How to avoid making controversial posts

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How to avoid making controversial posts

Method 1. Post new threads only about as often as the Debunking Y2K website changes URLs.

Method 2. When replying to a thread, do not address it to anyone in particular, even if is obvious that it is:

Example:

WRONG - "Decker, the belief that gold is a barbaric relic is extremely nitwitted.

RIGHT - "The belief that gold is a barbaric relic is extremely nitwitted. "

Method 3. Do not under any circumstances use any of the following words in a post:

{VERBOTEN LIST CENSORED}

and especially not these

{CENSORED}

and most of all not this one

{ALL RIGHT A CUT IT OUT}

Method 4. Do not use the email address madrid@aol.cum.

Method 5. When addressing Flint, be sure to capitalize his first name and avoid the "-boy" suffix if at all possible.

Method 6. Hoffmeister is abbreviated Hoff, not Hoffy, Huffy, Huf-and-Puf, Bluffweasler, or Jagermeister. However, referring to Hoff as "Charlie Brown" is under consideration by the rules committee and is temporality permitted.

Method 7. In the infrequent event that you post, avoid using any language that

- has to be replaced with ***** by the Sysop

- is deleted

- generates any interest whatsoever

Method 8. Even though you would probably not be discovered, try to resist posting anything inflammatory or stupid under a different pseudoname, but if you have to, use the name Y2K Pro, Mutha, doomersuck, or Mr. Decker. (..just kidding Ken)

Method 9. When speculating on the price of gold, gold stocks, gold mines, and gold fillings, keep in mind not everyone is aware the third secret if Fatima is that Reptilian aliens were somehow involved in the suicide of Marilyn Monroe.

And WHATEVER you do, don't claim that y2k will either be a 1 or a 10. Anything in between is permissible, though, as long as you don't couch any predictions in words like "good" or "bad" or "successful" or "failed".

-- a (a@a.a), October 26, 1999

Answers

Yup. I DO know this was intended as humor. However, for anyone who actually wants a serious guideline on how to avboid controversial posts, how about this:

Pretend TB2K is a small town and you will have to live with any enemies you make here, see them at the grocery store, at church, and they'll recognize your car as you drive down the road each day. Just a hint. Oh, and try not to visualize them as minions ofthe devil, if you can possibly help it.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), October 26, 1999.


Gawd! *** **** ** * *****!!! *** **** ***** *** **** **** ***?????? *** ***** ******* ** ****** ******!!!!!!!!

**** ***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), October 26, 1999.

KOS, you've never been so eloquent, my wife likes to mud wrestle and she related to this post !!!!!!

-- BH (silentvoice@pobox.com), October 26, 1999.

But the easy way is to write whatever you need to, and gently stroke the "back" button before the submit button. Works for ME ALL THE TIME! LOL

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), October 26, 1999.

You beat me to it Chuck! :-D

I've been "stroking" the back button an awful lot lately ;-)

-- Chris (#$%^&@pond.com), October 26, 1999.



Y2K is not going to be a 1 or a 10. It will be a 9.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999+, give or take a skoche.

Kook

-- Y2Kook (Y2Kook@usa.net), October 26, 1999.


How about posting using "President@whitehouse.gov"?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), October 26, 1999.

Method 10. Never use the letters CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA or NSA in the same sentence with any of the words listed in Method 3.

-- I. M. Notstupid (@ .), October 26, 1999.

Ya, God forbid there should be controversy in the world.

Sheesh

-- (go@back.to the valley), October 26, 1999.


What's the source of "skoche"? Just heard it the other day. What language/ethnic background?

-- bw (home@puget.sound), October 27, 1999.


Skoshe....Well, in japanese, it means "a little bit"...while in Japan however, they told me it was Italian and meant the same thing...I now live in Italy and I've yet to hear them say it.....

At any rate, it means a little bit.

-- Ynott (Ynott@incorruptible.com), October 27, 1999.


'a':

Are you discussing controversial or adversarial? Personally, I wouldn't address a BUG the way some on this forum address others, but that may have more to do with the way I was raised than whether I have something of import to say.

-- Anita (notgiving@anymore.com), October 27, 1999.


bw, Ynott -

As noted, it's Japanese: sukoshi, pronounced "s'koe-shi" with a very soft "i" sound at the end. Means "a little bit", as when ordering "just a touch more sake": sukoshi sake. 8-}

Your Japanese friends were pulling your leg, "Y", since "a little bit" in Italian is un poco or pochino.

BTW, is your forum name a reference to "Wyoming Knott" in Heinlein's The Moon is A Harsh Mistress, or perhaps just a play on Y(2K)Nott?

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), October 27, 1999.


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