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Originally posted by evenodds
Posts by posters complaining about the style of posts of other posters.
You should all shut the hell up.
Even(and post something interesting, for goodness sake)Odds
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I apologize – I never meant to offend. After posting, I immediately thought of the Displaced Dog and the OddMan as exceptions – honestly – and wanted to go back and edit my post to make it clear that my weariness is not with the convention, but with the indiscriminate overadherence to the convention. The site is loading very slowly for me today, so I couldn’t, but it’s just as well because it probably would have resulted in a filter-lighter double post anyway.
Can we admit that the convention simply does not work well with some screen names, and the result is an affected or generic or stilted phrase that ends up detracting from the post? Odd Man and Displaced Dog are exceptions for me partly because of their longstanding use, but more because they are just good little phrases – they’re concise and evocative and each plays well off the screen name. Similarly, if Atticus were to refer to his family as the Grinches (I don’t know if he does, so I’m not kissing up to him here) it would not detract from his post because the image of little green children burninating the cottagees would add life to his post.
So what I really meant to say, in my wordy and blatantly obsequious way, is that, like the parentheticals, if one can’t do it well, one should not bother.
signed,
wussypuppy
