Geez, nobody gets banned anymore. This is boring. Not very rock and roll at all. Are we all getting too old?

Can I be banned? Please? Linda??? Do I need to do something bad first?

How's this: Pink Floyd fans are losers.

(I know, I'm living on the edge. BAN ME!)

I just banned someone upstairs. Pay attention!

Upstairs -- oh yeah. I almost never go there. It's kinda crazy up there. Besides, there are all these comic book references I don't get at all.

Sorry, I'll do my homework next time. Maybe you should ban me, though, to teach me a lesson.

I can help. I will just delete all of your posts as you make them.. then it will seem like you were banned!!

My new ipod, and music listening has emboldened me to check our ICE, and I see there is a desperate need for more law and order here.

EEEEEEK. I hate the Red Sox, Todd. Lifelong Yankees fan. And your Richard Nixon avatar scares me. As does your law and order comment. Even though the ICE forum seems pretty calm, it's really cleverly disguised anarchy. And we like it that way, so take your law and order and stick themBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

Thanks for the advice, though. Good idea.

My nixon avatar is really Grand Admiral Thrawn all gussied up for Nixon weekend.

That was a New York City lawyer. You can't count him as a real banning.

I didn't understand a word of that, Todd. We speak English down here. "Grand Admiral Thrawn" --- what's that? Wait, wait...did he play left field for the Sox in the forties?

You can always ban yourself? Very avant garde.

Ban myself? What am I, thirteen, with a copy of National Geographic? I want to be banned by someone. Preferably someone who cares.

What's he talking about?

lots of sexy talk up there.

I looked up "Grand Admiral Thrawn" on something called "Google" that lead me to something called "Wikipedia" that said something about something called Star Wars. I think there was a movie by that name when I was much younger. I think John Candy was in it, dressed up like a sasquatch or something.

As always, I could be way off base here.

pretty close. well done, Greg.

Thanks, Todd. I've been working on my "computer" skills.

i think you mean computer 'skills'.

I often fantasize about Linda in a Mara Jade outfit, complete with light saber.

Oops, I meant to PM that.

Actually, no. I was thinking about how neophytes think of everything people do on a computer as computer skills. My mother, for instance, won't touch a PC, even for e-mail: "Computers are just so complicated. I don't even want to try." There's no distinction between surfing the web or using e-mail, which any idiot can do, and writing software code, because it's all a mystery to them.

There, now that I've beaten it to death, wasn't it funny?

Mara Jade???? Damn, back to that Goggle thing...

Goggle is your friend.

Isn't it supposed to be "computer skillz?" That's how the kidz (kids) say it today, I think.