Jury Vets Say Emotions Can Take Over: Van Dam's Sexual Lifestyle Comes To The For Front(8-18-02)

Your reply was pulled because it was an advertisement not because of the content.

Sorry - gotcha - I'll just put up the symbol and a description then.

Be on the lookout for this jewelry - it is a symbol for swingers....

I am impressed, very nice work Miz!!

bump

#10...This is excellent.

Miz...You don't have to add me on.....but I'm calling dibs for today!!
..He will be found 'not guilty' today.
That's my claim....and I'm sticking with it!

Good morning all!

What an upbeat way to start the morning, Gweenie, reading your post. Wouldn't that be something? :~)

All, look at the symbol Mommya posted. Interesting, isn't it? Looks like a combination of X and O for Hugs and Kisses, doesn't it? I guess that would be the nice interpretation of what the symbol really means.

Barf bags out and ready for CTV today. THANK GOD, we won't have to listen to them much longer...

How many lies can we catch them in today?!

#47..Mornin' you :)

I will be putting CourtTV on at 9, but prolly muting the screen until something looks new & fresh....like a verdict.

Monday is too ornery a day to listen to warmed over Nancy Grace & the others.

Actually, ANY day is fouled when listening to their evil voices, LOL!

As a completely irrelevant aside ...

The porno disks in Westerfield's office were marked "X01."

Mommya, could you post a link, so we can see what the heck the symbol is about? Thanks!

Did I somehow wander into the non-backroom forums? I thought this was the Smokey Backroom? And in any event, I've seen advertisements posted "out there" (over and over) all the time. Why are these Westerfield threads being singled out for censorship?

I think maybe we all need some clarification regarding the rules back here. If they're the same as "out there" we might just as well abandon the whole idea. The Smokey Backroom is a good idea as outlined by Jim below--will the moderators let this happen?

Here is what I understood about the Smokey Backroom, as defined by Jim Robinson. Jim said, on this thread--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/734000/posts

The Smokey Backroom is an enter at your own risk forum. We're going to relax the rules a bit here, as far as heated debate is concerned. This is where you can roll around in the mud and the blood and the beer, so to speak. And if someone gets a piece of his ear bitten off and lets out a curse word or two, he probably won't get banned (as long as he doesn't make a habit of going overboard).

In other words, some of the rules may be loosened up a bit in this forum. But not the rules against racism, or leftist propaganda, etc. That kind of stuff is still not welcome on FR. If a flamewar breaks out on FR, we may ask the flamers to take it to the backroom.

Or, in some instances, we may move entire threads here. This is an alternative to deleting them. We'll be playing it by ear for awhile and see how it is received.

This is not to say that we're going to welcome vicious or nasty attacks, libel or slander, but if some of you wish to get a bit heated and all of the participants involved have thick skins and are not going to cry about it, here's the place.

9 posted on 8/15/02 9:20 PM Central by Jim Robinson

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And John Robinson posted (on the same thread):

Jim posted a message to the moderators,

Mods: The Smokey Backroom is here. This forum is setup for those who want a little more heated debate. I'm recommending that we allow a little more rule bending here. We don't want the racist stuff or the propaganda, but we can allow the people to let their hair down a bit. Spitting, biting, hair pulling and cursing allowed as long as they don't go to extremes.

I'm thinking we can also move out of control flamewar threads to this forum rather than deleting them.

Forum internal name: backroom
Topic: heated.

Jim

Reported by Jim Robinson on 2002-08-15 13:48:35

6 posted on 8/15/02 9:03 PM Central by John Robinson

Actually, no, not usually. If attacked, we will defend ourselves, but over-all, we've been far milder than the denizens of the ~~Ministry of Truth~~ other threads. The only time I've seen "screw you" posted here was when someone recreated the note Hildy sent. Although, apparently, "screw you" is the phrase of choice by at least one of the moderators, rating far above "bite me." I think, then, we can safely say "screw you." However, it offends my sensibilities, so I will probably abstain.

What happened last night that I missed. Should I go pull up the old threads?

Whoopsi Daisy...I take it back..:~)

sw

Give it up Miz. Wanna know why? Because even the Sidebar Mods have an opinion about this case, and it looks as tho they are on the Dark Side. Pray for them.

sw

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I hope this is not the case.

"Because even the Sidebar Mods have an opinion about this case, and it looks as tho they are on the Dark Side."

And it appears as though they're not going to let a little old thing like Jim Robinson's wishes stop them from achieving their agenda.

I'm afraid your hopes will be dashed if you look at the evidence.

"If it looks like a duck, blah, blah...than it's a duck"...sadly.

sw

Apparently Mommya posted an ad. People do that all the time, but we must remember, the Westerfield trial threads are singled out for particularly draconian censorship. It appears to have spread even to the Smokey Backroom, which I originally thought was a good idea. Now I'm wondering if it's just the "same old-same old."