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PostSubject: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeTue Oct 28, 2008 8:22 pm

The slogan says it all: "A Fan Domain for the Sanely Insane"

I have created this fan board for Gerry Butler to be a "safe" place...a haven, if you will...for people to be themselves. When it comes to "celebrities" and "fandoms" and things of this nature, I think sometimes we forget that there's nothing wrong with taking off the rose colored glasses, removing the "celebrity" from the very tall pedestal we've put them on, and letting them be themselves. The ironic thing about it is, when we've done that, we can let our own proverbial hair down and be ourselves as well.

Many times and with many different fandoms (and trust me, I've been around enough of them to know it isn't just an isolated incident), the trend is to run across the two extremes:

1) The extreme gushers: These are the fanboys/fangirls who can't see beyond their own object of affection to see reality. In other words, everything the actress/actor/etc. does is perfect, without flaw, and without discussion. These are the people who accuse you of being bashers and haters when you say something that doesn't fit in with their own fantasy mold of what they've made that person out to be (which, in most cases, is rooted in their own psyche, and not in reality).

2) The extreme bashers: these are the "cynical" ones who see bad in everything an actor, actress, musician, director, etc. does. I wouldn't call these real fans, though they seem to devote just as much time (if not more) to the object of their bashing than the gushing fanboy/fangirl would. I won't explain these types of people any further, because you know who they are. They're bulliies, and sometime in their life someone peed in their Cheerios. Wink

But there is a third type of fan (thankfully)...I call them...

3) The "Sanely Insane" fan: these are the people who love to gush when it's appropriate, yet haven't forgotten reality in the process. They see the actor/actress/musician/etc. with all of their flaws, warts, ingrown toenails, bad temper tantrums, Prima Donna moments, etc...yet still love and admire them for it. While they don't make excuses for bad behavior, they don't sit in the seat of condemnation, either. They don't have their knickers in a twist, or a bug up their arse. They love to have fun, tell it like it is, let their hair down, and just kick back and relax.

In case you haven't figured it out by now, I have created this forum for the #3 type of personality. "The Domain for the Sanely Insane". Not all insanity need be dangerous, or stalkerish, or creepy. Some insanity is just plain silly, and lighthearted, and fun.

After all, isn't that why you got involved with it in the first place??

So if you decide to lurk, join, or whatever...I hope you have fun. And I hope if you are lurking, you'll come out of lurkdom and introduce yourself.

You might think we're insane...but that's only in your head. lol!
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeWed Oct 29, 2008 12:59 pm

Wooooot! Yeah, baby!![b] albino
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeWed Oct 29, 2008 2:35 pm

I'm still boringly sane. I'll have to work on that. drunken
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeThu Oct 30, 2008 12:57 am

Well put Donna Very Happy !!!

I think we are all boringly sane Bird Very Happy !!!
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeThu Oct 30, 2008 2:52 am

You gotta work to be insane around here. So get to posting! geek
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeThu Oct 30, 2008 3:50 am

I'm tryin, I'm trying!

~alice
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeFri Oct 31, 2008 10:24 pm

That makes me a 2.5 fan. Evil or Very Mad drunken I love you
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeFri Oct 31, 2008 10:43 pm

So does that mean someone only half peed in your Cheerios? Or maybe they tried to pee in them and half missed the spot? tongue
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeFri Oct 31, 2008 10:48 pm

DonnaKat wrote:
So does that mean someone only half peed in your Cheerios? Or maybe they tried to pee in them and half missed the spot? tongue
No one gets to pee in my Cheerios! Mad

I'm somewhat cynical, and somewhat sane, somewhere between fan type 2 and type 3. Maybe 2.75. I don't bash celebrities much.
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeFri Oct 31, 2008 10:51 pm

Nah, stating an opinion isn't necessarily bashing. Celebrities aren't perfect, and sometimes they're asses just like the rest of us. I prefer to live my life without the rose colored glasses. That way I can better see where I'm going.

At least you're not between the 1 and the 2.
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeFri Oct 31, 2008 11:05 pm

I'd hate myself if I were between 1 and 2. Those are the worst kind of people. Blind zealots. Or is that an oxymoron?

Since this is a pantry, where are all the food?
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeFri Oct 31, 2008 11:12 pm

Here you go. You'll have to cook it though.

The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Christmasduck
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeSat Nov 01, 2008 2:29 am

Ewwww!
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeSat Nov 01, 2008 12:58 pm

I just lost my appetite.
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeSat Nov 01, 2008 1:13 pm

It's a duck. I took that pretty picture last Christmas. Laughing

It was quite tasty once I baked it.
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeSun Nov 02, 2008 7:42 pm

I think I might be in trouble. Shocked

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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeSun Nov 02, 2008 7:47 pm

Is that before or after the diet?
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeFri Nov 21, 2008 11:48 am

That is just not right!


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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeFri Nov 21, 2008 11:48 am

Birdseed wrote:
I think I might be in trouble. Shocked

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Run Bird Run!!


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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeSun Nov 23, 2008 5:43 am

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3) The "Sanely Insane" fan: these are the people who love to gush when it's appropriate, yet haven't forgotten reality in the process.

I'd like to classify myself as this type of fan, nice to know there's a group of like minded fans and a forum for them. Smile
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeSun Nov 23, 2008 12:34 pm

Mmmmm, well....I can't say I was one of those fans in the beginning. As many of you already know, after I saw Erik for the first time, I lost my mind for a few months. I joined one of his fansites for two years and I was one of those obnoxious gushers for the first two months. I could not get enough of Gerard Butler. In retrospect, I realize he was filling a tremendous void in my life at the time.
I joined GALS eight days after the death of my mother (after being a lurker for months before).
Two years later, I'm myself again. LOL! I still love G, but can now look at him as a man....not as an enigma.
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeWed Apr 22, 2009 6:34 pm

Hello all. The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Wave-1

I've started work on a Mission Statement for the Forum at the moment. I have some thoughts, some examples from other non-celebrity related companies and extracts from Forum discussion (rules, Vision).

If anyone is interested in contributing, please PM me. Your input would be appreciated.
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PostSubject: Re: The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry   The Vision Behind Butler's Pantry Icon_minitimeTue Jul 27, 2010 11:30 am

Now I know why I like this forum so much. I'm at the right place! And the duck is pretty funny too! affraid
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