I lean far the other way. ct started out very polite, but his "polite muscles" got tired very quickly.
He uncharacteristically congratulated Ichneumon on the use of the Lincoln dog's-tail-as-a-fifth-leg story. ALS had used that one earlier, as effdot noted.
He's calling Aric "she." ALS couldn't lay off the puerile, gender-mixing, homo innuedendo stuff.
If Aric hadn't made the mistake of prompting for it, ct would have called someone "Sparky" before the day was over.