I hope we can avoid clique-ishness here... or at least make it clear that new members are enthusiastically welcomed smile

But yeah, making private jokes in public -- in front of a lot of people who won't get it -- is tacky. Unless you can disguise it well enough that it doesn't look like a private joke... but even that's tricky smile

Kathy, I'm glad you got up the nerve to post thumbsup I'll admit there have been a few dust-ups in FOLCdom, but we try to keep things calm if we can dance

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K