“... if you have a thin skin and are easily offended then you’re in the wrong place.”
LOL. Shortly after I joined (in ‘98), I got my tail feathers singed and I promptly returned fire. There was no response, so I lurked for awhile, anticipating another volley directed my way. However, there was no return fire and I begin to take notice of the flame wars erupting all around (usually the same posters).
You may not have seen some of the flame wars going on at that time, and I was just beginning to understand that I hadn’t really been singed at all, just had a warning shot across the bow, so to speak, LOL.
I decided then to be a whole lot more tolerant and developed a much thicker hide (harder to skin, don’cha know).
I wish Jim (and John) would invent a ‘way-back’ machine (feature) that would let us peruse some of those old threads (just for laughs and historical purposes).
Then again, maybe not, heheh.
begin = began
(gotta remember to proof-read)