Rambling

Congrats to the Colts on their SuperBowl victory, maybe the sportswriters will get off of Peytons back now. I have followed his career since his college days at the Univeristy of Tennessee and im glad he finally won a big 1.
Enough on that.... Earlier in the week i wrote a note to "The Spicy One" asking her if she maybe wanted to rejoin Interleague and get in a few pards matches. She declined , stating that she was glad to be away from that mess and after seeing another weekend that was supposed to be hosted by United yet had no United tds hosting tourneys with Shadow and Mumm once again taking the load i cant help but agree with her. She (Holly) is the brains of the partnership anyway. Once again that piece of trash Amplify the league killer gets his way, when are people going to wise up to this guy and see that he is poison?
Enough about that asswipe, see ya all at the tables whenever i can get away from work :-)

Reading list and more

I havent been playing much lately, been enjoying the time away. Someone gave me a John Grisham novel a few weeks ago, i didnt think i would get into it but i was pleasantly surprised and i went on and read The Rainmaker, The Firm, The Summons, A Painted House , The Client and i am currently reading The King of Torts. I also read the first 2 books in the Dean Koontz Frankenstein Trilogy , I am not big on horror having been burnt out on the vampire stuff Anne Rice put out but they were good. Also read the Geodyssey trilogy by Piers Anthony, one of my favorite writers , it was his fictionalized takes on the origins of man, pretty good reading. Also read a couple of books by Alan Dean Foster in the Pip and Flinx series, he is always a favorite.
Watched a few movies, Accepted , college movie, wasnt that good. My Super Ex Girlfriend was fairly funny and the Adam Sandler movie Click was watchable, not great but not bad.
While i am away i still keep an eye on the scene who joins where, tourney wins etc.... kudos to Oxfest on attracting some top players, and i saw that old Ampy joined them too, he should be a great contribution to the family fun!!
Thats it for now , i miss seeing some of you, im sure quite a few do not miss seeing or hearing from me :-) GL and cya eventually.

Crybabies strike again

It seems that someone in Interleague has taken offense at the mention of member league tourneys that happen after Interleague is over for the night. Things like petty jealousy and bullshit like blackballing players was just the beginning and now the whiners go after the tds and leagues too. What a shame. Why dont you people concentrate on refining your game instead of attacking people for harmless advertising?

Crybabies

I used to be proud to be a member of every wordox league . Then one day i got to talking to Richard/aka Wordman and told him i thouht about starting a site where i could speak my mind about ox and other ox players could respond. I forgot about that idea for awhile then after another conversation with Richard concerning WordoxUnited letting Amplify join he reminded me of our prior talk. I had been hearing about blogs and decided to start one of my own as relates to my life , my thoughts on the wordox game and community and whatever else i decided to put on here.
As i started writing my enchantment with leagues quickly faded for the most part and i figured out why... Crybabies, You know, the people who run to administrators every time they lose a game or if someone plays a weird word or someone (heaven forbid)makes an off color comment. Include the gutless ones in that as well. The ones who boot people from their leagues because they win. Tittybabies and pussies.
Putting your thoughts into writing is about the only way to raise hell in the online world, im gonna do so as long as i feel like it , also no matter what league i belong to (if any) i remain first and foremost a hellraiser and i have my eye on the ox world , im not afraid to say what i want and if ya dont like it bite me.

Ricky

Ricky withdrew from synergy exox and interleague. Why you ask? He got into a dispute with minifrump over reprting matches, she wanted to take it to the admin of the league in question, so he withdrew instead. Dude..... why the fuck is there always a problem with you reporting matches? This has gone on for years dating back to when you first joined wordplay. If you lose you report and then play the next game, its that freakin simple. Your opponent doesnt mind waiting for the report. Entering a tourney and leaving after 1 round is 1 thing, you have that right even tho its weird but the report thing i fail to understand. You know better. Whether she didnt report a match is beside the point, if you lost you report immediately, no ifs ands or buts. Your getting pissed off and withdrawing will likely please some people but you could have saved yourself a hell of a lot of bullshit and trouble over the years by playing by the rules. Shame on ya.

A few resolutions

For 2007 i resolve to spend more time with my kid, take her new places, teach her more about the world and give her new experiences. I resolve also to have more fun and care less what people think about it . I will cut back even more on the drugs and alcohol. Right now i usually get toasted once a week. Maybe once a month will be better for me. For my online friends i promise to try and be more light-hearted and less spiteful about the people who are buttholes or who are otherwise "better people" than me or my pals. That should be plenty to work on for this year.
Cya at the tables

What makes a cheater?

We all know that words programs etc are illegal . Some people consider others to be cheaters if they have word lists , a scrabble dictionary , a regular webster or even post it notes by their pc. Heres the chance to throw out an opinion for the world.

One last point

After this post i am finished (i hope) writing about the Shadow/Exox situation. Lets hope this is clear for everyone. Whether Shadow cheats or not the admins of exox were well within their rights to boot him. It didnt need to make sense, they didnt owe anyone an explanation now or ever for one simple reason. Exox is a MYleague , My being the key word. The Admins own it lock stock and barrel. If the admins want to tell the tds to jump like freakin kangaroos they can. If they want to boot every other player they can. If the admins at Synergy came along and said we dont like that arrogant bastard Perrin , lets boot him they can. Why you ask? Like i said because they own the league . Its not a democracy , its a dictatorship (sometimes its a benevolent dictatorship but still a one person rule ... the HA) . One person in most cases controls the kill button for the league and they can do whatever they want. Its not a Cases Ladder with safeguards . The admins control everything , and the players decide to play in that league or another , its that simple. Right , wrong whatever they have every right to do as they please when they please how they please and if you the player takes issue with that you have 3 choices. Grin and bear it, find another league , or quit the game completely. I hope that clears the situation up for everyone involved.

ReButtal

Holy Ladderbucks Batman, an admin lowered himself long enough to address the rabble. Let me be the first , maybe the only to toss out a rebuttal. To see that comment from the admin go to the letter from shadowy comments section. I won my first 55 or so games in exox and i won every tourney i played there 10-12 i think plus a number of tourneys in other leagues all at the same time before i lost a game. I did it and i know other players that can do it too. And yes Ron , my arrogant ass doesnt play at extreme because i chose not to and apparently my reasoning was correct. I didnt make that decision because of the competition either i made it because of the stupid ass rules the current administration implemented concerning players and tds. Yes exox has some good players with players from every league competing there. So if my comment in another post about synergy being tops pissed you off just suck it up... you are a big boy now supposedly. Synergy was top level when i created exox and with the demise of wordplay it remains the top.

Redfan sightings

I saw redfan in soc 2 ..... wait there he is in wordsteal, no he was in wordoxunited or was it oxfest? Nope that was just a Shadow. Congratulations Junior!! You are now a member of the "Oh Shit! is that Redfan?" Club International. Perks include (with paid dues) a monthly supply of batteries for your gen, permission to be a smartass anywhere you want and a get out of the penalty box free card. All set? noooooooo you arent. Benefits also include a few extra superpowers. You can join other leagues with a different name and be confused with redfan. You can also be called a cheater either behind your back or to your face, you will know the behind your back accusations when p.m's are dropped by mistake. You also get to tell the whole ox world to F-off anytime you want!! Welcome to the Elite!!

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Please everyone that reads the post below this 1 leave a comment. I would like to know how everyone feels about shadows letter and you dont need to leave a name, i will accept anonymous comments.

A letter from Shadowy

I arrived home tonight and had this in my email along with a note asking me to publish it here.
I will write a post on my thoughts on the matter later this weekend.


Hello, oxers! This is Shadowy_Niddyz here, recent evictee of the eXtreme ladder. What a surprise it was to dash into my room on Friday night (December 29, to be exact) to register for Ayla's no pinks tourney only to find that I wasn't a member! I contacted Ayla through yahoo and she informed me that she had received complaints about the fact that I had won ten tourneys in a row and had a very large streak (34, I think she said) going. Majority ruled, so to keep the peace, eXtreme kicked me off the ladder.
There's the story, in case you haven't heard it, and I'm going to come out and say that I don't blame eXtreme or any of its members in the slightest! Honestly, putting myself in your shoes...I'm not sure if I would even believe myself. Some kid shows up, wins a ton of games, plays words he doesn't even know the definitions for...it certainly looks suspicious! It's natural and normal to think that the kid is cheating.
Heck, when Josh (sorry to drag you into this) first showed up, I suspected a generator. Some days when he kicks my sorry rear in ladders, I wonder how he knows those words. The thing that lets me know he's not a cheater is that Josh is ready and willing to give new words a shot. Sometimes it works---oftentimes it doesn't, and players capitalize on that to beat him. Even when no mistakes like that are made, Josh still gets beaten, and so I made my own judgment that he's not a cheater. He could've learned those words by watching his mother play, or by memorizing a dictionary! : p Whatever it is, I made that decision for myself.
All of you out there, I'm sure, have your opinions on Josh. You also have them on me. I understand that; we all make decisions based on what we know. Therefore, I want to give you a little more information.
I've been playing wordox since---I think---the seventh grade. I met a woman in social one one day---mitlarheel or miltarheel or something like that, it's been ages---who referred me to league play. Curious, I went to Pairs as she suggested and checked it out. At the time, TileMistress was running the Wordoxtournies league. I joined, and promptly got kicked in the face repeatedly. I remember that I was 3-27 after a week or so with a massive losing streak, but I was proud of those wins. Those of you who were around then are familiar with my history there. That's right, I'm talking to Holly...JoanieAt...Perrin (as TheTerminator, I believe, who I beat once and was darned proud of it, too!)...Mummy...Pam...Ceedie...Rick...Nanc...the list goes on and on. I remember playing you, losing to you, and striving to get better while having fun all the while. After a while, Tile approached me and asked me to become a TD. I was thirteen at the time, but I accepted, and went on to host tournaments and play as often as I could, soon becoming a Head TD. It was a lot of fun to host, as well as to play---to keep learning and having fun while doing it. Anyone remember Millie? Always used to play on table fifty...she taught me a lot of lessons (including the word MOUSER, wherein I learned what the orange dots were for). How about Peachblossom? HartDucha (and her many aliases) was a particularly difficult opponent of the time, too. I learned something from everyone I played and eventually improved on my game.
Without going into too much of WT's past (it's a little ugly), Tile gave the league to AvonLisa after some things happened within the league. WT became OxFest at that point---I think May of 2004, forgive me if I'm wrong. After a couple of months off, I felt the urge to direct again, so I became a TD at OxFest. I was promoted to HTD after a bit. Things were hunky-dory (sorta) for a time, but then, after a good battle, Avon's husband died of cancer. She and her co-admin PeanuttiestOne left the league, and so Rica and Wordthief stepped up to head it. As of late, I've become the third member of the admin team, and I couldn't be happier at the Fest. Sure, we don't get too many tournaments to run, but we try. We have fun. C'est la vie, non?
There's my past, in a nutshell. There's more, though, so if you're still reading, take a break and get some cookies or something, please. :-)
Looking around at the members of eXtreme, I see plenty of faces that weren't here when I started. I never did branch out from Oxfest until interleague came around. When it did (first as a general meeting place with no stats, then as a league itself when experts became open), I soon joined. It felt like my days at WT---I was getting whipped, but this time I held my ground a little better. Queenie, Bigwurm, Wordman, Dorcas, Cleo, Perrin, Ivy, Blu, and so many others have beaten me in Experts and still continue to do so. Yes, I won tourneys there when I first started, but I remembered how to get blown out of the water once more.
Finally, when I heard that Melisca was hosting partners tournaments on Sundays in eXtreme, I got off my keester and joined. Partners, out of all the quirky games I play, is my absolute favorite. I'll team with anyone and do my best; it's fun! Give it a try if you haven't. Anyways, I joined eXtreme, got my butt handed to me in partners (courtesy, I believe, of WitchWord), and played every now and then.
Since I've been on vacation lately I decided to spend my nights in Social Room 2, playing eXtreme tournaments. Of late, I managed to win quite a few (some by the luck of the tiles) games there and became the number one rank on Wednesday (I think) for the first time ever there.
Then came Friday, and we're back to the present.
So...there's that extremely long summary and my wordox life story. Those of you who have the stamina to keep reading may be wondering why I've asked Perrin to post this, and here's why: I don't cheat. I've been around for a long time, as I've just long-windedly explained. I take my chances with words (ever seen my ATTENTION ALL comments in the lobby? Yeah, those are words that I thought worked, and I played them...only to find that they don't) and sometimes it works. I stack and pray sometimes that vowels are lacking. Yeah, I know a lot of weird words. It's because I've been playing for six years. That tends to happen. Someone who immigrates (or emigrates, whatever it is) to another country eventually learns the language by hearing it over and over again. It takes a while, but they grasp it.
To those of you that petitioned for my removal, I want to say that I understand your stance completely. It certainly looks suspicious that someone as young as I am is as good as I am at this game. You didn't know my past, most of you, and I understand that because of that you were inclined to believe that I cheat. I don't agree with that statement, obviously...but I understand why you believed that.
I've laid out my story here for you to read. Believe or don't, that's your choice...heck, that's why God gave us free will! I place no blame anywhere. In fact, if it helps, I forgive you. I know that sounds a bit self-righteous---heck, this whole thing probably sounds self-righteous---but I am still a child. In my naivete, I want to be everybody's friend, but I guess that it's time that I face facts and realize that not everyone is going to like me. I've tried my best, but if you don't like me...hey, you don't like me! That's all right. It hurts, but it's all right. I will live.
To the administrative team of eXox, I thank you for doing what's best for your league. If my presence there caused so much tumult, perhaps it's best if I don't play there any longer. I'll do whatever it takes to keep the peace. I would've appreciated being asked to step down (which I would have done) instead of being ejected, but the end result is the same and that's what ultimately matters.
In fact, if the wordox community doesn't want me to play at interleague anymore either---or oxfest---feel free to ask the admin teams of those two leagues (I would, naturally, not be a part of the deciding team in oxfest in this matter) to have me step down and play no longer. I will very gladly host tournaments for all of you. It's something I enjoy, and if I can't ox, then I'd at least like to help out where I can.
I guess that's all I really have to say. I just wanted to get this all out into the air, and I thank Perrin for allowing me the means to do so. Feel free to e-mail me (sshrew777@hotmail.com) or leave a comment here regarding this matter (I hope that is okay, Perrin, I don't mean to infringe). I'll gladly answer anything anyone has to say. If you have evidence that I cheat, then by all means please present it to me...I'd like to see it! Just please, please...show a little class and keep it out of the wordox rooms. If you want to have words with me and don't want to do it here, then arrange it in private. It is what is best.
Thanks so very much for the wonderful games, and "good luck" to you all.
--Shadow

Best and Worse of 06 part 1 The Big Ball Awards

Its hard to believe that 2006 is almost over, where the hell are our flying cars???? The freaking government is keeping that under wraps , we all know they are.
Anyway, on to the start of my own personal year end awards,The Big Ball Awards or the Jeffy awards if you will. And the nominees are........ wait, im choosing my own winners (or losers), nobody gets to vote.
O.K. here we go , the Big Ball Awards have begun!!

Best Player 2006 - Wordman - He is in your face every game, if you dont learn something new every time you play him something is wrong. He is the odds on favorite in almost any tourney he enters.

Best League 2006- Synergy - Far and above the best league out there. The level of competition at Synergy blows every other league out of the water. Truly the best players in the world are to be found at Synergy and if you dont believe me head over there and get your ass kicked!!

Best T.D. 2006- All of them... like Mummy says , i would rather watch paint dry than host tourneys and i appreciate all the tds .

Best Team 2006- I will have give this 1 to team DoJo . They beat almost every team that gets in their way . Truly a great team that even gives Team Pepperrin (all time greatest team ever in the world ;-) ) a run for their money every time they play.

Moving right along........
Best tourney idea 2006- Pundette -I have won my wife all kinds of trinkets thanks to the handmade prizes Pun puts up. Great job Pun!

Worst tourney idea 2006- Pundette - No exotic words? conversational words only ? It has been my experience that the players i usually converse with are of above average intelligence. These people are not your average jabronies so they may use a ten dollar word here and there so watch out!

OK.. i gotta get in my digs now lol
Best Avatar 2006- Amplify- That jackass picture he uses is sooooo cool and correct me if im wrong, go look if you need to but doesnt that mule have a unibrow?

Best Joke 2006- Ceedie- "i am not stupid" referring to herself in a post somewhere on this site. I still get a chuckle out of that 1 every time i think about it. Thanks for the laughs kid!

And thats it for part I of the Big Ball Awards because im tired of typing.
Cya all at the tables....

My Girl

Here is the reason for my continued existence :-) Most parents are proud of their children and i am certainly proud of my girl! We had a blast this Christmas , she got all the presents she asked for and more and loved every minute of it. When the unwrapping was finished i expected her to ask for more but to my surprise she was very content and happily began playing with all the new loot. C.J. will turn 4 in feb and we have already started buying presents for her b-day. I hope everyone had a nice holiday and i hope to cya soon , tc :-)

Holidays

I am not sending out E-cards this year. Call me lazy , call me a no good s.o.b. whatever lol. With work, getting ready for Christmas etc i barely have time to get in a few games.
To all my friends i wish you the very best , Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! Hopefully i will see you all at the tables very soon.
Some people have been asking where i am , and what im up to. In the mornings i have been playing some ox over at www.wordsteal.com which is similar to the old java ox. A few upgrades have been made to it and i hang out there a bit. My nights lately i have been spending with my daughter watching Christmas shows. I miss playing the late tourneys at Synergy and hope to get back to them soon. Once again Happy Holidays to ya all.... cya at the tables

comments

Posts are unmoderated again i will still remove anything anonymous and i may remove anything that pisses me off ;-)

1more week and more

One more week in the interleague jailhouse and im a freebird again..... Good thing because the monkey and the bimbo in the next cell over are quite stinky , wonder if the guards will hose them down before they get let out?
I loved mindis post on her blog about seeing Pantera in 92 etc (her blog link is at the bottom of the page). Damn that brought back memories of my last year as a single guy. I went and saw Pantera/WhiteZombie at 328 performance hall in Nahville in 92 and i got to watch soundchecks, meet both bands and party after the show. I have several autographs and mementos/photos from that event too. The best part about the show was the place was small and when mindi said there was nothing like a pantera mosh pit she was not lying , i am a survivor and i have pictures . That was the loudest wildest most awesome show i ever saw, and i have seen Metallica, Slayer , Iron Maiden The Monsters of Rock show in memphis tn , countless concerts and nothing compared to it. I guess i will always be a little bit fucking hostile too lol.... Somms/White-Tank was quoting song lyrics in the syn lobby from a pantera song called Walk , i dont think he gets the message from the song tho. I got 4 words for ya somms .... Walk on home , Boy!!! Finally while im at it a song of the week , no word because i dont feel like it .... The song is Prisoner by Iron Maiden and here are the lyrics

I'm on the run kill to eat
You're starving now you're dead on your feet
Going all the way nature's beast
Do what I want and do as I please

Run fight to breathe it's tough
Now you see me now you don't
Break the walls I'm coming out

Not a prisoner I'm a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was
I know where I'm going ... out
If you kill me it's self defense
If I kill you then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You'll be afraid when I call out your name

Run fight to breathe it's tough
Now you see me now you dont
Break the walls I'm coming out

Not a prisoner I'm a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was
I know where I'm going ... out

I'm not a number I'm a free man
I'll live my life how I want to
You'd better scratch me from your black book
Cos I'll run rings round you

Cyas ;-)

Iron T.D.s

I know every tourney director out there deserves recognition for providing tournaments for the rabble but I especially want to put in a word of thanks to 2 who continually amaze me with their iron nerves and ability to direct . Hollypeenyo and Ivystung can be counted on to have at least 1 tourney on the schedule almost every night of the week and they host late night tourneys as well which is usually my only time to play. Thanks both of ya!! You are both a big part of what makes this game worth playing.
Cya at the tables

Truth

This entry is about trust not about rules or other bullshit. Once again i have left Extremeox without having played a game since my return a day or two ago. I rejoined at the request of friends and a couple of the admins , applied to td again so that i might help out there on Sundays and at Interleague Saturdays once my penalty time is up. To my surprise i got an email from roguish which i shall reprint here .
Jeff,We have a 2 week rejoin rule to keep people from resetting their ladder stats. Although I know this is not the issue in your case the rule still holds. I have not formally boxed you because of Rose approving your TD request. However, I have set your status to vacation and it will remain so until next Saturday night December 9th. On vacation status you will not be allowed to play or host so this serves the purpose w/o formally boxing you. I hope you understand.RonRoguish
here was my reply to him
Ron i was asked to come back no strings attached. The reason for this being that i am the creator of extremeox and should Ayla ever step down i will resume the HA title member or not.I had second thoughts about tding and was going to ask duncs to remove me as a td so you can go ahead and do that.
Thanks
Jeff
I also sent this note to Ayla
I had reapplied to td on sundays and had second thoughts and was going to have duncs remove me. then i got this note from ron which cemented it. granted i can understand how the rule would apply to the average joe/jane but i am not the average joe , regardless of whatever happens i created the league and i dont feel this was right. (meaning that i was asked to rejoin)
Now here is her reply
Perrin,
First of all, the rules stand for everyone. eXtreme admin DID change a few rules this past week; however, the rejoin rule was not one of them.
Second of all, anyone can father a league. It's kind of like making a baby. True, you started extreme, but I've had this league for over a year, and in the UNlikely event I EVER step down as HA, it will be up to ME who gets the position, not you. Just because you created the league in the beginning doesn't give you title to a damn thing.
I DO have yahoo chat logs where you say you don't ever want extreme back, Jeff. Even if you did, it's MY choice, as HA, who I would give this league to. It will not be you.
Creating eXtreme doesn't give you exclusive rights to the rules being bent for you. You've done basically NOTHING for eXtreme in the past year. You hardly hosted, you undermined my decisions concerning minifrump, and the list goes on.
If you choose to come back to extreme or not, that's your business. You'll follow the rules the same as any other member, if you ever return.
Again, I'm telling you...if I EVER give up the HA of eXtremeOX, it will be to the person of MY choice. That would most definately be someone who gives of their time and does what's best for extremeox.
Now I'm sure I've pissed you off again, but that's life. I'm not kissing anyone's ass. eXtreme is a privately owned league, and it's owned by ME. I think I've MORE than paid my dues for the title of HA.
Sincerely,
Aylalei
And my reply to her
thats fine ayla , im not pissed off about the rule thing or anything else . Yes its owned by you solely because i put my trust in you and you were welcome to it .I was asked to rejoin, after i withdrew THEN the rules thing came up. We did have an agreement when i gave you the HA that if you ever stepped down as HA it would come back to me and you recently asked me that if anything happened to you would i take care of it and i said yes (i have that in yahoo chat ). I dont want extreme back and would have only taken it back to see it passed into capable hands. As far as your decisions on mini , they were stupid. Im not asking you to kiss my ass or anyone elses ass . In the unlikely event that you do step down and dont honor our agreement when i made the decision to pass extreme on to you all i can say is i evidently misplaced my trust .
Sincerely
Jeff
Now for a bit of ox history
When i left Wordplay i joined Synergy under my original wordox name perrin. I had always been drawn to synergy because of the level of competition there. I even played there under fake names when i was a wordplay member. When you have players the calibre of Wordman , Dorcas Nanc Kate Queenie Holly Cleopatra2u Joey Ivystung Cait , the list goes on and on and if you are an avid player like myself you want to test yourself against the best and learn from them. Even so when social 2 came open kissthis65 dared me to create a league there. I did create extremeox. A lot of people put a lot of work into the league and its a decent league. Creating that league however didnt stop me from playing at synergy and eventually after Kiss stepped down for personal reasons i decided i didnt want the headache of running a league. I passed on the HA title to Ayla on the understanding that if anything ever happened that she should quit or need to step down i would take back over until i found a replacement i thought suitable. Many many people know this and for her to write what she wrote didnt piss me off, it saddened me that i placed my trust in someone who obviously doesnt deserve it. An example is interleague, a grand idea but a broken trust as far as Wordplay was concerned.
I created Extremeox , i wish it the best, i hope it survives and flourishes. I will miss being a part of it on the 2 days a week i can actually get in games there . For true students of the game and those wishing to improve their game i named a number of players that can teach you words and strategies beyond belief. If i rejoin extremeox in 2 weeks which is the time i must wait to avoid another jail term it will only be because im a tourney hound.
Cya at the tables

Interleague vent

Got a bitch you want to air or a gripe to vent about concerning interleague? Heres your chance raise hell!!!