selling tickets to Bambi vs. Stompy Foot (the Remake)

I hope Caroma does not mind if I answer her. I think Caroma missed one aspect of Buffista culture - and if she can really grasp it and stick to it, she can unban herself from natter. That is there is an important hypocrisy to Buffista courtesy - and it is not politically biased. That hyprocrisay is that personal attacks are not okay - unless we are sure they are behind your back. That is you can personally attack Julia Roberts or George Bush or Bill Clinton or Al Gore or Ralph Nader or Noam Chomsky - because none of them post on this board. But you can't attack anyone personally - even in the most mild way by calling them smug or not-bright if they post on this board. Also - not revelent to your case, but for the record, you can't post stuff that is racist or that denigrates women or gays or the disabled or whatever.....

I would say the most frustatring thing to me about being personally attacked on this board is that I immediately think of great comebacks - and can't use them because they violate Buffista courtesy. Do you know how frustrating it is to have to suppress a really good retort?

Have we definitely decided against a Movies thread? Because I came up with a great argument against it, but I don't want to post it if it's beating a dead horse.

I'm curious, Michele.

Have we definitely decided against a Movies thread?

I would say that the consensus at this point is to have only a Music thread and no general movie thread.

at this time

Do you know how frustrating it is to have to suppress a really good retort?

t biting back response

I realized that it would have to be an entire thread full of whitefont. Music, unlike movies, doesn't have a plot to get spoiled. If you're in the LOTR thread, then you're there to talk about at least the first two LOTR films, and if you don't want to be spoiled, you don't go there. But -- as your surprise, ita, at getting spoiled for Love Story in I think it was the Angel thread reminded me -- there will always be someone who hasn't seen the movie under discussion in a General Movies thread, and so you're limited to reviews of new films and whitefont for everything else.

Typo Boy, I feel as though it's like being a columnist, or satire cartoonist at a newspaper. You can talk trash about everyone and everything...except your fellow columists.

You don't shit where you eat.

Not at all, Michele. I've participated in movie threads before, and there was no problem. Hell, I get spoiled all the time in Natter.

Note, I don't want a movie thread. But the mechanisms are simple enough that people with less organisation than us do it right.

I realized that it would have to be an entire thread full of whitefont.

This is a very, very good point.

Or so it would seem to me.