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Hello, I know it has been a long time, and there have been many nasty rumors spread about me here. Road Guy and I did have a falling out over some differences in opinion about how this board should be run, but I assure you it was never personal.

In recent times, this board just hasn't been the same. For a board created to help engineers pass the PE exam, it has lost its way. Just look at all these obscene threads about pornography, demoralization of women, and scatographic material. What happened to all the professional and technical threads? Shouldn't we be helping our fellow engineers rather than posting this pointless and sinful material?

I think so.

And I think that's why, about a month ago, Road Guy contacted me to clear the air and ask for my advice to help get this board back on track. Given my irreproachable set of professional morals and success starting my own firm, it only made sense. I'm pleased to say we see much more eye to eye than we used to. We've even become friends on Facebook.

So I'm pleased to announce that the staff of Engineering Boards has made me a moderator officially in charge of maintaining a high level of professional and ethical stadards on this board.

Over the next several days, I will be perusing the General Discussion forums. All items deemed pornographic, racially offensive, perverse, or otherwise a detriment to the conduct of professional engineers will be promptly deleted. Not that it belonged here in the first place.

A stricter warning system will also be implemented. Members will receive one warning by email. a second offense will results in one week suspension. Any following transgressions will result in the member being banned from this board, with their IPs logged. In addition to this, a filter will be added to automatically censor crude and offensive words.

Beyond that, I am looking forward to offering my vast technical expertise. Beyond civil engineering PE prep, I am also an expert in structural truss design, traffic studies, and land law.

I would like to thank Road Guy for realizing his past mistakes and seeing how beneficial I can be here. Now that I am back on board, this board will really take off!

JESUS LIVES!

 
Today is the first day of the month, agree.. but it's not April, is it?

 
Be prepared to watch everyone's post count drop by 75%... Well, except maybe Mary. :D

 
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In honor of this occasion, I would like to quote a great man. This quote (although long) has been very inspirational to me in the past when thinking about the topics of polite language and the standards enforcement thereof in public discourse. Ladies, and Gentlemen, please give it up for George Carlin:

--------------------------------

"I love words. I thank you for hearing my words.

I want to tell you something about words that I think is important.

They're my work, they're my play, they're my passion.

Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid.

then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for

that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same

words that hurt can heal, it is a matter of how you pick them.

There are some people that are not into all the words.

There are some that would have you not use certain words.

There are 400,000 words in the English language and there are 7

of them you can't say on television. What a ratio that is.

399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous

to be seperated from a group that large. All of you over here,you 7,

Bad Words. That's what they told us they were, remember?

"That's a bad word!" No bad words, bad thoughts, bad intentions,

and words. You know the 7, don't you, that you can't say on television?

"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits"

Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that'll infect your soul,

curve your spine, and keep the country from winning the war.

"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits"

Wow! ...and Tits doesn't even belong on the list. That is such a friendly

sounding word. It sounds like a nickname, right? "Hey, Tits, come here,

man. Hey Tits, meet Toots. Toots, Tits. Tits, Toots." It sounds like a

snack, doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is a snack. I don't mean your sexist

snack. I mean New Nabisco Tits!, and new Cheese Tits, Corn Tits,

Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits, Onion Tits, Tater Tits. "Betcha Can't Eat Just

One." That's true. I usually switch off. But I mean, that word does

not belong on the list. Actually none of the words belong on the list,

but you can understand why some of them are there. I'm not

completely insensetive to people's feelings. I can understand why

some of those words got on the list, like CockSucker and

MotherFucker. Those are heavyweight words. There is a lot going on

there. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling.

I mean, they're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend

with. And those Ks, those are agressive sounds. They just jump out at

you like "coCKsuCKer, motherfuCKer. coCKsuCKer, motherfuCKer."

It's like an assualt on you. We mentioned Shit earlier, and 2 of the

other 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words are Piss and Cunt, which go

together of course. A little accedental humor there. The reason that

Piss and Cunt are on the list is because a long time ago, there were

certain ladies that said "Those are the 2 I am not going to say. I

don't mind Fuck and Shit but 'P' and 'C' are out.", which led to such

stupid sentences as "Okay you fuckers, I'm going to tinckle now."

And, of course, the word Fuck. I don't really, well that's more

accedental humor, I don't wanna get into that now because I think

it takes to long. But I do mean that. I think the word Fuck is a very

imprortant word. It is the beginning of life, yet it is a word we use to

hurt one another quite often. People much wiser than I am said,

"I'd rather have my son watch a film with 2 people making love

than 2 people trying to kill one another. I, of course, can agree. It is

a great sentence. I wish I knew who said it first. I agree with that but

I like to take it a step further. I'd like to substitute the word Fuck for

the word Kill in all of those movie cliches we grew up with. "Okay,

Sherrif, we're gonna Fuck you now, but we're gonna Fuck you slow."

So maybe next year I'll have a whole fuckin' ramp on the N word.

I hope so. Those are the 7 you can never say on television, under any

circumstanses. You just cannot say them ever ever ever. Not even

clinically. You cannot weave them in on the panel with Doc, and Ed,

and Johnny. I mean, it is just impossible. Forget tHose 7. They're out.

But there are some 2-way words, those double-meaning words.

Remember the ones you giggled at in sixth grade? "...And the cock

CROWED 3 times" "Hey, tha cock CROWED 3 times. ha ha ha ha. Hey, it's in

the bible. ha ha ha ha. There are some 2-way words, like it is okay for

Kirk Youdi to say "Roberto Clametti has 2 balls on him.", but he can't

say "I think he hurt his balls on that play, Tony. Don't you? He's holding

them. He must've hurt them, by God." and the other 2-way word that

goes with that one is Prik. It's okay if it happens to your finger. You

can prik your finger but don't finger your prik. No,no."

 
TMcKeonPE said:
Beyond that, I am looking forward to offering my vast technical expertise. Beyond civil engineering PE prep, I am also an expert in structural truss design, traffic studies, and land law.
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What about stormwater modeling? It's the hardest thing in civil engineering you know.

 
TMcKeonPE said:
Road Guy and I did have a falling out over some differences in opinion about how this board should be run, but I assure you it was never personal.
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That's good to know. Because we think you are very special. Not exactly in a shortbus sort of way, but close. :)

TMcKeonPE said:
So I'm pleased to announce that the staff of Engineering Boards has made me a moderator officially in charge of maintaining a high level of professional and ethical stadards on this board.
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Well, I don't exaclty know about all that Tom, but you know - at this point in time, the place to be is the Dleg 2012 ticket. Moderators don't get much around here ... at least Dleg seems to be offering out some goodies.

Just sayin' ..

TMcKeonPE said:
Over the next several days, I will be perusing the General Discussion forums. All items deemed pornographic, racially offensive, perverse, or otherwise a detriment to the conduct of professional engineers will be promptly deleted.
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:eek:rlyflag:

You don't happen to have a rainbow colored maple leaf hiding anywhere ... do you? :blink:

JR

 
TMcKeonPE said:
Hello, I know it has been a long time, and there have been many nasty rumors spread about me here. Road Guy and I did have a falling out over some differences in opinion about how this board should be run, but I assure you it was never personal.
In recent times, this board just hasn't been the same. For a board created to help engineers pass the PE exam, it has lost its way. Just look at all these obscene threads about pornography, demoralization of women, and scatographic material. What happened to all the professional and technical threads? Shouldn't we be helping our fellow engineers rather than posting this pointless and sinful material?

I think so.

And I think that's why, about a month ago, Road Guy contacted me to clear the air and ask for my advice to help get this board back on track. Given my irreproachable set of professional morals and success starting my own firm, it only made sense. I'm pleased to say we see much more eye to eye than we used to. We've even become friends on Facebook.

So I'm pleased to announce that the staff of Engineering Boards has made me a moderator officially in charge of maintaining a high level of professional and ethical stadards on this board.

Over the next several days, I will be perusing the General Discussion forums. All items deemed pornographic, racially offensive, perverse, or otherwise a detriment to the conduct of professional engineers will be promptly deleted. Not that it belonged here in the first place.

A stricter warning system will also be implemented. Members will receive one warning by email. a second offense will results in one week suspension. Any following transgressions will result in the member being banned from this board, with their IPs logged. In addition to this, a filter will be added to automatically censor crude and offensive words.

Beyond that, I am looking forward to offering my vast technical expertise. Beyond civil engineering PE prep, I am also an expert in structural truss design, traffic studies, and land law.

I would like to thank Road Guy for realizing his past mistakes and seeing how beneficial I can be here. Now that I am back on board, this board will really take off!

JESUS LIVES!
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I am hoping to get some clarification on what is deemed appropriate and what is not. For instance, I expect that typing out H-E-L-L is inappropriate, but what about he11? Also, which of these posters is appropriate, and which is not?

Some clarification would be greatly appreciated.

 
Tom:

I understand you're divorced now. I'm going to be traveling to Orlando on businees and will likely end up having some nights free. Any chance you can PM me your ex's phone number?

 
Well at least this thread is highly entertaining.

I don't get FAPTAIPT is there something I'm missing?

 
Is this guy for real?

Mr. McKeon and I are in agreement about some of the less professional material on here, but his attitude and arrogance about himself and his level of ability kills me!!!

 
badal said:
Is this guy for real?
Mr. McKeon and I are in agreement about some of the less professional material on here, but his attitude and arrogance about himself and his level of ability kills me!!!
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Killing oneself is not very professional.

 

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