**Ahem**. While I've never conducted a poll, I do believe that non-drivers form at least an appreciable minority of the contributors to this list.
It's been a disappointing year, so perhaps we do need the Open list again.
Brooke's usual acerbic wit has been increasingly tempered by warm fuzzy
parental hormones, Stafford has learned to spell, Robertson is all sweetness
and light (unless you call him 'Rod', or 'Robinson', which I recommend you
do frequently), Lord is frequently comprehensible, Hughes has calmed down on
the more salacious of his duck obsessions, and even Metcalfe has shown a
reasonable, polite side we never thought existed. The loonies have largely
gone quiet or left the main lists in high dudgeon, and even our IRA-loving
Bostonian is on a leash. No one seems to loathe HW with a vengeance any
more, and even suggestions of RQ/HW melds are being met with *gasp* reasoned
discussion. No one's called me a 'simulationist wanker' for months. No let
me correct that, no one's called me a 'simulationist' for months. When was
the last
time I heard the term 'grognard'? Guy Jobbins even used 'emic' in a regular
post -
at least I don't think he was piss-taking.
I hardly recognise the lists any more. If this keeps up I'll even begin to understand TI's Digest posts.
Where is our esteemed Open moderator when we need him?
'You know it makes sense...'
J.
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