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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
Folks...its the holiday season. Can't we all just get along?

I'm not sure if my make and model is programmed to do this. You'll have to check with the manufacturers. Maybe you can have me traded in and they can reclone me as the June Cleaver model. Then I can bake everybody brownies and crochet you guys some quilts and then the forum will be peaches and cream and puppy dog tails! (Except for, you know, Pwroffbase's gay bashing.)

Is anyone else as fascinated by the phrase, "Thanks for the insight!," as I am? I'm fascinated by it. It's a fascinating phrase. Taken literally, as per its intended usage, it's a way of saying thank you for sharing something truly enlightening. Something, dare I say, insightful. However, what some people may not know is that it can also be used sarcastically. When used sarcastically, the speaker (or typer) is actually not thankful for the insight -- and, indeed, doesn't even consider it to be insight. I decided to do some searches within the pifeedback forum to try to get to the bottom of this much more mythical use of the saying.

http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/21210316/m/328...?r=99710426#99710426

http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/56110162/m/257...?r=55310917#55310917

(You can really smell the sarcasm dripping out of the last one, especially when you factor in the long and fulfilling life "Viva Laughlin" had.)

Wow! I don't know about you, but I've certainly learned so much! But wait a second. This learning experience just leaves me with more questions than answers. Like, for instance, why is it that two posters with two different user IDs have the same exact writing style? Like, both are top posters, both are snotty, both are obsessed with me, both act like I'm forum poison, both fail to contribute much of any positive note, both end every other sentence with ellipses, both profess to watching "Saints & Sinners." Yeah, that's what I don't get. Can anybody explain it to me? Especially that last part. I mean, I do not get how two people could have been watching "Saints & Sinners." According to Nielsen, it only had one viewer.

Oh, well. Maybe it's true. There are so many questions, but not so many answers.

Now, if you shall excuse me, I am off to watch "Journeyman," "Chuck," "Boston Legal," "Friday Night Lights," "Moonlight," "Cavemen," "Carpoolers," "Cane," "My Name Is Earl," "Gossip Girl," "October Road," "CSI," "CSI: New York," "CSI: Miami" and any other of that one show that has boldly gone where no other show has gone before and finished 13 original episodes, some of them during a strike.