Welcome All

There are no rules. Do as you like.

You know, I expected Hell would be more crowded.

This is just the vestibule. Sort of.

What the hell?

Hot? Chilled? I`m not up on theological expectations of the underworld/otherworld, but going by this-world tradition, there ought to be rakes, dandies and wenches.

I have fit at least two of those categories at one time or another. And I have more than a modicum of acquaintance with the third.

Well, then, We Want You.

Oh--apparently I'm NOT the only member of this group now! Unfortunately, I see no one else--I hope your names will appear eventually, so I can give you a shoutout.

E! Are you really in? As I live and breathe! If I'd known all it would take is an insect with a lighted bum, I'd have hung out that firefly long ago! :)

I'm still seeing only one member listed. I joined exactly 1/2 hour after the first post above.

Is Existanai really in the group? He's added some really interesting books over the last couple of days. It would be great to hear from him regularly again.

Anyway, I've been looking for a group for my own "reading thread". This might be the place, if I can overcome my intertia.

Am I evil enough, I wonder? I think I was just called childish...

Now, where is my copy of No Exit by Sartre...

I just joined and I can only see one member too. Must try harder.

TC, you ought to count as at least nine members...

#9

Maki, I am monkey- and donkey-brite for your reading thread. Stake out any acreage you want. E's in, if his profile don't lie.

#10

Clam, what a question! Is there anything more evil than a bad clam?! Except an oyster, maybe... :)

#11

Soniaandree, sois la bienvenue! The way you incline your head in that lovely pic gives me an idea that you can deal with gentle wickedness--and deal it too. Although we'd take you on the basis of that smile alone.

#12

And the cat makes five, or maybe nine! A familiar, a Holy Ghost! Purrrr to you, Murr.

I joined, but I don't really exist.

Well, you exist in theory.

#15

The idealists think you still count, Theory, and I agree!

16> Smart ass!

But I do sign off on some letters "yours in theory".

"Yours in theory"= "Yours when hell freezes over"; "Yours, you April fool, you", "Yours, with very low probability"; "Yours, when pigs fly and oceans turn liquid caramel" etc.

Different interpretations, yet one meaning--see, the theory isn't necessarily twisty.

Can we have a ball? Being in hell and all, it seems appropriate.

C-girl, you can have anything you like. Welcome!

Were you reading Bulgakov recently, M & M? Did you like Woland's ball?

As a matter of fact, I was. And, yes, I greatly enjoyed reading about the ball. But I think for our> ball, the boys should be the naked ones and we can wear elegant dresses and stunning ill-gotten jewels.

I've joined. Must I now flag this group as a rite of passage?

I think I am not hellraising enough to be in this group, but I will lurk if that does not break any rules. (Feel free to flag this post if it offends you all.)

I second Citygirl's proposal.

I've just joined and I better be the 13th member :)

>22 citygirl:
Count me in (as long as the heating is turned on, not just the ladies).

Hi, everybody, sorry I'm late.

(Did you start without me?)

Aha! So this is where all the interesting people troublemakers hang out. Glad to find this corner of LT.

Welcome, Bob! Of course you're not late. Once you get to Hhhhh.....ere, petty stuff such as lateness, mere wrongness etc. simply don't apply. You've clearly done something immeasurably worse.

Thea--As You Like It! Remember, every time you flag a post, a bunny goes to heaven, according to my spies. (I do not guarantee the accuracy of their reports. In fact, I refuse to guarantee ANYTHING.)

Anna, lurkers are super welcome. I thought I'd be alone on my rock in the ocean of Shame; now I find I might have to worry about entertainment. What happens when these people find out this is just another group about nothing?

#26

Hi, debavp! Hi, MyopicBookworm! Welcome!

Please do whatever you like. Turn up the heat, jump in the freezer, start a conversation or twelve, curl up in a corner and glare at passers-by--this place is anti-structure, anti-gravity, anti-programme, anti-progress, anti-war, anti-ants--no, wait, FOR ants, especially fire-ants; but, basically, the word of the day is...

ANARCHY

What a beautiful word. I think it deserves a thread of its own.

Marietherese!!! Marschallin!!!

Black roses! Black laces! Black sun! Black cake! Black pearls and wine!

That's how happy seeing you makes me be! :)

Oh--I see the member list now! Welcome, readafew, Mr. Durick, and the naughtiest of hotties!

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Thank you for the warm welcome! I am sure I can participate and raise hell as much as the next person, but I'll do it nicely.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Sacrilicious

You'll never know I'm lurking.

Aw, fudge.

};)

I have an instinctive and intense dislike of cops and sports officiators. But hell would be full of them. Is this the right place for me?

That's boring and unlikeable people's hell, not this place.

My vision of Hell is full of evangelists, which is their view of Heaven. Picking the right door isn't as easy as it may seem.

Yes, I don't think this here's THE Hell. I think we're all still in training. Auditioning. Getting skooled. Apprenticing.

Welcome all, members, lurkers, hapless random encounterists, Inkdrinker, Dayna, Rick.

I just noticed the tags for the group.

snort. howl.

Pgmcc, AtomicMutant, urania1, mallinje: whether you clicked "join" by intent or mistake, you're WELCOME.

Mi jellfire es su jellfire. Burn at ease.

Is the naughty hottie around?

#43

Hi, Lola,

I clicked "join" very much deliberately.

Thought I should bring along a club house from the Irish contingent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier_Hill

pgmcc, I love it, I love it, I love it!! Quote mine! (And did you visit?)

Accounts of the club's meetings claim that members drank “scaltheen”, a mixture of whiskey and hot butter, and that they left a chair vacant at each gathering for the Devil. The club's mascot was a black cat.

Luttrell is believed to have been the subject of The Diaboliad, a 1777 poem dedicated to “the worst man in England”

That's some serious bad!

We don't mess about here!

#45 - Very nice.

Edited to add: Good to see you here.

#48 Good to see you here.

Likewise!

We can all burn together!

Bwahahaha...!

Welcome varielle, xenonman, tros, jump into the nearest pit, make yourselves uncomfortable!

Welcome, Matt! Did your Enfer show you the way? Inevitable, it was. ;)

Obviously. I'm not the messiah, I'm a very naughty boy. Maybe I should change my name to Brian ;-)

Ooooh, I have flashbacks of the Monty Pythons... Brian's mother was anything but motherly. What a hag.

A Sour Lady, so to speak.

I'm suddenly hungry for Juniper berries!

Welcome, benwaugh, the abbot of the Abyss! You strangely complete us.

That there is now ONE group on this site with all my favorite people as members inspires in me a sort of vertigo.

If I wasn't afraid you'd burst into flames, I'd say "bless you, Lola!"

CINDERRRRRRRR!!1!

I have a pagan on-line friend.

On one occasion when she was having a rough time I said, "I'll pray for you!"

Her response was, "I'll dance naked in the forest for you!"

I thought that was very nice of her!

LOL!

Now that kind of prayer meeting I would miss my tea for!

Ben is here? I'm breaking out the Sonics and busting out the absinthe and we are going to have a party, people!

woooohoooo!

63: Poor Gerry Rosalie... he can't get that shriek out these days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVTGS3rkKXk

For once there are comments I'd thumb! A-maaaayzing proportion of utterly gorgeous girls at the concert. Good on you, Norway!

Hey, I just kinda stumbled around and followed Thea-E over here. Cool place!

@ 65 "Poor Gerry Rosalie... he can't get that shriek out these days"

Awww...:-( I think he needs to imbibe more "straight strychnine"! http://youtu.be/f7Nffq0bOgE

Welcome, bfrisch and Sandydog! What, it's cool in here, you say? Shame, shame... **tossing a few more novice nuns on the pyre**

Welcome, seraphine14 and dcozy! Good to see all the shakin' and quakin' in Japan didn't ruin you for a hellish rumble, David. :)

Great group Lola!

Re: Message 1

All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good: they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it, and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing ; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule, and strictest tie of their order, there was but this one clause to be observed,

DO WHAT THOU WILT.

Because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.

- Rabelais (from Gargantua)

Greetings and salutations to all.

Welcome, DavidX! I missed seeing you around! Great sinners make great groups! Heat & light central! ;)

woooohoooo great to see you here david!

Thanks, Lola. I feel a bit like the prodigal.

Glad to be back amongst the living. I've missed everyone.

Hi Murr, I heard tell you were in an accident awhile back. I'm glad you're okay.

This group is so cool. So many supervillians gathered in one place. It's like the Legion of Doom.

We must unite to destroy humanity.

Humanity's doing a pretty good job on its own, David.

But add my voice to the chorus of welcome!

(By the way, I hadn't realized until a couple of nights ago that you shared a blog with urania. Nice!)

Welcome, Gary52, veilofisis (kisskiss!), EnriqueFreeque, NocturnalGhostWolf, to where the select and rare get well-done!

Welcome, karenmarie, and all of your cats!

Thank you, Lola!

A welcome thread in Hellfire made me think of this lovely postcard (from) below ...

"Wish you were here", eh?

Welcome, mercure, to where the beds are thorny and ALL bedfellows strange! And worse.

Actually, falling asleep probably isn't high on the programme... Constant wakefulness--now that's my idea of eternal torment.

Welcome, modalursine, the Bear who doesn't fear sparks or eschew heat!

Welcome, Ogaga4Luv and PimPhilipse! Remember to have it As You Like It. :)

Excuse my late entrance to the Nether Regions. But as Rowan Atkinson says when impersonating the Prince of Darkness:

"Now, you're all here for eternity, which I hardly need tell you is a sod of a long time, so you get to know everyone pretty well by the end..."

http://youtu.be/91DSNL1BEeY

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~afarrell/things/Hell.html

Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate.

Hi Pim, I'm pleased to be eternally damned in such good company.

Oh that was funny, Pim. I'd say we're running short on Methodists, though--for the present.

And Welcome, Myriades! We're hellish, but not hectic. Grab any chaise longue you like.

Welcome, Cryiron! Welcome, CabinetOfCuriosities! (CoC to friends?) I think I have a book of that title somewhere in this hella mess...

Greetings, bienvenue to the lost souls who joined since, hm, June 23, 2011! Now you are lost indeed. :)