Don't be tempted by this one . . .

Yup, and when I sign up for Elon Musk's one way trip to Mars, my situation will change again. Rumor has it there's only one U.S. coin on Mars.

 

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You'll have to sell off your collection to pay for the trip. When you get there you can look for that Lincoln.

 

I know EXACTLY where that little devil is. It’s on the background of my LinkedIn page.

 

You mean that occasionally you’re NOT speaking ex cathedra?

 

You might need to break this very gently to Jim. I’m pretty sure he’s being fitted for a papal mitre right now, even as we speak.

 

One of gawd's "special children". They have their own vocabulary, you know.

 

and an empty beer bottle

 

NOT beer! Any paredolic fool can identify that as a 1960’s era Mountain Dew bottle. Sheesh!

 

I can say this is 100% true.

 

But we "act" as if they are, to spare them any embarrassment. After all, we can't ask too much of people who do it just for the LOL's. All we have left is to wonder why they get LOL's out of it. It reveals a dark truth to their nature that's better left unexplored.

 

I disagree with this. They get a lot of flack.

 

“wherever there is great power, lofty position, there is great responsibility"
- Reverend John Cumming, a Minister of the Scottish National Church, 1854.

Not, as many believe, a line from a Spiderman movie.

 

Well. When the pond is small enough the fish seem really big.

 

Not me, but I got a real tongue lashing from the moderator for doing it.

 

Yeah, me too. They always use that worn out excuse that the rules are clear and unambiguous, but the dirty little secret is that once a human being interprets those rules, they instantly become as clear as Mississippi mud.

 

Kurt...do you want to know the truth. The honest truth about that. This will probably not endear me to some of the people here...but here is the truth about the rules at CT.

The rules were written by one member of the staff...and that person will tell you the rules are crystal clear. They are clear because he wrote them (I was actually told that one time while being dressed down). The problem is...they are only clear to him.

The fact is, if we behave and don't cause trouble it doesn't matter how clear or not they are. But the truth is...they aren't. The person who wrote them runs the show...staff who question that don't last and those who don't do. Clear as mud.

 

So it’s a meritocracy then.