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[paultuttle]

That list of identifiable quirks you created after your family pet died? We do that with people too: "Remember how Aunt Gertrude used to . . . . ?"

And that helps them live on in our memory.

A specific example from my own family: The actress who played the Fat Lady in the first Harry Potter movie looked much like and sounded very nearly identical to my mother's older sister, who had been a seventh-grade English teacher for years.

Somewhat intimidating in her impenetrable pomposity, she always moved and spoke with considerable (self-conscious/deliberate) gravitas. But she became human to me for just about an hour one time during a family reunion when she learned that I was (then) studying to be a high school English teacher--she spoke warmly and enthusiastically about her love of teaching, how fulfilled she felt when her students succeeded, and how gratified she was when they returned and thanked her for being such a wonderful, memorable teacher. (I was quite frankly amazed but welcomed the revelation. I never again saw this side of her.)

These days, I remember what had been even her most irritatingly hoity-toity mannerisms with great fondness, knowing the depth of commitment to, and considerable love of, teaching that those mannerisms had hid.

[nescafe]

I genuinely can't tell whether that one poster is a troll, a comedic sock managed by another poster, or someone who actually doesn't know better.

My confusion is probably a testament to how good a troll this person is. So well done?

[downer]

I genuinely can't tell whether that one poster is a troll, a comedic sock managed by another poster, or someone who actually doesn't know better.

My confusion is probably a testament to how good a troll this person is. So well done?

I can see the amusement for the poster "behind the curtain" but our Cowardly Lion isn't funny.

[FishProf]

Those are some pretty nefarious characters you are describing.  Are they real?

[Liquidambar]

If I started a "dead horse" thread for everyone, could you take all your dead horses there for beating?

[fast_and_bulbous]

If I started a "dead horse" thread for everyone, could you take all your dead horses there for beating?

One man's dead horse is another's righteous crusade.

Soon there won't even be a horse, it'll just be a shallow trench in the ground.

[ciao_yall]

If I started a "dead horse" thread for everyone, could you take all your dead horses there for beating?

One man's dead horse is another's righteous crusade.

Soon there won't even be a horse, it'll just be a shallow trench in the ground.

That horse has been dead a loooonnnngggg time.

All I see is a greasy spot and remnants of what might have been a mane.

[polly_mer]

I genuinely can't tell whether that one poster is a troll, a comedic sock managed by another poster, or someone who actually doesn't know better.

My confusion is probably a testament to how good a troll this person is. So well done?

I can see the amusement for the poster "behind the curtain" but our Cowardly Lion isn't funny.

If it's the one I'm thinking, I know too many people who get stuck in the rut to write off as troll.  That's why I continue to beat on that dead horse well past the patience of others.

[nescafe]

I'll say this much. Six years on the job market, and it was the year I got a pair of those glasses that I got the job.


So.

[archaeo42]

WTF motivates you to say sh!t like that?

[polly_mer]

WTF motivates you to say sh!t like that?

I use up all my filters at work.

[archaeo42]

WTF motivates you to say sh!t like that?

I use up all my filters at work.

Not directed at anything you've posted.

[San Joaquin]

Random speculation:

Do ideas gel, or crystallize?  Does it depend on your personal chemistry?

[downer]

There is such a thing as a stupid question.

[Thursday's_Child]

There is such a thing as a stupid question.

Are you denying the existence of stupid people?
<ducks & runs>