Insert awkward silence here…
Followed by tumbleweeds blowing across a lone desert highway…
fifedog wrote:
Insert awkward silence.
Perhaps not so awkward as golden. And so to bed!
Please, we don’t need any awkward insertions right now.
Be careful with the Jonathan Swift allusions–next thing you know people’ll be suggesting we eat other people.
–Read Swift’s “Modest Proposal” before being offended at my post.
Shame on you for talking like that! Naughty, naughty!!! [:O]
Congratulations danrunner! Well done.
Ogaugeoverlord,
Yes. That’s exactly right.
I love the Tom Swift stories! I’ve wanted to share them with my kids. I wonder if they are still available. Would make a great Christmas gift.
So much for the efficacy of smilies [:P]
palallin,
Exactly so, which is part of the reason I don’t much like them. The nuances that are often expressed in by in-person body-language and the context of prior conversations are totally lost on a forum, and I don’t think the bevy of smilies and his relatives does much to replace them. When you add in the “audience” it seems almost impossible to communicate anything without somebody getting bent out of shape. So be it.
I’ll leave you with this from Lilly Tomlin:
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Your namesake would be proud, bf . . .
You guys want humor?
Jerry Lewis in “The Caddy”. If you can watch him in that movie and not laugh out loud, you are completely humorless!
I wonder if we can convince him to post on the forum.
And it’s a shame Dean Martin’s not still around; we could get them both to sing his old hit song, “Hominy Grits”, which would pretty much bring us full circle on this thread.
Smilies are overrated, unless you use one like this:
Gee, I’d hate to see a serious thread like this get hijacked into a series of movie reviews; but, if you want a REALLY funny flick, check out The Court Jester, the 1950’s tour-de-force by Danny Kaye and the charming and always fetching Glynis Johns.
If that proves too tame for you, you won’t want to miss Fargo,* I betcha’. Frances McDormand is absolutely wonderful; as are William H. Macy and Peter Stomare as “evil-with-deadpan.” Not to mention the chipper scene…
*Not for the strait-laced or the faint-of-heart.
DJSpanky,
Self-portrait?
I believe you inadvertently inserted your comment within my quote, but that’s OK, I take credit for your remarks too. [:)]
From my younger days.