How to contact the NRA....

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 11:08 am

peeplj wrote:Walden's got the right idea, methinketh.

This thread didn't start off all that pretty, and age hasn't made it anything but uglier.

Time to let this one die and be buried, don't'cha think?

--James

Preferably with garlic in its mouth and a stake through it's heart. This thread's worse than Count Dracula for refusing to die.

madguy · Post by **madguy** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 11:13 am

Agreed. Let this thred die, along with the leaders of the NRA.

Larry

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 3:40 pm

Just for the record, my last post was a joke.
I have nothing whatsoever against owls.

I think one of the simple (but difficult) things we can all
do to make a better world is to stop
demonizing the people with whom we
disagree. Best

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 3:44 pm

Let's each put a post a day here saying that this thread must die!

As i said before, i think threads like this serve a purpose, to keep the nastyness out of the on-topic threads.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 4:05 pm

Glauber,

You just may have a point there.

Kind of like a filter for the sludge at the bottom of the pool.

--James

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 4:09 pm

peeplj wrote:Kind of like a filter for the sludge at the bottom of the pool.

Except in this case it's at the top of the page!

My theory is that we live with so much pressure, disappointment and pent-up rage that we have to blow steam somewhere. Better to make fools of ourselves on the Net than to go postal with live ammunition.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 4:22 pm

What is the REAL shame is that I started this thread as a rib on WHISTLE players that read music while playing their WHISTLES! Sure, there was some underlying hint at other ideas, but it was still about WHISTLES and WHISTLE players and conveyed that message VERY clearly.

At the beginning some poster caught that spirit of it all and posted some cleverly worded and very punny words.

Then ............

:roll: Oh well,

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 4:29 pm

glauber wrote: My theory is that we live with so much pressure, disappointment and pent-up rage that we have to blow steam somewhere. Better to make fools of ourselves on the Net than to go postal with live ammunition.

I think you are right.

No matter what someone's beliefs, perspective, or convictions, we are all living in a rather unfriendly world these days. I think having a safe place to vent is actually a very useful function for boards like this one from time to time.

It makes unpleasant reading for scared newbies, though...so I am hoping to see a lessening of the sociopolitical / religious warfare threads.

--James

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:15 pm

Oh, please...let's have more of this "death to this thread" chant. Don't let it stop now. I find it healing. If most of these OT threads didn't become so shallow and self-serving...I might die for want of laughter. (of course I laugh at my own posts..you'll never know how hard)

Death to this thread!

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:24 pm

May it languish in painful agony!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:49 pm

Die, O Thread of Contentiousness.

Die.

Be thou snuffed out into oblivion and flung beyond the reach of memory, and thy worm-eaten soul ground into dust. May recorder players and banjoists torment thee up to the hour of thy rubbing-out.

DIE.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:51 pm

Why can't we all just get along, and embrace this thread for all it's faults? Nobody's perfect, after all. I don't think any thread should have to die.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:55 pm

Bloomfield wrote:Why can't we all just get along, and embrace this thread for all it's faults? Nobody's perfect, after all. I don't think any thread should have to die.

Cranberry, is that you? What have you done with Bloomfield?!?!?

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 7:07 pm

Did someone call 911?

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 7:09 pm

Bloomfield wrote:Why can't we all just get along, and embrace this thread for all it's faults? Nobody's perfect, after all. I don't think any thread should have to die.

Beautiful...that's really...beautiful.