Originally posted by attorney28:
Might that be because each word has its own definition, with "oral" used in its adjectival sense?

I hope you are not overly reliant on the dictionary when preparing citations in legal briefs. (!)

First of all, English is my third language. Secondly, I don't prepare legal briefs anymore.
Thirdly...even though my handle (unfortunately) shows that I am a lawyer, I do not need to show that in almost every post I make, unlike some.

I could have SWORN the thread title actually was:

request to close another sex thread on OMNI



C'mon folks. Randy will have a big enough job getting to the bottom of all the madness here in a few hours from password stealing phantoms, without reading through 'alliteration wars'.

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~ Glen ~ sipping bubbly from a UA 747-400 exit row 15 near you SOON!

Thus I have stopped with my niggling nabobs of negativity.

But rather a Rolaids for Randy thread might be in order......

attorney28, you're right -- my mistake. One of my English teachers in high school made a point about alliteration having to occur on the emphasized syllables, but after Googling some definitions, I found that alliteration in Old English (e.g., the time of Beowulf) had to occur on stressed syllables, but in modern English the term is applied to initial syllables.

Back on topic:

Steamy sex is on in OMNI,
Time to take a strident stand;
Cut the caitiffs' throbbing threads
Lest the lust get out of hand.


[This message has been edited by Law Lord (edited Feb 02, 2004).]

No offense taken. Just friendly repartee among colleagues.

Why would you have taken offense anyway...

Oh, I forgot point no. 4:

I hope you don't get slapped around in court as much as you did by my last post. (!)

No offense. Just friendly repartee among colleagues .

I do, but I never have a problem getting a continuance. Nor in the overall success rate of my motion practice.

Replying only to topic.

To confirm your observation. Yes, the golas of FT are to a a PG rated Web site. There's plenty other Web sites that offer a lattitude of topics that this might fit in to. While it has been said that OMNI is about any topic that members want to exchange dialog for outside of travel, miles and points, there does need to be judgment call on just how far that envelope can be pushed.

Historically Gaucho100K has posted to the edge of what I think OMNI should tolerate (and sometimes beyond that limit). Sometimes (my observation) because he's a 'local character' within that forum (said with prestige, not malice) he's been able to add uniqueness. And sometimes he misses the mark. This is one of those times. I think it shows how moderators can be used to the positive in any forum, and that is to help other members define that border. I can't answer if Gaucho100K was purposely trying to push that limit here, but I agree with you that this thread had the potential to be things that FlyerTalk and I as a member, do not want FlyerTalk to be known as.

The moderator did the correct thing in closing the thread. But I don't think each topic like this is material for ORP. The first instinct for any member when they feel posts are off-topic or off-base is to let a moderator know their feeling. I'm comfortable that moderators will look the situation over and assist when and where they can. Often, for close calls like this they will ask others for a second opinion and that is the system at its best.

Hope this helps and again, glad to see that a moderator was able to assist you.

Now, for this other stuff. It seems that greater than 50 percent of this thread is off-topic. That is well past any reasonable members tolerance. So, i'll try and delete non-topic posts here so that those of you that clicked on this thread can actually read what you thought it was going to be all about.