MsGuy

If he wants something patriotic without too much overt jingoism, God Bless America (Irvin Berlin) works ok.

If he's still stuck in that fly blown village you call home, tell him to play it safe and go with the Alabama Fight Song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jsVDFgDGK1I Can't go wrong with ROLL TIDE!

Me neither. So Michael Sam came out and there was a real media freak out. Now less than 6 months after that all died down, an O lineman for Arizona State comes out and there's hardly a single camera crew poking a mike in his face. Have out gay athletes (I mean in real sports, not girly stuff like swimming and diving) become the new normal so fast? Yay for our side! Or maybe it's just that Chip plays in the Pac 12 and Michael was in the SEC.

Some of us are born to brandy about words like 'quotidian' and others of us are left to mop up the mess left behind. Such are our different lots in life.

Quite right, AS. Interestingly enough, moderators are also found in nuclear reactors. Somewhat counter-intuitively, there moderators serve to force feed the the fission reactions, thereby driving the heat in the reactor vessel much higher than it would be if left to its own devices. Over moderation can rapidly lead to a complete nuclear meltdown, rendering a site unsafe to humans for years. Hmmm...maybe not so counter-intuitive after all.

The beauty of TY's Sandbox system is that nobody gets censored, everybody gets to be just as silly as they want and admins don't get entangled in the foolishness trying to chivy enraged posters into acting like they had good sense. Added bonus: once deprived of the spotlight essential to its growth, the fuss tends die out on its own, no further admin intervention being required. ---- Hmmm...I seem to recall someone suggesting just such a course of action about midway through this particular hoorah. But did anyone listen? :no:

I was thinking more along this display, Lucky:

Folks interested in the back story to all this may wish to check out the Sandbox.

LOL, well I was wondering what happened between you two. Never thought to look down here in the Sandbox. ---- Oz, you may have let the Drakester get under your skin but at least you didn't pull a Stalin and erase the whole incident from history. Give yourself some credit for that. Or was there more we aren't seeing?

BTW, AS, don't trust Siri with your playtime adventures. The bitch will roll on you every time.

Actually, AS, entrapment is an affirmative defence (burden of proof on the defendant) that can be negated by prosecution evidence of a prior inclination by the defendant to commit the crime in question. Translation: Sucks to be you.

Turns you on, does he? Are you still required to notify the neighbors of your status, AS, or has that court order expired? PS Google image has a bottomless reservior of moppets. Or a reservior of bottomless moppets. (makes a difference which you google . It's all in how you frame your search terms. )

No, you dirty minded perverts, this post has nothing to do with my drooping cheeks. It's refers to an article from the Guardian about 'Rogeting', the latest wrinkle in the eternal war between plagiarising students and the tight assed teachers who seek to reveal their sins and put a few stripes of just punishment on their bottoms. For those of you who have never had the unique pleasure of grading & (just for the sake of argument) reading a three foot high stack of student essays while under a tight deadline from the dean's office to get her the results so the little darlings could graduate ( or not) with the rest of their class, here's the essential background information: Students long ago discovered that, by searching obscure nooks and crannies of the internet, they could find (and cut and paste) material suitable for nearly any essay topic yet, at the same time, unlikely to be familiar to the poor sot assigned to read the stuff. Now some of you might think this a win win solution to the essay problem: the students are spared the agony of actually writing an essay and the teacher (or more likely his grad students) is spared having to read hundreds, possibly thousands, of pages of the most excruciatingly bad writing this side of nurse novels for teenage girls. But no, the teachers, being the rigid, judgmental party poopers they are, resisted this benign solution by insisting that students do their own work or face the righteous wrath of the educational establishment. Soon enough teachers, with the help of friendly forces in the IT departments, devised software that scanned even the darkest corners of the internet looking for a match to the suspect essay. Disaster all around. Does it need to be said that students, like other sinners, proved reluctant to give up their evil ways? Which brings us, dear reader, by the most circuitous route possible, back to Rogeting!

Hmmm.... Not worth a second glance?

Been quite a few decades since a general circulation magazine could get away with publishing an essay about the pleasures of smearing small boys with honey.

OK, I'll bite... WTF is a 'boneless' banana?

Or you will feel the wrath of SUCKYMAN and his terrible Blue Balls! Can't help but agree and this point.

Ermm, OFF WITH YOUR....BALLS?

Something about this post was bugging the shit out of me, so I went back and checked the relevant thread. For the record, I did not beg off anything while lookin was still under consideration. I merely observed that my nomination by TY showed a remarkable lack of judgement on his part which is not the same thing at all. ---- I await a groveling apology for your false & misleading restatement of the record, Mr. Rove. And I damn well better get it prior to my elevation to the position of Imperial Proconsul or it's OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!

You know, lookin, yours is the only simple, practical system I've seen proposed. Short of appointing me Imperial Proconsul for the Duration, this might be a viable self policing scheme. And after watching it work itself out in practice for a while, Oz could always re-jigger the votes needed to ban bad actors to suit his personal sensibilities. Lookin, you never cease to impress.

Well I think Oz should choose someone from Alabama's sister state Mississippi as being most likely to reflect his own background, principles and approach to riding herd on the site. He needs a home-boy to have his back while he's off wandering the wilds of where-ever. Failing that, why not ask Tampa Yankee to postpone his retirement for a few months? A suitable enticement, say 2 weeks in Havana, might be needed to lure him back but well worth the cost.

Does a head count as half?

Tell us something we didn't already know, Sucky Dearest.

More accurately stated: I would be a prostitute if only I could find someone to pay me.

Oooo...talk about an awkward faux pas.