Thanks. I tend to do the same for many of the threads. Just reading and not commenting much.

Me, too.

I’ll have to go back and read it. She sure could paint a picture!

I would hope there would be a direct relationship between the intelligence of posters here and the lack of comments like that.

Yes! Her descriptions, also. I can't recall the exact words, but her description of Jim Taggert tickles me every time I read it.

He was a lot edgier then, wasn't he? Maybe he got milder with age.

Not this discussion. It's been my experience that mods on other boards are a bit, say oppressive. In fact this is my first post. I intended to just "read the mail" for awhile, but there it is.

Are you referring to this particular discussion or in general with any discussion, Aurum79?

I can say this much- what I don't like is over-active mods hovering and dissecting and butting into discussions and just smothering true discussion.

Yeah, some o y'all need ter lighten ther hell up! Yeehaw!
Dinos just wanna have fun, yeah, dinos just wanna have fun.
Hey, hell's bell! where'd ah git thet thar from? Oh, yeah~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6A...
Hey, wait a dern minute! Ah ain't no dad-blamed girl.

I don’t remember that one. That’s great! And Balph Eubank always made me think somebody was going to barf.

Hope you got a chuckle out of that. That’s like calling Marilyn Monroe ugly!

Allosaur, lord help me (very southern expression), looks to me like some people need to lighten up!

In fact, one of the characters reminded another that Toohey sounded like Gooey, if I recall correctly. Thanks for weighing in Mamaemma.

I’d just like to point out that Ayn Rand used her character’s names very effectively to build characterization and help her readers to form a mental construct of who they were.
Ellsworth Toohey doesn’t exactly evoke strength and decency, does it? But Howard Roark does. How about Cuffy Meigs? Wesley Mouch? Sound like mooch? How bout John Galt? That’s a tough guy.
As to name calling, sometimes you just have to call it like it is.
I wouldn’t call anyone on this site a name, but I sure love me some political name calling!

I listened to Rush back in the Nineties as well. I guess thanks are in order, allosaur for allowing me to have my opinion noted. Actually, I didn't notice the thumbs down (0 points). You can't please everyone.

Me the ad hominem dino, encouraged for listening to Rush since the Nineties and who delights in calling a bad King Barry thing an Obamanation and delights in calling curs Porking Piglosi, Cackles Clinton The Evil Hag and a certain Adam a sorry little Schiff, hereby advises that I just turned the zero someone gave you into a 1.
Why? You're fully entitled to the opinion you just gave.

Okay, that makes sense now.

Not nice at all...kind of like those people who mix ex-lax into a brownie mix knowing the person will eat more than he/she should and pay the consequences later.

Yes, people already had plenty of good reasons to express their opinions about her evil activities long before this Gulch even existed. I don't know when that moniker started, but I'l keep using it because it is appropriate, in my opinion. We are fortunate that the electorate chose not to give her the power to prove the accuracy of the moniker, so far.

I appreciate your double entendre, BCRinFremont, but I suspect many are not used in a humorous fashion. Do you think otherwise?

So, no one called Hillary Clintor that moniker that you just used here on this site prior to when she called some people's actions deplorable? And no, I didn't like her name-calling either. I thought it just as rude then; I also won't stoop to using any similar names for anyone else..

I think Hitlery's comment about deplorables makes her fair game, too.
Perhaps if people stopped calling looters names, they'd focus their anger in more productive ways, like some people did in 1776.

A nickname’s “snottiness” may be in the eye of the beholder: Take “Booger” Mcfarland for example... (All double entendres are the property of those with a sense of humor.)

AAHHHH!!!!! In highschool a friend of mine got tired of his young siblings, 7 year olds, drinking his specially blended juices. His father worked in anesthesia and mom as RN. He was already working in a hospital and had substantive background in chemistry and biology by then. He calculated the kids size and consumption and dosed his juice accordingly. Not nice yet affected their behavior.