but we can't cater to the most neurotic

But victor, that would be meeee!

Man do I ever not like the idea of a user list, in or out of the boards, and certainly not hosted off the boards themselves. As your local neurotic, one reason is that even my not-real-sounding name is highly identifiable. In fact, I appear to be the Only Person On The Internet using it. It would really upset me to have it displayed on a list, lurker or not. However, this is, yes, hypothetical, because I only use Liese here. So. I'll go ahead and stand (I typo'd "stank") here in my privacy freak corner.

But a) I don't think we need to mention our real-sounding names tendency because I think it will shake out naturally, b) I don't think we need to make policy of our not-similar names any more than we already have, except maybe to mention that a stompy may ask you to change if necessary if that's not already out there, c) I don't think we need a list 'cause of b, and d) if we get our search function back one day in the future, would that eliminate the problem in finding a specific poster for everyone?

Also?

Like Dostoyevsky, but sillier.

I lurve this.

Edited to add that please do not take the above in the wrong way, as I deeply appreciate the work and wording by, respectively, Gus and Ginger, and do not mean at all to denigrate what's being done. It's an important part of the process, and helping me to work through what I think about it all.

Bureaucracy 3: Talking Till We Can't Go On

I really like this.

Bureaucracy 3: Talking Till We Can't Go On

I prefer this to the "Like X, only Y" structures. I'm pretty much over that.

C'mon, billytea, it's continuity!

I too would prefer moving away from Like X Only Y. But mostly, I just really like The Beatles and think that song is so very us.

C'mon, billytea, it's continuity!

At some point it becomes overworked. For me that point's passed. It feels like we're forcing it now.

Plus, I too like the Beatles (though I still prefer mine. Go kissing girls, choose kissing girls.)

Overworked? C'mon -- comedy loves threes!

Also, the Beatles mean nothing to me.

Overworked? C'mon -- comedy loves threes!

t blows three raspberries

Comedy also loves timing.

comedy must have threes. I personally prefer a darkly comic title for this thread, rather than a descriptive one. YbureaucrazyMV.

I'll note that there were actual reasons for the first two Bureau titles. Kafka was just a good joke, since his bureaucracies were particularly hellish and ours was funnier. Sartre came up because at some point in Kafka we all became acutely aware that not only were Other People Hell, but this was the very room in which they were all trapped together.

"We can work it out" sounds too blandly optimistic to my ear, and doesn't have the knowing, wry, all-too-aware quality of the others.