The 12 Rules for Navigating Dean's World have been placed permanently on the sidebar along the right, just beneath "About Dean's World."
They've also been edited slightly. Rules 5 and 6 now read:
5) I'm more tolerant of personal attacks on me than I am toward contributors. But I make no claims to perfection in either area. I do my best. But, I'd really rather you direct your heat toward ideas you don't like, rather than people who chafe your buttocks.6) Don't get upset if you find me arguing with you. Don't get upset if several people argue with you. Consider that you might be wrong, or stand your ground and explain why everyone else is wrong. If you hang out here long enough, you'll find this can happen to anyone, at any time.
Indeed, there have been several times where I myself have been the only one defending my position against a dozen or more people who thought I was totally wrong. Other than hiring gypsy witches to put curses upon them and their progeny, I exacted no revenge at all.
Please note that there is also, still, absolutely no 11.
I absolutely LOVE having you argue with me over my comments to as many of these high quality posts as I can take the time to answer. Do you have any idea how goddamn boring life would be if you were having conversations with people who stupidly agreed with every word you said? Or even worse, totally ignored you?
About the personal attacks. You're a lot nicer than I was at an earlier age. In the world I inhabited back then, if you got really nasty with someone, and made it personal as well, you could expect to be paid off with a knuckle sandwich, and a well-deserved one at that.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Wrong Wrong Wrong! I completely disagree!! Those were not gypsy witches!
There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
-People who understand about Rule 11
-People who don't