I was just wondering, given all the acronyms that are evidenced in various recent, tedious threads, when the discussions might return to individuals and their dogs.

I am reminded of Johnny One Note, or the little dutch boy, or of a voice crying 'wolf' over and over and over, and of how few follow or really care about the seemingly unending hyperbole, pontification and just plain bullying.

I'm sure the readers of this forum are spellbound by the minutiae, and are the more enlightened by the steady flood of stuff. Or maybe they are simply dulled into a torpor, waiting for relief from the droning.

There is flogging a dead horse and there is beating the corpse beyond any rational expectation of revival. The spirit of this horse has left the building. And to blatantly steal the words from the Monty Python Parrot sketch, the thread is dead, its passed on, it is no more, it has ceased to be, its expired, its gone to meet its maker, its stiff, bereft of life, it rests in peace, if it wasn't resurrected for the sake of endless prattle and self attraction it would be pushing up daisies and it's metabolic processes would be history. It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain, joined the bleeding choir invisible. This is an ex thread.

One is only left to plead for mercy.

i'm going to use the the word " torpor " in a sentence today . . .




after i find out what it means .

http://www.blogger.com/ - that is all.

Alas, the plea fell on deaf ears.

As William Butler Yeats wrote, in his poem Easter, 1916,
"Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?"

I know it ain't directly dog related. And this will suffice.

Mike, I couldn't agree with you more.

I’m so glad you have made this point, my inbuilt British reserve, and the same British upbringing prevents me from commenting on things I know nothing about, but these recent posts have depressed me so much, I don’t log on as much as I normally do.

It is also the reason I have whittled down the boards I am a member on over the years, and because this type of discussion recently went on and on for days on one of the two forums I do use, LB is the one remaining place I actually look forward to participating on.

These recent rants are harshing my buzz as Koothrapali would say!

Not to mention my opinion that I would hate to have that on "my side."

IMO, that kind of ranting does no one any good. It makes me long to remove myself from anything mentioned, whether it's reviled or praised.

As we've seen before, that "style" often tires people to the point where the poster is all alone on threads.

Everything only has so much shelf-life. Even hard candy. Doesnt matter how many checks you write to keep buying ingredients, at some point, your recipe has to come up with something. Thats the only way you're actually in the game.

Tracey,

Unfortunately, it is very American to opine when one is ill prepared to do so. A casual review of my posts will surely prove that point.

I read once where it was more effective when one considers both form and substance when communicating. Form absent substance is hollow. Substance absent form is ignored.

Time to ignore, he opines.

 Quote: Mike Arnold

I read once where it was more effective when one considers both form and substance when communicating. Form absent substance is hollow. Substance absent form is ignored.

+1