Things You'd Like to Hear Other Posters Say

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I don’t have anyone specific in mind, but there here are a few things I would like to wake up one day and hear from posters:

  1. I realize now my favorite rock group isn’t the pinnacle of musical artistic accomplishment.

  2. I’m sorry I spent so much time boring everyone with cameos of trivial stuff in my life I’ll have forgotten in three years. I’m going to do more exciting things, so I have something worthwhile to share.

  3. I really should have spent five minutes with a search engine before asking most of my last posts, but I’m weak, and I like people to pay attention to me.

  4. I promise not to stroke my ego by creating more one line “me too” posts. I should have realized that content was more important than a the number of posts before my name.

  5. I have a long complicated religious question, but I think I’ll talk it over first with a priest/rabbi/minister/imam/monk, so I understand the issues more clearly before I bring them here.

Next? (Names are welcome, I just couldn’t think of anybody specific I wanted to kid. Well, maybe a moderator or two…)

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  1. Why should anyone have to qualify their favorite rock group? Do you need to have a disclaimer before you name your favorite food? Your favorite color? Before you mention how much you love your spouse, or your mom, or how great your kids are? Is this about the Dead? :wink:

  2. Me too, and not in an ironic way.

  3. Let’s say I’m sitting at home on a Sunday morning, and I think of a long complicated religious question. If I happen to know the proper priest/ rabbi/ minister/i mam/ monk who would be an expert on whatever topic it is I am thinking of, I could call them, or bring it up when we meet next. But chances are damn good that if I have a question about a religion that isn’t my own, I don’t personally know any authorities on it.

I could get out the phone book, look up the nearest church/ synagogue/ mosque/ monastary and either cold call or write a “To Whom It May Concern” letter. Then wait to hear back. And if I don’t get a hold of a human on my call, or I don’t get a reply, or I am unable to make an appointment within a reasonable amount of time ( because most members of the clergy are pretty damn busy, you know, ministering) I’d try to find another church/ synagogue/ mosque/ monastary and go through the whole thing all over again.

Or I could post my question on the Straight Dope. I’d probably have some sort of answer and maybe a few relevant links within twenty-four hours. Perhaps others would chime in with related questions. Idiots may attempt to hijack; the ill-informed and ill-mannered may attempt to spread a little bigotry; however, chances are good that they would get shot down, and a little collateral ignorance would get dispelled along the way.

People would only click on the thread if they found the title interesting; people would only continue to read if they found the topic interesting; people would only reply if they felt they had something to say. Nobody’s time is wasted. What’s wrong with that?

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Things I’d like to hear other posters say? Just one thing:

“Hey Dragwyr… I’d like to give you a million dollars”

But I know it will never happen. :frowning:

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Oh, I can say it:

Hey Dragwyr… I’d like to give you a million dollars.

Feel good?

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Yeah. He’s just all huffy about this thread.

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Yes. I feel much better, sugaree.

Thanks. :smiley:

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Wow. Where do you people find talking posters?

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Maybe just this:

“I know I speak for all Dopers when I say that Star Trek was, is, and always will be far better than Star Wars.”

::beams out::

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The tenor of the OP was a joke, along the lines of “Wouldn’t it be a nice change if…?” (And not: “No one should do this…”)

Why, specifically it would be a relief (to me) on religious questions, is conversations and threads that run like this:

Person 1: Isn’t it true that blah-blahs eat their children?
Person 2: No.
Person 1: How do you know?
Person 2: I’m a blah-blah priest/rabbi/minister/imam/monk. There’s no evidence it ever happened.
Person 1: Oh… But that’s what my friend told me in 3rd grade.

…six months pass…

Person 1: Isn’t it true that blah-blahs eat their children?
Person 2: :smack: :smack: :smack:
Person 1: Well, that’s what somebody in the SDMB said they heard in 3rd grade…

Maybe there should be a new religion created just for 3rd graders…:wink:

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Sorry, warmer. I do ramble on and get carried away, don’t I?

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“I’m gorgeous, here’s my picture and my number, let’s have sex, oh by the way I’ll go dutch on dates.”

:smiley:

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EggNogg we value your opinions and don’t regret the day you came into our lives.

egg :frowning:

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Guinastasia is officially the coolest person ever to exist. There is none higher.

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Moderator: My foot is stuck!

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Coming right up: Guinastasia is officially the coolest person ever to exist. There is none higher. And I’d ask her out if it weren’t for the fact I’m in Philly and she’s in Pittsburgh.

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Not at all. Your comments were welcome. And if you find a rabbi/monk/priest/iman conveniently colocated, do let us know.

Comments about the Dead? What Dead? I was just repeating youthful experiences in a coldly objective manner. And in the process seem to have run into a few of the holy ministers of the Book of the Dead…

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Oh, please. You’re only separated from her by a whole state. Some of us are separated from her by most of a continent.

Suck it up, buddy. :wink:

[sub]Oh, am I trying to turn this into another flirt thread? Bad Lindy. Bad.[/sub]

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People?! He said other posters; he was only addressing posters.

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“You can post anything you want to…”

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A second poster agrees that Guinastasia is the coolest!-vanilla
two thumbs up!