Announcement about RDF Part 3.

[Gawd]

http://www.heathen-hub.com/blog.php?b=241

The RDF website as a whole, including the forum (bulletin board), is run at the top by a salaried staffer, Josh Timonen, to whom Richard Dawkins dedicated his book, "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution". Also helping at the top are an unpaid volunteer, Andrew Chalkley, and a couple of other unpaid volunteers. The actual day-to-day running of the forum as such itself was under the control of a team of unpaid volunteers, admins such as Topsy (username, not real name), and a team of moderators (mods).

Does Dawkins have a *THING* for Josh? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Could this all just be sex related?

I doubt it as eh has a lovely wife, and I'd be happy for them if it was true anyway. Now given his love of Rick Astley, we might have some more amusing milage there... I'll give a totally unsuitable prize for the best Rick & Richard photoshop someone comes up with I can shove on my blog (so not obscene, anything else fair game)! I mean Rickrolling. He deserves it!

j x

What's more typical than a married man having a secret office affair with another man? Maybe Dawkins isn't happy or he is the curious type. Now, being in bed with Josh, figuratively and literally, he becomes manipulated like a puppet and has to live a double life.

[CJ]

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[Posse Comitatus]

WTF. I'm completely out of the loop here.

[Bella Fortuna]

WTF. I'm completely out of the loop here.

Josh T tried to prove he was king of the world and slaughtered the RDF forum in the doing.

But it's OK because we are all very excited about the changes and Josh retains his lofty status of RD's cabana boy.

[Posse Comitatus]

Oh.


Fair enough.

[Kristie]

WTF. I'm completely out of the loop here.

Josh T tried to prove he was king of the world and slaughtered the RDF forum in the doing.

And RD has no problem with that.

[klr]

Oh.


Fair enough.

This bit was irony BTW:

But it's OK because we are all very excited about the changes.

We were excited alright, just not quite in the way that was required.

[M]

Oh.


Fair enough.

BTW, there is a rule here about no Kate Bush threads, links, etc. Just thought I'd mention it.

[Posse Comitatus]

Well seeing as I still can't tell what's happened (or what's happening) I'll reserve judgement. I hadn't been on much since the last exodus anyway, so I don't have any real sense of perspective or context on it.

Kate Bush is quite incredible though.

[klr]

Well seeing as I still can't tell what's happened (or what's happening) I'll reserve judgement. I hadn't been on much since the last exodus anyway, so I don't have any real sense of perspective or context on it.

Kate Bush is quite incredible though.

Just read all the threads in this section that we set up just for the RD.net meltdown.

Then come back in two days with any questions.

As for Ms. Bush, what has she done for us lately?

[ficklefiend]

YES. WE ARE ALL VERY EXCITED.

[Posse Comitatus]

As for Ms. Bush, what has she done for us lately?

Nothing much actually.


Of course we do know that she's been in the studio lately but saying that she was in the studio in 1994 and we didn't get the fruits of that precious labour until 2005. I'm not holding my breath.

[FedUpWithFaith]

How many new people have come here since the RDF meltdown? We need a lookup table to translate names for all those who took different names here too. I'm looking forward to reconnecting with some old friends now. I see this as a great opportunity for Rationalia to reach critical mass.

[Bella Fortuna]

How many new people have come here since the RDF meltdown? We need a lookup table to translate names for all those who took different names here too. I'm looking forward to reconnecting with some old friends now. I see this as a great opportunity for Rationalia to reach critical mass.

500+ in the space of 3 days.

[klr]

How many new people have come here since the RDF meltdown? We need a lookup table to translate names for all those who took different names here too. I'm looking forward to reconnecting with some old friends now. I see this as a great opportunity for Rationalia to reach critical mass.

There are a couple of threads in this section which attempt to list them, or you can just look at the most recently members on the member list. "Several hundreds" is the answer. Most have kept their name, but a handful haven't.

It's been here ...