Goodbye, adieu, adios, cheerio, ciao, toodle-oo….our swan song

Im glad Teechur is not banned. I still have not posted pictures from my last Vegas trip and was hoping she could assist.

As far as DD goes, he knows what he was doing. I'm glad he is still around, but I also hope he takes this as a warning to stop posting those threads that start with "This is not political, but..." and then goes on to incite a nasty political mud slinging fight. Instead just keep clam and stick to the threads where we can all chive on.

But is he "sponge worthy"? Be careful how you answer this since you may have to face the wrath of the Teechur.

Spome of the young 'uns here may not relate to the "Welcome back Kotter" TV show posted by Snidely or JM, in relation to this thread. Well, I''ll try to clear this up for the newbies's while I'm drunk (lol), after having 2 glasses of wine and 2 bottle of Heinenkens. Anyways "Welcome back kotter" was aired somtime in the earlier 70's before some of you were even born and signifies the return of poor, old Don Diego (welcome back). The show was cancelled then resurrected for a short stint under the Welcome back Kotter titlte for a short period. Keep in mind that during this time era, the only other shows on TV were maybe Taxi, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirly, Samford & Sons and maybe Mel's Diner, with the occassional I Love Lucy reruns. There was no cable channels and Espn, Cnn, or no Cnbc or Weather channel existed during this time period. And when you wanted to change a channel, you literally had to stand up off the couch and walk to the TV to manually change the dial on the TV, no remote control. I hope this makes sense. Or else no more posting drunk for me from now.

Glad this has been cleared up as I've also enjoyed most of Don Diego's posts (and I certainly enjoy traveling through his Appalachia). As with any post here, if it's political, I just stop reading.

What really blows my mind is that personal attacks and name calling seems to be overlooked - however, cross the politics line and people get upset.

Through life, I have often found that those who have little or no respect for others, have little or no respect for themselves - regardless of the persona they wish to demonstrate on an internet forum. What a sad existence in my opinion.

Not that my opinion does or should matter to anyone. Heck! To me, not much matters other than I'm going to Las Vegas on Thursday.

Subscribers have a choice. Either accept the direction of the forum or move on. If one has the need to discuss politics, find a forum that focuses on discussing politics. If I or you or anyone else leaves LVA, the sun will still come up tomorrow. The world's not going to end if I or anyone else decides to move on.

+1

Blade welcomes DD back.

LVA says that political threads are forbidden here. And LVA says that repeat offender will be banned. But the incorrigible and recidivist offender DonDiego is still here. Really? How do you explain that?

Or as Emerson wrote, “What you do speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.”

Banning DD would be unpopular, and I think LVA is simply reacting to market forces. It's what smart businesses do. And ironically, these days the most anger, nastiness, and witless ad hominems (please see upthread) come from those who think that political threads are the worst thing ever, but sadly don't have the self-control to refrain from clicking on them. More irony; many of these same people used to participate on these threads, but couldn't keep up with the likes of DonDiego and (ahem) others, and resorted to anger, nastiness, and witless ad hominems.

Perhaps some of the nastiness here should be deleted around here. And not DonDiego.

Was this whole thread a dream ?

Did I just read it, or was that just a figment of my imagination too ?

Am I typing on this thread now, or do I just think I am ?????

Did this thread never happen ???????


Rick

I'm sure glad that I don't spend much of my life trolling bulletin boards for political threads with a new identity because of being previously banned. One must truly have no life when they collect links and cut and pastes just so they are armed to fight all day in political threads. What a sad life.

(Oh, and this in no way is referring to DD, but is directed to another poster here)