So I will hatch and fly over.

I like that much better than the usual wheeeeeeee. Wheeeeeee has a moony, indifferent sort of laissez-faire if we make it over fine if we don't who cares sort of feeling.

Not quite sure Jeb. Sounds like you flew the coop eaa!

Earlier this week, I heard on the news that the head of the UN's Human Rights Committee told President Calderone of Mexico, that he could no longer use the Mexican Military to fight the Drug Cartels in Mexico. That it should be the local police, not military involved with bringing the Drug Cartels More...

Does the head of the Human Rights Committee have the authority to actually stop him using the military, or can she only complain?

Okay the percentage of people now posting on this site is leaning heavily on the female side, where have all the men disappeared to? What used to be an even mix is now becoming a rare delight. What has brought this about? Don't get me wrong I'm all for 'whatever floats your boat' but it would be More...

Where in the world has everyone gone to? I don’t want to fabramblicate but where are all those people who had amazing fantanations? We don’t need finklers but lets try and get some peanut butturbulance going and bring the site into a sacrelicious, neogenic, radish, ramblehouse… tentaculate and get back some elevertigo here…

She packed away the soapbox and headed over to the coffee house... only a double expresso and a large slice of Max's best chocolate, double duo layer cake would do... She was thinking about the film 'I am legend'...

Or was it 'The Day After Tomorrow'...

Andre, I'm not sure if I quite caught all those large words, but I, too, have noticed the disappearance you spoke of. Wondering where they have gone... I personally do not believe in global warming. Has that issue been talked about on this page?

André, your surmisability is veraciously verified with perspicacious profundity. The table was cleard, a map to success unravled and the navigator wanted to know what to do with the pretty bow that bound it. Amazing!

André
Why don't you try answering your own question? The truth will set you free!

The new Sudoku word for the day is "Sarchasm":

The gap between the author of sarcastic wit and those who don't get it.

but does not wit preclude sarcasm?

Wasn't sarchasm a word by, 'The Wag' from 'Over The Hill' earlier in the year?

Therein lies the rub as displayed by the seemingly impossible task of dislodging the most recalcitrant participation into a sagacious interchange of ideas.

That, it is necessary to point out, is both witty and sarcastic. Pointing out the obvious, however, precludes the joy of discovering either.

assuming, of course, that there IS joy in discovering sarcasm?

When, in the course of attempting to generate critical thought in the exchange of ideas, one encounters nothing but total silence, the resulting frustration may take many forms. In the case of 'the author', sarc(h)asm is only a passing stage in the evolutionary process. Satire in its myriad More...

ohhhh!..some ripples...eager to see how it develops, some response that might resonate to peak it, or just outa phase totally killing it..
patience..patience..(lest I become a patient!)

...its like picking meat from your teeth you can never reach that last piece that aggravates you so much... where are the toothpicks when you need them?...

so what is it they say about sarcasm?
Lowest form of wit, but highest form of intelligence?

And who is this they? A group of people in an office two doors down from the Argument Clinic with THEY in gold lettering on a frosted glass window on the 34th floor of an 87 story office building in down town East Phanastan sitting around on the edges of their and other people's desks saying More...

The line between sarcasm and offending people is......
same!!!! And I get offended when somebody gets offended by my sarcasm....:(
If one get easily offended, the best way to tackle is, either get over it or develop a thick skin...Jeb's discription of "They" tempts me to join them..What a job!!!!

There it is ap! I effects me the same way. It is difficult to respect someone who is so thin skinned that the slightest tongue in cheek broadside sends them scurrying under the bed with the cat. It is even worse with those who can dish it out but can't take it.

Speaking entirely in More...

Wow...Just got back here and all I can say Jeb...aint it da troof.....good golly mis molly....

I got a chuckle out of your response, untill I went back and re-read it. Your use of specific vernacular, especially coming from you has me doubled over near off of my chair. I would join in but see that as inapropriate and assuming, so I shall remain with my own idiom.

It just seems to me that wit is clever, educated, civilised; sarcasm is mean-spirited and nasty...

Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.

By the time you read this you’ve already read it.

as for your "where are they now?"

I must be out of my mind. Back in five minutes

Mean spirited? It can be. Funny as all hemlock? That too. It is one of those 'depends' topics. What is the intent behind the jab? I see it in the same light as any useful tool. A small hand axe was handy last week after a heavy wind storm and Lizzie Borden found one useful as well. It is More...

"Yes, yes," said Gollum.
"All dead, all rotten. Elves and Men and Orcs. The Dead Marshes.
There was a great battle long ago, yes, so they told him
when Sméagol was young,
when I was young before the Precious came. It was a great battle.
Tall men with long swords, More...

Therefore, is Gollum not only a singer of the heroic sagas but also a sayer of sooths?

Jeb...I knew I could count on you to get it! ......AND.... to react in the correct manner...although I did expect a private message...and it would have been appropriate! LOL

In my own vernacular, my dear, you uncorked this jug, I just 'hepped m'seff' to a swig. This little exchange might just be grounds for another discussion topic not to be lost to private messaging. Somebody else might want to wade in the water.

Do you really think some would really venture forth besides us???? I'd be delighted to see it happen! The gauntlet has been thrown...Open discussion invited.....Let's get it on....Especially those in the USA faced with the possibility of a Black President, and those in other countries affected by More...

I am delighted with the prospect of a black man becoming President....The nominee is a bright, talented, man who possesses many abilities...yet I fear his accendancy...Will he be killed because he is viewed as unfit..wrong... too black????
I am proud because he represents that blacks are equal More...

Just in case some may wonder how this dovetails into the prior topic of sarcasm and mean spiritness, I don't know what to say other than there is a very definite correlation that I hope is obvious...if it isn't...Maybe some one else can help you understand.

I would very much like to join in a discussion along these lines but all the nonsense that has gone on in the past two or three administrations and all the smoke and mirrors of the campaign battles have left me cold. I have turned my back on contemporary politics out of frustration caused by the More...

And furthermore: Where was there anything mean spirited posted?