Re: What the hell?

On 4/19/12 1:42 PM, Deb Counts-Tabor wrote:
>
> Are you people always this quiet? What the hell happened to a
> hundred-odd messages a day?
>
>
> Possibly there was someone here whose favorite literary pastime was
> insulting people imaginatively, gratuitously and in carefully
> arranged polysyllables, and other people didn't want to attract his
> attention. Maybe there were other people here who resented having
> their private discussions intruded upon, and who thought that they
> owned the threads that they were speaking in, so that those threads
> didn't get any farther than one question and two or three answers.
>
> You might check out "The Mythic Cafe" on FaceBook, which is a nice
> place for TH-type people, run by CdL and MaryAnn. But people who
> enjoy being insulting there won't get very far: they moderate it
> most carefully. It's also kept reasonably close to on-topic.
>
>
>
> 1. There's no such thing as a "private" conversation on a mailing list.
> 2. There's no such thing as off-topic in a mythical House that only
> exists in our brains.

These are true, but the Cafe is on-topic of myth and mythic literature.
Your first point was one that I was trying to make by sarcasm. I guess
I'm not very good at that.

I saw you and Danny Fee in the same comment thread on FB. Do you know
each other IRL?

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