So, would you write that if you had to sign your real name?

Joe Nation...

Really great, interesting idea for a thread. Thanks.

More macho **** from snood.

The presumption of your macho **** is that I wouldn't say the things I post to you personally for fear of you kicking my ass. (Because of course I'm afraid of a righteous black man who affects the image of Denzel Washington)

Well, we all get to be tough guys in cyber-space, but unless you happen to be 6'5' , 250 lbs and a violent maniac with froth running down the sides of your mouth, chances are pretty good I would say anything and everything I have ever posted to your face.

But we will never know, just as we will never know if you have the guts to call me a racist to my face.

Yours is a childish argument snood; totally in keeping with all your others.

you should try eating some fiber, finny...

you've got the acerbic turd thing down to a science.

that is our Rocky, always ready and eager to throw a turd. Just dont expect him to ever add substance to a thread.

Irony forms voluminous clouds in the sky whenever you post Rocky.

But "Rocky," no more, "Remora" is particualry apt and alliterative as well.

Whenever confronted by an actual A2K predator, I can always count on an appearence from Remora; taking shots from the safety of the belly of the shark.

You truly are pathetic.

Have you ever posted a comment consisting of more than 25 words?

But then I forget, you see yourself as a glistening blade; bringing your foe low with one shadowy but fatally sharp cut.

Please don't ever leave A2K Remora. You're so damned amusing.

But... Why is it a given that "we will never know?"
Do you never plan to go to an A2K meet-up?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd love to meet some of these characters....

finny won't do a meet up...

he's much to enamored with the cyber bully role.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7X2_V60YK8

I'll get off his grass now, and leave him and hawkeyes to use 25 words or more to say nothing like they were before...

(some folks get a woody just seeing their words on the screen)

Thanks, Snood. I thought it might be something good to talk about especially amongst the members who have been here since before here was here. I haven't had a chance yet, but I think I want to go back through these responses and tease out some data as to the conditions and reasons posters gave for masking or unmasking.
I believe, even without doing that, that you've summed up quite nicely the two major ones.
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Several years ago I met face to face with a member and we were talking about the others on the forum. I was shocked to find that she had not only met OmSigDavid but liked him. I didn't, in no particular order, like him or his posts, but, paraphrasing her, she said, "Oh, shucks, he's just a grumpy, old guy."
So, at my first opportunity (about a year later) I invited him to a meet-up. Guess what? He's just a grumpy, old guy. Yes,yes, obsessed with weapons and all that, but... really, meeting him made him seem more human to me.

I'm not the type to vilify, but, if I was, I think I would find it a lot more difficult to spray invective on people whom I had met in person. I think that would also be true if the only thing I knew about them was their name.

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Wait until you hear about the hate mail I got because of this thread.

Joe(It was hysterical in all that word's meanings)Nation

I would have sent you some hate mail, but it seems like i've always got so many virtual irons in the fire . . . just take it as sent . . .

Thanks, Setanta, I know your thoughts are always with me.

Joe(likewise, I'm sure.)Nation

I wouldn't want to be behind hand . . . , as the Kinks have it, i`m a dedicated follower of fashion . . .

You really got me ... on a sunny afternoon ...

I can't sail my yacht . . . except for Lola . . .

as I recall, you're getting close on that with snood

Yeah - that's funny! He was very close... I'm 6'7" and weigh about 265.

I'm such a coward I just fainted reading the above.

Be of good cheer. Everyone has their foibles. Promise not to tell anyone?


I'm scared of rollercoasters.

You mean in general like when you are walking by, or just when you are on them?

And think about this, Snood, roller coasters are designed to be safe for average sized people.....the restraints aren't really meant for anyone your size.

Joe(there. That'll help)Nation

Do you pump iron? (just curious)

I knew I recognized Snood from somewhere, and it's just now clicked...

He's really Dennis Rodman.