gonzo914 wrote:Just who are these "respected members of the community," anyway? How do I go about identifying one? Is it tattooed on the backs of their necks? Do they have nametags? Do I just have to keep sniffing about until I get a whiff of respectability?
Me, well now, I wouldn't know a respected member if one hit me in the face.
Maybe you've arrived when someone prefaces a reply to you with "With all due respect..."
Otherwise I have no idea.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
Walden wrote:He ain't fat, old, and bald. Rumor has it he ain't even Heinz Erhardt.
This is an ugly rumor.
Bloomfield wrote:
emmline wrote:
urrrg....oooof! (grunt.)
Will somebody please help me push Bloomie off his chair?
(respected member that I am.)
I am too fat, old, and balding to be budged.
Right. So...just give me your lunch money.
(...waiting to see if disciplinary action will be launched...)
cool. Didn't think so.
(...waiting to see if I get any lunch money...)
dang. Didn't think so.
This bully schtick is way overrated.
Somehow, that bully thing just doesn't seem to fit you well, Emm. On the other hand if you did manage to shove Bloomie off his stool, disciplinary action would soon follow as he would probably fall on your foot, with untold consequences.
djm wrote:Well, I'm old, fat and balding, and everyone bows and scrapes in my presence, so obviously it's ME. I may be a bully, but by gord I get respect!
Walden wrote:C&F ain't slipping, other than a few people getting by with being bullies, and running off folks, because they are "respected members of the community."
I still check in a lot but I stopped coming here all the time not long after the great bifurcation due to all of the nasty political grinding. I know that it stopped but it got so bad for a while that it REALLY got under my skin... It was totally depressing to me.
Be that as it may, C&F seems to be doing just as well as it ever has. There's lots of new folks around and the conversations are still going strong. It may be replaced one of these days, but as things go, it would really be a difficult task and I don't know why anyone would want to replace it.
I think that Mitch may be speaking tongue and cheek in the thread starter but it's an unfair assessment of this place IMO.
Paul wrote:I think that Mitch may be speaking tongue and cheek in the thread starter but it's an unfair assessment of this place IMO.
It would be if he were serious. I respectfully (hey, look! You're a respected member now, too ) submit that 'twas all just a lark taking its cue - or, could be, not - from past threads more earnest about how much better it all was "back when" (which plaints, frankly, are baffling to me, and something I cannot bring myself to really credit beyond the arena of the personal tastes and nostalgias of others in the face of inexorable change. Call me a sucker for novelty), and nothing else.
C&F may indeed one day be replaced, but its place is unlikely to ever be taken.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
Nanohedron wrote:how much better it all was "back when"
ah, but the memory grows ever sweeter as time passes
Doesn't it, though. I'm minded of a t-shirt I saw on a young feller that had blazoned on it the legend, "The older I get, the better I was". He'll find out sooner than he expects.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
) submit that 'twas all just a lark taking its cue - or, could be, not - from past threads more earnest about how much better it all was "back when" (which plaints, frankly, are baffling to me, and something I cannot bring myself to really credit beyond the arena of the personal tastes and nostalgias of others in the face of inexorable change. Call me a sucker for novelty), and nothing else.