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Old 12-18-2009, 11:39 AM   #92 (permalink)
Carruthers
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Odd thing to share in a first post though.
Or are you a long-timer using an alias just for this one? Just curious. Only arskin'.
Typically I'm just an observer on the forums and if something I disagree with is posted
I would like to say something to the contrary, but typically someone else beats me to it,
so voicing my opinion is just redundant, but in this instance it seemed that no one agreed
with me, so I posted out of a mixture of curiosity and disappointment.
I note, though, that you've not exactly answered my question. You've said - effectively - that
typically (not actually - my emphasis) you've never needed to have posted anything.

Obviously you're not required to answer to anybody, but I just thought (in the light of the
recent minor opus by fallingwindows - and very enjoyable it was too) we might have
exposed a subset of folk who 'feel safer' voicing what they are reasonably confident will
be minority opinions by using another voice (as it were). So as not to compromise their
main representation on this forum.

It just struck me as odd that the first post any genuinely new person would post would
be a negative one. Kinda not getting off on the right foot so to speak. Not illegal of course!
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I got the jokes, they weren't so clever or over my head. I didn't find them funny because
in my opinion they were not.
OK. I hope you understand though that those of us who did lol, or find it
a hoot, weren't necessarily swayed by notions of 'loyalty laughter' or anything like that.
Not that we should care even if you did believe that, of course (especially if you
really are somebody else we all know and otherwise admire!).
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