ORIGINAL: aparchment
Aw c'mon ET. I was quite amused by your posts. Nobody appreciates a well turned phrase these days. I learned this early on RCU.
Matt has a point though. For the average Joe racing through this thread your joke may have been lost on him, and he may have walked away to buy tickets to CA to paw through the derelict JC facility.
Antony
At least SOMEBODY was amused!
Who wants to post for the "Average Joe" though? Did you see "The Incredibles"? They had a very poignant line in there, about the son's graduation commencement celebration, going from the Fourth to the Fifth Grade:
"They are constantly thinking up new ways to celebrate mediocrity."
Scary sometimes. Everybody gets a trophy for just participating, nowadays, and we revel, nay, celebrate, being just an Average Joe who's not too smart or ambitious in America now. I don't want an "Average Joe" to be my President or Governor...I want someone who is PARTICULARLY on the ball...
Like watching the news, when they say "let's get the word of the Man on the Street!" and they start interviewing some hyuk passers-by and they spew something like "Yeah, that's some pretty bad stuff that's happening in Chinaman Square in Japan, and we ought to nuke these people before we're all wearing burkas within the year..."
Maybe the Average Joe ain't got a clue!
Snobbery? Not really. Just don't want to live and work and talk to please the lowest common denominator, it's just not that interesting...