Hey I know that I opened up a can o’ worms here. When I posted this thread I thought it was an innocuous, silly little thing. I guess it was ill-conceived. I did not expect people to invest so much time and energy into figuring out who I am. I will tell you that someone here has gotten VERY close. However, we will have to go back to the good ol’ days (last week) where none of you knew, much less cared a thing about me.
I apologize to those who are angered by this. I was taken aback at how seriously some of you take this, and charmed by the humour and good-natured-ness of others who took it as it was meant - a light hearted thread about nothing.
I think you’re giving yourself too much credit. As far as I know, no-one is taking this “seriously” in the sense that anyone’s making an effort to track you down in real life. What’s actually happened is that you presented a riddle, then decided to withhold the answer. That you seem surprised that this would prompt irritation and hostility strikes me as utter bullshit. Whether you realize or accept it or not, your activity contains a strong element of condescension, i.e. you know a fact that we’re not mature enough to handle. You’ve essentually insulted our collective intelligence.
There are people here who have responded and may continue to respond in a light-hearted manner. That others don’t isn’t shocking in the least. You can salvage the situation by revealing the riddle’s answer, but if you won’t you may as well give up on the thread, because I rather doubt the situation will improve anytime soon.
[Aside]Bryan Ekers - I have failed on every level to find a post of yours that I don’t like. As far as I can tell you’re a class-act doper that has an excellent grip on what’s going on around here. This isn’t carte blanche, but from what I can tell - damn, you’re cool .
You want fame? Well, fame COSTS! And right here’s where you start paying!
{I don’t give a damn who he is or isn’t. I’m not from the US, so chances are I wouldn’t have heard of him anyway. I’m just avoiding the Pit until the election name-calling dies down, and this thread’s a good place to amuse myself}
I would like a reply to my challenge that you email your alleged famous identity to one trusted Doper (for example Polycarp) who will report back on the validity of your claim. There is no danger to you in accepting this simple way of defusing this situation.
newcrasher: Do you or do you not accept the challenge?
If not, then I think I have proven what I what I’ve thought all along, that you are full of bullshit.
Gracias, Seesco, but it wouldn’t take even that thorough a search to find my pomposity and innate jerkitude. Looking at the threads I’ve started (and which subsuequenty keeled over and died) would be a good start.
Plus there was these posts of mine about violence in Japanese media which I’ve come to regret.
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