I would appreciate Frances much more if she did not have those irritating dancing bananas on every post.

I dislike all "smilies" and emoticons, so to that extent and that extent only the anonymous guest has a point.

The only thing the dancing banana accomplishes is to further trivialize her rather mediocre thoughts.

That someone would call Frances's thinking mediocre in this subforum, the ultimate CI outpost for idiocy and immaturity, underlines the extent to which ignorance and adolescent conformity have become its guiding principles.

I do not always agree with this lady—and I suspect she has far graver reservations about me and my comments—but she is one of CI's few true assets. Since the asset count hereabouts hovers precariously on the border between two digits and one, her disappearance from the scene would constitute a substantial blow to the site.

:dancing-banana:Many of my posts aren't serious.  Sometimes I go on CI for fun.  Besides, readers would soon come to hate my new avatar. :dancing-banana:

Hmm... well... I fixed it for you anyway.
It just needed the "http://" added to the url.

You know, threads like this are an abuse of the Anonymous subforum.

Allow me to demonstrate:

Good:
"I'm having difficulty following my husband. What should I do?"
"Any good home remedies for warts?"
"How to lose weight when you're already 350 pounds"

Bad:
"Am I the only one annoyed with Matthew's posts?"
"What's the deal with Icterus?"
"Who besides me wishes Frances would ditch the dancing banana?"


There is no way I'd ever consider shutting down this subforum, because it would mean uprooting the wheat with the cockle. No, I'll just moderate the subforum as usual, and if a few pieces of cockle escape my attention, then I guess it will be matter for the Judgement like everything else.

I hope everyone realizes they're not completely anonymous here. I can still look up who you are, plus let's not forget that God sees all. So this is not to be used as a cloak for malice!

I'm not going to look up "who has warts", but if someone needs disciplinary action (up to and including banning) I won't hesitate to look up who posted something here.

So behave yourselves!

(Sheesh, I feel like I'm dealing with my little kids here...)

 :dancing-banana: :dancing-banana: :dancing-banana: :dancing-banana: :dancing-banana: :dancing-banana: :dancing-banana:
Now I shall never abandon the dancing banana.

One illegal-in-most-places substance-consuming smilie is enough.