I read this as negligee!

But was it a PVC negligee? Okay I will stop as I'm not sure Bureaucracy is the place for my lame-ass jokes.

No, really - I will stop.

Really.

I'm not sure Bureaucracy is the place for my lame-ass jokes.

Oh well, if you can't be lame-ass in Bureaucracy, where can you?

I thought Wolfram was just being funny. Maybe a few winkies would have helped?

You know, it's my issue and I probably shouldn't have said anything.

it's my issue and I probably shouldn't have said anything.

I disagree. Clarity is good. Knowing reasons for attitude and behavior is good. Talking stuff out--isn't that why we're here? Any approach to understanding can only be beneficial, I think.

I though Wolfram was being a total Buffista - word-obsessed, pedantic, fascinated by differences between US and Commonwealth usage, and tongue-in-cheekly so. (Gah - remember the two whole days on fork usage, let alone the various grammar debacles?!).

I also have to say I strongly disagree with Allyson, both on her pessimism (as I see it) about the future of the board and about her frustration with endless talk. Endless talk is what we do; we do need to work on making it less about disagreements that get personalized and more about understanding different philosophies. I think the last couple of days have been very eye-opening in this respect for me and, my impression, others. And the fragmentation of the Bronze was clearly traumatizing, but we are in a very different situation - despite inadvertant advertising, we are much less visible (the Bronze was an 'official' UPN board, no?) and also we are at a very different place in the cycle of Buffy's public visibilty (I'm guessing, but did the Bronze break down in Season 2 or 3?). I think the Buffistas can do it (by which I mean whatever we want to do), and do it our way, and without a benevolent junta. Though, if we appointed a Supreme Ruler I'd want it to be Nutty, 'cause I'm all about the nepotism. Swiss bank accounts, baybee!

Gee, maybe we should have one of those boxes next to the posting box with winkies available to click. I better not get any seconds on this

I tend to take things rather literally instead of seeing the tongue in cheek humor on board. I can get it most of the times but at others I become strangely literally. I do better in person.

I think we all do, Askye. This humor, she is a slippery little devil.

I've never had a problem with Wolfram's posting style, FWIW. I think the difference is I've spent a lot of time on boards where a coolly analytical, questioning everything style is the norm, so I never read it as antagonistic.

(Of course, that's partly temper envy on my part--I'd give anything to be coolly analytical in an argument instead of the sputtering, boiled over bundle of rage and righteous indignation I actually turn into.)