I have never met a phor that I didn't like. It can grow anywhere. I particularly like them when they break through the ice!

Mowtown - Some of your taste is stellar. Some of the rest is questionable. Glad to share those qualities with you!...and probably the best course of action

Jaan- I agree with point 1 & 2 fervently! Not sure I understand point 3. Disagree with 4. Look at yours and Mowtown's Post (to Tech's Post)

Tech- ^^^ Maybe a bit patronizing but I "really" like to call out folks that make me snicker to belly laugh. I am so sorry!!.. if I come across that way!!! I am someone who enjoys everything from the most sophomoric and dirty of Limericks to the brilliance of Rumi, and Shakespeare Sonnets. I look for the positive and am NO ONE to judge where ANYONE fits in that spectrum. Not remembering any specifics but a general feeling of "that was pretty cool"

Blondey- Whoa, the little Stepford Wife type speaks up? I know when/if anyone was cruel to animals, trying to kill love/the sun, or pollute the ocean; you'll be there (with a machete). However, Surfers are stupid like that.----Just let that last statement go Man
EDIT: What Matters? I think animals, sunsets, poetry (The Arts in general), cake, travel, etc. do....but does my opinion on any of it?

My Cousin said (of course online), Gawd! I HATE The Beatles!"

I rarely gasp. I GASPED! My blood boiled with possible reactions. I love my family, so I chilled and took a breath. Personal story, her prerogative, and who cares!

The question is "How do you react when something goes completely against your own sensibilities?

BTW....
Puppies Suck
Sunsets are overrated
True Love doesn't exist
The Ocean is not that beautiful
Poetry is boring
I hate travel

React with something different than "You are daft/stupid."

Hah Stormy, can I get a Hallelujah MF?

Reportedly Samuel L. Jackson was considering converting to Catholicism, but saying "Superior" after "Mother" proved too difficult.

Lucky to have the Forums.

The Nudges I got from Megan Fox and Halle Berry would have transferred a lot of money from my account to Ivan Jacknoff's.

...and next time to The Rockies?

Heya Stormy

...and Great Geographical Gymnast

Terrific Flipper!!! You always know what to say

One Friday in the early days of the inter-web I was trying to answer a client in the affirmative, that I had received her electronic file. In a ready for weekend hurry I emailed “GO T!+ !!” instead of “Got it!”..........one of my more horrifying professional experiences !!!

Luckily after the longest 90 seconds EVER, her reply was, “Haha Great, and glad you are a fan. Have a nice weekend.”

.....or I Should DUH Saids

Bit of a truth of dare.

Dare: Admit what you said or wrote by not thinking things through by whatever (content, punctuation, context grammar, etc.).

Truth: What you meant to say or wished you had.....even and especially if you held back ( a Boss, too harsh for situation, words were a few seconds too late, yada).

These 2 definitions may be completely backwards.

.....or I Should DUH Saids

Bit of a truth of dare.

Dare: Admit what you said or wrote by not thinking things through by whatever (content, punctuation, context grammar, etc.).

Truth: What you meant to say or wished you had.....even and especially if you held back ( a Boss, too harsh for situation, words were a few seconds too late, yada).

These 2 definitions may be completely backwards.

"I don't want or need you to solve my problems. There is nothing for you to "fix" here. I value your opinions but every once in a while could you just LiStEn!?"

...and woo woo is something else when using your slang thang

^^^^^^ perfect follow up

...and I thought you were going to model a new wetsuit or procured a new freshly shaped pink surfboard

I didn't see (or hear) a tree fall in the woods without anyone else around to see or hear it today....so I have no help on that far fetched theory that I may or may not have been hypothetically halleucinating ........... so please keep the Meds at the present level whether I am being overmedicated or undermedicated. It feels dialed in to me, Doc!

I don't know. Perhaps I should have posted in one of the tech categories, but I am thinking about larger social ramifications

I just got an advertisement for Penile Reduction.
Darn tracker bots! How do they know?

......and the Pharmaceutical Companies....so typical. First they play on your emotions. Things getting knocked off shelves. The stares. Afterwards a big long disclaimer about what can happen if over medicated. Yikes!

I wouldn't touch ANY of those procedures or pills with a 10 Foot Pole!!!

Surf culture, coffee house music scene. design and building of Lindbergh's plane, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Martime wonders from Star of India Schooner to USS Nimitz and Midway. The creator/author of Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who. Paragliding over nude Beaches. The innovator of McDonalds. Coronado Bridge. World Famous Zoo and Wild Animal Park, Top Gun, Sea World, Munchkin Compound, Legoland, Balboa Park, La Jolla Cove/Tide Pools, Fish Tacos