nyguy opened this issue on May 15, 2008 · 39 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sat, 17 May 2008 at 8:41 PM
Quote - The 'Right People' in charge? LOLOLOLOLOLOL That's priceless!
Xeno...do I detect a wee note of sarcasm? :lol: That reply might have been a bit wordy?
Not in the least. I'm never sarcastic. And wordy? How could you think such a thing? :sneaky:
(In all seriousness gasp -- my posts generally tend to be quite a bit shorter, on the average, than those of some others -- on the average.)
Quote - Could it have been pared down to, "The professional peeps on the sites selling the look-alikes have their butts on the line and know more about it than the non-lawyers whistling in the wind." Get over it." ?
Just curious. ^__^ Heh.
That's putting it far more succinctly than I did, and there's no doubt that such to-the-point wording saves on space -- but IMHO, it's not quite as much fun to say it that way. Plus there's the fact that driving a point home effectively sometimes requires.........that one drive a point home. Otherwise, you might get buried under an avalanche of plausible-sounding, highly researched, and highly detailed Forum Gobbledegook™.
I've seen an unbelievable number of Worst Case Scenarios™ being presented as Sure Things™ (read: Wishful Thinking®) in the forums over a number of years. Not one Worst Case Scenario™ has ever come to pass. Not one -- on this or on any other subject. But that's never stopped the Forum Prophets Of Doom® from predicting such Imaginary Disasters Waiting To Happen™ for us on a regular basis.
Based upon their track record thus far: I've got my doubts that the Forum Prophets Of Doom® should be listened to with any degree of seriousness. But that's just me. For some others, they are no doubt perceiving what they are hearing as being Pronouncements From The Oracles Of All Wisdom®.
As They™ say: everyone's entitled to their own opinion.