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Jaime wrote:

I can find a Yahoo woodworking group to join.
Sorry to have offended you.

Dude, chill out. You haven't offended anyone. We're *teasing* you. It has
long been the practice here on the Wreck (ie rec.woodworking) to tell
someone how much he sucks when he has a "gloat." The original poster in
this thread most assuredly has a gloat. By telling him how much he sucks,
we reaffirm how gloatable his gloat is, and make him feel all warm and
fuzzy and stuff. It's all part of the Wreck culture, and things have been
done this way for years. Getting told you suck is about the highest honor
we can offer.

You are *not* obligated to participate in this silliness. Many don't.
Loving wood and woodworking is a great thing. We all do. We also give
each other a hard time. Like the way Larry Jaques is always ranting about
the evils of staining walnut or using poly, and the way I'm always singling
him out and giving him a hard time about everything for no particular
reason. We're a bunch of smart alecks. JOAT is one of the smarteyest
alecks of all, although I don't guess we've ever had a contest to determine
who is actually the smarteyest aleck of all. Hell, it might be me. Or
Larry Jacques. It's probably Larry. Definitely. Definitely Larry. See,
there I go singling him out again, and somewhere in the Pacific northwest
the guy is scratching his head and wondering what he did to deserve another
assault on his character. (At least I finally learned how to spell his
name right.) Anyway...

You walked into the middle of that, and we were trying to show you the
ropes, so to speak, in a humorous fashion. You seem to have taken it
completely the wrong way. So chill out, calm down, and hang out a bit.
I've been online in one fashion or another for years (almost as long as
there was an online to hang out in, but not quite), and I've hung out in
too many different places to count. The Wreck is special. I think even if
I sold all my wood mangling equipment tomrorow and decided to take up cat
grooming for a hobby, I'd still hang out here just for all the discussion
among friends that only tangenitally relates to wood.

Nobody can make you stay, and you're free to go as you please. Just please
don't fly off in a snit because we poked you in the ribs. The key to this
whole thing is that you shouldn't take anything too seriously unless it's
safety. Republicans and Democrats, Christians and Pagans, young and old,
male and female, Sawstop advocates and Sawstop detractors, shellac users
and Minwhacks poly-izers, Normites and Royds, the one thing we all always
agree on is the importance of keeping all your body parts in working order,
and on trying to keep the red stuff inside where it belongs.

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