It appears as though a villian's work is never done.
I'm going to lay this out for you real simple, Viva. I don't give a monkey's left nut how long you've been lurking here, or other sites for that matter. I've been an active poster here longer than anybody currently posting here with the exception of the Webmaster and BeAStooge (and possibly Pilsner, the nicer admin; can't remember when he started to actually post). When I became a part of the "Powers That Be" here, I couldn't help but notice the onslaught of idiotic posts not only on the message board but on the comment boards for individual shorts as well. With the site becoming bigger and more people viewing it every day, I thought it reflected poorly on us, the admistrators of this site and the Webmaster in particular, to have these posts that did nothing more than make this site look like shit. That is when I brought the proverbial "whuppin' stick".
At first I only hit the comment/review boards, thinking it would be alright to allow bad typing on the message board. Having realized I was getting nowhere quick, I decided to extend my reach to the message board to set an example for the comment/review boards. There have been those, like you, who have thought I was being harsh. They are gone now; some on their own accord, some by banishment. I don't care how many people I scare away; if you are intelligent you should how to type in a manner that is decent. I'm not looking for absolute perfection. I'm not a perfect typist by any stretch of the imagination. What I am looking for is for everyone to type their posts in a manner that says "I'm not a lazy dumbass".
It takes all of one second to capitalize a letter. To all those out there who do not feel like capitalizing for whatever reason: do it or get the fuck out of here.
By no means is it my intention to scare intelligent people off, but if you can't even take the time to press and hold the shift key how am I supposed to take your post seriously? There have been worse typists on this site than Shempetta, but it doesn't make her any less annoying.
I have the backing of Dunrobin the Webmaster, the "Good Cop" to my "Bad Cop" Pilsner Panther, and others as well. Hell, I remember a time when BeAStooge (who is probably the most valuable participant of this or any Stooge board) caught a mangled post before I did and said "Where shemps#1 when you need him?"
moe, larry and curly started at columbia in 1934. around 1945, curly's heath started to decline, leading to a stroke on the set of "half-wit's holliday". that was the end of his stooging career. shemp joined to fill in for curly, but ended up replacing him. curly never fully recovered and died in 1952. a few years later, in 1955, shemp died in the back seat of a car with his friends, on the way home from a boing match
As for your sample paragraph, there is more than one grammatical error in it. Aside from "boing" (which I'll go out on a limb and take it that you meant "boxing"), Shemp's friends did not die alongside him as your sentence structure would indicate. You also have one too many l's in "holiday", and if I were to ignore the part of the last sentence where Shemp and his friends die in the back seat of a car, that last comma is unnecessary. So yes, your little paragraph was a pain in my ass and a struggle to decipher.
Am I an English Professor? No, but I am an English major.
In closing, as I've said before; if it came down to having a handful of intelligent posters or a bunch of idiots running the asylum, I'll take the former. I responded to this post right after reading it, "reflection" is not necessary. In order to reflect on something, the "something" in question would have to make me think, challenge my intellect. Your post does neither. I am fully confident that if we were to "throw down" mentally I would handle you just as I have handled every other jackass that has challenged me over the years. For now though, I'll leave you with a short warning. As for you Shempetta, "easy-going" describes me to a T: just ask some of the other old-timers here.
