Re: Mind's Eye Re: Mind Courtesies

I'm plenty happy that way. Keep it wild and wooly, that's what I say.


--Bill




On 10/14/2012 11:17 PM, archytas wrote:
> I often think we are a bit like a radio station phone in when it comes
> to attention span.
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> On 15 Oct, 07:14, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bring back that old rigsy! You are welcome indeed Bill. We have
>> trouble staying on topic, but this is part of the charm.
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>> On 15 Oct, 05:01, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> Yes- this is a sweet hangout and it's good you have joined. I thought
>>> early on that much of the nastinest could have been avoided if people
>>> had been required to use their real names thus being responsible for
>>> their posts however many felt that tags would allow greater freedom of
>>> expression and also protection. There are certainly many inane nasty
>>> writers/opinionators that use their proper name. Anyway, I have
>>> mellowed. :-) In my "salad days" on the internet forums, I could be a
>>> wild thing esp. after a few drinks and with a similar lively group-
>>> chalk it up to experience, learning the hard way, the mystery of
>>> ardent spirits- whatever.// I think there is a difference in school
>>> smarts and life smarts...unfortunately.
>>> On Oct 13, 6:03 pm, William L Houts <luka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey Friends,
>>>> This is just to say that I feel right blessed to have fallen in with a
>>>> group of such affable smart people. Like all of you, I'm betting, I've
>>>> been sailing Net oceans since their very beginnings on college Usenet
>>>> groups, and even before that on BBS systems.
>>>> The difference here, I find, is a spirit of collaboration in
>>>> discussions, rather than some digital wartime ethic of cutting each
>>>> other off at the knees.
>>>> It makes for better reading, and for a kind of warm glowy pro-human feeling which, it seems, you don't often find on Net discussion groups; and I've checked out dozens of them, both on Google and Yahoo. Also, I'm not the smartest one here for a change, and I enjoy hearing the arias performed by your singing minds.
>>>> So here's a little bouquet for you all, and a ghostly boo! just to be a little season appropriate.
>>>> Cheers and fond wishes,
>>>> --Bill
>>>> --
>>>> "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
>>>> and boy are my arms tired."


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"I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
and boy are my arms tired."

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