Hey OPIE...

“My problem with you, young fella, is that you are unrepentant. You will not, or cannot, understand the difference between an obscene joke and the obscenity of demeaning another human being. I have the thickest skin of anybody you have ever met. You obviously have the thickest head.

If I thought you were unreachable (a la gde,tbe,etc.), I wouldn't bother answering your brainless drivel, but I'm told you're a pretty good kid.

A dirty joke may disturb someone's sense of propriety, but a racist joke destroy's another human being's sense of self. If you want to tell a joke about niggers, spics, wops, chinks, dagos, kikes (pick your epithet), it's fine with me. Do it in your closed circle of ignorant fratbrats. I'm basically a WASP, so none of your BS applies to me, anyway. You can make jokes about me, if you want. Do it to my face. I'll probably laugh with you.

A public forum is the worst place to tell that kind of joke. When I have been wrong, I have apologized publically on this site. You need to do the same.














(father goose now sits, head bowed, at the pillory, bracing himself for the well-deserved verbal drubbing for physically challenging the opester)”

“Give it a rest already...the horse is long dead and buried.”

“no challenge...no comment”

“That's the same statement Miss Opie made when she first met Opie.”

“jk”

“fg :) :)”

“MDShiker...hehe....I hope she gets a job over there with you..and tortures you!!”

“So OPIE is an a@@ and needs to be dragged up to your high standards of conduct, while you yourself are exempt form those same high standards? If I had a nickel for every foul name and slur you have made to others (hell, bacpac alone!) I’d have enough money to fly down there so you could kick my a@@ into next week also. The shortcomings we have the hardest time seeing are our own (and I‘m speaking from personal experience here).”

“Up yours, BOO HOO. You don't count because no one takes you seriously, anyway.
OPIE, I think you're lost, man. Too bad.”

“"I have the thickest skin of anybody you have ever met"
Father Goose
08:17:45 AM
05/23/02

I'd like to hear your definition of thick skinned”

“There comes a time when the sanctaminious act get's really boring.”

“And the nihilist act doesn't? LOL”

“I've never been lost, just temporarily disoreinted.
(David Crockett)”

“oh well fg it seems that you still suck and you will always be a child!!
too bad for us i guess!!”

“Nigal,

I just checked out your user page. I think the glasses distract from your good looks and charming personality ;-)

OK, everyone . . . lets play nice!”

“Good one, OPIE!
Hmmm...lemmee see..Webster's third, unabridged; sanctimonious-affecting piousness: hypocritically devout (no that won't work, let's try another one): displaying high-mindedness with an intent to impress (no, not trying to impress anyone): archaic: possessing sanctity: holy, sacred syn; see devout (definitely not me).
All right, let's try thick skinned.
adj. 1: having a thick skin: pachydermatous (nah, no lesions or dermatitis) 2: callous, insensitive (definitely not me).
Damn! I guess I'm not thick skinned, after all.
Nihilist: wha th...”

“dude, where did you come from? who are you? one day i check the board and all of a sudden youre posting more than anyone else and i've never heard of you.
(im not saying it's bad, though, just wondering)

actually, phaedrus, too, where did you come from?

and this boo hoo character.

i swear, you leave for one weekend and you don't know whats' going on anymore.”

“are we talking about the golf course robot joke? i might be wrong. i looked and couldn't seem to find it but thursday is my night to go out w my friends so i could easily be missing it but if so it was a long time ago and i think he's been reamed a few times for it already. my bad, if i don't know what im talking about.(and im not saying it was right or anything, just that it's already been said.)”

“Hey, Josh, I just found the site a few months ago. I've been a bp'er for about 40 years.
As for this thread, it has to do with the fact that I made like the north end of a south-bound horse over a couple of jokes I found to be offensive, one of them being OPIE's (the more benign of the two). I don't care to discuss it, but I'm sure someone else will be happy to fill you in.”

“Josh..your thoughts are the same as mine!”

“actually, phaedrus, too, where did you come from?

If you listen to bacpac, I miraculously sprang from kleetn's left elbow one day.

I hope you're not implying that time on this board equals the right to have an opinion? Whatever, I lurked here for a number of months before I first posted.”

“how about condescending and patronizing, father goose?

Calling somebody "young fella" and trying to impart your brand of wisdom upon them will get the exact effect you have recieved here.

Not saying I disagree with your stance here (in fact, quite the opposite), but your methodology in delivering your message resembles a drunk bull in a china shop.”

“You are, of course, correct in your assessment of my method. I did not mean to condescend or patronize.”

“bongofreek...it's kewl mano...i'm not one to get worked up over the words, and actions of others...kewl and mellow...ya know the phrase..don't sweat the small stuff”

“OPIE--Do you surf? :) I hear ya on the cool and mellow...just wanted to offer my $.02.

Father Goose--it happens to the best of us...my simile was a bit over the top as well.

Good weekend to all...”

“breau..if i was in cali i'd be scuba divin the awesome kelp forest. Never surfed...i like doing my deeds deep”

“this would be my fav. thing to do if i was able to. doc says cant go that deep with my bad ear. now that sucks alot because i would love to try it even if its just one time. your very lucky”

“I hear that too OPIE...never tried Scuba, I think I'd get too claustraphobic.

Surfing is great tho...nothing like dropping into a nice wave...”

“Wild Flower...you can try it just once...LMAO.

Scuba diving has to bring back sensations and deep memories of the womb. Floating weightlessly, total physical sensation..and at the same time..almost no sensation. I found bliss at 45 feet nuetrally bouyant in the mouth of a cavern..look up and all i see is water, my air bubbles and the reflection of the treeline on the surface...”

“phaedrus, actually all i meant was that a few new people started posting a lot at around the same time and i feel like i was lost for a minute. i meant nothing like you don't have the right to an opinion.
but in my opinion, you like to find a lot of arguments, don't you?”

“Arguments seem to follow people with opinions on this board.”

“Dave (the English fella) says hello and to give you his best. I guess he's not working with you any more?”

“If you still want to go this weekend, i have two spots reserved at the Cosby Knob and Davenport Gap shelters.”

“weekend? he told me next week. i wish it was the weekend so i could go too! i'm dying to get out!”

“Sorry Darlin. It'll actually be Sunday-Wednesday. Will you be up for the Uptown Mix Wednesday night?”

“i'm down like a clown charlie brown, i'm in there like swimwear.”

“Give me a call. I have a couple of questions for you.”