LOL! I've only been here a short time (seems like forever, but I think it's a month and a half to possibly two months), and that seems like a very accurate summation to me.
(My favorites in your summation are asterisked. In a message dated 1/8/2003 6:38:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I certainly hope not. That would be rather limiting, not to mention > unenforceable. We do have an unspoken rule, however, to ignore Bruce > Rubenstein when he has one of his periodic attacks of dysphemism and cusses > and insults other peoples' immediate female forebearers, and I plug my > fingers in my ears and go WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH really loud when people start > talking about guns. **We generally do our best to stay away from politics, > mainly because the Republicans on the list are pathetically blind to how > wrong they are and we don't want to antagonize them.** When the conversation > devolves to alcoholic drinks, the LUG (Leica User Group) holds long > discussions about single-malt whiskies. When we do, we talk about > home-brewing beer. That about sums up the difference between the two groups. > > Talking about home-brewing beer is on-topic because our list-owner is named > "Brewer." > > When the pooh-bahs of the list (I am NOT!) get into pissing matches about > who knows more, it's considered good manners not to change the thread title > so people can more conveniently delete the messages without reading them. > > Pal sometimes sounds supercilious. This is okay, because for the most part > his information is very good. > > Cotty drinks, but we love him. > > These are the topics we have already completely exhaused: whether the 50/1.7 > or the 50/1.4 is better; everything having to do with tripods; everything > having to do with flash; everything having to do with lenses; everything > having to do with camera bodies; everything having to do with the camera > industry; everything having to do with film; everything having to do with > processing; everything having to do with all existing Pentax products. > > *The above list leaves off 781 things we have also already discussed to > death.* > >**The only reliable topic of conversation is predicting the future. This we do > at great length and sometimes with great fierceness. The > less we actually > know about anything, the better our discussion are.** > > Take it from there. Once again, welcome to Kindergarten! > > --Mike But I'd add -- and mostly everyone plays nice. Doe aka Marnie ;-)
