Let's see what drops Like A Rock in the next few weeks ahead,shall we?

Bob Segar........one of my faves.Silver Bullet Band.........Yup.

Stood there boldly

Sweatin' in the sun.

Felt like a million,

Felt like number one.

The height of summer,

I'd never felt that strong,

Like a rock.

I was eighteen,

Didn't have a care,

Working for peanuts,

Not a dime to spare.

But I was lean and

Solid everywhere

Like a rock.

My hands were steady.

My eyes were clear and bright.

My walk had purpose.

My steps were quick and light.

And I held firmly

To what I felt was right

Like a rock.

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be.

Like a rock, nothin' ever got to me.

Like a rock, I was something to see.

Like a rock.

And I stood arrow straight,

Unencumbered by the weight

Of all these hustlers and their schemes.

I stood proud, I stood tall,

High above it all.

I still believed in my dreams.

Twenty years now.

Where'd they go?

Twenty years,

I don't know.

I sit and I wonder sometimes

Where they've gone.

And sometimes late at night

When I'm bathed in the firelight,

The moon comes callin' a ghostly white,

And I recall,

I recall.

Like a rock, standin' arrow straight.

Like a rock, chargin' from the gate.

Like a rock, carryin' the weight.

Like a rock.

Oh, like a rock, the sun upon my skin.

Like a rock, hard against the wind.

Like a rock, I see myself again.

Like a rock.

Oh, like a rock.

Oh....

Our turn will come for gold. Just hope we live long enough.

Kneeslappers farfel. Are you going to put out a book?

Farfel wrote:

Look over all my posts on K-2 from the beginning. You will see that I avoided ad hominem comments about this irritant until he ventured onto this forum and slung mud in my face.

Sensitive thoughts and copying poetry will not erase your stain. Telling old jokes will not do it either. You just claimed to Bart that you tried. Let’s look at how you tried. This is from just yesterday before I, or RJ ever posted anything to you. This is your idea of an olive branch, of a new start. You smell like the same rotting racist fish you always were

When any self-anointed Trust Me gold expert explains that European gold sales will continue until 1999, then you must say, Yowsah, Massa, whatever you say, suh. Now I guess I be goin to sells all my gold now, Massa, thas wha i be doin, OK? Again, you must never question where those gold sales ( if they truly exist ) are directed and must NEVER suppose that the odds favor they are intra-bank sales.

Now that does sound very racist, doesn’t it? You wrote that didn’t you?

Also you wrote

Yet, K-2 remains a graveyard...that's because K-1 has evolved into some exclusive, hallowed club sanctioned and blessed by the gold shorts who fashion the goldbug view on the way things really work in the metals markets

Because the various self-appointed sheriffs on K-1 get really pissed off by the info posted on those two great sites.

As it turns out, I had a very busy July so my excommunication from K-1 was quite beneficial.

( So this is how bad you feel about how you acted, quite beneficial? )

...my contrived rant was over the top. I simply got tired of being an incessant target of abuse and felt my little impression of RJ going berserk would resonate with K-1. For those who doubt the rant was contrived, then rest assured I do not offer Thank You's at the end of genuine explosions of anger.

Actually farfel, you ALWAYS says Thank You when you are angry. Haven’t you noticed?

You don’t get it, do you? Nobody likes you. Because of how you act, and what you say.

I guess that now might be a good time to clear up any confusion about the difference between K1 & K2. As I've already mentioned, the netiquette rules are strictly enforced on K1. But there will be less of an effort to enforce any of the first four netiquette rules on K2. ( These are the be nice rules. This is still a gold discussion group and everyone is strongly encouraged to use ICQ or go on another site to go off-topic ) Nobody gets 404ed from K2 unless I’m inundated with requests from others to do so. Everybody who has 404 status from K1 can still post on K2.

As far as advertising goes, we need more sponsors for K1 and an active effort will be made to find them. In fact the future of K1 will depend on it. On the other hand I don't expect any advertising revenues to be earned from K2.

Someone was asking about filters to read only posts of specific contributors. Bells & whistles like a search engine, filters, squelch and contributor subscriptions will be added as long as we've got the sponsors, and therefore the financing, to program them. They'll be available on both groups at the same time - if and when.