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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] OK. Tom decided to hop aboard the "family unit caravan of fun" for a ten-day sojourn from the land of ice and snow to the land of guns and Wal-Marts. I thought it would be, shall we say, droll, for me not to give a big long explanation to all my online compatriots and just quietly slip off and slip back and leave nobody the wiser. Firstly, some lessons learned from the vacation: [*]Wyoming is the must fucking boring excuse of a state ever concieved of. Toss Yellowstone and Jackson Hole into Montana and you could write the whole place off. [*]The Canadian Rockies out my window right now are far better-looking chunks of rock than those visible from the $10m homes in Aspen. [*]Vail is big. [*]Dogs are allowed inside the Colorado State Capitol. Mine took great pleasure in resting his groin against the cool marble on the stairs. [*]Chandra Levy is alive and well in Gallatin National Forest. I swear. [*]Hailstorms come out of nowhere at 12000 ft. Never wear a T-shirt. [*]Bozeman does not have a large flashing sign on the Interstate that says "Come see the Brannon Braga Museum." Crobato, take note, I did not pull over in search of anal pleasures. [*]Bush makes dumb decisions even when I take my cranial powers across the border. There was a rather lovely little interview with him in USA Today where he talks about bringing in an "arbolist" to find out the names of the trees growing on his Crawford Ranch. Anyway, enough about that. About this. While this thread does make something of positive swing towards a decent discussion [b]about the issues[/b] in the later pages, I must point out that at or soon after its inception this thread was little more than another chapter in our favorite ongoing soap opera. The Flameboard is not a venue for making a serialized pissing match public. This isn't to say that what Jeff posted was utterly reprehensible garbage, because I find it quite an engrossing snapshot of Omega and Jeff's views on a legitimate issue. Had the thread, *gasp* been posted with the clear intention of being about the shrinking surplus first and the width of Omega's mother's ass second, then I'd have no qualms with it, but I think we can all agree that somewhere along the line it veered well off a legitimate exercise in public discourse and into the equivalent of locking James Carville and Jesse Helms in a steel ball with Anne Robinson and rolling it down a hill. Anyway, thankfully while Tom was driving through Glenwood Springs, Colorado the thread managed to reassert itself as a near-decent piece of public discource, and it should continue on as such. End pontification. Resume screaming match. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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