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drag chute helps it stop
And before some smartass (I’m looking at you **Happy Scrappy Hero Pup *) chimes in about my spelling, let me be clear l33t speak, as far as I am concerned, can be spelled any way you want. The point is to obscure communication, while at the same time fooling yourself into thinking that you are somehow special or vaguly interesting.
*Why yes, someone did piss in my cheerieos this morning, thanks for asking.
Dilute! Dilute!
That’s why you shouldn’t let the cat on the table.
Binarydrone, my poor, urine-cereal-eating brother, if you couldn’t smell the sarcasm emanating from my post, then you need a new monitor.
I can’t STAND leetspeakers or even posters with poor grammar.
Personally, I think you’re just overreacting due to a vitamin deficiency.
Remember, you’d need twelve bowls of pissed-in Cheerios to get all the nutrition in just one bowl of pissed-in Total.
Oooh! It looks faster italicized.
Sig line!
12 bowls of pissed-in cheerios? That would feed my family for a week!
Well, the dude’s thankfully gone. With his obnoxious fucking smiley. I just cannot understand why he uses it in every incarnation, given how obvious it makes him. (Though I wonder at the mods taking so long to notice; it was clear to me a week ago and I even reported a post that made me suspect he was a sock.)
No worries, I was smelling what you were cooking. Picking up what you were putting down, so to speak. I just thought that I would run with it a bit.
I can’t stop laughing. You must have some serious time on your hands!
Bah! You spoiled kids with your cheerios! In my day, the cat pissed on a bowl of gravel and we were glad to eat it!
Yeah, rained out of work today. I really should be doing my taxes…
You had cats? In my day we had to wait for crotchety old men who liked to complain about how tough it was when they were growing up to walk over (uphill both ways) and piss on our bowls of dead maggots. But we were happy for what we had.
You were lucky to have dead maggots, we had to kill our own - and we had to piss on them ourselves.
Despite our arrant arrogance and our apparently arbitrary actions, we do prefer to act on evidence rather than on suspicion. HG P (or even Zagadka) is hardly the only person on the internet who uses that particular icon and we chose to wait for more substantial evidence of malevolence toward the board before we dropped the hammer.
Well, I suppose that is one way to handle it. On the other hand, we could simply have a rule prohibiting the use of that particular emotocon. Then you could summarily ban anyone using it, and then send some big, hairy angry men over their way to have a frank exchange of ideas.
Think about it, the motto for the SDMB is: “Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It’s taking longer than we thought)”. Perhaps what we have been doing is not so much fighting ignorance as trying to talk folks out of it. That may be what we are doing wrong. Perhaps what we need is a clue enforcement squad. Let’s beat the ignorance out of people!
I don’t think I’ve ever used that particular emoticon, but I’ll confess to having a certain fondness for it. Due to an eye injury one of my pupils is sometimes (not always) dilated more than the other, causing me to look like this: o_O
I keep hoping that some hot David Bowie fan or another will notice this and be overcome with lust for me, but it hasn’t paid off yet.
Yeah, but can’t we assume that anyone who uses “o_O” is, by definition, incapable of making any contribution to the boards?
Was Mr. or Ms. Pennypacker indeed Zagadka?