I've noticed a trend lately in the flurry of "Pile On Barry" posts. One of the things that each of the posters have complained of is that some other posters on Fairfield Life actually *like* me, or enjoy some of my posts.
Michael complained of it in his "parting shot." He specifically talked about how threatened he was by this, and interpreted it as me "dominating" the forum. Judy has made almost a *career* of complaining when one of my posts strikes a resonance with people here. When they respond positively to something I have written, her response is *always* the same -- to attempt to shift that positivity into negativity, aimed at me. Richard Williams and Shemp don't say it outright, but if you track the posts in which they lash out at me, seemingly at random, I think you'll see that they *aren't* random. They always follow a post of mine that has gotten a favorable response from someone, or that has made a few people laugh. Same with Nabby and Jim. My suggestion is that rather than acting all jealous and attempting to get people to dislike me, these folks might consider putting a little more energy into being likable -- or even credible or funny -- themselves. In other words, they should LEARN TO WRITE. If they could write better, people might respond more positively to *their* posts, too. Then they wouldn't have to spend all their time acting jealous. Just a suggestion. If you're interested, I'll consider doing a long-distance course in my patented Literary Eloquence (TM) technique. Be nice, and I might throw in a few lessons on how to develop Evil Shakti (TM) :-)
