Yup, it was just one year today that I became so upset at the defamation of noble slothdom - the allegation being that they couldn’t swim - that I unwisely made my first post to the thread, Can camels swim? And the rest, as they say, is history.
It’s been a lot of fun. And I’d like to take the opportunity to thank some of the folks on the board in the front line trenches in the Fight Against Ignorance - the ones who answer the questions in GQ (as well as CCC, CSR, and the more factual threads in GD). Just a few of those whose posts I’ve particularly admired on one subject or another: bibliophage (etymology and lots of other stuff), BobT (baseball and sports in general), The Bad Astronomer and Podkayne (astronomy), brachyrhynchos (biology), ** Chronos** (physics), Collounsbury (Hammer of Racism), Duck Duck Goose (Googlemeister - maybe I should say Googlemistress - extraordinare), edwino (biology and medicine), Fenris (comics), Gaspode (biology), Jomo Mojo (linguistics), MEBuckner (on a host of topics from slavery to the Sultan of Swat), Qadgop the Mercotan and KarlGauss (medicine), samclem (slang and numismatics), screech-owl (biology), Tamerlane (on biology [sub]curse him[/sub]), tomndebb (seemingly on just about everything), tsunamisurfer (mountaineering), minty green and Sua Sponte(law), and zev_steinhardt (Judaism).
I’m sure I’ve forgotten a lot of deserving folks, and overlooked a lot of people who answer questions on topics I
don’t usually click on - so your nominations of others are most welcome.
And I’d also like to thank Fenris (for posts to numerous to mention), jarbabyj (for a shining example in the creative use of obscenity), Ukelele Ike (a humorous remark for every occasion), and Cervaise (for the most artistic pit flame I have ever seen), for making me laugh. And I’m leaving a lot of deserving folks out here too.
And of course thanks too to all the moderators and admins for all they do to keep this place running.
And finally, a very special thanks to JillGat [sub]though sometimes methinks it should be a curse[/sub], for getting me so damn enredado in this place that it’s been impossible to leave. Un abrazo, compa.
