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is that why you sabotaged the “lets write a book” thread?</p>
<p>(no need to answer-- the question is rhetorical… . However, one can assume that some barb will follow… so as to get that last dig in)</p>
<p>Very funny, Marite!</p>
<p>Not to be too abstruse , or to circumcise the issues disengenously replicated here in our nausaleum, old friends often come back to us in another guise. Sometimes we recognize them for who they were. Sometimes we don’t. Delaminate to differentiate further if you have the stomach for it. I, for one, don’t feel the need. Live and let live, I say but I know that old habitues die hard. Think of the children, and listen with your most generous ear.</p>
<p>Ahahahahah.</p>
<p>Don’t you ever just want to say to people, honey, just a smidgeon fewer syllables and I’m wit ya!?!</p>
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A few times. What about you? ;)</p>
<p>'mudge, but some issues <em>deserve</em> to be circumcised. </p>
<p>A few posters, too, starting at the neck, but that’s a different matter…not to make a mountain out of the work of a mohel.</p>
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Sounds like you have something to be proud of, TheDad ;)</p>
<p>jym, LOL !!</p>
<p>why, thank you, 'mudge :D</p>
<p>Sigh. Sigh.</p>
<p>TheDad,
Mudge paid you a BIG compliment, but then pulled it (lovely image that conjures up…)</p>
<p>Oy vey, Maria.</p>
<p>A while back I was going to make a comment about this thread degenerating into a pi$$ing match, but now I think I’ll just steer well clear…</p>
<p>^^well, kluge, your aim was a good one…</p>
<p>Don’t they all in the cafe? ;)</p>
<p>Wow, I’m either dense or really out of the CC loop, so I’m just going to be flat footed and humorless and ask what the heck happened to Driver? Was she escorted to the door or does she have a new identity. I recognize one previous poster in this thread but I haven’t seen hide nor hair of Driver - Anyone care to fill me in?</p>
<p>Oops - befuddled not bemuddled.</p>
<p>Having had a semi-CC PM stalker–an obnoxious student–I can appreciate Dot’s dodge and weave. The new name gave the insider’s the game anyway. </p>
<p>For all of those CC parents who are incredibly irritated by DX’s supposed arrogance, take a step back and ask yourselves why DX launches deliberately provocative threads and opinions into our forum. Could it be that while we’re amusing ourselves, DX is experimenting and polishing a creative craft? </p>
<p>Forget the politics and the personal. Suspend them. Be patient. Creative types don’t just appear as genius. They go through a process of destroying bits of what is known–in order to get to an original thing. It’s messy but the end result can be quite fantastic. </p>
<p>Personally, I’m fascinated that DX is getting a few shiny gems out of our forum (and I assume she is, otherwise she’d get out of the pithing match). I’ve known heaps of young artists, poets, architects and fashion designers but I’ve never been this close to a serious writer in the making and I am enjoying the show.</p>
<p>*Yes liz, the door is bolted.</p>
<p>Oh, I heartily concur with Cheers. One of the reason I poke at Dottie, in this incarnation and in others, is because I know we are all great fodder for her. I find her multi-syllabic word salad a bit above my feeble brain at times, but she is nothing if not tenacious. Our Dot just keeps on coming back for more, and I am frankly glad about that, because I will get just a little teary eyed one day when I read the published words of “our Dot”, and remember when she was just a wee speck on a little college chat board.</p>
<p><em>on edit: I *know</em> you are already published, Dot, but I mean the big Kahuna, which will have to wait until you’re all done at Oxford! ;)</p>
<p>liz: I want to apologize on behalf of all of us on the CC forum. I hate it when forums become cliquey - really, it’s worse than high school sometimes! Part of it stems from an inability to write openly about things (rules or common sense or whatever). Like, we aren’t supposed to talk about Driver. (But as far as I know she got banned. However, on the internet, it isn’t really possible to “ban” someone forever. They can come back if they are even slightly tricky.)</p>
<p>Anyway, here are some good rules of thumb if you don’t want to be ■■■■■■■ to death:</p>
<p>1) Don’t respond to provocative posts from posters with a low post count. They are nearly always reincarnated individuals.</p>
<p>2) Don’t engage in discussions with people who ONLY post on the “chatty” parts of the forum. I figure, if they have never contributed ANYTHING to the topic of college stuff, then why bother? You could go to any forum on the internet and talk with politicos (or ■■■■■■ for that matter).</p>
<p>3) Just delete any PMs that are from creepy people. You don’t have to read them.</p>
<p>My 2 cents (or less).</p>
<p>Great suggestions, weenie.</p>
<p>BTW, I don’t think we are a practice site for the writings of a diamond in the rough, since there is plenty of evidence from some of the young writers that they have a perfectly comprehensible writing style, evidenced in other venues (such as their college newspaper). Rather, I think we parents are cannon fodder for some unresolved issues. Just my opinion…</p>