JakaB,
Clever retorts aside, I believe the *low water mark* on this board probably begins and ends with one of my rapier rants at some unsuspecting Pizza man trying to express an honest opinion.
The difference is that in your heart of hearts, you are a harmless nut who takes delight in posting obtuse and meandering blurbs as a form of amusment.
As we've discussed over dinner, Indiana is painfully short of eccentric intellectuals who appreciate your dark humor. Certainly, this board is an outlet for your pent-up need to freely express yourself.
Which explains in part why most of your posts have little to do with golf architecture. Every bar has a squawk on the corner stool and under the Tom Paul theory, there is plenty of room in our tent for a real life Cliff Clavin.
By contrast, I am jerk. Complete with a smug attitude, enormous ego and contempt for fools - which is anybody with the temerity to disagree with me on any and all subjects.
My fingers on this keyboard have bought me a ticket to ride in pursuit of my passion for golf architecture. It has also provided me with a magic wand to enter virtually any golf course I wish to see or play - with too many close friends to count.
Those same fingers have also irretrievably pissed off a dozen or so people in whose good graces I shall never be restored. My Armenian arrogance has cost me dearly a couple times. I cannot help what is endemic to my species and genetically encoded.
So, golf bags aside, I see the point of anyone who wishes to remain anonymous - especially because this Treehouse has grown into what amounts to an underground movement and read by more lurkers than even you imagine.
For me, the horse is long out of the barn and even after a long absence, my feeble attempt to return as Gyroman or Gumby proved futile. I recall it took Adam Clayman exactly three posts to rip the paper bag off my head and the same would be for you Barny.
There are some on this board who can hide behind their mechanical and prosaic style, but for posters like you, me, Mucci, Emperor and TEPaul . . . . the dye is long ago cast.