My dear Rancid, I’m not sure what I did to deserve the scorn you have heaped upon my head, but let me explain my comment to you, as you seem to have difficulty with reading comprehension. I was not “ganging up” on TAG in defense of Canthz B. CB is more than capable of fighting his own battles, of which I have first-hand experience. I just found TAG’s hypocrisy amusing. You see, he was complaining about unfunny posts while contributing nothing but an unfunny post. That it was an attack on CB was incidental.

I hope that helps you understand my post. I’m sorry I didn’t respond sooner. I’ve been keeping busy with my mundane little life, you know, working, knitting, reading, messing around on the internet and watching tv. I suppose you’ve been curing cancer or saving puppies from burning buildings or something? I am so humbled.

In my perfect world I would “hold court here”, but as I have to work and am away without access to the site for over ten hours each business day this has become an impossibility for me…and an odd obsession for you.

Interestingly enough, you’ve arbitrarily decided what you think is acceptable here, while simultaneously chastising others for doing the same. You berate us for “ganging up” on others while at the same time ganging up with TAG.
How does that make you any better than those you disapprove of?
Personally, I’ve never claimed that I’m a nice person, I’m into passive aggressiveness, that’s why I’m drawn to this site…you’ll find a lot of people like that here, though some are more passive while others are more aggressive. That’s just the nature of the beast.

You’re just as judgemental as you claim we are, in that you’ve decided we are assholes and morons, so get off your high horse before someone calls you a moronic asshole.

Where did you get “canz” out of “can this be?”
I tried to figure it out on my own, but my goldfish-like attention span ran out on me…oh wait, that was supposed to offend me, right? That wasn’t very nice, even though my comment’s sincerity is pure.

Don’t pull this wide-eyed innocent act. You and your friend are not nice people. I, hopefully without exception, am nice to folks who are sincere in their comments (even if I disagree with them). But once someone shows their true colors, and acts like an asshole (especially when they gang up with other morons), then the evil part of me comes out.

–Kermit the Hulk

Above all, just use some common sense…although I know that can be uncommon these days.

Squat here all day? Guess you have trouble reading timestamps, but they are on every comment.
But then, you’d have to squat here all day being bored to feel put upon by those who do squat here all day and comment, right?
You’d also have to be a bit slow to spend all day squatting at a website that bores you given the vastness of the internet.

I said unprovoked animosity, BTW. Tell me, what did I do to TAG before the comment? What did Glo do to you? On both counts the answer is a great, big “NOTHING”. There’s a difference.
Glo happens to be a very well-read woman. Though I cannot say she’s read the literary works of art you mentioned, I can say you are uninformed as to her reading habits.
So unprovoked and uninformed are merely statements of fact.
Most here don’t just make disparaging comments about others just because we’ve taken a personal disliking to them…because we don’t know them personally, we usually try to at least start with disagreeing with their comments. Not start by taking exception to the very fact that they commented. I don’t think I’ve ever told anyone they should stop posting because I don’t happen to like their jokes…because others may like them just fine, and it’s not my taste in jokes that counts here, nor does anyone particularly care about your personal tastes in humor. Might just as well keep that to yourself for all it’s worth.

Funny thing is, neither you nor TAG made any comment about the note, just personal attacks on others here.

Just a few tiny ideas that popped randomly into my head.

Sometimes it’s nice to have a moment where you can’t do anything but a simple task while you look out the window over the back yard, or at the hummingbirds coming to the feeder at the window or even, dare I say it, daydream a little.

I INSISTED we get a dishwasher with our house though when we were house hunting.

Explains why my cat is always so twitchy.

That’s going in my quotable file, fully attributed. Thanks, berge!