UNCHAINED MELODY

Everyone is sharing favorite music in the Pukes room tonight and someone mentioned Unchained Melody.

That brought on a rush of special memories for me because in my teens I lived in Newport Beach for two years and the Rendezvous Ballroom on Balboa Blvd. was walking distance from our apartment. The Rendezvous was a famous dance hall in earlier decades, and in the 60’s it was a hugely popular teen club. Dick Dale and the Del Tones were the birth of surf music and headlined at the Ballroom, and the Righteous Brothers, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and Duane Eddy were regulars there. We hung out at the Rendezvous every Friday and Saturday night, dancing and having a blast with our friends. There was an upper level balcony on three sides of the dance hall with cozy tables and candlelight.

Dick Dale and the Del Tones and the Beach Boys did surf tunes and the Righteous Brothers did their awesome love songs. I remember the hilarious routine the Righteous Brothers fumbled through, changing outfits for every song and sometimes doing it right there on stage in Keystone Cops confusion, shoes, socks and jackets flying everywhere.

And, of course, one of the songs the Righteous Brothers crooned was Unchained Melody, and it always cast a dreamy spell on the entire ballroom. I can still remember swaying to Unchained Melodies with Richard Voight, my tanned and blonde surfer god.

So, here’s Unchained Melody from my generation, and also an earlier version from the 50’s, done by The Platters, one of my all-time faves. Enjoy!

Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers

Unchained Melody – The Platters

An early history of the Rendezvous Ballroom  LINK

THAT ANNOYING POPUP

TJ, the Original Gnome of the Pukes room, has little to say most times, but he has an annoying habit of popping up unexpectedly to drop a snide remark or make an arrogant comment. Tink or OC was wondering if there was a popup blocker for popup A-holes. Wouldn’t that be great? Maybe someone could borrow the other Teddy’s hammer…

That same gnome was referred to recently as a pot puffer. Someone then said, it’s dangerous to smoke while sitting on the pot because of the potential for flammable gases. Be careful, Ted, you might singe that beard or char that lil weenie!

PUKES LOSERS

IN THE SPOTLIGHT…

MEET kimogino, one of the latest sick clones created by some demented, sorry excuse of a human being who derives joy and pleasure from another person’s suffering and pain.

With a few exceptions, it’s usually next to impossible to narrow a clone down to a specific person just from the clone name they picked or the way they chat, because the more experienced cloners are getting really good at imitating the chat styles of other Pukers. However, there are some specifics about this clone that might narrow the choices down to just a few people.



The person who created kimogino

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  Has extreme hatred for Dances OR
  
  


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  Really, really wants to impress Judie with a show of loyalty and thinks this is the way to do it
  
  


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  Has severe mental, emotional and social problems
  
  


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  Uses extremes that normal people consider off limits to attack and humiliate others, such as illness, personal tragedy, physical handicaps and death of a loved one
  
  

There are just a handful of people in the Pukes room who fit this profile, and most of us know who they are. You can bet that kimogino is one of them.

HERE WE GO AGAIN

Bella is on another attack, telling people I am tracking them to their front door, so, ONCE AGAIN I am going to post about IP addresses and what can be learned from them. Bella knows that the only way to get your personal info is to buy a membership with an online people search, like she has done. Unlike bella and friends, I have no interest in where you live, what your real name is or how much money you make. This blog deals exclusively with the fantastic fantasy world of Pogo Online.

Here’s on article about IP addresses, from Bob Rankin

Does IP Address Reveal my Physical Location?
Category: Privacy , Security

Are You Invisible Online?

It's true that your IP address is no secret. It's a basic part of internet communication protocols to send your IP address whenever you connect to another site, request a web page, chat, play an online game, etc. Without your IP address, the computer on the other end wouldn't know where to send the reply.

But that doesn't mean that Evildoers can find your house if they know your IP address. Each time you go online (if you have dialup) or each time you start your computer (if you have cable or dsl) you will be assigned an IP address, randomly selected from a pool of IP's assigned to your Internet service provider (ISP).

WHOIS Your ISP

So a person MIGHT be able to get a general idea of your geographic location, based on your IP address, by doing a lookup on the WHOIS database, but that will only tell them the physical location of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) -- not YOUR home address.

And if you use a large regional or nationwide ISP, the IP lookup probably reveals nothing of interest. For example, if you are an AOL subscriber, your IP address lookup will show the location as Dulles, Virginia -- regardless of where you live.

When The Law Comes A Knockin'

Of course there is an exception to every rule. If Joe or Jane User calls your ISP and wants to know who was using a certain IP address last Tuesday, the ISP will tell them to go away. But if an officer of the law hands your ISP a court order to reveal that information, they must do so. Your ISP's logs will enable them to determine which customer was using a certain IP address on a certain date & time, and they must reveal that information if a court has found probable cause that a crime was committed by that person.

But for the truly paranoid (or the criminally inclined) there are ways to surf the web anonymously. The Anonymizer service will act as a proxy between you and your ISP, and they claim that your information cannot be subpoenaed because they do not store it.

What About Email Addresses?

The same concepts apply to your email address. The part that follows the "@" sign is your ISP's domain name. And given the domain name, one can determine the ISP's physical location, but nothing personally identifying about the email user without a court order.

Web-based email accounts are not truly anonymous, either. Even if you don't provide your real name when signing up, they can capture your IP address and track you through your ISP if necessary.

Other Considerations

It's much more likely that you or your children will reveal your physical location the old fashioned way -- by just blurting it out. Kids who chat or play online games should be reminded often that they should never reveal any personal information, including their last name, phone number or home address.

LIAR!!

Yes Pissy Pristy, I mean you! Pissy keeps blaming me for all the nasty clones in the Pukes room (behind my back, of course) when she knows damn well it isn’t me. And of course, as soon as I call her on it, Pissy Pristy runs and hides. Actually, she runs and gets Snake or Worm on the phone.

It’s no big deal to accuse someone of making clones, but it’s about as low as it gets to deliberately frame someone else as a cover for the sleazy tactics of your friends. I can imagine Pissy Pristy applies this code of ethics in her real life as well. The kind of person that stuffs merchandise in her pockets when a storm knocks the lights out in Walmart or keeps the money when she finds a wallet, with no sense of guilt or shame.

THE ORIGINAL TRI-PUKES GNOME

Hi, I’m Tee Jay, the original Gnome of Tri-Pukes, and it’s about dam time I got credit for it! That woosie, girly-man imitation of me, Teddy, don’t even come close! I be the gnarly gnome with the macho, the brains, the wit, the charisma, the dazzling personality, the sheer animal magnetism. That insignificant, no-talent sorry excuse of a replicant pales in the shadow of my irresistible magnificence! Hell, ya all  do, let’s face it!

Who gaf that I don’t got a job? So what if I sit around on my lazy arse all day hangin' out in the Pukes room? Hey, I have a responsibility to the league of worshipful fans in the Pukes room, who live for my presence and hang on my every word. Ah, the endless fount of precious gems of intellect and comedic genius that issue from my gifted mouth! No wonder they adore me!

So just forget about that other joke of a gnome. It’s me you want…and you know it!

HERE WE GOOOO, PART 2

Two days after the Snaketongue and Wormtongue post, all sorts of nasty clones have popped up, all at once. Whatta coincidence, ey? Didn’t I tell ya?

There’s at least three Flake clones: LebzoFlake, BeaverEatinFlake and LoonyLezbo. Gee I wonder who made those, lol! Then there’s the red herring clones they make to throw you off by bashing one of their own: JimboBoinksBella, CrankSnortinBella, BoozerJimbo, etc. Then, of course a Snaketongue fave, a Fein clone: FeinFelon.

Hey, that’s just fine and dandy, nasty clones are part and parcel of the Pukes room, but this morning, when I wasn’t in the room, Pristy was loudly proclaiming that all these clones were me, with plenty of backup from her groveling sidekick, gearhead. Someone gave me a heads-up about it, so I went into the room to check it out. Sure enough, the pristy one was ranting away, lying out her backstabbing azz, echoed loyally by gearhead.

Now, Pristy knows dam well it’s her buddies behind those clones, and to try to set me up as the villain shows you what a lowlife street rat she is, she has picked her friends well. I have no respect for that kind of sleazy tactic. I’m sure she was in a little meeting with the ‘tongues and they set it up together.

And gear? What a wishy-washy, wafflin joke! When I had no backup that broad pounded me relentlessly about the clones, blah blah blah, on and on. Then, when some “VIP” regulars showed up, gear did an incredible, ass-kissing, rubber-burning 180 on who she thought the clones were so’s she would be in sync with them, and hopefully get thrown some crumbs. I have no respect for shameless brown-nosing, either. It seems that gear’s opinions, convictions and responses depend on who’s watching.