Why?

Originally posted by HandyAndy
An autopsy is post-mortem, Bobby. After the fact. Put your hacksaw away.

"After the fact: an autopsy when the coroner or contributor consensus has determined that we're dealing with a cold cadaver;

before the fact with an online forum that's been alive and well for most of its thirteen years but is now uncertain
as to whether it is, in fact, living yet ill or dying or dead: "an online diagnosis or an exquisite body audit".
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A definitive determination hasn't yet been made; therefore, three phased options were suggested:

"Question: In your view, are we performing an online diagnosis or an exquisite body audit or an after the fact autopsy?"
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Originally posted by HandyAndy
An obscene gesture.

Please clarify your specific reference, Andy. Thanks.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Vigour is for real life. People come here to relax.

Thanks for your comment.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Please clarify your specific reference, Andy. Thanks.

You're welcome, Bobby. Please clarify your specific question.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Thanks for your comment.

Thanks for responding to my comment.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Thanks for responding to my comment.

NoEarthlyReason, since I've always regarded you as a patient person I assumed you would accept the acknowledgement preceding my reply (which will be keyed to your observation) as soon as it's ready to come out of its cognitive oven. lol

The post that was quoted here has been removed

"Mine's more of a smokey neuron fuse-box.".... is this graphic description your mind on a good day or a bad one? =..=

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby

"I hope that this forum does not go the same way - having eyed it for these seven years I would now diagnose incipient NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome)..."

"... an implosion of what President John Kennedy would have called 'vigor'"

"We hate vigor."

"It's too much work."

"Men and women don't like vigorous work."

"Perhaps after it's long agonising death 'Vigour Mortis' has set in."

"It might have needed something more binding like mortise and tenon."

"An obscene gesture."

"Those men and women need to think outside the box."

"Vigour is for real life. People come here to relax."

Question: In your view, are we performing an online diagnosis or an exquisite body audit or an after the fact autopsy?

Question 2) Does this centerpiece forum's demise since 2012 reflect an unanticipated result of a global culture in which a high percentage of all households have cell phones and facebook membership which enable instantaneous contact and social need satisfaction? 3) Does this simultaneity provide a lessening of daily tensions/relaxation? 4) If so, wouldn't the instant gratification of one word/sentence game thread popularity eventually minimize new ideas and sustained conversation?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[quote]"I hope that this forum does not go the same way - having eyed it for these seven years I would now diagnose incipient NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome)..."

"... an implosion of what President John Kennedy would have called 'vigor'"

"We hate vigor."

"It's too much work."

"Men and wome ...[text shortened]... e word/sentence game thread popularity eventually minimize new ideas and sustained conversation?

It's at times like these that I like to recall God's final message to his creation.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
It's at times like these that I like to recall God's final message to his creation.

“God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.'
-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"

This message?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
“God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.'
-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"

This message?

God said that? I must have misheard Him.

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
God said that? I must have misheard Him.

"It's at times like these that I like to recall God's final message to his creation." -NoEarthlyReason

Christ's Last Seven Words (phrases) at the Golgotha Crucifixion?

Edit Note: NoEarthlyReason, you've got me "buffaloed".

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[quote]"I hope that this forum does not go the same way - having eyed it for these seven years I would now diagnose incipient NIDS (new-idea-deficiency-syndrome)..."

"... an implosion of what President John Kennedy would have called 'vigor'"

"We hate vigor."

"It's too much work."

"Men and wome ...[text shortened]... e word/sentence game thread popularity eventually minimize new ideas and sustained conversation?

"Question: In your view, are we performing an online diagnosis or an exquisite body audit or an after the fact autopsy?

Question 2) Does this centerpiece forum's demise since 2012 reflect an unanticipated result of a global culture in which a high percentage of all households have cell phones and facebook membership which enable instantaneous contact and social need satisfaction? 3) Does this simultaneity provide a lessening of daily tensions/relaxation? 4) If so, wouldn't the instant gratification of one word/sentence game thread popularity eventually minimize new ideas and sustained conversation?"

6) Could the gradual changes to the content/format and diminished vigor of this forum reflect the loss of high profile faction leaders with real or imagined causes (most recent losses being Phlabibit and Red Night; causes the Recommendations)?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
6) Could the gradual changes to the content/format and diminished vigor of this forum reflect the loss of high profile faction leaders with real or imagined causes (most recent losses being Phlabibit and Red Night; causes the Recommendations)?

If the Recs page was the reason these people left, they're bigger babies than I had assumed they were.

nah no idea total blank bored by bobby once again