[NonValueAdded]

You really have to have seen a live thread unwind in real time to appreciate the beauty of it. TankerKC’s real-time comment lit the fuse. That’s the thing about a live thread; you have an eclectic collection of subject-matter expects, better than any focus group the MSM could pull into a conference room and they are right on top of anything that looks out of kilter. Eventually the right expert, Buckhead in this case, connects the dots and voila, news is made.

[muawiyah]

Today we'd have people coming in here telling us "Hey, that's a Perry thread ~ stick to the topic ~ don't be discussin' nobody else".

Back then we brought possibly relevant information to bear on a topic because we'd learned that sometimes it turns out to be KEY TO A MAJOR DISCOVERY.