Saturday Evening Post

There is not much to report in the way of M3 News this week, but there is quite a bit Clyde has to say. This week, my Wednesday idea was not derailed. Grab a cuppa and settle into a rocker. We will only be a few moments.

Busy.

M3 is gearing up for a special week next week. It will be the first time guests will post. To date, yours truly has put every word on this blog. I have the posts of my own which will grace the pages scheduled, but the ones in between are going to be compliments of those who responded to last week’s SEP.

If you would like to join the group, there is still time! I have two spots which have not been filled. If at all possible, I would love to have someone claim the two of them as well. It would give me a full week (shy Friday Follies) to work on my off site projects.

What do you mean?

Only this week has it occurred to me there are members of the M3 Readers who have no idea I own a life outside M3. In fact, the largest portions of my existence are not contained in the nearly half-million words here. They hardly scratch the surface.

I have one book I must complete, a second I would like to complete and two which I must edit. No, none of these manuscripts are written by anyone else. Yes, I write that much.

In other news, I have some manuscripts which have been sent to me to edit. If yours is one of them, I am reading…I promise. I do that between writing scenes and editing my own.

Promotion

Friday morning I posted an awards show. Those of you who have been around for a while know, I routinely take time out to promote other blogs. Those of you who have been around at least a week know, I promote a new author each week. I have just finalized June’s schedule, but still am in need of a couple authors for July and three for August. Who do you know with a book?

Please take advantage of the 5,000 page. You are more than welcome to leave a link to your latest blog post. Even if you do not use Facebook to market your blog…I will. I share your posts with the many who network with me there.

Green Room

When I return from my blogging hiatus, I will be adding new blogs to the Alumni Club. I cannot do that without your assistance. Here is what I need.

1. If you have not left a link to your blog in the Green Room, please do so right now.

2. If (or once) your blog is listed in the Green Room, please give a thumbs up to the blogs you enjoy. Comments on their entries are encouraged as well. It takes five thumbs up to get from the Green Room to the Alumni Club.

Thank you for your constant support of the Green Room and the networking you do by sharing the page to your social media.

Polls

I have not posted poll results for the last three polls. One was just for my reference, so you will see the results over the next few weeks. The other two, as always, gave me a case of the giggles or guffaws.

Search Terms: Yes, the M3 Readers were determined the number one search term on the weird-o-meter poll was Momms russian mature porn. Contrary to all posts claiming otherwise, M3 is not, I repeat not, a porn site. However, porn is one of the search terms used with striking regularity to get here.

You were wrong. The number one search term on the weird-o-meter got a surprising NO votes, even though I did give you a hint in a Friday Follies post. The number one term? Porn SI. When someone can explain to me what it means, I would be eternally grateful. Many thanks to those of you who let me know Jiggety Sigh  was a band. Apparently, I need to get out more.

Sex: This poll was born (like so many other topics on M3) from a conversation following a post. The other answers were priceless.

While you were split between married people and married people who have sex with unmarried people, you were certain unmarried people were not having the most sex. Alternatively, the following people are definitely having the most sex:

  • People who don’t hate mail. (Priceless!)
  • those that actually enjoy sex no matter their age
  • 40 – 50 yo married unmarried..oh not married to each other.. sometimes
  • Living People (#1 answer)

Glad you had fun with that one!

Right turn, Clyde.

Right Turn, Clyde!

Now, you are probably thinking it took forever to get this far…Well, so there was more news than I thought. That does not mean it is going to take much longer to get to the comments.

I want to know something really, really simple. Okay, so maybe it is not as simple as I think. Turns out the following instructions mean different things to different people. Your comment can be as long as necessary to explain to me what this statement means to you:

Leave me alone.

As always, I am asking for a reason which will feature in an upcoming series. Truly tell me what it means to you. If you find the command to be ambiguous, please tell me how to make it more concise, understandable and universal.

Until next time,

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  1. Leave Me Alone, at least to me, is a kind way of saying “Get the Hell out of my face,” or “Do Not Disturb,” or I’m Unavailable, or simply, I need to be left alone. What it doesn’t say, although the meaning is implied, is whatever the reasons I’m saying or thinking this are, they’re none of your business. I guess that’ a long winded way of turning something that was supposed to be simple, into something that’s not. But isn’t that what writers generally do?

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    • Yes, which is why I was afraid I had put in a whole lot of static which really did not need to be there….

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  2. I usually think of it as saying one of two things.

    1. Right now, I don’t need any of your crap, so go away and don’t bother me until I get back to you (which may be never.)

    2. I need to be alone right now. Please let that happen and don’t bug me about it.

    MJ
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    • I was under the impression both were applicable, but the crux is the removal of the recipient of the command vacating the premises.

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  3. Laurie

     /  June 16, 2012

    “Leave me alone” means to go away……in order to get others to understand that I’ve found the instruction needs to be more elaborate. and be more specific going step by step.

    Step 1. Shut up.
    Step 2. get away from me.
    step 3. stay away from me until I tell you you’re allowed to talk.

    And if that doesn’t work, you must get rude.

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    • And three, as MJ points out, may well be never. Ugh. See, you all understand this. Why are some people so handicapped?

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      • Laurie

         /  June 16, 2012

        I’ve come to the conclusion they were dropped on their heads at some point and denied medical attention.

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      • Some people need to “fix” your problem or bug you until you fix it yourself.

        Too often they fail to realize they are a big part of the problem.

        MJ
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  4. RED RED RED XO

    I am DANG EXCITED FOR YOUR BOOKS — MANUSCRIPTS ————– !!!!!!!!!!
    YOU DO SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB- WELL – IT’S REALLY OUT OF YOUR HEART ME THINKY – THAT YOU PROMOTE OTHER SITES – THAT’S YOUR EHART SPEAKING …..
    🙂 CAN’T WAIT TO READ YOUR BOOKS ….. YES – 🙂 IT’S TOTAL UNITY IN HERE – I FEEL – MINUS THE SPIDERS AND RATS — LOL 🙂
    BUT YOU KNOW WHAT – IN THE END …..WE GRAVITATE TO THE ONES WE ARE MEANT TO GRAVITATE TO …..- PS- TINY SURPRISE —–
    WOMBANIA SURPRISE ! IS A COMING 🙂 ALL THE FAN ART OF WOMBANIA IS SOON GOING TO BE DISPLAYED IN A VIDEO –
    PETER MADE THE VID WITH THE IMAGES OF THE ART AND I JUST FINISHED THE MUSIC THIS AFT 🙂
    COLLABORATION IS THE COOLEST THING EVER 🙂
    PETER – I MEAN BINKY – IS A LOT MORE SHY – THAN I – 🙂 DAISY ….:) LOL
    AND IT WILL BE POSTED I THINK MONDAY MORNING IF NOT EARLIER …… 🙂 🙂 🙂
    BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE MADE SUCH LOVELY ART FOR THE WOMBIES – 🙂
    I SO LOOK FORWARD TO READING YOUR POSTS AND IT WAS – SWELTERING HERE TODAY ……
    WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST ALWAYS
    LADY RED O LOVE
    HUGGS AND MORE HUGGS
    AND IF YOU SEE BINKY – TELL HIM I LEAKED THE SECRET 🙂 LOLOL:) ON PURPOSE ……..!!!!!!!!! HAHAH 🙂
    SURE IT WILL BRING A TON O SMILES TO A TON O FACES ………:)
    XOXOXO
    CAT
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    • I hope you are here for the post in the morning! I have Wombie news, too *Grins* I hope you are having a brilliant weekend as well, mon Chat doux. <3 And I am pretty certain Binky will be around later and see for himself 😉
      Red.
      xxx

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  5. I WILL LADY RED O LOVE …..
    I AM HOME TONIGHT
    EARLY TO BED – EARLY TO RISE 🙂
    TON CHAT DOUX T’ADORE 🙂
    CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I JUST WROTE BINKY AND TOLD HIM I LEAKED THE SECRET ….LOLOLOL 🙂
    JUST TO RUSTLE HIS FUR UP A BIT 🙂 XOXOXOXOXO
    NIGHT NIGHT
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    • When you wake, be sure to go back by “You got a what?” and pick up your awards <3

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    • Video? What video? There is no video!
      Binky recently posted..The Shape of WombiesMy Profile

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      • Hidden cameras?

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      • BINKY YOU SILLY WOMBIE ….:)
        YOU CREATED A FANTASTIC VID OF ALL THE WONDERFUL ART THAT YOU FRIENDS MADE YOU – I- DAISY WAS VERY HAPPY TO HELP 🙂
        DON’T PLAY SHY ….LOL
        🙂 🙂 🙂
        NIGHT NIGHT 🙂
        VIOLET TOLD ME TO LEAK THE SECRET !!!!!!!!!! LOL …..
        SHE IS THE MISCHIEVOUS ONE …..
        I AM THE INDUSTRIOUS ONE THAT LOVES HUGS – AND RAINBOWS ……
        🙂 NIGHT NIGHT —-
        DAISY – I MEAN CAT – I MEAN DAISY …..:)
        🙂 🙂 🙂
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  6. I think, somewhere, you have a few other Reds stashed away who do all this writing for you. One Red cannot write so much!
    Binky recently posted..The Shape of WombiesMy Profile

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  7. “Leave me alone” means exactly that.
    “Stay out of the corner office, dumbass, I don’t have head space for crap, whining, excuses, blubbering, blabbing, lies, fear-mongering, BS, sanctimonious self-promotion, flubberdubbery, dishonesty, begging, rose-coloured blinky glasses, hypocrisy, air-based interpretation, interpolation or extrapolation, and as you’re leaving, keep your sneaky dishonest fingers out of my cookie-jar and don’t bother rattling the GummyBear disspenser, it’s LOCKED when I want you to leave me ALONE in the corner office munching on cookies and caffeine. –and don’t let the swinging door smack you on the ass when you’re on the way OUT. Don’t bother looking back, I’ll call YOU…..IF…. “:)) ~R

    p.s. no farting, obscene gestures, or monkey-crap blather allowed on the way out, either. Leave whilst you’re still able to.
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  8. No exclamation point so it wasn’t uttered in anger. Unless it’s a passive aggressive F*ck You.

    1. Give me a minute.
    2. I’ll let you know when I have time for you.
    Lorre recently posted..Engaged in foreplay and I had no clue.My Profile

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    • No, not in anger. Anger is dismissed as a personal problem. Simply Leave me alone. And 1. is far more than a minute because 2. is never.

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  9. Since I ditched Doug the parasite life has been VERY quiet and I am certainly left alone!!! 🙂

    Love and hugs Red! 😉

    Prenin.

    P.S: Keep up the good work!!! 🙂

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    • Apparently, even in his drunken stupor, Doug is firing with more cylinders than the people not listening to me! {HUGZ} Red.

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  10. Bear

     /  June 17, 2012

    To me leave me alone means 1. Honk off bozo 2 Have some of my kool-aid and go home. 3 I know you are stupid so I will say this slowly Goooooo Awaaaaaay Foreeeever. 4 I don’t talk to you because you are a tool. And last but not least I have enough insanity in my life I don’t need yours, so please go back to your our little mindless world, lose my number, forget who I am and forget that we may have been friends at one time. You are a pain in the ass and I don’t want to know you or your family.

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