I like this thread because it doesn't have a curfew and it keeps regular hours.
Enough of that for now.
I come here posting, friends, to give recognition to
AFA. Besides continually gracing us with "Metart" and amateur models and assisting many of us in the identifation of those we have submitted,
AFA is also in possession of a delightful sense of humor that also reveals that there is considerable intellect within "the man behind the bomber."
Just within this past week (which, in fact, is still in progress; however, given the way this reply has been going, one may not be to extravagant to invoke the scriptural
...and it came to pass... )
AFA had figuratively broke the exalted "1000 rep point" milestone—I should say
figurative milestone, as we're not so sure that any of his actions—figurative or otherwise— correspond to the "English" system (as we in the U.S. occasionally refer to it) as opposed to the metric system (which the English, by the way, never,
never refer to as the "U.S." system), and for that matter, if it were actually made of stone or some other material is one that has yet to be resolved. This is usually the part of the conversation where I stand there looking off into the distance and say "Now where was I..." Yes, now I remember,
AFA just acquired his 1000th rep-point (and wasn't satisfied with just that, either) and deservingly so that he
did recieve the recognition from the membership for having reached (and surpassed) that achievement. And if anyone were to say that they perhaps observed a slight alteration of his customary genial nature due to this recent achievement, well, I'll say right now that I didn't notice. Sure, maybe I was like that too, after I surmounted the 10-rep mark, but no one said a thing to me about it!
Yes, all around,
AFA is a great guy, and we've become quite acquainted in the past few weeks, to such extent that on occassion I've went so far as call him "
A."
That brings up another issue, of which I invite other members of this board to offer their suggestions. While having stated previously as being well-acquainted with
AFA, and therefore one would easily understand the reasons for waiving formality in our correspondence, there still persists some confusion as to precisely which "
A" I am calling him by! "
A" by itself maybe alright—if it were his
first name I had utilized—but if it were his
last name, well, then addressing this person who is well in excess of 1000 "rep-points" such an unadorned thing seems a little brusque—perhaps
too formal—after all,
he's the one with four digits worth of "rep-points," not me; maybe in that instance—that I had been calling him by his
last name (though not with any malicious intent, I must assure), the "
A" should be prefaced with a courtesy title suggesting his eminence ("Mr.," "Senator," "Attorney-General," "Admiral," "Moderator," etc.) Any assistance that the membership would care to offer to resolve this matter would be greatly appreciated.
As a companion to this expression of appreciation for one of our members (and one who crashed the One-Grand mark with no intention of looking back) I must also give recognition to
Predatorian_be for his pleasant and tolerant disposition, most notably for his willful acquiescence to the "repartee" (that is my term; others may desparage and call it as something else, I should warn the viewer) that took place in his thread
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=61025 by the capable hands of myself and
AFA, who, as some of you already know, is well into his second millenary of "rep-points."
Thanks again,
Predatorian_be, from both myself and
AFA, that ubiquitous "rep-point" magnet. We're still looking forward to those Belgian brews.
