Barns MAKES THE RULES !
You don't have to be kind, considerate or politically correct. Barns certainly wont be! But: don't be stupid, oblique, sophomoric, don't obfuscate and don't be gratuitous about anything (except hyper successful yet tortured souls)..
If you have to look up any of the words in rule #2, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET ALONG WITH YOUR FELLOW CROAKERS AND WITH ME!
PROFANITY is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully. Thus, it is reserved for me! If YOU are profane, YOU WILL BE DUMPED!
Be smart and creative. Not just clever!
If you have a vendetta, take it someplace else. Hire a lawyer!
You have to be brief and to the point! If you want to, you CAN post the MAGNA CARTA or the complete works of Somerset Maugham with links to wherever if you want to – assuming you can afford to do that! We will charge you!
Tell us who you are! Give us somebody else's name or information or Mickey Mouse stuff? Bad karma! Better read up on the bible, torah, kur'an, kojiki, Suramgamasamadhisutra, Confucious or Mao's little red book. Your croakes™ will be as anonymous as you choose (under some no doubt clever “username” you pick).
Have to give us your email address. We will talk to you by email... if your are worth our while! Give us a Mickey Mouse email address and we will set your sorry behind afloat forever. And tell your closest 1.2 million friends that you are spineless.
TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK AND FEEL! PICK A FIGHT WITH Barns OR ANY OTHER CROAKER™! POST YOUR ERUDITE STUFF ON TOP OF ANY OTHER POST YOU LOVE OR LOVE TO HATE OR YOU JUST WANT TO MESS WITH!
WE ARE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CYNICS HERE!!
See rule #1? Don’t like it? You’ll get all of Barns' size 13 attitude up YOUR attitude.

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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR ....

Reminds Barns of something brilliant said by his 16 year old, right after she walked away from what could have been a catastrophic auto accident, of her fault. Barns screamed at the top of his lungs:
WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?
She responded (rather calmly and thoughtfully):
CLEARLY I WAS NOT THINKING. HAD I BEEN THINKING, I WOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT!
There are a couple or three versions of the ending of the old refrain: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. Same, really.
How interesting to search for the roots of that oft uttered refrain. Maybe lyrics in a children’s song. Maybe W.W. Jacobs in MONKEY’S PAW, a horror story. Maybe Edgar Allan Poe. Maybe your great, great grandfather.
And as apropos now, on the eve of the Presidential election, as when first written. By whoever.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! NO MATTER WHO YOU ELECT OUR NEXT COMMANDER IN CHIEF. You will find yourself quoting Barns’ daughter: CLEARLY I WAS NOT THINKING! HAD I BEEN THINKING, I WOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT!
Best of luck to us all, no matter the outcome.

What Do You Think?

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR ....

rachee ( 105 posts / 2 fights ) from London, London (United Kingdom) on 11/18 at 05:10AM PT

I am thinking of what my mum told us so many times. House guests are a lot like fish. Great for a day or two. After that best heave them out. They will smell up your place.

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Harm ( 171 posts / 0 fights ) from Alexandria, Virginia (United States) on 11/13 at 12:12PM PT

I was thinking that we need a big time change. I was also thinking that McCain was no change at all. The Palin move was stupid marketing. I want everybody to give Obama a chance to do the right things, whatever those are.

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- ( 939 posts / 24 fights ) from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States) on 11/13 at 12:13PM PT
  
  Hey Pilgrim.
  Noble position.
  What exactly do you see as the "right things to do" ?
  A list, including all the social welfare promises would be fine.
  
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rachee ( 105 posts / 2 fights ) from London, London (United Kingdom) on 11/13 at 11:46AM PT

I reckon all those people who cried for Obama will now wait for him to make miracles. We pray that he does.

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CToads 46 ( 72 posts / 2 fights ) from Beverly Hills, California (United States) on 11/04 at 04:58PM PT

Thankfully the election is finally over when the votes are counted tonight. No more campaiging, not more promises that are certain to be broken no mater who wins, no more name calling and no more noise on all channels and internet.

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