Poor Forum Etiquite

[Kudu]

I wasn't involved in the Margaret thing but I did read the thread...and I just went back and read it again. And I agree with Gold Winger. Her question was asked and answered. I'm not sure who said anything that was abusive or impolite...

 

Maybe it's a chick thing

[packsaddle]

Alas Kudu, I only have this to respond....thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

[OldGreyEagle]

Have I menioned my admiration of ee cummings?

[Bob White]

ee cummings was such a fine poet

unfortunately few people know it

he put lower cases

in all the wrong places

and who knows if the moon's

a balloon,coming out of a keen city

in the sky--filled with pretty people?

 

 

 

 

(This message has been edited by Bob White)

[evmori]

Should I be upset my thread was hijacked? Maybe.

 

Am I? Nope!

[Its Me]

 

Ed, your thread was more than just Hi-jacked, it broke down into at least three different conversations.

 

Ther once was a man who created a thread

That..........

 

Oh never mind!

[Zahnada]

I must say "I'm sorry" to Ed,

For I came in and hijacked his thread.

But a poetic bent,

Rather than arguments.

STILL caused a fight over what others said.

 

I'm amazed that anger is swelling.

On strange issues some posters are dwelling.

We just saw a fight,

'Tween Winger and White,

Over proper nautical spelling.

 

And although I feel scouting's the best,

Some scouters here can't take a jest.

I found the decorum,

Of some on this forum,

Actually made me enjoy scouting less.

 

So I slip on and off of this board,

Certain posters, I try to ignore.

Things stopped getting worse,

When I went into verse,

And my enjoyment has suddenly soared.

 

But I sadly must bid you adieu,

Once again, for the time, I am through,

But when someone gets to your goat,

Just delete what you wrote,

And write a limerick, it's good for you!

[evmori]

RAOTFLMAO

 

Thanks Zahnada!

[Vicki]

"Maybe it's a chick thing"

 

Simple sigh, stuck in stolid, silly, sexism...

 

Vicki

[fgoodwin]

Vickie, please don't take offense.

 

I don't know Rick personally, but I've read enough about and by him that I dare say he meant that remark facetiously, or perhaps even as a slight dig at those who might've been suggesting that it was Margaret's problem, not ours.

 

In any event, tone doesn't come across very well on the Internet.

[packsaddle]

Oh I think Kudu's remark was more a kind of very wry humor that I appreciate so much. Besides, it could be worse. Why...my wife often confides to her friends that only occasionally is she willing to admit to strangers that we're married.

[Vicki]

fun is found in funny finagles,

offense? none found.

hopefully, none given.

obviously obfuscatory humor (sigh again-not the first time my humor too dry)

 

thick skin grown over a number of years

of corporate warfare.

 

Benefit of the doubt critical.

 

Sanctuary.

Vicki(This message has been edited by Vicki)

[Gold Winger]

"Simple sigh, stuck in stolid, silly, sexism... "

 

Funny, isn't it how wimmen folk can cry sexism

when a man makes a comment about things that wimmen do

or uses a picture of a pretty girl to sell cars.

 

But when the wimmen folk say "that's just what men do"

or oggle the studly guy from the cover of the romance novels.

That's okay.

 

[Vicki]

"But when the wimmen folk say "that's just what men do"

or oggle the studly guy from the cover of the romance novels.

That's okay. "

 

No it isn't. Hope that's short, sweet, and declarative enough for you.

 

Vicki

 

 

[Gold Winger]

History has been made today because you're the first woman to ever hold that opinion.