The Real Paul Greco

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Mon, 2005-02-21 21:16

The Real Paul Greco

Yes, it's me. Looked at forums for first time in months, then -- in a fit of self obsession (old habits die hard) I stuck "greco" in the search engine to see if anyone was still ar$ed talking about me, and it seems I've had quite a few accusations flying my way re. trolling. Aw well, I suppose I asked for it with my ancient-history misdemeanours -- and in a disfunctional sort of way, it's kind of flattering to have made such a lasting impression.

All cards on the table: since I slagged ABC on UKA a while back, I came on once under a pseudonym after my only other greco check -- not saying anything offensive, but then, I can't actually remember what is was I said. At all. I wanted to find the post, but I can't remember a single word about it. I do remember the trailing ISP number pointed vaguely to my usual whereabouts. I checked a couple of times, but I didn't see anyone sussing me.

I was quite amused to see Stormy getting it so wrong in some posts -- as confused as I was back in the day. I used to be quite jealous of his detecting instincts, but the man is human and fallible after all. He also seemed to fall for someone calling his/herself "PG" spreading peace and goodwill around Christmas time, wanting to bury the hatchet. Aw. I actually like Stormy: he's one of the more interesting voices on the forum, and it's good to see him at least considering the possibility that I and my comrades were right about moderation/registration. He was always too intelligent to honestly believe that a society can handle total freedom and complete anonymity. He knows it only too well.

As a sign off...I can't BELIEVE I got blamed for this...
an ode to abc

Author: spinningballs (203.185.130.---)
Date: 12-04-04 12:02

There was a point, way back in time
when abctales was functional and fine
but as with most things in this life
the respectable few finally sensed all the strife
So the nice users left for pastures anew
leaving a load of old tosspots and a skeleton crew

Now when visitors find this broken down pitch
and think they've found a new writing niche
the tosspots descend like a pack of lame wolves
and the insults begin from this flock of fine fools
the anger within is seen at full cry
they care not a jot that abc will soon die

F**k me, I know my work was not to everyone's taste, but I'd never have written that heap of s**t. Even to disguise my own style. Yours, disgusted.

Oh, and hi all. Hey Missi. Don't dislike you anymore. Time and absence has healed my problem with you: that you are just as much of a stubborn c**t as me. But I love ya. Mwaaah!

Tue, 2005-02-22 16:20

Paul Greco

Yeah, it was okay.

Tue, 2005-02-22 16:22

Paul Greco

Flashy: talking to yourself is the first sign of madness, dontchya know?

Tue, 2005-02-22 16:25

Paul Greco

Stop swamping the thread, Paul Greco.

Tue, 2005-02-22 16:26

Paul Greco

Sorry.

Tue, 2005-02-22 16:53

mississippi

*Paul Greco impersonates (rather badly actually) self-absorbed kangaroo jockey despised by almost the entire site* Just be yourself.

Wed, 2005-02-23 14:27

Paul

True. And ditto. It's easy to come across as a see you next tuesday on the forums...as we both know only too well. I don't understand how people get so surprised when you act hard on the forums, then bottle it and go all nicey-nice on a real-life one to one. I bet that would go for a lot of people here. Me included. Not that I'm ACTUALLY here. Nah.

Tue, 2005-02-22 18:13

Rokkitnite

HA HA HA HA HA!

Tue, 2005-02-22 18:18

flash

The 2nd sign of madness is calling your disco operation 'Tasty.'

Wed, 2005-02-23 14:46

#10

mississippi

It never occurred to me that I either 'act hard' on the forums, or 'bottle' anything. I believe I was just being open and honest, or at least as honest as my impetuosity will allow. Don't know why I'm talking to myself. Was that a shadow that just flitted past the window?

Wed, 2005-02-23 14:57

#11

emily yaffle

Could we please have one row at a time ? You two rough boys have done the glaring at each other and shoving-that-doesn't-lead-up-to-a-fight, now would honour be preserved if I just shout "Leave him, he's not worth it" and you both sit down with your mates muttering "Lucky for him, I'd have pasted him easy" There are people here currently far more worthy of contempt than either of you.

Wed, 2005-02-23 15:51

#12

mississippi

I think Andrew, that you may have misconstrued the previous banter. The way 'I' read it was that Paul would like to be accepted as a decent human being, (which I'm sure he is by the way, having gone through his 40 days in the wilderness). It took some guts to come on here and say, 'Please have me back. I want to be part of the team again'. For my part, I thought I was giving him a tacit tip of the hat. I can't spend what's left of my life holding grudges against everyone I feel has offended me in the past. (It doesn't do for a guy to appear too soft, it gives the wrong impression)

Wed, 2005-02-23 17:12

#13

Paul Greco

I'm not asking to be taken back. If I want to come back, I will. It's a free forum. (But I do want to be loved by Missi.) I probably won't come back. It was fun when I was sad and single at home, and was demotivated at work and needed something to fill my frees. But times have changed. This burst was fun too. But it won't last. And like the Wiggmeister, I've found it easier to write away from the forums. I sit with the old laptop I used to log on to here with, in a bar, and just write. Working on a screenplay. All I'll need when I'm done is a little funding. A hundred bags of sand should do it. Anyone with a spare fortune laying about? Maybe I'll go cap in hand to the lottery people, and try to emulate the blockbusting success of Sex Lives Of The Potato Men.

Wed, 2005-02-23 17:20

#14

emily yaffle

That's actually what I thought, George - but given that we have reached a measure of understanding, I wanted to keep it that way and not have it risked by 'friendly' banter getting out of hand. And it's the way that people like Ralph, Paul and Radiodenver (and even you and me) have turned out in the end that made me want to persevere with the Australian guy.

Wed, 2005-02-23 17:40

#15

mississippi

Aww shit, I can't keep the animosity alive for long ya know. On the other hand, where the kangaroo jockey is concerned I feel I haven't peaked yet.

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:16

#16

Paul Greco

S'pose. But it's not a bad job tho. £150 minimum for a few hours of playing a few crowd-pleasers on me MP3 players. More than I've been paid for any cruddy poem by a long shot (30 Canadian dollars and five pounds sterling respectively). And I'm still teaching, okay money too. But sometimes I do get jealous of all the successes of ABCers. The publishing sensation that is the Wiggs gets right up my nose. Please have me back. I wanna be part of the winning team again. Hey, I am pretty good at this impersonation. You gottsta give me that.

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:33

#17

mississippi

Well money ain't no gauge of quality or success anymore than a high IQ is of anything other than the ability to answer a few questions. I wasn't aware that you'd been excluded anyway. I DO remember you saying you were 'defecting'. Will this make you a double agent? Are you bringing the code books with you? Will you be turning up at an ABC do and baring your right tit, a la Janet Jackson? Do I have to stop calling you dicko? I think we might have to have a huddle over this!

Wed, 2005-03-02 00:33

#18

stormy

Recent events (see below) lead me to posting in this thread ... Paul, I never for one moment thought you posted that dirge of a poem ... my post in that thread was is in response to "runaround" who had been littering the place with his grudges that night - hence my thinking "runaround" was you. Anyway, no hard feelings either way eh? We each gave as good as we got and as I said before, we would probably have been friendly given different circumstances.

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:36

#19

John

omg. Whats hapend to missi!

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:38

#20

mississippi

Have faith John, you know, that stuff you've talked about in the past. The stuff I always say is bollocks. Trust me.

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:43

#21

Ralph

I have been a long time admirer of your bollocks George. x

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:44

#22

mississippi

*checks jeans for holes in the groin area*

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:45

#23

Paul Greco

Ooh, yeaaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHHH! Huddle me babba! You can call me what you want. I did. Though dicko always had a -- how can i put this -- childish quality. As a pun on "greco", it was hardly your greatest. I didn't say money was a gauge of quality. I play $hite, talk bull$hit all day, and get paid pretty nicely. Same goes with any poet that makes it (they do workshops: bull$hit -- or stay as parole officers) and any decent writer. So you're right there. How strange though that YOU would be suspicious of high IQs...with all your bomb-iraq-philia, and well-loved I've-had-it-rough-me Helen-Forrester-meets-Frank-McCourt-after-a-win-on-the-gee-gees musings, I'd have thought yours was up in the clouds. And it's usually only people with dire scores who criticise the system. Actually, I bet yours IS really high. They test baggage-free question-answering. Ooh, how I've missed this. Oh, but I'm not back. Nah.

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:48

#24

Paul Greco

Oh, to avoid any confusion, I'm not a poet that made it... far from it... Just re-read, and didn't want to give that impression. I just feel the plight of the artistic soul that has to earn a proper living. Have pity on me.

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:52

#25

Ralph

Ohhhhh! get her. A second division Nathan Barley. I bet you play 'Kylie' mixed with the 'Gang of Four'. What trainers are you wearing Paul. 'Converse Blazers'. x

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:54

#26

Paul Greco

I'm not aversed to mixing a bit of cha-cha slide with a bit of the old Brown Eyed Girl. Youze love it. Stop asking me what I'm wearing, you dirty get.

Tue, 2005-03-15 20:40

#27

Paul Greco

Here here. More power to ya typin' finger Storms.

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:58

#28

Ralph

I bet I would love it. Do you Rhumba?

Tue, 2005-02-22 21:59

#29

mississippi

Well it's too far back to start regurgitating now, but I'm sure you remember the genesis of the sobriquet; it wasn't meant to be a clever pun. Never mind. I'm not suspicious of high IQ figures, just doubtful as to exactly what they tell you about a person, and whether they have any relevance to real life. I have absolutely no idea what mine is, and I ain't really interested to tell the truth. What I DO know is where I fit on the scale inhabited by those I know, and those I respect. The odd thing is that I tend to respect those I feel are my intellectual superiors among others, which means that respect frequently derives from an inferiority within myself. Perhaps that isn't so odd after all.

Tue, 2005-02-22 22:00

#30

Paul Greco

Only with three girls. Wire do you ask?

Tue, 2005-02-22 22:02

#31

Paul Greco

F**k me. That actually ISN'T Missi, is it. I was suckered in there for a bit.

Tue, 2005-02-22 22:02

#32

Ralph

Because the thought inspires me to be a better person.

Mon, 2005-02-21 21:30

#33

mississippi

As it happens Paul, shit that you were at times, alongside the recent crop of Olympic wankers, such as Alumgoon, ritatripes and exjasperated, there seems to be a mystical glow bathing your head in light. I suppose it COULD be a disco light but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I say that cos I ain't too sure about that stormy comment and well as you know, old habits die hard. It 'sounded' like a touch of artificial insemination. I'm still stubborn though.

Mon, 2005-02-21 21:31

#34

Ralph

That has made me all weepy.

Tue, 2005-02-22 22:10

#35

mississippi

Perhaps you never really knew me, didn't take the time to find out who I really am. No reason why you should as it happens, but the one thing that I remember about live events is how many people are surprised when they meet me. Those shoe-shop interests die hard.

Mon, 2005-02-21 22:45

#36

Rokkitnite

Missi's masterful rejoinder to Paul's enquiry about the Creative Writing Society nude calendar will *never* be surpassed. It is perfect, therefore it *cannot* be beaten.

Tue, 2005-02-22 00:13

#37

intrigued

what was the rejoinder rokkitnite? what was the enquiry also?

Tue, 2005-02-22 00:36

#38

flash

Author: Paul Greco (---.cache.pol.co.uk) Date: 12-11-03 19:40 Hang on, (and forgive my lewd workingclassness here) let's get one thing straight. Can you confirm this is not some arty-farty affair, and we do get to see actual fanny, and everything? Reply To This Message Re: Literary Nude Calendars on sale NOW! Author: mississippi (213.78.90.---) Date: 12-11-03 20:28 Save your fiver dicko. If you want to see some 'actual fanny' try looking in a mirror. There a fine rejoinder if ever there was one, worth re-activating.

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