Is there no sense of pride, of Olive Unity? The website is ours because Keith Got It First! To allow the sacred name of "Olive" to become a common thing, to be ground into dust for the sake of peacemaking seems sacrilegious...
:)
And besides, I'm all for holding out until my share is a cool million.
:D
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Kate Watt <katecwatt@...> wrote:
>
> I was imagining some reference to olive branches, peacemaking, something
> like that....
>
> But then, who cares what they'll do with it, really?
>
> Again, we show no signs of using or needing a dot.org. Surely one yahoo
> account and two FB pages are enough for the rather silly chats and
> squabbles we occasionally indulge in? Oh, and the movies are posted on
> youtube. And there's personal email exchanges, and the phone, and smoke
> signals.... It's enough already, for the purposes of nostalgia or any
> actual present-day connection, communication, and coordination.
>
> Rin
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:34 AM, olivestarlightorchestra <
> samoolives_at_...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Looks like I'm getting into the conversation at bit late as usual...
> > Any other info about Herr Insect Overlord Requestor? The High school band
> > thingy isn't too horrible, IMO. But what would he do with something called
> > "Olives?" and how would it relate to anything socially responsible? I can
> > just imagine it now:
> >
> > * Keep your olives safe and secure from predatory marketers!
> > * Your tree and orchard images are always fresh!
> > * Remain socially conscious of the health benefits of olives by linking to
> > medical websites!
> > * Know where every olive is with our new Olive Online(TM) Tracking
> > feature!! (Requires purchase of mini-barcode labeler, only $199.95 and
> > includes 12 rolls mini-barcode labels for free!)
> >
> > Woo hoo.
> >
> > I vote keep for now.
> > WHO HAS THE OLIVE LOGS AND THE MOVIES AGAIN???
> > --G.H.
> >
> >
> > --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "barkofdelight"
> > <barkofdelight_at_> wrote:
> > >
> > > Point taken, but remember that w/ domain names, "once it's gone...it's
> > > gone!"
> > > One might also ask: "what are the new Insect Overlords going to do with
> > > the URL themselves?"
> > > One anonymous reviewer found this website associated w/ the proposed
> > > buyer:
> > > http://vimeo.com/13408781 <http://vimeo.com/13408781>
> > > Not very inspirational.
> > > As you might have guessed, my vote is to keep it. Generally, ".org"
> > > domains don't sell for very much money anyway.
> > > Bark!
> > > [PS: What's wrong with hoarding again?]
> > > --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Jennifer Mandel
> > > <jenmandel_at_> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I agree with Rin - what exactly will the website be used for? If it's
> > > a URL that is being held on to for only nostalgic reasons, I'd say
> > > that's hoarding, and I ain't going on no reality show. Perhaps some of
> > > the money could be donated to a mutually agreed-upon (ha!) cause....
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Kate C. Watt
>
>
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Received on 2011-12-07 11:33:07