I have noticed a disconcerting amount of threads with "Bush" in the title. "Bush" is dominating this little discussion board. Now, I'm not here to take up for President Bush or castigate anyone for taking potshots at him.
However, there's a theme thing and a motiff thing and a redundancy thing going on here. Now, because "Bush" happens to be a proper name, calling on my fellow Ironworkers to use synonyms is silly -- so a simple "shrub" "weed" "tree" or "plant" word substitution won't solve our problem.
As well, and I am sooo guilty of this as well, we often just call him "Bush." Well, technically the title of the President of the U.S. is always "President Bush," or in directly addressing him, "Mr. President." Of course, calling him "Shrub" or "Leetle oil monkee" is right out, but we all transgress. However, in our thread titles shouldn't we all be more mindful and artful?
Anyway, I for one make a Promise to Ironworks to use the word "Bush" less in my thread titles. It'll be hard, I know, especially since that one word draws readers to a thread like flies to dung. But, in the end, we will all be better off for it -- lest someone make a motion to rename the CE forum something like "Hotbed of Bush Bashing" or "The Bush Discussion Room" or some other such title.
That said, I call on my fellow Ironworkers to do the same, so that those venturing from other IW threads and other internet sites don't see "Bush after Bush after Bush" and think we are one-dimensional, narrow minded, or funded by DeanforAmerica.org.
So, who's with me?
[ 02-03-2004, 02:27 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]
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