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UT, as much as he downplays it because he is a gracious man, is the boss.
I believe that he knows what he is doing, and I have, in this instance, benefitted from it. Thanks again, UT for defending my honor, not once, but twice.
I'm fairly thick-skinned. You have to be, to work with nuts and junkies and not be a basket case at the end of the night. Actually, American High Schools train you well for that aspect of the job. On those rare occasions where stuff does hit home, and I take it personally, it tends to be briefly experienced. Get over it and move on.
Some folks fit in seamlessly, some folks don't. Some folks benefit the board by not fitting in seamlessly.
The writings Mick posted were not bad. The first one had some gentle touches of humor and was fun to read. The second was great descriptive narrative. If that's typical of the quality of what Mick might have contributed, he would have been one of the regulars in no time, if that's what he wanted. That's actually what I had initially expected to happen ... my first response to the Devil's here to fix something was very positive. And it hadn't occurred to me that we were getting reposted. Someone else caught that. I didn't even go checking on anything he wrote. I was doing research on something else, ended up on a board site, and while reading posts there, found Mick's handle ... and out of curiosity checked the post titles. That's when I found the Gay Bar story.
I participate in a fair number of boards. The Cellar is the best and longest lived of them all. UT's care and nuturing play no small part in that. The Cellar represents the same sort of free-for-all that they all do, but there's an intellectual edge to it that makes it better, more interesting, and more fun.
Anybody can come out and play here. Playing nice isn't even strictly part of it all. Playing reasonably is.
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