Originally Posted by
Scoop
OK - This is an oldie but a goodie - I originally posted it last year but it is worth repeating.
Sorry for the thread creep! Sorry for the thread creep! What a preposterous statement. Thread creep to a post is like a genetic mutation to DNA - it is the vehicle that allows change, adaptation, evolution, and ultimately survival.
Could this thread have survived if it was about one topic and one topic only? Would anyone want to read a "jillion" posts on one topic - it would be like homework.
I say follow the thread wherever it takes us. Should it veer off course and take a detour not too popular amongst the regulars, say for instance a detailed discussion about the effectiveness of women’s hygiene products, it shall unerringly be brought back on course by some juicy rumor, some supposed outlandish management proclamation, or dare I say it - some Noble gesture of DALPA (think Scope).
In a world without thread creep (said in that TV announcer guys voice) we would have thread stagnation. So do not bemoan the occasional humorous diversion, the seemingly unrelated sports bravado or the much too infrequent hot college babe pictures. Roll with it.
Scoop
Go Navy!
Very well said Scoop.
This thread started about hiring in 2007. That didn't last long. But it's been alive and well for years except for a dark period in there somewhere near the beginning.
It's equivalent to a bar. One of the types Ferd would like. Where sometimes there are fights and other times a table where nobody is talking shop.
And then when a woman walks in, well at least a picture of one, we look a lot like the pilot waking down the concourse that stares just a little too long at the pretty girl going the other way.
It'll hit 100,000 posts at some point soon and that's before we talk openers and opinion on the TA.