I think what keeps me from posting to these, Mbo, is that I'm much more intersted in YOU than in the lyrics you like, even though you use them to express and reflect you. They make a barrier, at least for me. But your song last night in the UNI-VERSE thread really had me. It made me write.

Your lyric postings don't make me want to comment on them or throw in a lyric of my own. It's too much like when I went with this one guy and we never really connected, but instead spoke in terms of the books we both liked. It was a shorthand of communication that substituted for real communication, not one that arose out of a deep connection that had developed a need for fewer words. We'd just verbally throw books at each other. It was very unsatisfying, and frustrating.

I'd like to suggest that since there are a couple of recent new members that say they are part of the "younger set," perhaps a thread that might capture more interest would be [What Were They Thinking] of the day where all ye fine young turks could tell us what ye're thinkin' about in the world around ye, and we of the fogies persuasion might drop in from time to time to glory in your young and energetic perspectives.

I just know I'm saying this all wrong, I'm NOT saying go start a kiddie thread and stay there. I want you to be HEARD, not just seen... I just wonder what would happen if y'all glommed up, what kinda new voice would that be? Would you have e-peers here you don't get so much of in the 3-D world? Would the fogues tend to be a shade less,,,,,, (pausing to choose a word carefully and then saying what the hell, they know I mean well)-- patronizing of the younger folks? (Ducking now--- ooch! flames!)

See, I think that people may want to engage you on a deeper level. But it looks to me like what actually happoens is we try to express that we luvya by trying instead to make you feel better sometimes. When I bet what we're really trying to do is to romp around witcha. I don't mean to try to speak for anyone but me, but I guess it came out that way. Ah fockit. I'll leave it as it is and see what y'all think.