Thread: Thanks gone?

Dear Obie,

I hope you will excuse and forgive me, but I don't have the hart to respond to that with the proper response

Originally Posted by gugi

Dear Obie,

I hope you will excuse and forgive me, but I don't have the hart to respond to that with the proper response

Ah well, my dear gugi, what're you gonna do? As folks here in the province say, "It's a crazy world, aina?"

Yeah, the only thing you can apparently do is 'Like' it

Originally Posted by gugi

Yeah, the only thing you can apparently do is 'Like' it

Indeed, my dear gugi, indeed. "Like You" for your thoughts.

Now, if you will forgive me, I will take my leave to attend the blasted board meeting for my condo association. I was suckered into becoming the board vice president for the bloody thing. How did I get into this? Well, and since the board president is away, I am in charge. I can here myself starting the meeting:

"Ladies and gentlemen of the board, like you for coming to the meeting . . ."

Well Obie first you have to realize Like has many meanings and additionally the connotations can be misleading and get you in a heap of trouble. Why many folks confuse "like" with "lick". You now like I like to work but don't want to do a lick of work and then you like to thank me for the great lick I just did only I didn't. As a result you don't like me at all but might liken me to some uncomplimentary comparison.

Now you can tell someone you "like" them which can have mighty troubling consequences or you can tell them they be "like" meaning they resemble that chimp at the zoo which can get you into many more bad situations.

See wasn't that easy? Now you understand and I like that might fine.

I remember when all these "thanks" etc ideas were hotly debated prior to implementation, with some people (gormless and and astute alike) firmly against them. Others (the winners) were in favour. It seems we are a firmly conservative board - we want what we already have and do not like either adding to nor subtracting from it.

Change, gentlemen, is all around us. Some change is necessary, some is simply desirable, some imposed from on high, some by consensus. You cannot change change, and even if you could change change changing change is itself change, so by changing change you are by definition changing things anyway. You can't change that.

If you liked this post, please "Thank" me for it. .....Oh, wait.... If you thanked this post, please "like" me for it? That doesn't sound right - sounds a bit desperate actually... Anyway, you get my point I am sure.

James.

The like button is so meaningless without the "That post really sucks button!"

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Well Obie first you have to realize Like has many meanings and additionally the connotations can be misleading and get you in a heap of trouble. Why many folks confuse "like" with "lick". You now like I like to work but don't want to do a lick of work and then you like to thank me for the great lick I just did only I didn't. As a result you don't like me at all but might liken me to some uncomplimentary comparison.

Now you can tell someone you "like" them which can have mighty troubling consequences or you can tell them they be "like" meaning they resemble that chimp at the zoo which can get you into many more bad situations.

See wasn't that easy? Now you understand and I like that might fine.

thebigspendur, my friend, anyone who confuses "like" and "lick" is beyond a new paint job. Time to re-decorate.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Thanks! I guess nowadays "like" is the new "thanks".

Thanks, but nope, you guessed wrong.

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

They were just jealous of me & Glen so they got rid of it

I tried to thank you for this as a matter of habbit