Shucks, why spoil the fun, tvd?
It's not like anyone will believe me if I tell you.
The clowns here actually believe I'm Lucky, who I think is in his 40's and who, unfortunately, hasn't been here since the board shut down 2 1/2 years ago. I don't write anything like Lucky (who has a gift for the succinct and is really funny) and I don't have the writing talent to sound like anyone but myself.
I've told them repeatedly that I'm not him but they won't believe me.
Now johnforbes thinks I'm Alogicalman (RealTool's latest sock) as well.
I've told him I'm not but he won't believe me.
johnforbes also believes I'm a "young kid" because he's a bit slow. If I tell you I'm not, who will believe me?
But look, if you promise not to tell any of the Bozos here, I'll mention a few things...
I cheerfully take the senior discount at the movie theater. (There are very few movies I consider to be worth $11)
I'm about as white as they come, but my wife, who I met in the 70's at university, and started dating in the 80's, is Black. (I rarely use the term African-American in real life. I tell her family I will call them African-American when they start calling me European-American. So far I'm still "White" to every last one of them, and all but one of them can laugh about it with me.)
I'm not a fan of Obama. I didn't vote for him. (either time) And if anyone here had any brains they would have noticed a long time ago that I have almost never said anything positive about him.
I haven't held what you would call "a job" in the past 18 years but I work 40 or more hours a week on a number of projects, often seven days a week, because I love it. I'm actually getting more busy now than ever, and there aren't enough hours in a day to begin to do all the things I want to do, which means I have less and less time to waste here.
I do want to get back to your questions of a couple weeks ago, which were made more complex by Brandon's questions a few days ago. The answers to the two posts are not-so-obviously-related and because of that, now even more difficult to find the time to answer. But the more I think about the topics, the more I become convinced that they touch upon some of the most critical problems facing our republic, internally and externally. The bulk of the crap posted here as 'topics of discussion' are partisan sideshow propaganda for dimwits and unimportant as far as I'm concerned. That's why I treat them as they deserve.
But you posted honest discussion for a change, and on something I think is important to us all.
I had typed a page of reply to you, but it disappeared when I accidentally closed the wrong tab while clicking back and forth. Now I'm heading to Hawaii for a couple weeks of long-overdue vacation and I don't take my computer when I 'vacate'. Then will come the holiday press into New Years when I won't have chunks of spare time either.
Who knows when I can get back to this?
Anyway, like I said, keep all this just between us.
I would hate for johnforbes, RealJustme, and Intrepid to have to face reality.
I doubt they could stand the shock. And besides, it's more fun laughing at their cluelessness.
Also, I don't care about your CV unless it becomes relevant to a subject under discussion.
I don't pigeonhole people based on those things.
I pigeonhole them based on what they have to say.