reverie Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 (edited) this may be pretty obvious to some, but i'll go ahead and say it. The very fact that we're having this conversation, is what distingishes the pen from other more uh...less-polite communities. We actually give a damn enough to take care. Even if it's only in hindsight. heh. rev... [EDIT: it's what I do...] Edited October 5, 2005 by reverie
reverie Posted October 5, 2005 Report Posted October 5, 2005 (edited) Oh sorry about cursing back there... http://www.themightypen.net/public/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif By gone, it's working already... heh, seriously though, when I read the title of this post, i thought our camel friend was refering to "who" was running the pen. (or is that to "whom?") Anyway, I pictured him/her/it opening up their firefox brower early one morning, having it fail, then switching to explorer, and having it also fail then take down their laptop, and then shem/it finally saying the heck with it all and loading up mozilla... (oh wait that was me.) Anyway, sometime during the "controlled meltdown", I mean "upgrade" this past weekend, he/she/it exhausted from their laptop woes, finally arrived at the youth-hostal that is our hallowed pen (no spite here, I just like the sound of it...) [NOTE: Masculine pronouns will be used hinceforth for convenience.] ...and he get's nothing, nada, zip. Leaving our water efficent one to exclaim: "hmm, now i really wonder, who's in charge." You can imagine, my let down when it turned out ONLY to be about gas prices and such... I was expecting another tirad sung to the tune of "WHAT'S GOING ON" as portrayed in the minstral hall of old. luckily for me, I'm in a position where I only drive like once or twice or week, so the gas price thing is a non-issue for me... well in the short run at least. The long run, jeeze, I don't even want to think about that. Think the only thing that uses oil is cars? Well, consider for a moment where PLASTIC comes from? Then all the businesses that use plastic. Then combine that with all the businesses that use plains, trains, and automobiles for transportation. Oh and don't forget fertilizers? Yep, yep petrochemicals fertilizers and other associated feedstocks helped build our industrialized utopia... If you would like to learn more about petrochemicals, check with your local library, or google it, everyone else is, so why not you. http://www.eia.doe.gov/glossary/glossary_p.htm So in summary, i love my hybrid a.k.a "the mighty lawn dart" LOVE YOU!!! Fear the mighty lawn dart, rev... [EDIT: You wouldn't believe the sheer amount of typo's I catch when I edit these things, let alone one's I don't] Edited October 5, 2005 by reverie
Ozymandias Posted March 28, 2006 Report Posted March 28, 2006 Sweetcherrie, if you pull your wonderful humor from the boards, I'll, I'll... hold my breath 'til you put it back! One thing every post on this thread seems to have forgotten is that in amidst all the excellent points brought up by everyone (yes, I mean everyone) is the simple, yet key ingredient to all of this... I see no evidence of wanderingcamel having taken offense. Do you? And, to be totally fair, wanderingcamel, if you *were*, and simply haven't said so - I apologize. As for the rest of the thread, yes indeed, you are welcome at The Pen. *eyes the contents of the thread from camel's post thru his own* Brain hurt yet? /me wanders off, singing, "This is the Ultimate Showdown...of Ultimate Destiny..."
Gryphon Posted March 28, 2006 Report Posted March 28, 2006 I wonder if the initial set of replies traumatized wanderingcamel into becoming a lurker who doesn't actually log in. Being the mildly curious type that I am I took a peek at the last logon date in wanderingcamel's profile. Unless he/she is lurking without the benefit of logging in every wonderful post in this thread after the 29th of September 2005 was probably never read by the original poster as that was the one and only time wanderingcamel logged in. So... I'm kind of hoping that we didn't manage to traumatize someone to the point where one login was enough for a lifetime. Taking that a step further the 'last active time' of wanderingcamel matches the time of the original post to the second, so it would appear that he/she logged on, posted, logged off. The question becomes did he/she log off to lurk and wait for answers? Or did he/she log off to never come back and appreciate the wide variety of posts that their original post generated. Only a fresh post from the wanderingcamel is likely to be able to answer that question.
Sweetcherrie Posted March 28, 2006 Report Posted March 28, 2006 With her head tilted little Sweet looks full of fascination to Ozy, and how his head seems to be turning blue. "You know that can't be healthy..." Without warning she giggles and launches in a tickle-attack, and makes Ozy gasp for air. OOC: I'll still be using my own sarcastic humor (can't change nature ) just more careful with whom, and where
Ozymandias Posted March 29, 2006 Report Posted March 29, 2006 *inhales deeply and hugs Sweetcherrie* Yay! There're nothing but incredible minds and hearts everywhere you look on this board. I want that to be perfectly clear. There's also not one mind here (yes, even YOU, Doc. I remember those 'humorous posts', and being an afcionado of fine humor, I have a pretty dang good idea of how hard it is to come up with new jokes for years at a stretch, let alone consistently funny ones.), no mind at all, who isn't creative AND skilled. Creative people however tend to have very passionate beliefs about many things in their lives. It's why society so looks to writers, painters, sculptors, and other artists for inspiration, understanding, and security. That passion, backing up our actions, makes us leaders for those who *don't* have it. That same passion also makes it difficult to communicate with each other sometimes. Because well, being fiercely dedicated to what you say can easily make you stubborn, and even startling (to anyone who isn't usesd to someone investing intense emotion into what they say). Heck, even I still get almost high school dance levels of nervous when I talk to several of our peers here. Their personalities are simply that powerful. But they're no threats - not to the way you think, not to people's opinion of you, not to what good things you pull from this site and its people. This is true for those who speak loudly and quietly - I'm sure we all know that someone doesn't need to yell to make thyemselves known as a force to reckoned with. Everyone here just feels very, very strongly about a certain issue or issues, issues that differ, of course from person to person - and when we come across one of our fellow Pennites' heartfelt beliefs, we need to remember that just because they may come across as angry, saddended, amused, frightened, or any other permutation of deep emotion, does not mean that they are A - wrong or B - close-minded. All it means is that they feel strongly about something. We all try not to step on one anothers' toes, and of course, being only human, sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't. But we keep the effort up, no matter what. We all do. I know this because I watch all of you, and no one has disappointed me yet. So in cases like the discussion which started from camel's lonely little post, all else that needs to be done beyond extending an olive branch to someone - be it in the form of a friendly joke for them, or an adamant cry for fairness for them, or anything between or beyond- is to remember that we're friends here, and ALL people who do care, and need to approach one another calmly, considerately, and patiently (even if it takes a while to get to such a state of mind. It's still worth it.). Danke. Peace out.
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