Taking On A Pack Of Viscous Hyenas

[jjrye22]

I'm going to jump in for my very first A-11 topic post!!!!!

I wanted to make a few observaions I have had over this:

1. Never eaten hyenas, but I bet it's stringy. I would suggest a marinade - preferably with lots of garlic and chilis.

2. I'm thinking that Juggling didn't get mentioned because he is a foreigner, so sueing him would be a lot more of a hassle.

3. It is fairly obvious from the 35 pages of messages that zebra295 has only been following the A-11 discussion for a short time, and has missed some of the background 'discussion' that has taken place. There are indeed things that KB has 'lied' about, including (as a few examples that I can think of off the top of my head) at the beginning not selling stuff, and I remember his web site showed examples of teams using the A-11, and including a clip of a big NCAA team (I want to say Michagan, but I'm probably wrong) that was supposedly using it, and completely misrepresented (semantically different than lying?) what the team was doing and how.

4. There was one (small) grain in the original complaint that I thought had an element of truth in it though. Over the years I have seen the attitude of posters occationally get a little agressive. I remember a time that Rut was always getting 'attacked' because he played devil's advocate (I think he was probably having a lot of fun with it though). And there ARE times when I think the responses here are nasty, and not always meant in irony.
That is however what it is like in a family, which is what we are. We say things, bash heads, learn from each other, move on to other topics where they see things eye to eye, and the circle rolls on and on.

I would suggest that it would be good to keep our tone regulated for new visitors (but I don't need to suggest it, since it is being done), and point out that the tone only gets 'dirty' with people who want to duke it out, and thereby enter themselves into the family atmosphere.

My opinion is that people are respected here, until they do things that loose them the respect of the others.

James,
from just outside of Berlin, Germany. If anyone wants, I'll send them my postal address and telephone number in case they want to visit.

By the way. My personal opinion is that the A-11 is EXPLOITING a loophole in the rules, and I think that is not a noble or sportsman like thing to do. I also don't agree with people who take advantages of tax loopholes.