. . . which are found on the sidebar of this site, called, in Chicago argot, “Da Roolz” (also here). First-time commenters seem to be wading in these days oblivious to the conventions and strictures of this site, including committing the cardinal sin of incivility toward the host and other commenters. Treat this place as if you’re talking to me and the other commenters in, say, a living room. If you’re uncivil, depending on how uncivil you are, I’ll either ask for an apology or summarily boot your tuchus out. If you’re asked for an apology, tender one, and not a “notapology,” either.
I’m sorry. Oh wait, Canadian reflex. Sorry for saying sorry 😀
Sorry- Don’t you mean British reflex adopted by Canadians? 😛
Sorry, no. 😛
Is that a notaplogy? I rather think it is, my apologies if I’m mistaken.
Hahaha, fellow Canuck!
I’m sorry for not correcting that n00bie the other day who asked what politics was doing on an Evolution site! It was a case of “should I?”, “shouldn’t I?” “Nah, let Prof. Ceiling Cat sink his claws into him!”
😀
I’m sorry, but I do agree with letting Prof. Cat do the enforcing of the uses. Sorry, I mean da roolz. Your quaint American accent is hard for some of us Canucks.
I didn’t see that comment or the commenter would have gotten a scratch or two! I’m still trying to read all the comments, and mostly succeeding, but sometimes it’s hard to keep up and do my day job!
I’m amazed that you can keep all this up and keep a day job. Well done.
Prof Ceiling Cat gets up at crack of dawn to achieve that! Also has to wrangle his herd of drosophila…
Dang…there are days when I have trouble even just deleting all the comments — and I’m not even subscribing to every post!
…and then you’re writing the posts on top of that…and the Albatross…and….
b&
…ratting out LarryT under comment #68 of “The Elections, we’re screwed”:
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/the-elections-were-screwed/#comments
You do an AMAZING job policing this site, sir. You make it one of the very few islands of civility in the howling mess of the interets.
And we all thank you very much!
If I might ask something so direct, sir: What became of nominalfinance, the troll/Poe on the election posting?
Cheers!
Canadians are such nice people.
😀 I actually think Canadians are polite and Americans are friendly but I’m not sure all of us are nice. 😉
If it comes down to Canadian reflex vs. USAian reflux, it will be a very short contest.
I apologize in advance for some offense I’ll commit in 2015-ish. And I’m not even Canadian.
We forgive you.
I believe there called trolls,have nothing better to do then troll the internet and cause problems.
Yes, the best corrective is to ignore them ASAP, as soon as they show their trollness and deprive them of their jollies.
Sometimes that’s hard to do!
Agreed.
You should write more about things I like and less about things I don’t like… 😉
Hmmm, I think the picture of Professor Ceiling cat is staged in a fake laboratory. The mistake is pretty subtle: if you look at the equations on the blackboard, no real scientist would spell “log” with a capital “L”.
They would if the log was from Blammo! (Google it!)
Where are they now?
You may recall an exchange with Creationist dentist and former member of the Texas State Board of Education Don McLeroy.
August 1, 2014: My Response to Jerry Coyne and his Readers on the Resurrection
McLeroy’s post received several pointed comments, mostly from contributors to this site. McLeroy’s last contribution to that discussion came on August 2, 2014:
“I am on a weekend trip; I will have time to answer questions sometime late Sunday.”
What an amazing weekend that must have been. If something drastic happened to McLeroy’s health which prevented him from addressing those questions, it has not yet been reported on his Wikipedia entry.
Brave, brave Sir Robin, bravely ran away…
Notpologies always bring to mind this scene from Monty Python And The Holy Grail