Thursday, June 11, 2009

A little help wanted

Re: 'Moderation'

I see at the head of things happening here, a 'Moderation Flakstopper - 1 awaiting moderation' or words to that effect, constantly moving on as though dogging my footsteps, since Flakstopper I seem to be.  I thought I answered it, as you can see, but it's still floating there . . . following me.

Pause now and reflect.

Perhaps I should mention that in my childhood and even youth, though I admit I never had to skin a flint, we still wrote on rock.  Those twenty past years of your laboriously learning of media communication and all its subtleties of terminology and tabs and blgs and RSS and BYG and such things - that all zipped by me as a fly on the fleeting butt of yesterday.  It's not that I'm too young to know about these things, I'm too er . . . ga-ga, I think you call it.  Such 'Moderation' I've not come by before, so far as I remember.  So, is the above otherwise somewhat inscrutable phrase

a) a gentle admonition to 'take it easy, Flak',

b) a notice that I should somehow tone-down a brief mention of mine a couple of weeks ago that I sanely agreed with another's  invitation to bring him or her the thousand worst criminal gangsters in the world for him or her to stop them wiping out the rest of you innocents,

c) an injunction that I am hereby inexplicably ostracized and held incommunicado, bound and gagged and awaiting consignment to the nearest landfill or convenient tarpit,

d) that someone wrote it in a moment of whimsy, stuck their pencil behind their ear and forgot about it,

e) an instruction to me to moderate by any means open to me somebody else being rude to or otherwise victimizing another here or somewhere so far unspecified, 

f) all of these hereabove, or

g) what?

Perhaps there are others among us here, similarly afflicted, who would also welcome an indication of such terminology's import.

Give.

1 comment:

  1. flackstopper, go read your blog and my reply, please:-) no moderation intended.

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