>>39
Last word (promise). Take a look - it might be interesting, quite aside from any "point-scoring" at the course of this last little exchange:
Post No. 24: Good-natured, rather affectionate little swipe at Loli-Chan on my part - or rather at myself, since clearly the joke here was primarily on me, although secondarily (just a little) at the pseudo-religious fanatics.
Post no. 25: Depressingly serious and po-faced response - God, I hope it wasn't Dolores herself responding - to an obviously un-seriously meant remark.
Post no. 26: An attempt to clarify "for idiots" my actual joking and affectionate intentions with post no. 24, unfortunately supplemented - OK, my bad here! - by a rather more genuinely bitter and resentful sideswipe at Camel (God, that is one attractive girl, and one that, no, one DOESN'T like being taken up and then dropped by) which, fortunately, didn't produce any long-term echoes or repercussions in THIS thread (some other rejected suitor briefly took up the "coal-burner" thing in the thread above, but PLEASE, let's let that sleeping dog lie).
Post no. 30: a friendly, witty spinning-out of a jokey idea I'd raised in post no. 26, i.e. a post of the sort that it would be nice to see more of here.
Post no. 31: an intendedly witty and friendly spinning-on of the theme already developed, the Kafka quotation having occurred me to quite spontaneously in the context and being, I think, maybe of more than just "jokey" significance for the ethos of a board like this.
Post no. 32: A keen-witted (but maybe a little over-serious) correct identification of the source of the quotation
Post no. 33: An attempt to dispel the slight atmosphere of over-seriousness with an obviously ridiculous proposition about Cracky and Kafka (and another playful swipe at the "keepers of the temple")
All pretty friendly - and, I think, amusing up to that point (with the exception, as I've admitted, of my own single snide and bitter reference to Camel - God, I hate that bitch - which fortunately sunk quickly into oblivion.)
With post no. 35, though, the usual resentment against wit and intelligence just BECAUSE it's wit and intelligence - the assumption that it's "done to show off" and has to be consistently pissed on by boring image macros - raised its ugly head - and THAT, I think, is the point at which the "flaming" can be said to have begun.
In other, not MY choice - vicious as I DID, in passing, once or twice show myself to be in another connection - and not the "feeding" of any addiction of MINE.