Hi Dave SA: It's 6:30 AM EST and this is a very nice post
to wake up to. Lots of wit and wisdom, too, and a welcome
change of pace. Just when I was feeling very discouraged
re: the PIEnet...May the spirit of the season be with you
and yours, also.
                   Carole H.
P.S. Re: pigtales, even I was getting confused re: which
pig was which...

--- D J Roll <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear List Family,
>
> My computer was down for more than two weeks and has been
> behaving
> erratically since and so I am once again on a 'loaner'
> machine. I have had
> to wade through over 1500 emails, and that's just this
> list! My 'real'
> family are sick and tired of the computer speaking to me.
> Being cut off from
> the cyber family left me feeling bereft and empty.
>
> Which brings me to my point. The bickering, the lurking,
> the large amount of
> posts by relatively few members are typical of a family.
> We have five
> children with us at the moment and there is bickering and
> so is it
> surprising with 1800 in the cyber family? Like a family
> though, the
> bickering is amongst ourselves - Oh woe betide the
> outsider that told my
> daughter I was a 'cripple' and so woe unto you the City
> of Portland and all
> the others that attack or hurt our brothers and sisters
> on this list!
>
> The bickering also puts a strain on myself and my loving
> wife (caregiver,
> mother, nurse, taxi driver, cook, etc who is as deaf as a
> post which
> combined with my poor speech gives rise to many
> misunderstandings - some
> funny and some not so). We as parents have to be big
> enough to take a stand
> on discipline and what is and is not acceptable in the
> home.  The decisions
> are sometimes not popular with all and sometimes, yes I
> admit it, the
> decisions we make are wrong. The list owners or
> moderators or whatever they
> are called, are effectively the "Mom" and "Dad" of this
> our cyber family, I
> think. So they have to take the stand and risk their
> popularity and yes they
> are human and so will make mistakes and from time to time
> be wrong.
>
> All the "non PD" stuff is like conversation and I must
> admit that I enjoy
> the banter, repartee and yes even the insults and the
> apologies. It makes
> the cyber family real, distracts from the unneeded
> reminder that I have an
> incurable disease. Views on religion, sex, LIFE vary in
> our home and the
> children all have their own views and we encourage them
> to express them. I
> am not to old or to proud to learn from my family - both
> real and cyber.  I
> never understood all of the pig humour, but miss it never
> the less.
>
> When I am able to think, talk and write coherently I will
> and when I am not
> I will sit quietly and listen to the conversation and
> general hub-bub of my
> family around me. It is comforting to listen to them. Its
> nice to belong and
> be loved. [LURK!] You decide which family I speak of!
>
> I think I have said enough.
>
> Love you all and hope that the spirit of this festive
> season is with you,
> one
> and all.
>
> DaveSA         (Yes we even have nicknames in our real
> family)
> David J Roll
> Port Alfred
> South Africa
>
> LURK = Love, Undisturbed by Rows or Kisses
>
>
>


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