Archivist note: This post is from an older recovered archive.
==Initial Post==
((Posted by Verlia Bilavio on July 5, 2010))
"But those ones we were supposed to save for our first LLL meeting!" Sky exclaimed as I reached for a slice of the raspberry pie.
"I don’t care, I’m eating it. All these open letters are making me lose my unstoppable, unquenchable revolutionary fervor." I slammed the fork down into the pie after I set it on the plate, my face glowing a furious shade of red. Before putting a bit in my mouth, I turned to Sky, sourly. "I hate being so polite, but they are indeed ruining our fun." I shoved the forkful in my mouth.
"I wanted a forum of equals! I wanted bustle burning! I wanted to run in the streets with our delicately designed picket signs and rule the town with our wit and expertise!" I pouted and resigned to eating my pie as Sky nodded along. Gulping down my mouthful, I exclaimed, "Sky! They’re ruining it!"
Sky Netizen nods "Yes, men do like to do that…." She looks at the pie for a moment before continuing, "Perhaps if we just bake them something and then let them have a joint bonfire with us? We burn our bustles, them their kilts?"
"No! I shall never bake! Then they will see it as a sign of weakness, and me as someone who could never start a revolution. Well.." I stopped and let my fork fall to the plate, realizing the situation I had placed myself in, "..if there was one to start."
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==Comments (page 1)==
*Comment by Phineas Frakture on July 5, 2010 at 9:40pm
Revolution? Pie? are you ladies that bored without me around? and what that room needs is a "Men of New Babbage" calendar on the wall.
*Comment by Verlia Bilavio on July 5, 2010 at 10:45pm
Am not! You’re the bored one looking at pictures of an LLL meeting seeing if any of us are showing our knees!
*Comment by Phineas Frakture on July 5, 2010 at 10:51pm
and why aren’t you? I thought you were being liberated
*Comment by MichaelD Mannonen on July 6, 2010 at 12:27pm
Lia…you wanted a forum of equals, I already consider you and the womenof Babbage to be equals (if not superior in skills, witts and talent); you want to burn your bustles? Go ahead, you have the freedom to burn anything you want (except buildings…); you want to carry pickets signs, you are free to do that. You want to rule the town? As far as myself and no less than a few other Men of Babbage are concerned, women already run the town…
So it seems to me, you want to have a revolution, for the sake of having a revolution. Not for the purpose of achieving what it seems you already have.
I am just trying to understand this…
*Comment by Cyan Icewolf (Cyan Rayna) on July 6, 2010 at 1:42pm
It may seem strange but not all women are like the ones we know in Babbage. These women aren’t thinking of themselves but thinking of the many other women who, unlike them, are stuck in unwanted bustles, and suffering from different things. I say more power to these ladies. What started here can someday cross the globe and women will have equal rights everywhere.
*Comment by Verlia Bilavio on July 6, 2010 at 2:02pm
May bustle burning sweep the globe!
*Comment by Bianca Namori on July 6, 2010 at 2:02pm
rubs her forehead and heads back to reading
*Comment by Mr Underby on July 6, 2010 at 2:34pm
Burn… bustles?! But whatever for? They are so silky and restraining… and –
Ah, er. Well, if you wish to, carry on… why proclaim it though? What do you wish to come of it?
*Comment by Sheryl Skytower on July 6, 2010 at 2:40pm
… pie?
……Pie?
………PIE???
waves hands frantically in the air
I’m willing to burn me bustle… *looks at belly* oh, wait… there’s already something burning in there…
but…
…pie
sniffles
*Comment by Mr. Tenk on July 6, 2010 at 3:30pm
wait… is that the attic with that poster in it?
==Comments (page 2)==
*Comment by Verlia Bilavio on July 6, 2010 at 3:33pm
…yes. Want one?
*Comment by Bianca Namori on July 6, 2010 at 3:40pm
My oh my…what’s the matter gents? Would you rather be a RRR "Randy Rockin Rockets" group instead instead of a organized group of bustle-burning, non-bloomer wearing lasses?
*Comment by Kaylee Frye on July 6, 2010 at 3:44pm
But… but what if I never owned any bustles in the first place?
*Comment by Bianca Namori on July 6, 2010 at 3:45pm
Then you truly are a liberated woman.
*Comment by Kaylee Frye on July 6, 2010 at 3:50pm
Well then I guess I don’t need to join the LLL. I’m already done, and have been for years now!
*Comment by Mr Underby on July 6, 2010 at 3:52pm
Aren’t these bustles mostly created by women?
*Comment by Bianca Namori on July 6, 2010 at 4:05pm
Brainwashed creatures that they are. What people will do for a pretty penny…-clinches her fist-
*Comment by Mr Underby on July 6, 2010 at 4:12pm
Its amusing, the way fanatics must view their perceived enemies, so that they may maintain their worldview…
*Comment by Bianca Namori on July 6, 2010 at 4:13pm
Experience Mr. Underby? -smiles sweetly-
==Comments (page 3)==
*Comment by Gabriell Anatra on July 6, 2010 at 5:17pm
Surely it is possible to do both? Corsets and bustles are not appropriate in many situations, true, but while I’ve never had much use for the bustle I do like a good corset on occasion.
bustles off to her errands
*Comment by Sky Netizen on July 6, 2010 at 5:18pm
Clockwinder, the fact that the first time you saw that poster was in my attic is disturbing…they are everywhere! *grins*
*Comment by Tepic Harlequin on July 6, 2010 at 6:23pm
Tepic wonders if there is a potential market for special combustible bustles, for those who don’t have one at the moment, and for those who find their own not as inflammable as expected….of course, the ladies would lose a valuable place for concealment of whatever they might want to conceal…
