I guess I didn't see most of the stuff referred to in this thread. As far as Joe's comments, personally, I can never tell if the posts that I figure are between UK members are jokes or attacks. Sometimes I can't even tell what the heck they are taking about at all-- real people in the news, actors or characters in TV shows, real people they know who are or are not Mudcatters, characters they are themselves or are making up....

And usually I just chalk it up to not being there myself-- and wonder if the UKers are as mystified about USers posts, or others. Culture is culture, and I don't pretend to understand everyone's, or my own for that matter.

Now, I am NOT proposing that we have additional prefixes within the Department of BS. But with only the one, it makes it hard to sort out what people are on about. But that's OK with me. A little mystery is not such a bad thing. :~)

~Susan