The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97623   Message #1929834
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Jan-07 - 09:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Posting with Civility
Subject: RE: BS: Posting with Civility
I dunno - starts off as a very timely post encouraging us all to treat it other with respect, and 200 posts on and there's a battle still raging. Mostly shadow boxing with some talkative invisibility/nonentity/man upon the stair who wasn't there.

It seems we can work up a fight out of anything. Maybe it goes with the music:

Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job
"O Biddy," says she, "You're wrong, I'm sure"
Biddy she gave her a belt in the gob
And left her sprawlin' on the floor.
Civil War did soon engage
'Twas woman to woman and man to man,
Shillelagh law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began.

Then Mickey Maloney ducked his head
When a noggin of whiskey flew at him,
It missed, and falling on the bed
The liquor scattered over Tim!
The corpse revives! See how he raises!
Timothy rising from the bed,
Says,"Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
Thanum an Dhul! Do you think I'm dead?"