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Nightly Chris Count; 30 Minutes of Fun Has Ended-out of coins
Topic Started: Sep 28 2005, 08:31 PM (326 Views)
bikemanb
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Word!
Bill, Rita and Chloe the Terror Cat

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Back up to 5 of 14. You all poopin' out or what? Cat got your tongues? Brain dead? Tail between your legs? :pfft:
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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TexasShadow
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Jane
last word
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Word is out I'm slipping, down to 2 of 14 again. You guys're bringing me down. :kickcan:
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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tomdrobin
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It's Friday night and he is unstoppable. Must be he can sleep in tomorrow.
:floorrollin: :floorrollin: :floorrollin:
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Nope, day off, work in the yard.

Yep, on a roll tonight!
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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feddoc
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Maybe a time limit should be set for last post.
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pentax
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Kamloops - BC Interior
This is FABULOUS! People constanting trying to get in the Last Word, in a thread about getting the Last Word!
:floorrollin: :floorrollin: :floorrollin: :floorrollin: :floorrollin:


There's a term for this, but I can't post it in mixed company.... ;)
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"Kirk to Enterprise - Very funny, Scotty.... now beam down my clothes!"
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
This thread was started in fun and I'm not above laughing at myself, between loving to talk opinions and trying in my way to keep this place active and interesting.

But there is more irony in this thread than what Murray has just pointed out. And that's this: Statements like "You always have to get the last word" and "You always have to be right" and "You're just parsing words" or "You're just being PC" and "You think you're a know it all" or "You libs" or "You cons" or "You Bush haters" or "You Bush lovers"...well, you should get the picture, are all dismissive show stoppers introduced on a forum, like any other, where the idea is engaging each other in the expression, exchange and examination of opinions.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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pentax
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Kamloops - BC Interior
S'truth.... AS LONG AS one has taken a minute to examine if there is any truth to the comments - sometimes the knife cuts close to the bone.
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tomdrobin
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I don't really care to have the last word. Just having fun, and enjoying the conversation and debate, and getting my 2 cents in.
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
I don't much care about it either. In fact I do not see discussion in a forum as even about winning or losing anything. To me it is an exchange of opinions, a discussion of those opinions. All that can be gained by it is lost by getting and taking it personal.

My point above, however, is that such expressions as "you have to get the last word in" are addressed at the poster and not the opinion posted and have the intent of making it personal and stiffling free exchange and discussion of opinions.

Should I--do you want to--hesitate because it might be the last post in a thread? But that is the effect if taken seriously.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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