Alan, just stay away from things that you don't understand. "Alternative" gatherings are allowed to have traditions, too. The Man gets burned on the last night.

Besides, the Man hadn't been loaded with fuel and explosives yet. :-)

On the one hand, you have people dancing naked in the desert, on the other hand, you have sunburn.

Wow. That's your stupidest comment yet, Gord.

I tend to make plenty of stupid comments, so what I tend to say is par for my own course. I also think Burning Man would be more fun around Christmas, with plenty of dark and cold and beverages to keep warm.

Maybe Gord is channeling our old pal Gorthos?

No, Gary, Gordo is running a one man race in the field of condecension and reliance on errors.

I was thinking of Burning Man maybe on Tug Hill. A place that tends to have plenty of snowy December weather. People could make igloos. Cocoa and whiskey for everybody!

As for Gord, well, you know what they say about people born and raised in Kingston.

You are surprisingly mean, pottery-boy.<p>As for Tug Hill, I think it needs to be a Burning Snowman, something the size of a wind turnbine, too.

Show me <strike>how I put my foot in my mouth...again</strike> my error, oh wise one, I wish to <strike>find away to not look like such an idiot yet still snark</strike> learn.

Pearls to swine...oops!...nothing personal, Gary.

Nice. If you're just annoyed at my annoyance, say so.

Classic: the rude requesting manners.

No...[edited to encourage greater manners.]

Remarkable how little I have to add to this conversation, and yet it is amusing to watch the parties involved parry.
For the record: Gorthos is my friend, but I enjoy teasing him.

Edited to obscure a valid point.

Burning Man always struck me as sort of a Lollapolooza for people who considered themselves too cool for Lollapolooza.

Here I am dodging waves upon waves of fruit-flies whilst I write reports of importance to the world and all the while I am being referred to..if not a little ever so slightly in a taunting way!!!

Burning Man: It would be so easy for me to slag this alternative festival all day, but I shall not, just look at the many galleries of photos taken by attendees online. I will however say that nothing is as fun as having a big fire outside in the winter. Gary, Alan, I am with you with the idea of creation of a burning snowman festival.

I'm guessing that dissenters are not welcome.

Wrong again, vacuous condescender.

Excellent. Perhaps you'll explain what errors you see me relying upon?

Vacuous, indeed.

Read your own words, apologize and retract. Manners.

Retract what? How am I supposed to retract an erroneous statement if you won't label it as such?

Again, I ask you: how am I supposed to retract an erroneous statement that you're unable or unwilling to correct? Show me the error and I'll apologize.

I can keep this up for hours, Alan. Please show me the error so that I may repent.

I will relent as this is clearly a burden on the soul.<blockquote class="smalltext">Alan, just stay away from things that you don't understand.</blockquote>Rude and erroneous.

LOL .. nice touch restoring my deleted comments. Very nice. I don't actually need any help to look like buffoon.

For that statement to be "erroneous", you'll have to demonstrate you understanding of Burning Man. Your likening the organizers to "anarchists" clearly shows your innocence of the spirit of this festival.

I'll bring the whiskey, gary, you bring the chocolate. Gorthos can bring the marshmallows.

Error 1 - your inference presumes that I knew nothing with no basis for saying so especially when the archives show past discourse on the event. I need not prove your case for you. That, again, is the rude requiring manners of others. Very Lisa-Howard-esque of you.

Error 2 - Burning is clearly an anarchist movement. Look up the meaning of anarchist and ignore all the newer (and really old) ones that imply terrorist. Review Tolstoy particularly. I once read in the late 1970s about a French anarchist chef in his nineties who thought stinky blue cheese was not stinky enough and that the state was to blame. Probably right.<p>Later: note that Burning Man('s) Site confirms the connection to philosophical anarchy. No doubt that will not be good enough.

I like my marshmallows cooked in an anarchistic style: burnt.. Carbon and sugar, bitter and sweetness (like me!)..

Gordo can bring the humble pie!

I think your humblepie reference coupled with a failure to reach for obscentities in the above deserves unconditional absolution.<blockquote class="smalltext"><i>...zimmm-zang-walla-walla-FATOOO!</i></blockquote>There. You are now absolved.

Actually, if Brussels isn't careful, there could be a popular movement to pull France out of the EU, based entirely on cheese regulation resistance.

This is a sleeping giant.

Gorthos will bring marshmallows! Yippee! Hope Gorthos junior comes too, he's always the life of the party right, CM?
Gord, does humble pie have blueberries? If so, then I want 2 slices.
It is so damn hot I am dreaming of snowmen and WANTING a bonfire.
CM, I have some good chocolate in mind, but you'll remember I like Chivas?

Alan: I make no intentional inferences. I state things plainly. I hate not knowing if a target has understood the condescension or not.

1. Given the state of my memory, I'm lucky I'm able to remember how to get here, let alone remember what you may or may not have made fun of a year ago. Given your original comment, how could anyone who knows about Burning Man have come to a different conclusion than I did?

2. Burning the Man is a very small part of the festival. Other than naming it after the closing event. There is art, music and displays of all kinds. I stand by my point: the organizers are NOT anarchists.

Gorthos, I feed nothing to people who accuse me of rudeness while calling my comments "stupid".

I think Gord's number 2 is correct. I swear, though, how could anyone go to the desert of Nevada in August? It's hot enough here!

It wouldn't be a party without Boy3. Ah, yes, Chivas. Seems a waste to pour it into hot chocolate, though.

Well, just goes to prove "plain speaking" is often plain dumb in other words. Thinking I don't understand something as well known as that speaks only to you and, yes, I am certain many would think that before hitting "post" given the evidence. <p>But as you have reversed yourself in your last comment and as usual find fault with others but not yourself, consider yourself banned until you learn both manners and that, yes, you along with all others have the capacity to be stupid.