On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 07:17:12 -0500, jaime wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:08:32 -0500, Silvan
wrote:


Dude, chill out.

I'm a *lady* . :-)

Ah! I'm glad you decided to stay a while. The wReck can be a bit
intimidating at first, but we don't bite.

Um, I guess this means that you won't be involved in the discussions of
Robin Hartl's anatomy?

...

It has
long been the practice here on the Wreck (ie rec.woodworking) to tell
someone how much he sucks when he has a "gloat." The original poster in
this thread most assuredly has a gloat. By telling him how much he
sucks, we reaffirm how gloatable his gloat is, and make him feel all warm
and fuzzy and stuff. It's all part of the Wreck culture, and things have
been done this way for years. Getting told you suck is about the highest
honor we can offer.

(Good save, Syl)

...

We also give
each other a hard time. Like the way Larry Jaques is always ranting
about the evils of staining walnut or using poly, and the way I'm always
singling him out and giving him a hard time about everything for no
particular reason. We're a bunch of smart alecks. JOAT is one of the
smarteyest alecks of all, although I don't guess we've ever had a contest
to determine who is actually the smarteyest aleck of all. Hell, it might
be me. Or Larry Jacques. It's probably Larry. Definitely. Definitely
Larry. See, there I go singling him out again, and somewhere in the
Pacific northwest the guy is scratching his head and wondering what he
did to deserve another assault on his character.

Must be a guy thing (no offense to the male species btw)

The wReck has often been compared to an old General Store. You know, with
old men playing checkers in front of a pot-bellied stove, swapping stories
(lies). You'll see lots of great stuff about woodworking, but also a
fair amount of Off Topic discussion that interests the denizens here.
So you may see threads about politics, woodworking, the econonmy,
woodworking, tools, job hunting, woodworking, cooking, and maybe even
woodworking.

Yes, I suppose the jabs, name-calling, and rehashing of past mistakes is a
guy thing. It's just how we're wired, I suppose.

...
Now onto more woodtalk. :-)

Indeed!

--
Joe Wells