“the butter on a bald monkey” comment gave me the heebie jeebies.
Although logically I know that I’m already too late to keep the view count & post counts equal, I feel a strange sort of pressure to follow the instruction in the OP. I feel like a lemming.
Man, I was looking forward to an actual “game.”
Next let’s play “see who can hit themselves in the head the hardest - with a brick.” You go first.
Although I originally planned to reply to this post, I have changed my mind. So there.
hey, wait…
I may have stumbled on every one of dan’s posts so far…
I think he’s shaping up well.
Aw, jeez. You see, here’s the problem. Now that I’ve posted to this thread, I’ll have to keep coming back to see what’s been added. And if I do that and follow the rules, I’ll have to add more. At which point I’ll be forced to come back later to see what else has been added, which will force me to post again … do you see where this is going?
So in conclusion, let me just say, “Baaa-Baaaa” [sub]<—that’s my sheep call[/sub]
Pay no attention to me–I’m just following Medea’s Child around like a puppy dog.
A lost, little golden retriever puppy dog with sweet eyes and oversized paws and big, floppy ears.
I’m moving to California. In a couple weeks.
Hey… I looked and I posted…
Happy festive winter occassion of your choice 
Thanks, Medea’s Child! 'Course, they’re easy to stumble upon - among all the intelligenti on this board, my posts are the sore thumb of inept handymen!
I’ve actually been lurking for a few weeks, visiting this site while at work (shhh!). Ya learn a lotta neat things on here… Problem is, the site’s addictive. Oh sure, first you go every week or so and check out Unca Cecil’s column. Then you try out the Mailbag. And then you’re coming in every day, checking out some of the message boards. And THEN you get brave and check out the Pit (wow, you people are brutal! But logical! I laud that!). And THEN you get brave enough to wander into the Pit and post! I’m not that brave yet.
See? It’s an addiction. I bet if we amalgamated ourselves, we could push for some the implementation of some nice 12-step programs. But we can give this up anytime, can’t we? We just don’t wanna!
Well, it somewhat worked. Keep it coming. Let’s see if we can at least make it one post per ten views.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Bah! Snookered again!
Just doing my part for The Cause
:rolleyes:
Hmm… After I posted my first post here, I got to wondering what actually consitutes a “view”. I mean, I load the thread one to view it the first time, I hit reply, and I view it a second time, I hit submit and view it a third time. Maybe I even hit preview a couple times.
But then I tried preview and it doesn’t look like it influences the view count. So this becomes a pointless post. Oh well.
So then I say to myself, “Self, don’t go in to that thread again. You’ve already been in there and know what it’s all about.”
And yet, here I am again.
I am glad, though, that I read about the butter on a bald monkey. That makes me feel like I got my money’s worth.
(BTW, is the apostrophe in “money’s worth” correct? This would imply that the worth that I am getting “belongs” to the money. Or is it “monies worth?” This would imply that the plural of money is monies and that I got enough worth in proportion to how much “monies” I spent on the effort/object/etc. I don’t recall ever having seen the phrase written down.)
Baaaa-Baaaaa Baaaaa-Baaaaa
tevya,
AFAIK, it does have that apostrophe. The way I’ve always interpreted it (and it is an idiom, anyway) is that it’s the worth OF the money. “moneys worth” or “monies worth” just don’t make sense to me, and if I came across either as an editor, I’d probably be right peeved at the writer.
{kind of hard to hijack a thread with no real topic, eh? But anyway… [/hijack]}