Ken,
First off, if my short and to-the-point responses seriously offend you, then I apologize, for I do only have three fingers and typing is a real pain in the bum. Having said that, you spelled ?believe? wrong in your opening paragraph and ?because? in your last.
Secondly, I think you stereotyping Jews saying that they enjoy arguing is a little inappropriate and incorrect. Remember ethical discussion for all those "non-Jews" on Friday nights, Ken? Some of those profound discussions involved heated arguments that would have made any O?Reilly Factor show look like cookies-n-cream!
And thirdly, and I quote you:
"We come to this board becuase we all have a place in our hearts for Camp Alton. We come here to see the names and the stories of our fellow Altonites. And most importantly, we come here so that that same spirit of individuality and free-expression can live on."
Ken, are you serious? C?mon, man. That sounded like the chorus to a really bad Anthem for The Sing. This website, which is one of the best things to have happened after the tragedy of camp closing, gives all of us a chance to go down memory lane to a place that was the best thing to have happened to a lot of us, as well as catch up with one another. What it shouldn't be is a forum for political and religious analysis not because it?unimportant, but because it's lame and boring. Yeah, I love logging onto the camp website, clicking on the message board only to see 20 posts from someone who just loves to hear the sound of his own voice giving a six point press release on ?charity?. Yeah, that?s fun, Ken! That's sooooo camp! You don't see me dwelling on the fact that I had my fingers sawed off (on camp grounds, I might add), only to make the woods my home where I lived off of mint leaves and wild mushrooms (which, by the way, are a pain to pick without a thumb) and the ramifications it had on the '68 election, do ya? No. Why? Because who cares. It's not fun. Look, I?ll even extend my other hand (the good one) to you and give you topics that you can write about that fellow Altonites may actually find interesting and, in the theme of the website, have something to do with camp. You were a camper in the 80s, right? What was that like? Or, hey, how about your favorite summer or moment at camp? See where I?m going with this? Happy time times, Ken! Fun times! And, if I can recall correctly, camp had something to do with that idea of ?fun?. Remember? There was also a little thing at camp that was very popular called ? a sense of humor?.
But hey, who am I to talk? I?m just a lonely man with no more window screens to scratch, exercising his individuality and free-expression.
3.finger.willie@calegends.com