GP> Okay, I'm confyuzled now!

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

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

 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.

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

 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.

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

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

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

 JB> X       prefix -meaning has been
 JB> spurt   noun ...Ahhhh, you're trying to get me in trouble again! 

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


 JB> ... No, no, nurse!        I said, "PRICK his BOIL!"

 LOL..

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

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

LYLAS means "love you like a sister".

Cindy

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