The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83916   Message #1551554
Posted By: Wolfgang
28-Aug-05 - 11:21 AM
Thread Name: HI Max: What about Shambles requests?
Subject: RE: HI Max: What about Shambles requests?
You may have missed this - as it was inserted by fellow poster Joe Offer as an editing comment and did not refresh the thread. A privilge that is not open to us ordinary posters. And (as evidenced in other examples - if not to be fair - in this one) a privilige much abused by some of our anonymous volunteer fellow posters - who this privilige is open to - who still insist on placing their personal judgements of fellow posters in them - whilst using the word 'we'. (Shambles)

That's vintage Shambles though - I think it could have been a tiny bit - improved by inserting "Max has said - don't sweat the rules - for there are none" at any - randomly chosen position. You may have missed it but the juxtaposition of 'fellow poster Joe Offer' with 'anonymous volunteer fellow posters' and of an implicit critique of abusing the word 'we' with the expression 'our anonymous volunteer fellow posters' makes this just another gem from our favourite writer of nonsense posts.

The hard words Catspaw uses somtimes here towards Shambles only show his envy. He slowly realises he has been surpassed by a new master of this art form. That someone else has now perfected his once novel act of using repetition as a mean to transport humour grieves him. But we all have to bow sooner or later to a new master.

Wolfgang