The Strange Tyranny of the Green Box

I'm the last to know. Green boxes. I saw there was something going on in the right hand corner of the post screen but paid no attention.
There has been talk about them, and still I hadn't a clue. But I'm the guy who had to drive to Reno so Bill could explain what the refresh button was at the top of the screen. My desktop is littered with debris. Some of it is actually legal contract. I'm certainly not an organizational man, as many of my friends know.

My own green box is more of a green plant. You see, sometimes it gets water and grows, and other times it's pretty dry in the desert and it shrinks. Well, plants probably recede, like a vine, rather than shrink, like an ego.

Yeah, there was some green stuff up there, I knew that for sure.

You'd think it a wonderful invention to make us nicer to each other. And it could.

Or we could live in fear. Of shrinkage, for instance, or NO GROWTH AT ALL. I understand there is a minus color possibility- the dread Red. I may have a chance for that someday. Actually, we need to get more boxes, many more, and stop poofing around with single digits. We need the same arrangement as the light bars on a power amplifier. Now that would really tell us and all the world how we were doing.

It may be a diabolical invention. Bring back Jr High School; we miss it after all. Who'd have guessed? You can elevate your friends and demote your enemies. And you can even do it annonomously. He he. You could get friends to help. We could have rat packs, Jocks, socio's, stoners and nerds all over again.

When I think of all the great posts, some that have brought tears to my eyes, and many more laughter, and I've not rewarded nor 'punished', anyone.

I don't even know how long the green plants have been there, holding on to the corner of my screen.

I probably owe a lot of plants to you guys.



munk

 

Dan just explained it pretty well, Satori. Yvsa kept talking about it and I finally emailed him and asked him what was going on.

You'd think, wouldn't you, that if you liked someone's post you could post to that effect, and if you disagreed you could say so without violence? Would that be a bold step, to use these other, more sophisticated symbols we call words?

But what the hay- I like green plants.


Thank God they didn't give us smiley faces- the inhouse suicide rate would climb.



munk

 

You didn't spray enough, I see a little cactus popping up in the corner of your post.


munk

 

Dang, Bill, are you serious? You remember how you showed me where the refresh button was on your computer screen? I had no idea. You were sick, and eventually actually had to get up and point it out to me with your finger practically on the screen! People, I always am behind.

You can give someone 'points' by clicking on a little emblem in the corner of the screen. This accumulates later as the green boxes in the corner of your post screen.

As you can see, YVSA and JOSH are approaching GOD HEAD.

Edit: I guess I'd better write more clearly in the future, that must be it; as I'm not going to become any more visible than I already am, which is plain for anyone to see. I've told this story several times now, yet am drawn back to it. When Bill was sick I came to see him. Though sick, he still had the kindness and energy to push out of his chair and show a clod like me where the refresh button was on the computer. I just couldn't see it, and did not know what a refresh button was. I've always been blind and clumsy with certain things. That Bill could instruct me without a hint of rebuke or vexation was the point of my story. I was surprised to see Bill did not know of the Green Squares, which reminded me of all this. Yet someone saw fit to do what Bill did not- to rebuke me for my insensitivity, last night giving me a Red Square for this post.

munk