Why So Many Guests?

There are so many guests because Disney invited them in Beauty and the Beast:

Lumiere:
Ma chere Mademoiselle, it is with deepest pride
and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight.
And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a
chair as the dining room proudly presents -
your dinner!

Be our guest! Be our guest!
Put our service to the test
Tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie
And we'll provide the rest
Soup du jour
Hot hors d'oeuvres
Why, we only live to serve
Try the grey stuff
Chip:
It's delicious
Lumiere:
Don't believe me? Ask the dishes
They can sing, they can dance
After all, Miss, this is France
And a dinner here is never second best
Go on, unfold your menu
Take a glance and then you'll
Be our guest
Oui, our guest
Be our guest!
Lumiere and Chorus:
Beef ragout
Cheese souffle
Pie and pudding "en flambe"
Lumiere:
We'll prepare and serve with flair
A culinary cabaret!
You're alone
And you're scared
But the banquet's all prepared
No one's gloomy or complaining
While the flatware's entertaining
We tell jokes! I do tricks
With my fellow candlesticks
Chorus:
And it's all in perfect taste
That you can bet
Come on and lift your glass
You've won your own free pass
To be out guest
Lumiere:
If you're stressed
It's fine dining we suggest


Chorus:
Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest!
Get your worries off your chest
Let us say for your entree
We've an array; may we suggest:
Try the bread! Try the soup!
When the croutons loop de loop
It's a treat for any dinner
Don't belive me? Ask the china
Singing pork! Dancing veal!
What an entertaining meal!
How could anyone be gloomy and depressed?
We'll make you shout "encore!"
And send us out for more
So, be our guest!
Lumiere:
Be our guest!
Chorus:
Be our guest!
Mrs Potts:
It's a guest! It's a guest!
Sakes alive, well I'll be blessed!
Wine's been poured and thank the Lord
I've had the napkins freshly pressed
With dessert, she'll want tea
And my dear that's fine with me
While the cups do their soft-shoein'
I'll be bubbling, I'll be brewing
I'll get warm, piping hot
Heaven's sakes! Is that a spot?
Clean it up! We want the company impressed
Chorus:
We've got a lot to do!
Mrs Potts:
Is it one lump or two?
For you, our guest!
Chorus:
She's our guest!
Mrs Potts:
She's our guest!
Chorus:
She's our guest!
Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest!
Lumiere:
Life is so unnerving
For a servant who's not serving
He's not whole without a soul to wait upon
Ah, those good old days when we were useful...
Suddenly those good old days are gone
Ten years we've been rusting
Needing so much more than dusting
Needing exercise, a chance to use our skills!
Most days we just lay around the castle
Flabby, fat and lazy
You walked in and oops-a-daisy!
Chorus:
Be our guest! Be our guest!
Our command is your request
It's been years since we've had anybody here
And we're obsessed
With your meal, with your ease
Yes, indeed, we aim to please
While the candlelight's still glowing
Let us help you, We'll keep going
Course by course, one by one
'Til you shout, "Enough! I'm done!"
Then we'll sing you off to sleep as you digest
Tonight you'll prop your feet up
But for now, let's eat up
Be our guest!
Be our guest!
Be our guest!
Please, be our guest!

That takes me back.

So let us get this right. In order to be an engineer you have to have the ability to cut and paste.

Wow, it is truly amazing. Its no wonder the world is collapsing in upon itself. Accountants are the only group of professionals, engineers can hardly be called professionals, afterall the grease monkey who services my cars (note the plural use of car here for all you dumb ass engineers) calls himself an engineer.

At least you never give up! That's one thing in your favour! Personally, I would have called him a Mechanic but if you want to call him an Engineer you may!

My mechanic services my car (please note use of singular) well enough that I don't need a spare. I pity you...

You are correct but we managed to get a response out of you. Now, if engineers were actually clever (hang on a minute while we pick ourselves up from the floor from the laughter at the thought of this prospect) then you would not post any responses to our posts.

It really quite simple, we control your every move and we decide in which direction you will go - this is both true in the workplace and on this forum. This will be hard for you to take on board but we believe that when you actually think about it (after scratching yourselves - favourite passtime of an engineer ) you will agree.

We see that the off topic button is checked so we will uncheck it - is that OK with our little pets?

We have a bet going that some muppett will respond to this post - any takers?

I'll take...your bet means nothing to me.

This thread is so surreal...in our organization, the accountants answer to the engineers (as do the salesmen). Who would ever put a profession not responsible for producing anything of value in charge of anything? I suspect you harbour a severe inadequacy complex or some other dysfunction that fuels your hostility toward individuals you have never met. You have my pity.

Looks like we found our muppett - why did you not sign in?

Like we said, we control your actions both here and in the work place so just take this as fact.

Any more muppets willing to respond?

You truly do not see the relevance in this do you? You are like a puppet muppet on a string and we are controlling the strings. What is needed is that you stop responding to these posts, which are clearly designed to antagonise and to illicit a response. The type of response does not matter.

This is about control and being able to exercise that. In order to have success you need to show control, whether on this site or in the work place.

Hopefully you all have learned a valuable lesson from this thread.

Just give us a GA and we will accept that as thanks for educating you. We are somewhat hurt that no one has even voted a GA on any of our posts - can anyone explain why this is?

We would like to ask why you have such a picture at your disposal but we are afraid of your response !!!!!!

You would really like that, wouldn't you? Don't be afraid. Fear is the only thing you have to be afraid of. Nothing else, cause your only a Guest. Stop wasting your smartness trying to prove your intelligence. What a waste!

I suppose one might ask the same question of a pub's clientele.

May I offer a suggestion to you all, now and in the future, to avoid making any remarks to those annoying, off topic, truly childish and obviously non professionals. Banter with those types of guests is a waste of time and effort. Why even remotely try to converse much less try and convince them in any intelligent conversation? Ignoring their comments completely gives them no more motivation to continue. Besides it's painful to see my otherwise intelligent colleges stoup to their level. We have time better spent on topics that share important information that help others and ourselves. Please don't allowy your pride or ego to fuel your rebutles.

What you have just stated here proves my suggestion that drugs (of what ever kind) are involved. Complete delusion. Not constructive thought but disruptive smear is the result. If you survive the next years you will find that the statements you are making are of no good to no one. Only time will tell and it always does.

OK.

Guest wrote in plural due to the combined minds of the individual persons posing as Guest. Guest would feel it inappropriate to take all the credit for getting you upset and spilling your engine oil all over your bed - as a side note: Guest does wonder what you are doing with engine oil in bed but perhaps this is just another favourite pastime of said engineer.

Guest would really appreciate it if you would not respond to Guests posts. Guest has stated that the aim of Guest is to get a response and you have not disappointed the said Guest. Guest thanks you for that.

Guest does feel somewhat sorry for you, all the name dropping of these Gurus does not impress Guest. Guest hopes that you receive lots of birthday cards from your new colleagues.

Has Guest made Guests point clear enough for you to understand or should Guest draw you a nice simple picture?

Also, I just want you to know that despite everything I've said above, I really admire you and everyone else on CR4, think you're all very intelligent, and find your discussions engaging.

The modifications of posts by someone in Admin to suit the needs of this forum should not be tolerated. This calls into question the intefrity of this site.

Boy, sort of wow. I'm about tempted to check the I want to post anonymously box up there on the right. Ben Franklin said that it was legitimate in some cases where otherwise the truth could not be told, to write anonymously. So I am inclined myself to endorse that as a little CR4 cultural guide when posting anonymously. Can't remember my password, is also a legitimate reason. I did that, so I have sympathy for that as a reason. Right now I couldn't tell you my password under torture. Where did that suspicion that an Administrator of CR4 would alter a post come from? Hell they can post anonymously if they want. I'll bet all the Guests would be flipped out, if for a day all the members they know by Avatar, CR4 name, posted as Guest. It would be really a bit cooler if when you saw a Guest Posting, it was a sign of secret or original information. To somehow know something knowbody else knows can be a little ego boost. To think of something nobody ever thought of is sort of fun too. What then is the ethics of posting anonymously? Say we determine it is to be able to share a truth that we know will advance all of mankind and the greater good, that otherwise could not be shared without destruction to ourselves? Is that good manners? I started this discussion, and said at the start it was something internal to CR4, but who knows maybe I'm wrong. In this day and age it is almost as if we are all supposed to be spies, and know spycraft and use it all the time. CR4 is a very well designed site and I may now turn to the administrators for an ethical answer that influenced them to facilitate anonymous postings. Did seem to me that it was getting a bit extreme.

"Where did that suspicion that an Administrator of CR4 would alter a post come from?" - because we did not write "Also, I just want you to know that despite everything I've said above, I really admire you and everyone else on CR4, think you're all very intelligent, and find your discussions engaging."

If you look at our posts they are all written in the plural or the third person - that is what we have been doing all the time.

Surely you can see that this is not just an issue for ourselves as Guests but for Registered members as well. Perhaps someone should ask Admin if they modified the post.

This sort of behaviour could get someone into a lot of trouble at sometime in the future. What if someone modified your post to include something illegal or subversive then perhaps you may find yourself trying to explain it to higher authorities.

Yes, in this instance, it is funny that it was modified in such a way. However that is not the issue - it is the fact that it was modified is the issue.

Had the post been offensive then the post should have been removed.

Perhaps this is really the answer to your initial post "Why So Many Guests"

We just hope that some member reads this and asks Admin if they had anything to do with this modification. If they did not then there is a security issue with the site.

I am in agreement with CSM Engineer. I did not mean to start trouble. Chris onetime yanked a thread I started about mushrooms in the yard. My suggestion that Poly Science would be a legitimate category has also been rejected. In both cases I got a note and in both cases I understood the reasoning. Even if I did disagree to some point, the administrators of this site have over the two years I have participated, have displayed impeccable manners.

Which bloody guest are you. He is a bit confused. I knew it was related to a variety of mushroom in some way. Thanks for changing your ways, Ky.

Just an update on where in the world is Steve S.

Still in the South China Sea, I fly back onshore tomorrow. No pirates so far, but I sat in the crew lounge last night for several hours playing electric rhythm guitar at very high volumes with the mainly Filipino crew, a scaffolder on bass, a cook doing vocals, one of the maintenance techs on drums, and one of the guys on the cleaning crew on lead guitar. These guys were all professional caliber musicians... I had a bit of trouble keeping up with them at times.

Here is a picture of my digs, yes that is the helideck right above my roof.

Make sure to follow the arrows to the life boats....

One of the problem compressors I am supposed to engineer a solution for..

There are some very good musicians in pick-up bands in the Philippines. I recall back in the '60's (when I was last there) any bar band I heard could have had a recording contract here in the States.

It's a well known fact that Steve S. once caught all the fish in the Gulf of Thailand in one night. When the fisherman villagers along the coast of Thailand woke up the next morning and found all the fish gone, they immediately tracked down Steve S. and begged him to put the fish back so they wouldn't starve. Unfortunately the fish were already dead, so Steve S. went to Australia and scooped up the ocean onto the desert and created salt flats. Then he salted the fish and gave them to the fisherman from Thailand so they wouldn't starve. To this day the word for fish in Thai is ปลา , which is pronouced stee-ve-es.

I sometimes forget to sign in, assuming that I'm still signed in from the last session.