Well, to those of us who don't follow organized sports, it's just so much meaningless babble to try to step through.
I try to cover as many stock boards, reading as much as I can in a given day in addition the other dd, and a string of off-topic posts just dilutes that effort.
I have been practicing restraint, I think, in that I could fill this board up with political commentary about how Ron Paul, a viable candidate, has been mistreated by the media, rendered invisible, while other, deficit-spending candidates get tons of free publicity every time they make a face at each other... etc.
Politics, religion, sports... Deliberate board disruptors do this to screw up investors' thinking process when something is going on with a stock (among other tactics). Not the case here, but, still, it can be annoying.
In the old pre-web bbs days, mods would allow metaphors, and the occasional ot comment, so long as some reference was made in the post to the main subject matter of the board. Otherwise the posters would get booted to a "penalty box" to continue their totally off-topic discussion elsewhere..
The idea about prefixing posts with OT:Sports (whatever) is a good one. It would be great if ot posters could remember to try to do that. thank you.
Sorry, guess I'm in a bad mood today. Tax time. I made some income profit last year, but running a loss so far this year, and now I'm going to have to write a big fat check to the IRS just when I need that capital the most. If I were to identify with MOSH, the government is starting to seem a lot like PXD.
Speaking of MOSH/PXD, (remember them?), I just had another thought, I hope the defendants et al, as part of some sinister strategy, perhaps, don't keep trying to drag things out too long. After all, it won't be too many monthes before hurricane season comes along again. The possibilty of another Katrina is probably very low but who knows, maybe they figure they could get lucky. A little more time for discovery is OK so much as may be needed but, this shouldn't be allowed to drag until some external event disrupts everything. It would be like a case involving earthquake damage in California. Wait long enough, maybe another earthquake will hit eventually...
One could imagine PXD agents contracting with the Russians for weather modification at some point? Maybe not, but , the again, how desperate might they be? <g>
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