Koko writes: Dude can't even recall what city and airport he was in (Santa Monica). He must have had fun! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

http://members.aol.com/premex/ilovela.html

Thanks for reposting that link, Premex. That's EXACTLY what I was talking about!!!! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

BTW, can we have some more of these Phantom Phorums? They're kinda fun. Sorta like a secret clubhouse or something. 'Ya gotta know the secret way in. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Hmm, instead of a haunted house, it's a haunted forum? Ghosts of posts past?

Some of the recent discussion about TOS, offensive posts, and the like, and about the idea that "something must be done" to save FT (in that impersonal and passive voice that assigns responsibility to no one), reminded me of a story about Isaac Asimov and (I believe) Arthur C. Clarke. They were watching an S.F. movie when one of the robots intentionally harmed a human being. Asimov, who had coined and published "The Three Laws of Robotics," foremost of which was that a robot must never harm a human, shouted in dismay, "They're breaking First Law! They're breaking First Law!" To which Clarke replied calmly, "So strike them dead, Isaac."

The point being that Asimov contributed to robots in SF, but forgot that he didn't have the right to control what others wrote about their own invented robots.

So too do we contribute to FT, but occasionally a few of us forget that we don't own or control it. There's a world of difference between (a) suggesting to Mr. Petersen that he should do something in particular on FT, and (b) presuming to tell him, in multiple posts, that he must do something.