On 2020-11-22 2:18 a.m., Leo wrote:
> 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.
>
> '

I remember there being a standing joke about the cabal.