Hmm…all the thread titles are about one word per line and the username and last post columns are very wide…scrolling down…scrolling down…there it is. Yes, it’s our old nemesis The Vorlon Ambassador’s Aide, committing the double foul of having started a thread and being the last poster on that thread.
Petty stupid complaint? Depends on your browser, but probably. But it grows on you. Why does one guy have so much power over the way the board visibly appears on my screen? Why is somebody allowed this power just to tickle his fancy by allowing him a lengthy and stupid username?
Why can’t he just be the Vorlon Ambassador? Does humility force him to concede that he’s really only up to being an aide to said ambassador? If the aide was much cooler than the ambassador, I imagine he would have become ambassador himself, so surely the aide is in fact a step down.
And was there only ever one Vorlon Ambassador, or merely one aide throughout the annals of time? It’s pretty presumptuous to call him The Vorlon Ambassador’s Aide, as if to diminish the roles of all previous and subsequent Vorlon Ambassadors and/or their aides.
So not only does this username represent a slight to possibly dozens of Vorlon functionaries, it singlehandedly claims the power to alter table dimensions displayed in HTML browsers. What a shocking abuse of privilege.
It could be worse: she could be, Octavia Smythe-Bunion I. Esq., Vorlon Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. (After all, we need someone for TVAI to be the Aide to!)
sigh! If I had been told, when I was signing up for this board, that even though there is no apparent restriction on the number of characters in ones name, it would, nevertheless, behoove me to keep it short & sweet, I would have. Just be happy that I didn’t go with Ergo the Magnificent: Short in Stature, Tall in Power, Narrow of Purpose, and Wide of Vision.
Thanks for the nomination, Polycarp. As Vorlon Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary I promise to lower taxes, increase spending, create world peace, build a better mousetrap, designate chocolate as a vital food group, protect our precious bodily fluids and, um, stuff. You may now bring your babies forward for me to smooch. Also, would anyone know of a field where I might have a picture taken of me kneeling down and holding some soil in my hand while I look deeply concerned about farm issues? I am also seeking a photo op where I get to wear a hard hat and consult some blueprints.
Eva, for constitutional reasons, the Vorlon Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and the Vorlon Ambassador’s Aide cannot marry. It goes back to the incident of 1473 in which the Ambassador and the Aide did marry and there was a sudden shortage of consonants throughout the land. (Vorlons are quite fond of long names.)
At any rate, in the interest of good relations, I will shorten my name - assuming this is even possible.
It’s just as well. If I ever went to a Dopefest, I’d hate to have to cram Octavia Smythe-Bunion I. Esq. onto one of those HELLO! stickers.
Should you so choose ( ::: ignores chants of RexDart and chorus of Dopers: “Choose! Choose! Choose! Choose!” ::: ) you can e-mail TubaDiva and request a name change. (I think any Admin. can handle it, but it’s been traditionally TD who does that particular task – if they want us to be aware of a change in that, hopefully one will post to that effect here.)
Just remember that after you get your name changed and post information about it in MPSIMS, most will not remember the change and will not recognize you.
There’s a plague of them. A new poster called IfYouDidWouldI?IfIDidWouldYou? has just arrived in GQ.
Plus, there’s Mr Rrrrr Fffff Rrrrfffrrrfff and Pretend My Name Is Witty.
What the fuck is going on?
I mean, if that’s the new style, can I respectfully ask one of the mods to edit my user name and change it to the entire text of “The Sirens of Titan”?
