Here are the items I deleted from 'Fatass Challenge 2'

[Tdarcos]

Retroromper sent me a private message asking me not to get into the Fatass Challenge Second Course thread - I can't fit it in the title here so I said Fatass Challenge 2 - because I really wasn't contributing anything related to what was being said there. So I removed my messages from the thread. However, Jonsey has said he does not want people deleting posts and thus destroying the context of the message base.

To eliminate the possible complaint I'm removing content, all of the items I posted in the Fatass Challenge, which basically were not related to the comments, are reposted in this one message. Each one appears here, separated by four "-".

You might ask why I didn't do this in the past. No one ever asked me. Nobody said my comments were bad and destroying the conversation and asked me to stop doing so.

Anyway, here's the complete set of messages:

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I was on track until the girl started selling Girl Scout Cookies.

Damn Thin Mints. Damn them to HELL.

"Damn these eggs. Damn all the eggs in the world."
- Sidney Poitier, A Raisin in the Sun

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I will now lower the Fatass Challenge flag to half-staff in honor of the fallen RetroRomper.

Funny you said that, and this is unrelated, but it reminded me of something.

When a railroad's reporting mark (the 3 or 4 letter code for that railroad) is retired because the railroad is taken over by a larger one, like when "The Katy", (the nickname for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad), the now defunct railroad identifier is known as a "fallen flag."
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I will redouble my efforts in the hopes that I can make something of myself. Sorry for being so depressed. I fixed my Tempest just now and I am in a brighter mood.

Our revels now are ended
These our actors, as I foretold you,
Are all melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness, my brain is troubled;
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity;
If you be pleased, enter into my sell
And there repose; a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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When people here at JC are having a conversation, and you walk into the middle of it and throw out a barely related quote, what response are you seeking?

"It knows only that it wants. But like so many of us, it does not know what." - Spock, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Not bad, not bad at all. But I can comment about your self-announced attempts to destroy or shut down this website:

Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Pinhead, Doc? What makes him do the things he does to this BBS?
Doc Holliday: A man like Pinhead has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
Wyatt Earp: What does he need?
Doc Holliday: Revenge.
Wyatt Earp: For what?
Doc Holliday: Bein' born.
- Tombstone

[pinback]

I'm not the sysop here (though I should be), but can we say, just as a rule, please do not privately discourage anyone from posting in any thread they want, ever?

This place is fucking DYING. It's only ten years old, and it's DYING.

And I think we've had enough ten-year-olds dying around here lately.

[RetroRomper]

I'll post the PM if you want, but all I did was ask Tdarcos to stay on topic in the FAC thread because it actually serves a purpose. I did not ask him to delete anything, nor to create a secondary thread to post the content he chose to delete (effectively adding another five or six posts to the forum).