Quote Originally Posted by dld
Hey Darren , take it easy. I (and others) just have fun with Yech/Bryan/Uncle Gimpy when he posts. Unsuccessful Sex Reassignment surgery/Gay Passes at him/crappin in his pants ? nahh, that ain't lionizing or fawning, that just taking a poke at someone. And as you should well know, he'd make the same fun of himself too. I don't know if he ever told you about his attempts to post a picture of his "Wife" when we were all posting pics. He found a pic of a 400# African-American lady. But he couldn't figure out the process to get a pic up. Anyway, why don't we not polarize the board and bring up other folks opinions (incorrectly at that)? If you got an opnion about him, then opine but fer chrissakes, can you leave other folks out? Believe I said to Chance, "..some people, justifiably so, were upset at Yech and some liked him". (or words to that effect) That ain't lionizing, that ain't fawning, thats just the truth.
I actually had a similar one all typed out and ready to go but I lost my internet connection and my data, so I gave up on it. I wanted to chastise Darren for saying that I (and others) lionize Bryan. Yes, I consider him a friend, but he never attacked me like many others, although he wasn't exactly into the same kind of music I like and he made no bones about it. I jumped on his anti-prog bandwagon years back but just because I thought it was so ridiculously funny and I really don't like prog very much. It was all in FUN. Demitrio used to get a little ticked off but I don't think he was really all that upset about it actually. Maybe I'm forgetting some of the story, but I never followed the whole thing that closely as I can't be on the board every day.

Anyway, well said my friend, now I'm going to get back to my other tasks. I'm sitting in a hotel in Salt Lake City and getting ready for the start of our national conference. It's always a hoot to see my old friends from all over the states each year, along with the other eye candy.

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