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Originally Posted by Ironduke
I'm glad to see that you're enjoying the cookies. Hope both you and Bluesman like the notes  |
Sure did; nice touch.
Ya know, I'm as proud as Lucifer over that whole deal. I started off mad as hell, and in trying to prove a point, I've made a piece of WAB-lore. I am just as pleased as I can be that our new guys are all like, "What th' HELL is up wit' da butter cookies, yo?" It's like some Masonic secret now: you can't be all aboard the WAB 'til ya down wit' dem ole butter cookies.
My point then and still is VERY SIMPLE: don't let's screw this place up. A bunch of us found our way in here from a forum we used to like a whole bunch, and it managed to shred itself. One day, we tried to log in, and we had a 'through the looking glass' moment. Seriously, it was disorienting. Notice my join-up date is a day later than
dalem's. That's because I wasn't sure I wanted anything to do with anymore message boards. My old home was gone;
dalem had to talk me into givin' this place a try, and it took a week of reading before I posted my first time.
Be jealous of this place, guys. Treat it like your Mom's living room; not everybody is welcome, and as the eldest son, YOU are in charge of throwing the encyclopedia salesmen, prosyletizers, yobbos and louts out the door and down the steps. You guys ever notice I'm only a little nicer to n00bs than I am to terrorists, drug dealers and child molesters? It's because I want to take their measure, and if I get a whiff of jack-ass, I call it WAY faster than I would if I know the guy. Also...I want to see how they handle it when I chaw up their skivvies. Heh.
I'm not a mod; I don't care to be one, because I can't promise the dedication it takes to do it RIGHT. But I still see my role here as part-time junkyard dawg, because this place can go 'poof' at anytime, if we let it.
Stay in the game, and don't let anybody track mud all over Mom's carpet.