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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 268 days)  Posts: 3811 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
I've always liked asking hard questions.
I don't think my first post is extant--I recall calling someone on a point of law: nator agreed with me, and I've loved her ever since. In my first post showing now, I hammered CanadianSteve about his Islamophobia. Maybe they got him. I miss Robin the most, but I miss spidey, too, and Para... Of course, they could be here under new nicks, I haven't checked. I was about to go looking for molbiogirl when she turned up. I recall ferocious battles with Iano, randman, Faith...suspensions...
Edited by Omnivorous, : AbE: I'm still happy with this post. Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where's the vodka? Where's the marinated herring?! -Gogol Bordello
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 268 days) Posts: 3811 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
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My first suspension was for a deliberate, flagrant, enraged, over-the-top rant--and certainly merited.
I asked for it and got it--two days after my birthday, on 9/4/2005.
It was also a dark classic, IMHO.
I had better friends than I deserved among the admins:
Here's what I did:
Whew! AdminBen beat him to the punch. Faith had provoked that with:
I lost friends in New Orleans; I lost family members just prior to my most recent, long-term suspension a couple of years ago, when I erupted over what I saw as unfair treatment of someone I considered a friend. In both cases, I was emotionally wracked and using prescription narcotics in the wake of surgery. I've had more surgeries and narcotics since and will have more soon: I no longer go online in that state; the disinhibition is too powerful. Unfortunately, in the latter event, I was an admin, and instead of acting to calm things down as I had committed to do, I poured gasoline on the fire with intemperate posts. As a result, many good people who were more loyal (and perhaps more riled up by my flights of rheotoric) than they should have been were also suspended. Some of them, like me, have recently returned; others have not--I wish they would. I am trying to find them. The posts that led to their suspensions are the only words I've ever posted here that I would pay dearly to take back. Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where's the vodka? Where's the marinated herring?! -Gogol Bordello
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 268 days) Posts: 3811 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 268 days) Posts: 3811 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
Quetzal was inimitable; Trixie a delight: both of them sweethearts with steel-trap minds.
I remember your arrival. I was impressed--still am. As I approach wrapping up my sixth decade, it is clarity of mind and generosity of heart that matter most, both in what I aspire to and who I want around me. That, good blood pressure and a quiet prostate I suppose it's no coincidence that the evolutionist-camp contains the better educated, more articulate posters. It no longer surprises me that the creationists, by and large, are less caring and compassionate than their supposedly more clinically detached opponents, but it still seems remarkable. And Evc is still the best forum for folks accustomed to being the smartest person in the room to gain a little humility--or at least good company. Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where's the vodka? Where's the marinated herring?! -Gogol Bordello
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Omnivorous Member (Idle past 268 days) Posts: 3811 From: Adirondackia Joined: |
I wonder how many people are squirming? Not me--it's been a long time since I felt like the smartest fella in the room, and I never felt that way here. Even my cats outwit me. Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where's the vodka? Where's the marinated herring?! -Gogol Bordello
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