I was kind of happy with this and don't want it to fade into obscurity in a closed thread so I'm doing a little editing and posting it here:
I have a bucket dream that one day in the General Poker forum, the joke accounts of Ron Mexico and the joke accounts of Shimmering Wang will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a bucket dream that one day even the General Off Topic forum, a forum sweltering with the heat of random oppression, sweltering with the heat of totalitarian senses of humor, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a bucket dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their personality quirks but by the content of their character.
I have a bucket dream today!
I have a dream that one day every forum shall be exalted, and every thread and post shall be made low, the rough language will be made plain, and the crooked sentences will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all avatars shall see it together."
This is our hope, and this is the bucket o' faith that I go back to the forum with.
With this bucket o' faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this bucket o' faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our forum into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this bucket o' faith, we will be able to work together, to laugh together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, to figure what the hell cuin4 is actually saying together, knowing that we will be free posting one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of DN's protege wanna-be's will be able to sing with new meaning:
My forum 'tis of thee, sweet e-land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where Ronny tried, to bang CW's hide,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if this forum is to be a great forum, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the wasted man hours of FCPHA.
Let freedom ring from the prodigious postings of the hideout.
Let freedom ring from the UYPC of the movie game.
Let freedom ring from the humor of chateau.
Let freedom ring from the plain goodness of the what did you have for dinner thread.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from so what do I get? thread.
Let freedom ring from the purple trash can.
Let freedom ring from every post of the red bucket thread.
From every post and thread, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every forum and every thread, from every post and every sig, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, funny and not-so-funny, e-gay and really e-gay, lurker and inane poster, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!





