Razzle...thanks for the Pinot Noir laugh. Just had a Pinot Noir for the first time at a foundue restaurant a couple of weeks ago...loved it!

Jayne, you little ~:>

I am not attacking Southerners; some of you are misunderstanding. I could have been more clear in what I was saying. I meant "a couple of Southern belles" are part of a clique on this board and can be mean and cutting. I was only speaking of these individuals, not other Southerners on this board. I apologize to any from the South who misunderstood. I said above that I like people from the South.

Ditto to Leelane. Interesting that certain southerneres haven't replied to this thread.
Individuals who always have something to say about everything.
Maybe they're on vacation - together?

Love how bitchily people point out the bitchiness of others. Like a high school lunch table.

Well,
(cannot resist)
this thread has certainly gone...
"South".
R5

To whom it may concern: I am not a southerner!

Boys and Girls! This is no way for my little ones to act. I'm making that list and checking it twice. And I've got lots and lots of names from fodors who are on the coal list.

Mrs. Claus says there's no reason why all you children out there can't get along. After all, we've gotten along quite nicely now fro the past three or four hundred years. Maybe you need to just take a sleigh ride or something. Eat some reindeer.

Just kidding.

I hear reindeer taste just like chicken:)

razzledazzle, I don't believe in dictionaries, I believe in spelling fo-net-ik-ly.

Yes, this post has gone south. To probably mis-quote Rodney King "Can't we all just get along"?

Congratulations! You have all been inducted into the PAC, soon to celebrate its fifth year on this forum:

Author: ALegendinMyOwnMind
Date: 06/09/2000, 03:46 pm
Message: Our Pompous Ass Club is comprised of a select group of individuals who frequent this forum. Induction occurs when someone on this forum refers to one of your elite posts and calls you a Pompous Ass. Forthwith are some guidelines to help you earn a place among the Asses:

1. Never ever post a travel question or response if you can possibly help it. Spend your time on posts like this one, or better yet, posts which use limericks, rhymes or parodies to put down everyone and everything you've ever read here. Find someone else's topic and start making fun of it.

2. If someone has the unmitigated gall to post a travel question about something YOU have already answered, for God's sake, waste no time in advising that poster to do a SEARCH on the topic before he bothers you again! You, after all, have to have time to compose witty insults.

3. If you ARE forced to answer a travel question (because you know no one else out there can do it), be sure to complain first, then take a swipe at something like the poster's map reading skills or white tennis shoes. Let him/her know that he/she is a traveling idiot. Tell them they have not provided enough information for you to answer their question and lecture them about it. Create a separate post which complains about this. Throw in a complaint about people who ask what to do and see, just for good measure.

4. When posting, be sure to use big, complicated words that will have all those ingoramuses (or is it ignorami?) out there running for their dictionaries. Make sure they know that YOU went to university.

5. Refer posters to other resources rather than give any helpful first hand information. Hey, you had to research it all yourself, so should they! Don't let 'em get lazy.

6. Finally, be sure to poke fun at their measly incomes and budget hotel choices. Tell them all about your month at the Paris Ritz when they ask about student hostels. Cheap restaurants, they ask? If they can't afford the trip then why are they going? Make sure they know that YOU have plenty of disposable income and are not afraid to use it.

This is merely a sample of the many ways in which you too can become a Pompous Ass. We have monthly meetings and a secret handshake, but you'll find out about those later.

I will give an example of "rude" so nobody misunderstands (and this was not a Southern belle.) What else is it when some harrassed me for using 911 in my screen name here, saying that I was making some statement about the terrorist attack??? I work as a 911 operator, and I never even thought of 9/11 when I used that in my name. They don't ask. They just fire away.

Ignore the rude postings and respond positively to the people who have something constructive and informative to say. These people want attention, so don't give it to them.

"If you can keep your head when all about you....."
Some of my best friends are from the South :)
I try not to let nasty remarks bother me because some times, the remarks are misunderstood. There is a poster who dislikes me and all her friends never add to a thread I may start which is childish. I think the lemming attitude is what happens alot and I think you should never heed people who use a new name to attack you. With all this horrible weather and thousands dying in Haiti and some in our states, I can't get too excited but I think it at least takes posters minds temporarily off the deadly weather.

Actually now that I think about it, the only clique I've seen operating here is the little clique that loves to gang up on people and accuse them of being a clique.

I too was impressed with all the caring and sharing on the Fodor site regarding the hurricanes in Florida. What a high to tune in and hear all the concerns everyone had for their fellow Fodorites who lived in the hurricane's path. Now we have the low of this post.

Wow...

So, here I sit coming in on this thread late.

Who are those of you who are Southern-belle-bashing talking about?

I'm trying to figure out if I'm one of the people in the newbie-ignoring exclusive clique because I'm a longtime (4 years) poster, or if I'm one of the vicious Southern Belles that have been terrorizing the board and running rampant.

Or both. Or neither.

Oh well, Ah'll think about that tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is anothuh day! :)

Lawsy! Southerners and bad attitudes! Is there anything worse???
Sognatrice, I know what you mean about unsolicited emails, I get them also and some of them you just have to write back and tell them to leave you alone. That usually works for me :)
While there may be a clique-ish feeling to these boards, I think that anyone who uses Fodors Travel Talk is sort of automatically a part of the "clicque".. since it is only an online talk forum, we all have the travel talk in common, of course, some of us might actually know each other and that makes it better and more fun, it also enables so many people to enjoy getting advice.
I am posting from PORTLAND OREGON. I was given almost all my travel planning advice from this forum. I have been to most of the places/restaurants/hotels because of the great advice I got here.
I find some people just have difficulty interacting and whether it is online or face to face, they are gonna have trouble being happy!
So why not stop worrying so much about how did he/she mean that and just take the advice or don't and enjoy yourself??
Why even the Yankee wonders sometimes how I mean things and he knows me pretty well, so no wonder there are people here who think a poster could be sarcastic or mean..but why not give them the benefit of the doubt?
Ya'll have a nice day and leave us poor folks down South alone when you start complainin about attitudes, ya hear? We have enough trouble with weather with a bad attitude :D

:'(
I know there a few people here who WISH I would ignore them.

So...Scarlett comes to Portland and Mt St Helen's starts acting up? Is your hotel room on a fault line? :-"

As the lovely Ms. Marilyn sez, anybody who wants to be a part of the coolest click (I don't know how to spell the other kind of clique) at Fodors High School, show up in Yountville after Thanksgiving.

"I don't think I'd be long to a clique who would have ME as a member"
(Apologies to Groucho).

Oooops! There's the ((8))((8))((8)). Last one to the teather ball is rotten Buluga roe.
And don't make me open up a big ol' carafe of whupposterior on you all!

Oh dear, Santa, your last line maybe overlooked. Eat Reindeer? Eat your own?
How fodors' like!