--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > Part of me still longs to reply to a couple of dozen > > posts a day, especially now that some olde favorite > > posters like Shemp have rejoined us. But I don't. I > > ration my posts, like a French family rationing its > > tiny social security check. > > My model of a forum like this one is quite different. > It's not of a market where one must pay to participate > on a limited budget, but of a permanent cocktail party > one can drop in on and leave when one chooses, where > many interesting conversations are taking place, and > participation is free. > > Imagine being invited to a cocktail party and receiving > five tokens, one of which you must give up every time > you initiate or join a conversation, and then when you're > out of tokens, you must remain silent. > > Most of the conversations that managed to get started > in the first place would be over very quickly. And > after a while, so would the party.
Given Judy's attempts today to start and prolong arguments with Marek and Lurk, of all people, aren't you glad you don't go to the same cocktail parties she does? The "Before" shot of the party would be a nice, cordial, friendly cocktail party, everyone having fun. And the "After" shot would look like the bar scene in one of Robert Rodriguez's "Desperado" movies, bodies and blood everywhere. I don't know about the rest of you folks here, but I'm really HAPPY with this "token" thing. She ain't gettin' no more of mine.
