[CWOJackson]

"OK, I'll head there. Phil is getting a bit boring. He can just declare victory and go off and do....whatever it is he does."

Usually all you need to do is simply ignore them. They will go on for about 20-30 minutes on their own then reality starts to grip them.

WARNING: the one thing you don't want to do is just leave two of them alone with their Petri dishes too close together. I did that once and we had a fungi problem around here for a week.

[philman_36]

Usually all you need to do is simply ignore them.
Then why didn't you simply ignore me? Oh yeah, it's all a big joke...
...then reality starts to grip them.
Or obversely you have your ass handed to you wherein you go running off, just like your buddy Belisaurius is doing.

...the one thing you don't want to do is just leave two of them alone with their Petri dishes too close together. I did that once and we had a fungi problem around here for a week.
See how much importance you put upon yourself...the proverbial "we". You probably don't even recognize such things.