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Originally posted by HighLordDave

Yeah, I know, but emoticons are just out of my box and I fear change . . .

Alas, I'm the same way. I deliberately whimper at my wife everytime she tries to put out new toothbrushes. It's pathetic. And she just rolleyes her eyes. If she wasn't so good in bed, I'd probably trade her in on a new "Dubyah" automated secretary. You know, one of the kind that pays your bills by urging you to spend your life savings. Then, when you think it needs to go back to the maufacturer for work, it insists some house across town is planning a fullscale assault on you, and needs to be destroyed at once.

But I digress. Fear change all you will, but do not fear the occasional emoticon. It will make life much easier for you. It is part of the Force, the Good side. It is a kind of virtual duct tape, holding together our scattered referential frame on the sensory-deprived Web.

Originally posted by fable
Fear change all you will, but do not fear the occasional emoticon. It will make life much easier for you. It is part of the Force, the Good side.

At this point, though, I don't think I could use an emoticon and be accepted by the people here at SYM. For instance, if someone opened a post by me and saw the biggrin smilie, you'd think that Weasel hacked my account and was posting under my name or that I had clearly gone insane. What if I posted "ROFL"? I'd get PMs from half of you folks saying, "We don't even know who you are anymore."

I think I'll also refrain from using smilies just out of meanness . . .

Originally posted by Vivien


Whew!! You don't know how worried I was about you!! *hug*


Jaesha: I was told all of those pictures must be screened through McBane, so that he may determine if the content is acceptable for the board.

It's true! I have impeccable taste, and can tell the difference between art and trash. Just send them to me, and I'll review it.

@ Viv - Thanks for thinking of me!

Originally posted by McBane
It's true! I have impeccable taste, and can tell the difference between art and trash. Just send them to me, and I'll review it.

I thought you were struck blind by the last batch of pix Weasel sent to you for review.

Originally posted by HighLordDave
For instance, if someone opened a post by me and saw the biggrin smilie, you'd think that Weasel hacked my account and was posting under my name...

Actually, there have been rumors to that effect making the rounds of the more influential newspapers for some time. Editorials and letter columns have thrilled with such speculations as Is HighLordDave really a shifty, sharp-toothed mammal with the morals of a lawyer? and HighLordDave, aka Weasel, Caught in Love Triangle with Two Feathered Concubines and a Bottle of Burma Shave. I think you really need to set the record straight. Or at least remove some of the thornier knots.

Originally posted by HighLordDave

I thought you were struck blind by the last batch of pix Weasel sent to you for review.

I was taken aback, but it would take alot to blind me...

@ HLD - are you going to start a "ask HLD all you ever wanted to know about porn" ??

@fable:
Change "feathered concubines" to "Wild On Wants You! contestants".

@McBane:
Since when did I become SYM's resident expert on porn? Can I put that on my resumé?

Originally posted by Jaesha
The new HLD thread idea would be cool!

I'm not sure that Buck would like a thread entitled "Q&A on Porn" on his forums.

Originally posted by HighLordDave

I'm not sure that Buck would like a thread entitled "Q&A on Porn" on his forums.

This is almost a certainty. Moreover, a true knowledge of porn would probably require the kind of vast resources that only a major historian could summon. For instance, not many of us could translate quotes from the porn of the Roman Empire, or discuss the kinks of modern Japanese sexual culture. And how many people out there know that the composer of the popular tone poem, the Sorceror's Apprentice, also had the largest collection of fin-de-siecle French porn ever assembled, which he donated to the Bibliotheque nationale de France?

Hm. I wonder if the silence is due to something I said. Don't tell me you're all researching how to get library cards to the Bibliotheque nationale de France, in order to view Paul Dukas' pornography collection?

No, you just reminded me of what a great invention video is, and I was reviewing some of my own collection.

Originally posted by HighLordDave
No, you just reminded me of what a great invention video is, and I was reviewing some of my own collection.

Heh. I remember going to a friend's house when I worked in Columbia, Missouri. He was a film buff (and a fine poker player), who used to invite about ten of us over for private viewings of short films he'd gotten in for showing at the local campus. (He was in Admin.) Once, he put on a porn cartoon from 1925, with a title something like The Adventures of Peter and his Peter." It was crude stuff, both pictorally and contentwise, but exuberant and quite funny. I hadn't been aware until then that porn has been around in the movies as far back as that. Since then, I've become aware of far stranger things dating back still further. It appears that humanity's itch always manages to find a way into any medium for communications.

Originally posted by fable
It appears that humanity's itch always manages to find a way into any medium for communications.

Which brings us back to the use of Smileys...

Thank's for explaining your motivations @HLD. I will still use smilies, but I respect your mature and adult desicion not to do so.

I feel so childish now for using smilies... ...I hope you can forgive me...

No worries,

Beldin

Originally posted by fable


For instance, not many of us could translate quotes from the porn of the Roman Empire...

Does watching Caligula count?

Originally posted by McBane


Does watching Caligula count?

No, that's just rude. But Fellini's Satyricon might. Not because it was based on Petronius--the link is tenuous--but because Fellini, like the art and culture of Imperial Rome, was given to excess. It's sort of like a sex smorgasbord made up entirely of fatty foods. And there's no need for Caligulan madness as a justification, either.

I think I'll stick to porn that involves Janine Lindemulder, Dyanna Lauren and/or Tera Heart . . .

Originally posted by HighLordDave
I think I'll stick to porn that involves Janine Lindemulder, Dyanna Lauren and/or Tera Heart . . .

It's answers like this that leads to :

Since when did I become SYM's resident expert on porn? Can I put that on my resumé?

@ Fable - Your historical knowledge may put you ahead in the voting for "SYM's resident export on porn!

Originally posted by McBane
@ Fable - Your historical knowledge may put you ahead in the voting for "SYM's resident export on porn!

I'm touched, but I think I just prefer being thought of as SYM's oldest artifact.

Originally posted by McBane
@ Fable - Your historical knowledge may put you ahead in the voting for "SYM's resident export on porn!

You know, McBane, fable may have been a central character in the world's first porno.