[TheRobb7]

That switch to decaf isn't working....is it?

[conserveababe]

;-)

[Condor 63]

And stop keying my car in the parking lot you toothless, good for nothing, sorry excuses for humanity.

PS: If I catch you, your nads will be my dog's new chew toy.

[JRios1968]

[xcamel]

like the mysterous

"It's OK to repost the same damed article every four hours until hell freezes over"

rule..

No one has been able to provide the printed proof yet though...

[Quix]

AWWWWWW,

MOST of the time I appreciate the comments regardless.

They help me make a better judgment about whether opening the thread is worthwhile to me, or not.

Many are humorous.

Many are informative.

Many are clever.

They also add robustness to the understanding of fellow FREEPERS and their inclinations, preferences, perspectives, biases. And I love getting to know fellow FREEPERS better.

There's a limit to what's possible given the number of characters allowed in a title. So it's not as though everyone can go hogwild.

I PARTICULARLY APPRECIATE ANY QUALIFYING OR CLUE-IN about the article that's an annotation or explanation or elaboration of what is often a cryptic, mystifying title.

But the ones just for fun are fine for me, too.

Blessings,

[ZinGirl]

Can we put (Extremely Extreme Extremist has approved of this addition to the title!)?

;)

[labette]

But, but, but, Ttthat's the only way I can identify the real thread from the duplicates, sir!

[Publius6961]

(1) Location. Listing the appropriate state in the title is fine. For example, if a plant is closing somewhere ("Tecumseh to shutdown Aurora (IL) facility") that's when putting the state in parenthesis is helpful to FReepers, because it seems that every state has a Springfield in it (Cue Simpsons music).

Grrrrrrrrrrr!

this is probably my pet peeve, although I usually just skip threads that are that obtuse. Like: "Explosion on Main Street!" without a clue of what town, city or even state in post #1 or in the keywords.

It takes a serious amount of cluelessness to not see the problem.

OK, so I probably don't care, and can move on to the next thread, but just maybe it might be of a lot wider interest than just the immediate town: e.g. "Leaking Radioactive Waste Train, on Fire, Just went through Town!"

[reg45]

CORRUPT, SLEAZY LOW-LIFE DEMOCRAT

That, Sir, is a redundant phrase.

[verum ago]

one small quibble:

Georgia is NOT a part of Russia and G-d willing never will be. Georgia is a free, democratic state that is trying to become a part of NATO, supported the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, and is also dealing with Russian-equipped and funded terrorists and separatists. Oh, and those are Georgian troops in Baghdad in the picture below:

[Grammy]

I appreciate the (barf alert)s. It allows me to know if it will raise my blood pressure or not.

[ustanker]

Somebody needs a vacation.

[Shimmer128]

Blood sugar low tonight??

[sully777]

Thorny: Smell that, Rabbit?
Rabbit: [sniffs air and agrees with nod] "...fear..."

[screaming eagle2]

And I thought I was having a bad day.

[tlb]

Occasionally I'll post a story with an explanation because the original title is so generic and uninformative.

Illustration: The dilemma of a deadly disease (detain TB patients until they die)

"I'm In" (Hillary announces for president)

I'd agree the Barf alerts and editorial comments are seriously overdone and tiresome.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Sorry.

By the same token adding (Alert)s after the title could also be viewed as tedious.

One freeper's informative is another freeper's bane, guess.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Who are you to declare what is the official use of parentheses in titles? (not being confrontational--are you an official in freeperdom?).

And Georgia isn't in Russia, it is an independent nation in the Caucasus.

[Tax-chick]

You'd want to put "Republic of Georgia" or "Georgia, USA." "Former Soviet Georgia" is passe', and Georgia was never part of Russia.

p.s., I agree with you about the comments with the titles.