I know you are, but what am I?
Ahem…
I’m number 35.
I’m not changing it back because I hope to make a “Leaffan Location” a thing like *Hi Opal * or *1920’s style Death Rays * or “only once and only for 20 minutes”. Not a thing that makes people laugh when they see it. It will puzzle a newcomer and when they discover the meaning they will see that this board has a history. Things last longer then just when the thread is on the front page.
There’s nothing wrong with saying where you’re from when it’s relevant, and often it isn’t.
Thanks for enlightening me, Zebra. It’s appreciated. Yours is the first I saw, months ago now, and I do like it. It’s within bounds of decorum, decency, scale, and sense. I didn’t include it in my pit-within-the-Pit because:
(1) It was first, so not part of a pile-on.
(2) It is actually clever, and makes sense because it is solidly grounded in something the OP brings across along with his actual words. The OP’s gripe is people don’t post their location. Fair enough. Your jest comments on another aspect of the OP readers may have noticed only peripherally or subconsciously: its puzzling intensity and even anger. I found in your ‘commentary’ a pleasant moment of recognition, discovery, a bringing-to-the-surface something I already knew at some level. It helped me understand that puzzling element in the OP while deflating its menace. It held up a comedic mirror that, instead of distorting reality, irons out and makes Ok the out-of-proportion mood of the OP.
In Post 206, “Leaffan’s house,” and 207, “Ellis Dee’s basement”, though, there is a disconnect. They don’t really relate to the OP at all since the OP does give his location in fine resolution. Carp, Canada. To satirize by increasing the resolution down finer – while certainly within the comedic tradition of a mirror distorting through exaggeration toward the ridiculous – seems to point the sarcasm exactly 180 degrees the wrong way. I would think Leaffan is probably in full agreement with the idea of identifying our locations to a more minute degree. He himself couldn’t be much more specific describing his own, after all.
The third of the three goofs, Post 205, changed location to “LH (Latent Hostility)” – I’m quoting exactly. Here you have a joke, followed by it’s full expansion and explanation, all in under twenty characters. If a gag must be explained and expanded-upon immediately after its delivery … well … I must admit I’m at a loss what to say about this … except I do often notice this trait in young children telling a joke.
(3) In yours, Zebra, I do see, now that you point it out, that element you say you aimed for: holding up a comedic mirror for the purpose of enjoying with your friends (Leaffan included) camaraderie and fun. Fulfilling that role for future Guests and Members would indeed justify keeping it, in my eyes. I did not see that particular characteristic before you mentioned it, but I did sense its inherent good-naturedness.
In Posts #206 and 207, however, the levity is a bit too intrusive for my taste and tinged with a quasi-threatening tone, I’m afraid, a crossing of a psychological boundary into another’s personal space. These two locations should be changed back, maybe even apologies proffered. I know this is the Pit, but, as Carl Perkins says, “You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place; Do any thing that you want to do, but uh-uh baby lay off of those shoes.”
If you think I’m overreacting, re-read Airman Doors, USAF’s Posts #18 and 20. The jest of greatly sharpening the resolution of locales to the point of absurdity might gain some sense and intelligibility if directed toward him instead of the OP since Airman Doors, USAF does not favor increasing Location field specificity. Hiliarity would ensue.
Somehow I don’t think it’s going to happen.