05-14-05  11:06, Cindy Haglund told James Bradley about Hello!?

 How do, Cindy?

 JB> Come to think about it, the moderator seems incommunicado.  tap.>

 CH> Well maybe he sees we're behaving so well...m

Ya, that's the ticket! 

 JB> When I first started on Fido, we had a crachety moderator on a
 JB> city-wide Gardening echo. When I wrote "Crotching" one
day to describe
 JB> a trees growth tendency, she hit the roof, *it* hit the fan, and she
 JB> exposed herself as a numbskull. Ever since, I'm rather reluctant to
 JB> push limits.

 CH> Hey! There's lots of those. Burn outs I call 'em. A wise former
 CH> moderator confided to me 'when you find yourself taking yourself and
 CH> the echo too seriously (i.e: reading into what's not there)- it's time
 CH> to be honest with yourself. Either lighten up or find a new hobby. :)
 CH> He did.

What are you *trying* to tell me, Cindy? 
 
 JB> "Bastard" while too often misused, is little understood
for its true
 JB> meaning. Sometimes moderators only run their pattern recognition, and
 JB> fly up a flagpole before they buy a dictionary, or understand the
 JB> topic they are professing to be an expert on.

 CH> I like that. "Pattern re recognition" , aka paranoia? :)
OH but they
 CH> don't HAVE to look things up or ask what do you mean. Having taken on
 CH> God like qualities they forget what 'moderator' means. If they, 'god'
 CH> see what you say is wrong, according to them- it is wrong and you
 CH> have no say in the matter. That is how it is with them. Period. :)
 CH> Sad, pathetic but .. sadly, true.

She was a devout Mormon, and... Well, I aint. Let's just say I like to
plant bees in bonnets, and I suffer for the consequences... But boy do I
LAUGH!!!

 JB> BTW, d'ya hear the definition of expert?

 CH> YES! "Someone from out of town." By authority of' Sir Tagline. :)

I've worked for a few here.  Maybe I need to move to your town!

 CH> Oh you could provide your convincing evidence but it won't matter.
 CH> Because the god wanabes can never be wrong. Never ever . YOU are wrong
 CH> always always ever see.. That is how it goes with that sort.
 

What are you *trying* to say? <-;

 CH> OH btw a long time ago in now defunct echo- (a tale of truth and
 CH> neverendlly amusing; a favorite of mine retold many a time too often
 CH> perhaps- there was a self appointed forum police guy. Once a fellow
 CH> poster and I exchanged "LYLAS" in our sign off. We were friends. We
 CH> knew each other in 'real' life you see. Well this guy didn't bother to
 CH> ask what it meant in the way you would in polite society. No. He
 CH> inferred it meant something naughty. (Gee what gutter is HIS mind in?)

 CH> Well when we told him what it meant he didn't say anything but I
 CH> imagine he was embarrassed. Instead of taking his medicine like adult
 CH> he became even MORE intolerant of whatever we said. ha.

Did you laugh real hard?

 CH> LYLAS means "love you like a sister".

But when you told "him" you "LYLAS", was this because
of an operation?



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