How close should a pastor get to the members?

[Tina]

Originally Posted by Amos

Maple, if I were to try and hide, what should I change and how should I go about it?

I'm not Maple, but the correct use of punctuation and sentence structure would have to go.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Tina

I'm not Maple, but the correct use of punctuation and sentence structure would have to go.

...and those sayings/quotes that are a dead give away!

[Charnock]

Originally Posted by Amos

Maple, if I were to try and hide, what should I change and how should I go about it?

Talk about the latest movie you've seen. Write a review of it.

[Maple Leaf]

Originally Posted by Amos

Maple, if I were to try and hide, what should I change and how should I go about it?

You could hide easily, and as that great philosopher, Louis L’Amour, wrote - - - the best place to hide is in plain sight. The first thing to do is to lose the personal identifiers, in your case: homespun analogies; geographical references; and the pluckiness you learned as a boy among cowboys. You’re an English major and have the ability to quote from a broad array of sources; stick with them and save the “aw shucks” persona for Amos. Align yourself with another geographical culture with which you are familiar, without making any false statements of course. Play up your knowledge of Murrell Ewing and Louisiana. Adopt a laid back, non-confrontational approach; refuse to take the aggressors bait. Finally, develop an annoying habit like making your posts all one paragraph, - - - just like this one. Choose an identity like Cajun, upload a familiar Louisiana landmark for your avatar, and you’ll be invisible to everyone except the perceptive souls that have read this post, and they’ll have forgotten within 24 hours.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Maple Leaf

You could hide easily, and as that great philosopher, Louis L’Amour, wrote - - - the best place to hide is in plain sight. The first thing to do is to lose the personal identifiers, in your case: homespun analogies; geographical references; and the pluckiness you learned as a boy among cowboys. You’re an English major and have the ability to quote from a broad array of sources; stick with them and save the “aw shucks” persona for Amos. Align yourself with another geographical culture with which you are familiar, without making any false statements of course. Play up your knowledge of Murrell Ewing and Louisiana. Adopt a laid back, non-confrontational approach; refuse to take the aggressors bait. Finally, develop an annoying habit like making your posts all one paragraph, - - - just like this one. Choose an identity like Cajun, upload a familiar Louisiana landmark for your avatar, and you’ll be invisible to everyone except the perceptive souls that have read this post, and they’ll have forgotten within 24 hours.

LOL -- - this would work. Homespun analogies was the phrase I was looking for.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Maple Leaf

Here we go, just for fun.

Your only "bad" posting habit is that you're a perfectionist.

For proof I cite your two examples of "bad habits," neither of which are genuinely bad, and so insignificant that most wouldn't even notice them.

Also, you're way too pragmatic to use a second identity - - - You just wouldn't see any reason to bother. If you couldn't say it as MissBrattified - - - you just wouldn't say it.

BTW AFF doesn't have any better poster than its pragmatic perfectionist.

ACTUALLY, back on FCF, I did try to create a secret (second) identity one time. It lasted all of two posts, because I found it way too tiresome trying to be someone else.

I think it was "MosaLina."

It wouldn't have mattered either way...H1 would have had me pegged in another 15 minutes or so, had I stayed on.

[MissBrattified]

I sort of miss Chancellor--more for the controversy he was capable of stirring up than anything else.

[Amos]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

I sort of miss Chancellor--more for the controversy he was capable of stirring up than anything else.

I don't miss the misogynism and his fondness for certain Hebrew metaphors describing our righteousness.

[Amos]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

ACTUALLY, back on FCF, I did try to create a secret (second) identity one time. It lasted all of two posts, because I found it way too tiresome trying to be someone else.

I think it was "MosaLina."

It wouldn't have mattered either way...H1 would have had me pegged in another 15 minutes or so, had I stayed on.

I was Serendipitous.

I think I had around 600 posts under that name.

[Indy]

Look what I done went an inspired. Must be a CSI mission of some kind goin on around heah. Aw shucks, I just came in from the pasture and sees that yer talkin bout me agin. I'm flattened by yer coments. But it aint no thing but a chicken wing. I aint hidin. Just slippin an slidin. Should come outta lurkin more offin.