On 2020 Nov 20, , Bryan Simmons wrote
(in >):

>
> You don't have anything I want. You're just one more wacky misfit in the
> collection of wacky misfits (I include myself) that make this NG what it is.
> In fact, one of the best things about this NG is that pretty much nobody
> sucks up to anyone else to get approval, and folks don't seem to jockey
> to get acceptance or popularity. There are some long-running hostilities,
> and even hints at pseudo-alliances, but no cliques. Plus, the quality of
> the writing here is a lot better that elsewhere on social media, and that's
> not just attributable to the fact that most folks here are older. I don't
> have to suppress my inner grammar cop to anywhere near the extent
> that I did on FB.

Didn´t there used to be a cabal here? Wasn´t Melba a part of it? Didn´t
everyone deny it? Weren´t some here now a part of it? Does it still exist?
Hmmmm...makes me shiver.

leo