Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:39:23 -0400
From: Kachergis
Subject: Only a JOKE?! Is the Chatlist becoming the Onion?
Those who posted the misinformation about the “Gentlemen’s Club” and then came back a few days later saying “it was only a joke” remind me of a young school child who has committed some misdeed trying to squirm out from under their guilt saying, “I was only kidding.”
Yes I was fooled by the original post (briefly), and I know that others were too. Gene can run the Chatham Chatlist however he wishes but once again, we all have to recognize that anonymous posts have little credibility. Freedom of speech/freedom of expression is great, but you have to know that you won’t be warmly received if you wear a mask into a bank or a store, or yell “fire” when there is none in a crowded theater, even if you are only joking.
Karl G. Kachergis