The Hall of Fire

"You are hairy and you drivel!"

Hobby, I first read this as "You are hairy and you drive!"


Made me think of a big ape in a convertible, or something...

I guess I should say that it's only my opinion they are amoral acts, so maybe I can cause a little bit less offense with my comments. :scratch: I suppose I always understood that this was your opinion. I LOVE reading your opinions, Faramond , because whether I agree with them or not, they are alway...

Eru, I don't know why, but that whole occasion of your visit keeps popping up in my head lately... I feel a faint anxiety, as if I didn't let you and the others know how special that was to me at the time. How special the memory of it still is. I had been through a bit of an anxious patch, myself, j...

Yes. Yes, I think you have it there, TP. Person "A" is in the wrong, sometimes. Well, not to them. They are in the right. But they seem wrong to person "B". Person "B" is in the wrong, sometimes. Well, not to them. They are in the right. But they seem wrong to person &q...

Well, I did say that my avoidance of the word would be subconscious. :) I do believe that I do this... if I find that my choices are offending people, especially when I did not know that I was being offensive, it is actually upsetting to ME. I agree with vison that it is far easier simply to choose ...

I've always thought that "African-American" will die out from pure clumsiness. Plus, as Imp points out, it is rather limiting... if a person who had never been American were to visit here, and happened to be of a darker skin color, certainly our current "correct" term wouldn't ap...

Hobby, thank you for the nice spider picture. :) I'm actually not in LOVE with the whole spider thing... I went to a reptile show (where they also show spiders) and was roundly criticized for not holding the tarantulas. Or the snakes. Or the hissing cockroaches. <shudder> I like the lizards. They're...

:) 'Elp! 'Elp! I'm being suppressed! :D TP , in your example, I wouldn't have a problem at all with the compromise of calling the position "head master". Edit: Oops! That should be "house" master... Language changes all the time, and the word "master" is so rarely used ...

When is PC too PC?



When the word or phrase in question does not offend you, personally.


Is all I'm sayin'.

Prim, I would LOVE to go on a desert walk with you and Mr. Prim. And VMan, I would be right there slack-jawed with your Beth. I really dig that stuff. :love: I truly love the Sonoran desert. What a treasure trove of life! I am certainly no expert on deserts, but I tend to "notice" many thi...

And now, as a treat for you all:

The Four Peaks, just northeast of Phoenix, Arizona.

I made a LOT of little squeaky noises that first year or so. :shock: But it helped a lot that I was selling one-on-one... I do fairly well in a situation like that... AND that I was selling to lab types. Laboratories tend to attract introverts, and I understand introverts pretty well... takes one to...

Well, I was the only INFJ in the sales force of 80, when I sold laboratory equipment and supplies.

Heck, I was one of only three "I"'s in the entire salesforce.




Talk about a tadpole in a shark tank...

<shudder>

Absolutely!!

We can be rare together...

Wow. I did a search on "Anthy" after reading this thread... my name is mentioned on this board 88 times. I have only 40 posts, folks. :shock: I've been trying to figure out how to address the fact that my own sensitivity seems to be SUCH a given... you know, grass is green, sky is blue, An...

Havasu Falls... at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

NOBODY beats Arizona for just plain beautiful.

IMVHO, of course.

Wow, Eru. That's an amazingly gorgeous shot.

Here's one I took, of Bryce Canyon, in Utah...

Well, we sure could get into a talk about forgiveness, too. :sunny: What a great thread! I wish I didn't have to make dinner and do the homework thing with the kids right now, because I really want to be selfish and participate in this discussion right now. Is that a sin? <worries> :D Actually, I be...

Oooo, you mean Elizabeth Peters, whose character Amelia Peabody Emerson, the Victorian feminist who, together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe Emerson, takes the archaeology world by storm?

Never heard of her.

Frelga, I don't think the DaVinci Code was written to engross us in Dan Brown's characters, because his characters are always the same from book to book, even when they have different names. :) The storyline is hauntingly familiar from book to book, as well. It's still a pretty good read. If you hav...