Phone Friend, you've started three related threads within just about an hour. The Bell and Monroe obituaries are very interesting, although one could question why each should have its own thread in a folk music forum. I detest the Shatner threads, and I've said a couple of times today that I thought the Aaliyah thread was stupid. However, these threads were just obnoxious and stupid, and did not appear to be the work of somebody who's trying to take us all for a ride. You're playing games, and you know damn well you're playing games.

It seems that you're trying to fight the stupidity of the Shatner and Aaliyah threads by giving us an overdose of OBITs. Fighting garbage with garbage doesn't work. You and I probably agree about what should and should not appear as threads in this Forum, but I can't accept your game-playing as a solution to the problem.

If you have more obituaries you'd like us to read this evening, feel free to post them - in the Generic Obituary Thread. If there is anyone who is squeamish about censorship, please rest assured that I did not delete a single word our guest posted - you'll find them all in the Generic Obituary thread.

-Joe Offer-