I don't see a valid topic in message 1.
Here are a couple of versions of the story. Perhaps these would be useful for the newer version of the "Proposed New Topic".
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/...
Adminnemooseus
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : "released" to "releases" in subtitle.
Admin writes:
It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots.
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