The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26340   Message #316386
Posted By: Gary T
11-Oct-00 - 02:22 PM
Thread Name: Folk Quiz
Subject: RE: Folk Quiz
Am I (perhaps along with Rick) the only one who sees this as a lighthearted, nonsensical, and totally innocent thread? The suggestion that it's a dig or a shot or a mean-spirited parody of the other recent quizzes makes no sense to me. While I don't doubt the existence of other quizzes may have inspired this one, look at the questions for crying out loud! They're all from songs (which is rather clever) and inherently unanswerable in the context of a real quiz. We could have a ball coming up with responses to these, and I believe that's what The ??? Man had in mind.

Now, IF there were some sinister message here, our first poster's anonymity might bother me. IF. But come on, it's just a lark. I might have posted with a cutesy name (and the corresponding Guest tag) if I had come up with this, as just one more little humorous feature of the package. Anonymity while being offensive increases the severity of the crime, sure, but is it now a crime in and of itself just to be anonymous? From my viewpoint, there's been some significant overreacting in this thread.