Attila, Hun, these puns are getting positively Gothic!
You should have heard the Magyars who hung out at Arpad – even the old Gezas would get positively Bulgar after a few drinks! 
Eve, that link was totally hillarious! Thanks!
I think you live in an elaborate fantasy world, The Flying Dutchman. You should write a screenplay so we can get inside that fascinating head of yours. The reality you live in must be terribly interesting.
It seems to me more frightening than anything else.
The Dutchman demands clarification from Tamerlane, then more than two days after he gets it has yet to have the common courtesy even to acknowledge it in this thread, much less offer Tamerlane the apology he deserves. Since the Dutchman is on-line as I write this (and has been previously) he hasn’t just missed it, he’s ignoring it.
Ironically enough, the Dutchman’s supposed concern for the “impugning his honesty” gave rise to this thread, in which the Dutchman demonstrated blatant and obvious dishonesty in editing one of my posts to change its meaning, and then accused me of lying.
He really does live in some kind of fantasy world.
That’s what I thought.
After he abandons a thread, magellan picks it up. So expect magellan to come in at any second and demand clarification from Tamerlane.
No dog in this fight, but to be fair, you can be online and not be on the board. An open tab or window will keep the online light lit even if you haven’t looked at it for hours. Some people leave their machines on and their software up 24/7. Not saying he does or doesn’t.
The Dutchman posted to the thread I linked to in my previous post at 3:43 PM on 6 January, or a good 20 hours after Tamerlane provided his clarification in this thread. There’s no question that he’s been on the Board since then, and has had ample opportunity to respond to this thread if he so chose - as you should be aware, since you responded to the thread he posted about you well after Tamerlane’s response.
If anything , I’ve pulled back, in order to allow my emotions to subside. I’ve made mistakes, and I need to regain my composure. I’m also struggling with the idea that I need to pull out of this message board for my own sake and everybody else’s.
I’m not appologizing to Tamerlane. When I put him in the pit I accorded him high respect, presented my concern and asked for clarification. I embellished the OP with reference to why I felt the way I did, and clarification would have ended it. Well he did clarify . All that would have been required on my part would be to thank him. But he had to go ahead and imply that I had some “macho” motive with respect to my relationship with a particular cat. So now he’s clearly pitting me. I took offence to that, decided to just ignore it, and thus felt no need to express appreciation to him for responding to my request.
“supposed”? And to think I had concerns about “hopefully”
The only reason that prompted me to reply in this thread is that I really owe you an appology. I ask you to accept that the editing of that post was not intentional to deceive. My attempt was to focus. I was clearly wrong. Upon re reading your post I had to ask myself “what the hell was I thinking?”.
So Colibri I am truly sorry about that post. I was wrong.
And Lib, thanks 
Ah! I see where I fucked up. I neglected to examine the time-stamps, establish the order of events, cross-foot the two threads, and connect the dots among the four interested parties. But not to worry. I’ve called my boss and asked for some time off so I can get myself caught up on all this. I’ll get back to you once I’ve made my analysis.
Request? You mean your pitting me?
You don’t need to apologize. If you didn’t care for my response, you didn’t care for my response.
But sweet Zombie Jesus! Are you saying that you are truly upset that I got <i>mildly</i> snarky with you after you PITTED me over a misunderstanding over a single ambiguous word? Pitted me over something that could have been cleared up by simply asking for clarification in the thread? You are SO touchy that after jumping to the worst possible interpretation and calling me out ( however “respectfully” couched ), that you are getting upset for me referring to your actions as “macho” and “bizarre?”
Actions you yourself described thusly:
this after…
And you then admit…
And you’re now going to say my description of this was really that much more damaging and insulting than your own? The above doesn’t seem “macho” ( quote one ) and “bizarre” ( quote two ) to you? Let alone “shitty” ( quote three ).
You need to get some perspective.
- Tamerlane
You really call that a pit? where else could I have expressed my concern? Don’t tell me. In that particular thread. Yes I know. I could have expressed it in that particular thread. so let me tell you why I opted not to.
- The issue for me was totally irrelevant to the topic of my thread and I didn’t want to hijack my own thread. I like/wish for clean threads.
- I couldn’t figure out a better forum. I had no desire to flame you.
- Given the novelty of “Tamerlane” in the pit and my qualifications with regard to your character, I didn’t think you would take offence. Okay so I was wrong. didn’t you at least enjoy the attention? That is meant to be rhetorical.
- I only pit people that I respect. Really, whether I’m right or wrong, if you knew me, a pitting from me is a badge of respect. I don’t waste time with assholes/trolls. I’m sorry if others don’t understand that. I don’t think any of us are perfect, least of all me.
Well i cared for part of your previous respnse.
Yes. What can I say ?
Well it wasn’t a flaming. And I felt the need to help you understand my sensitivity which is why my OP appears not so simple. And , given the age of the thread when a lot of people have decided not to return to it, I wanted your clarification to recieve the broadest possible viewership.
I had no problem with “bizarre”, I had a problem with “macho” which certainly does not describe me. However your explanation as to how you derived that conclusion makes sense. It did not occur to me. All I can say is that I expressed myself in a manner wrt this cat to embelish my view that cats have emotional attributes that are almost human in a particular setting and that my response recognized that view. And yes, as I said before, my response was shitty particuarlywrt my other family menbers as I engineered an excuse to diminish the number of our household pets.
So tamerlane
Thankyou for the clarification
I’m sorry if I harmed you in any way
I’m sorry that I suggested that you gratuitously inferred that I was being macho. You had good reason.
Anything else 
They have this fancy new thing these days called “e-mail.” You might want to look into it.
Don’t expect anyone to understand this. Pitting someone is is no more a badge of respect than slapping someone is an expression of love. And the reasoning – “I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t respect/love you” – it pitiful in both cases.
I wouldn’t think for one split second of slapping anybody. That is so bad that if you see an anology here, and everyone agrees with you then I would suggest that the administration of this message board terminate this forum immediately.
But! Btw, I have to confess that on more than one occassion I have slapped my wife.
Now you can infer from that brief statement what you will. I will assure you that no harm was intended or occurred.
didn’t you mention in one of these threads that you were concerned about your reputation here?
why on earth would you post such a thing? (ie that you’d slapped your wife on more than one occasion, yet that you wouldn’t ‘think’ of ever slapping anyone? )
seriously - I recommend stop posting and seek help. Or are you just intenionally collectively jerking chains here (aka ‘trolling’)
So you respect pit bulls, Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, Silvestre Reyes, “The Dopes Who Break GD Rules”, etc?
My guess is he’ll tell you it was a bit of slap and tickle.
You’ve been a member for six years, and you still haven’t figured out what the purpose of the Pit is?
You’re an idiot.
Oh, but when I call you an idiot, I mean it as a term of deep respect and affection.