On Tuesday 19 June 2018 17:48:52 Mike Bird wrote:
> On Tue June 19 2018 17:31:18 Felix Miata wrote:
> > One of my reasons to reply was to highlight the unending inane off-topic
> > threads about coffee, chocolate & dinosaurs polluting this list and its
> > archive. If dinosaurs are OK, then anything should go. I'd like to see OT
> > stuff keep to a minimum or less.
>
> Agreed.  Neither coffee nor distorted anti-science videos have a place
> here.
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/377-billion-year-old-fossils-stake-n
>ew-claim-oldest-evidence-life
>
> Chatter can help build community but maybe someone could create a
> trinity-ot list so we can restore the s/n ratio here.
>
> --Mike

Yeah, I think that we make these little offhand comments, but then it 
snowballs into something bigger, and soon there is an avalanche. Yet, maybe 
there is a place for that, since it helps us to know one another. Otherwise, 
it would be like talking to a customer service rep. All the same, there can 
be too much of a good thing, and a couple of our threads have dragged on past 
levity and silliness. 

Maybe just an OT list, where we can get silly. 

Bill