Don't make me telephone you in about 6 hours.

Ain't that the truth. :)

Hb in his own eyes ,

I understand...but why take it so personally? Imagine what you could have done with the time you wasted here...you could have written 30 new posts. :)

That's not necessarily a good thing though...could result in too many cooks in the soup.

So HB brought things to a head...I don't think that was necessarily a bad thing. I think this dialogue was necessary...now we know where some folks stand. And better now than later, it would seem.

Griff was one of the first non-Philadelphians/non-old-school Cellarites that found the board. He's a good guy, and I hope he will continue to contribute here regularly.

Jim, Syc: Chill already, dudes. As far as I'm concerned you BOTH make very valuable (if very different) contributions to the board. I wish you'd both stop with the quibbling, already. Agree to disagree and move on. I actually like you both and would love to see the two of you move on to better things.

As someone who also posts here frequently, I too felt attacked by HB's posts. But bottom line, his contributions to this board have been as ephemeral as Tomas R.'s - gone when his AOL disk ran out. HB may have registered back before the beginning of time, but has he been a consistent and intelligent member of the board? Not very.

Like Lady Syc, I also sometimes end up with a lot of time on my hands, but like her; it's hardly by my own choice. If any one thinks I'd pick hanging out in the Cellar over running a library, that person is even more arrogant than HB. I like most of you, but give me a break. At least sometimes the Cellar can make up a little for the fascinating discussions I used to have with all those nerds and intellectuals who tend to hang out in libraries. And the reason I'm not staffing the reference desk in one tonight is in part because I've sat here for 10 minutes trying to figure out how to spell "libraries" - Jeez! But I think I sometimes manage a coherant thought or two for all that.

So, HB, go run home to your Mama and complain about life not being fair. She raised you, so she should be the one that gets stuck with your attitude, Dude, not the rest of us. I'm sticking around 'till UT says otherwise or I get too bored or disgusted.

If Jag wants to retreat for a while, that's his loss. I like him a lot and will miss him, but maybe he found a nice Swiss girlfriend to take up his time.

Relax, Mari. Jim and I are having a discussion. He gets a little paranoid and cantankerous sometimes, but it's all good. I'd rather him get pissy here and there than go on a murder spree. :)

Let what go? See, already forgotten. :D

Believe me, once I said, "good day!" that was it.

What an interesting thread this is.

I just read through the first few pages and agree with HB overall. How could I agree, being guilty myself of submitting so much goofy content, or outright garbage? Good question. I certainly see his point though, as well as many of the others that have posted?

UT had a good point in there too. The number of members has increased in just the short time I have been here. It is getting more difficult to keep up simply because the membership has increased so much. The cellar is evolving. That might be good or bad news to you, depending on where you stand.

What the cellar is seems to depend on when you joined. It may very well be in decline to some from the beggining, but for others not at all.

What is the cellar to me? A place to waste time? A place to get another perspective? A place to learn someting? A place to post goofy pics? Yes. Many of you I have met in person and that makes being here all that much more interesting. The cellar is real, not just text. A wide variety of people that I have something in common with, a login at the cellar and maybe some interests or views.

There are a lot of different places you can go to bitch and moan about this or that, and a few that you can go to get specific information. You can't be uncensored there though. Maybe that's good, maybe not. The cellar offers acceptance for those tough skinned enough to endure the inevitable flamefest until you get your bearings and settle in with some like minded folks. That's been a good thing for me.

HB's point about content comes in loud and clear for me though. You just know when you have someting real to contribute and when you don't. Sometimes you post if you just have noise at that particular moment. This place is so addictive though. People just don't get along and basically play nice outside of here. People just don't tolerate you.

Do LJ, Syc and Bruce post too much? I don't think so but I think they're funny, interesting people. Do I post too much? I think so. That's why I tend to take a break for a few months at a time. Maybe people can put up with me trying to amuse myself with what I post if I give them a break. I hope so because I really like it here, even when I'm not around much.

So in light of the admitted lack of real content or real funny content, I think it might be time for me to back off. I wont be going away mad or depressed but just with the realization that I am an addict and that if I stay here and dont get anything accomplished, I wont have nearly as much to talk about than if I went out and did *something*. Then I can come back with something new to add instead of trying to make something interesting out of nothing.

I'll be back though, you guys are my only friends, sad as that may be. :biggrin:

What about Jethro* or did the mailorder bride finally do him in?



*Name changed to protect the innocent