)

                                 

                                Damaris Runs with Asthma