A Request; A Propos Nothing in Particular

May 27, 2008 10:43

The next time someone posts something to LJ or Facebook, or e-mails you something, and it's a thing that you thought was awesome when you first saw it, six months, or a year, or two years ago, rather than saying something like "Oh, yeah, that. I thought it was funny when I first saw it. It's old now,"* consider the following ( Read more... )

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corbet May 27 2008, 15:02:09 UTC
~ You don't lose cool points by being kind.

Well said.

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zingerella May 27 2008, 16:02:02 UTC
You know, if a community's values equate unkind with cool, it's not a community whose values I wish to adopt.

I'm too cool for that. ;-P.

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caprinus May 27 2008, 15:10:01 UTC
Good point!

Although, I've seen it better made on the Black Dog BBS back in 1987, when the legendary James "Kibo" Parry wrote fnord fnord fnord fnord...

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northbard May 27 2008, 15:18:27 UTC
I'll mark this as a lesson still to learn...many thanks.

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