Sleaze, per our rules, we don't really have an on-topic / caving restriction, but many members of the community think we should. It is a community policed list, and the only time I step in is when it's absolutely necessary.
However, as a member of the community, I do object to the comment about the TCR, and we DO have a rule about flaming on the list, and purposely trying to get everyone's goat that attends the TCR falls under that category. Please do not do that again. On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:11 AM, <bmorgan...@aol.com> wrote: > ** > Mars has rocks too, and I feel certain there must be a hole there > somewhere even if it isn't in limestone. > > As to keeping it to caving, what a joke! For the last year or so all I > have read on this list is a litany of age related woes, various personal > disasters, and daily updates concerning a man made hole in the ground. As > for news from Mexico, which is the main reason I joined this list, it might > as well be located on Mars! > > As soon as anyone posts anything strange, interesting, or controversial > some politically correct scold will sternly remind us to keep on topic. How > excruciatingly boring! > > This creeping conservatism may be the inevitable consequence not just of > the aging of individuals but of the activity as a whole; nevertheless, I, > for one, do not intend to go gently into that good night. If you can't post > an entertaining and well written account of an actual caving trip then at > least tell a few bad jokes, issue some obscenities, give us some tips on > trespassing, rant about some politics, or (my favorite) insult the beliefs > of a few million idiots. Then, to keep on topic, use some convoluted logic > to tie it back into caving. That is the nice thing about caving, it is a > huge hole into which you can dump an unlimited amount of shit. So lighten > up! > > Now for the real problem. Today, this very, day is the culmination of the > very best part of caving, which is to say the Old Timers Reunion and I'm > not there. I'm not talking about that silly little homo goat roping y'all > Texicans hold, I'm talking about the real thing in WestbyGawdVirginia! Ann > broke her foot so we decided not to go since she might be tempted to dance. > It is a tragedy! > > Sleazeweazel > > PS: And David, please keep sending your missives from the Red Planet, I > find them to be at least mildly entertaining even if not comprehensible. If > nothing else the caving community serves as a home for wayward weirdos so > we both fit right in! >
