Oh, I am glad you said "if", Kat.   It is NOT the only dimension I have seen of Spaw's humor! Like you, I merely am not amused by the scatological stuff. (it doesn't offend me, but doesn't much amuse me either) I love all the other stuff he writes.

I know perfectly well that Spaw's humor is wonderful and full of multidimensional varieties of sidesplittingly funny stuff, combined with insightful and heartfelt writing...I've always known it...and I don't need someone to tell me about it.

Spaw does not need you or anyone else to prove to me that he is a very wise and funny man. It's as obvious as the nose on his face. I know he's a funny man. And if I still find Shatner funny, for my own personal reasons, that's got nothing to do with Spaw and is no negative reflection on his natural ability to amuse you...or me.

You know why this is even happening? A mentally unstable and very malicious former member of this forum who got kicked out of it a long time ago has been anonymously refreshing all the old Shatner threads periodically and flooding the BS section with them. That's why you're all talking about it now. That's what caused the attention of people to be drawn to it. That person wished to cause trouble, and they did, didn't they? How happy they must be. They now have various people here fighting with each other over basically nothing at all. With any luck they may destroy a number of formerly friendly associations on this forum, and won't they be delighted with that? Because all they want to do is control people and cause hurt here and feel powerful in so doing.

Now what would be the smart thing to do in such a situation? Keep fighting with each other about nothing or stop?