Where in the US if Barney?

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

You've plagiarized your post. I may have to suspend you in the future if you continue to post copyrighted material as if it is your own words. We all know that you aren't that smart and literate, so you can't fake it.

exUte, Waters doesn't really mean this. I appreciate it when you post copyrighted material. It saves me the time of going to another site. Please continue.

[exUte]

Originally Posted by YOhio

exUte, Waters doesn't really mean this. I appreciate it when you post copyrighted material. It saves me the time of going to another site. Please continue.

I'll copy and paste and you can insert quotation marks where you wish. It's called empowerment.

Good idea?

BTW.........any comments on the actual facts of the original post. Or still looking at the rings in the tree?

[Clark Addison]

Originally Posted by creekster

My mom bought the red ones. World Bbook somethign or another. I was excited about it until I realized just how boring they were. I remember announcing at the beginning that I was going to read the entire encylopedia. I recevied much congratulations from my adoring family. The rality was not nearly as enjoyable. I don't think I made it past "Aardvark" before the siren call of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd and their always intrigunig and never-ending confrontation overwhlemed me.

Off topic, but if you want to read a good book about a guy who read the whole encyclopedia (Britannica), try out "The Know it All" by AJ Jacobs. He also wrote a good one about living the Bible literally for a year.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by exUte

I'll copy and paste and you can insert quotation marks where you wish. It's called empowerment.

Good idea?

Great idea!

[PaloAltoCougar]

Originally Posted by creekster

My mom bought the red ones. World Bbook somethign or another. I was excited about it until I realized just how boring they were. I remember announcing at the beginning that I was going to read the entire encylopedia. I recevied much congratulations from my adoring family. The rality was not nearly as enjoyable. I don't think I made it past "Aardvark" before the siren call of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd and their always intrigunig and never-ending confrontation overwhlemed me.

I'm happy you bailed at "Aardvark," otherwise I'd think you were like Mark Pluff, a kid in 7th grade who announced to our English class that he was going to read the dictionary over Christmas vacation, a weird promise he actually made good on, resulting in his sporting a perma-wedgie through the remainder of the year.

And what happened to the practice of grocery stores in the '60s selling encyclopedias and other book series, with a new volume offered each week? Mom also bought much of our fine china there as well ("This week: gravy boats!"). Our drinking glasses ("The NFL Collection"), on the other hand, came from purchasing full tanks of gas at a station on Castro Valley Boulevard.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by PaloAltoCougar

That's funny, and it reminds me of my grade school days of writing reports by dumbing down the text of Golden Book Encyclopedias (the ones Mom bought at the grocery store). I got really good at masking, a lesson exie apparently learned.

That brings back memories. I chuckle to think of those grade school teachers seeing all of that plagiarized materials in essays from grade-school kids. One thing we learned, however, is that you could put down almost anything and get full credit. They just didn't bother to read most of them.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Originally Posted by exUte

Talk about getting your panties in a wad. You and MW are missing the entire story here because of ONE quotation mark.

I've heard of people not being able to see for the forest for the trees. But not being able to see the tree for the rings in the tree. I like that one.

OK, back on point, sort of…

Exie, in a sense, you're right, as I rarely consider the substance of your posts. This is due to your smug, humorless and self-satisfied message board persona that makes your offerings consistently repugnant. And yes, "smug" and "self-satisfied" can be applied to me and others here (and often are), too. The difference is that we welcome the criticism and enjoy the banter. You're the cranky, mirthless old man on the porch yelling worthless epithets at the kids playing out front.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

You've plagiarized your post. I may have to suspend you in the future if you continue to post copyrighted material as if it is your own words. We all know that you aren't that smart and literate, so you can't fake it.

I don't know. The writer doesn't seem to know what sanguine means.

[exUte]

Originally Posted by PaloAltoCougar

OK, back on point, sort of…

Exie, in a sense, you're right, as I rarely consider the substance of your posts. This is due to your smug, humorless and self-satisfied message board persona that makes your offerings consistently repugnant. And yes, "smug" and "self-satisfied" can be applied to me and others here (and often are), too. The difference is that we welcome the criticism and enjoy the banter. You're the cranky, mirthless old man on the porch yelling worthless epithets at the kids playing out front.

As Nicholson said, "you can't handle the truth".

I find some behavior dispicable though.......especially coming from the owner of the board. Like calling people racist, posting people's identity.

PAC, re: old and cranky..........thanks pot. Being called old by someone much older is comedic.

LOL

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I don't know. The writer doesn't seem to know what sanguine means.

Mike was speaking in a relative sense. I.e., smart and literate compared to exie. Admittedly, it's not a high threshold. I have some hammers in my garage that might qualify.