Nicknames - please note

[rossb]

WAI can't we Al just get along

[MitchM]

[Bob I]

If you perceive a person to be "difficult" or "cranky" or "sweet" this should temper your interaction with them. Just keep in mind who you think you're dealing with. It would be good if we could all meet eventually and get to know each other even slightly... this would clear up a lot.

Spot on, old chap. Without having met someone, you are prone to (usually wrong) impressions. I would like to say that everyone I have met through contact on this board has been a joy to me. Some have even become good friends, which is great for a friendless person. If I snipe a bit once in a while at the people I know, I am certain they don't hold it against me. If they do feel upset they let me know, and we thrash it out. No big deal.

[Delphinus]

Well spoke. I beleive we all tend to have our moments, but luckily forgiveness, and perhaps more so forgetfulness, is in good supply.

This is why I have to beleive in giving second chances: I need so many myself.

By mere virtue of being in here, we are united in one thing: our love of all things reef and marine. Of course we cannot always agree, but like I said, that makes it INTERESTING to talk it out! For example, there is really nothing interesting in the following conversation:

A: "This rock is purple."
B: "Yes, this is rock is purple."
End of debate.

Whereas:

A: "This rock is purple."
B: "Are you colourblind? It's pink!"
C: "What a bunch of silly nitwits. Clearly, it's MAUVE."
A: "Who the heck are you?"
B: "Welcome to Canreef"
D: "Hey, when I picked up my rock yesterday, a worm came out. What is that?"
A: "Can we get back to my rock???"
etc.

[MitchM]

Tony, did you know that you spelled believe incorrectly?

............... :P

Mitch

(sorry...just trying to lighten things up.... )

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by Carpentersreef

Tony, did you know that you spelt believe incorrectly?

............... :P

Mitch

(sorry...just trying to lighten things up.... )

I have told him that many times, but he says he will spell it any way he wants.

[Delphinus]

Yup ... fully aware that I spelled a word incorrectly. Aint gonna change it either!! :P

Actually ... Basically the way I type, when I type an "i" and an "e" the two fingers used are my right hand middle finger and my left hand middle finger (and ... no ... I am not going where you think I am going with this). Anyways these are the two strongest typing fingers, and as the two strongest members of two competing clans ... er .. hands, they like to out-macho each other so they like to have a little competition to see who can be first. It is essentially what is known in real-time programming as a "race condition". Being that I am right handed, my left hand has a chip on its shoulder and as such, has a lot of spite, and puts all that is has into the race, and as a result, tends to win these races.

Um ... maybe I really shouldn't be divulging how my mental processes work, for fear of being committed. I also talk to my cats, and they talk back to me. They usually tell me that they think I am crazy.

As a software developer, I generally end up relying on my compilers to catch my typos. But this isn't programming so I have no net. :P

[Bob I]

That gentlemen is the crux of the whole dilemma. When I tell you that you misspelled something, I do it for fun. You know me relatively well, so you come back and tell me I am a dillhole for telling you that. Problem solved. But when someone who is 800 miles away, and has never met me calls me a nitpicking dillhole, I get upset. Ther is an old quote which states something like "Know thine enemy" 'Nuff said, Okay. :?:

Now all we need is for Kim, and Doug to add their somewhat acerbic comments, and we will have beaten this to death quite nicely.

Oh and one more thing, a riddle. Do you know the difference between meat and fish? Ans. If you beat your fish it dies.

[rossb]

and tell me I am a dillhole for telling you that

I don't mean to be critical here but I was checking on the definition of dillhole in my word processor...and the only thing that came up was "drill hole". Knowing that you didn't mean drill hole I checked with my thesaurus and it suggested (among other things) "drink greedily". Is that true Bob

whereas:

now what was it that Tony was on about

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by rossb

I don't mean to be critical here but I was checking on the definition of dillhole in my word processor...and the only thing that came up was "drill hole". Knowing that you didn't mean drill hole I checked with my thesaurus and it suggested (among other things) "drink greedily". Is that true Bob

whereas:

now what was it that Tony was on about

Dillhole - That seventies show.