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I think it's unnecessary (though maybe I'm a little too "involved" to have an objective opinion here, and I DO kind of like the idea of snuggling up to that vision of pulchritude Snow).
If you people want to fill this board with genuine Cracky-thread after genuine Cracky-thread, that's fine by me, I'll keep out of it. I have no direct interest in the girl at all.
That doesn't mean that I don't think I might be able to make a useful INDIRECT contribution to discussion of her from time to time. After all, I do know one or two things about some of the topics that sometimes come up in connection with her (Britishness, romantic love of people one has never met etc.)
But I certainly have nothing to contribute to "hard-core" Cracky discussions - like about whether she preferred Eminem or....um...what's that other guy, "DJ Ahab" or something?...or where she went for her summer holidays in 2004 - nor would I ever try to.
The threads that I feel positively impelled to intervene in on boards like this are in fact - as I think anyone who looks closely at them will agree - not "Cracky threads" at all, however heavily they may be plastered with old photos of Cracky.
I'm thinking, for example, of the thread immediately below this one. The "love" that the OP of that thread claims he wants to express is obviously, at best, a secondary concern for him.
His MAIN concern and intention are plainly expressed in the "preamble" to the ostensible "love", where he states that he's not going to do what the people in the thread below him are doing and "be retarded" and "CH-like".
Basically, he doesn't give a fuck about Cracky. Posting her photo is just a way of saying "look at me, I'm better than those guys."
If you people want to post about Cracky, go ahead, God bless you. As I learnt during my brief and disastrous career as a university professor, though, "preambles" - to posts, lectures, declarations of independence, whatever - are best avoided wherever possible.
Many was the time I was tempted to begin a lecture on the Alexandrian school of biblical exegesis, for example, with a few brief remarks explaining how I was "not a cornholing, cocksucking, ignorant, stuck-up asshole like my honoured colleague Professor X seated on my right here, and would therefore be addressing a different topic from him entirely".
But even I - in my almost boundless ignorance of human nature and of how best to deal with my fellow human beings - had a glimmering of awareness and apprehension that, if I began my talk on Alexandrian biblical exegesis THAT way, Professor X might feel strongly inclined to intervene before I was entirely finished.