@Frank Apisa,
Quote:I use my real name in my letters to the editor
I do that too. In the past 16 years the Victorville Ca Daily Press has used 130 of mine. Occasionally I’ve wished I could tag one anonymously but they won’t do it
Quote:...and my letters to the editor are very much like my posts on the Internet (minus a few words that might be objectionable.)
Yea the Internet is more tolerant
Quote:I see no reason for not using my real name...and I think the Internet forums would be improved if everyone did.
I agree with you but the idea positively horrifies my No. 2 Son
@Frank Apisa,
Frank Apisa wrote:I see no reason for not using my real name...and I think the Internet forums would be improved if everyone did.
OK, from now on I'll be using your name in all future postings.
@roger,
So that's where you get it, eh?
@izzythepush,
Actually a very funny remark.
This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How it ever got in my pajamas, I'll never know.
@Frank Apisa,
Jeez...you gotta be so careful with your wording here.
@Frank Apisa,
Prosecutor (To a guy who had nodded a response to his question): “From now on all your answers have to be oral. What did you see when you looked out the window?”
Witness: “Oral.”
@Frank Apisa,
A bit like the scene in Spartacus.
Thanks for getting the joke, and not getting angry like some I could mention.
Meantime, the site owner here uses his real name.
Moving along to remark about all the new members with very, uh, white american names, there is much positing about what is going on with that.
BBB thinks it's a group of (jerks, my word).
Someone said they may be chinese folks learning about using the internet (no link) and I think someone else said they may be chinese folks trying to avoid their governments eye.
Tsarstepan came up with a whole new idea, just today, and made a thread about it.
What I like and doesn't happen so much anymore, is chinese people who converse with us.
@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:
Someone said they may be chinese folks learning about using the internet (no link) and I think someone else said they may be chinese folks trying to avoid their governments eye.
Tsarstepan came up with a whole new idea, just today, and made a thread about it.
I did. My prior thread relating to this new batch of members is an academic exercise on artificial intelligences and Turing testing on online forums.
http://able2know.org/topic/196981-1
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@Frank Apisa,
Thank you Frank, it’s rare to get a chuckle in this punic contretemps of dispiriting persiflage
@izzythepush,
’Nother good one. You guys have made my week
@dalehileman,
Quote:Thank you Frank, it’s rare to get a chuckle in this punic contretemps of dispiriting persiflage
Dale, I couldn'ta said it better myself!
@Frank Apisa,
Frank thanks but I’m sure you could