Come on MN, it might be a troll but it showed the wonder or MN

[Dinosauria]

The trans rights thread in Talk. Why delete it, it was within guidelines and a brilliant retort to an obvious troll.

We are now the Knights who say "Ekky-ekky-ekky-ekky-z'Bang, zoom-Boing, z'nourrrwringnmmm". Ni

Oh no! I had just posted.
....
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

I only just got home. Trust me to have missed all the fun. Drat and double drat.

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

One of the loveliest openings of any children's books I know.

One of the loveliest openings of any children's books I know.

Oh yes.

Beautiful prose. It were wasted on me when I was a nipper but my Dad rolled the words around his mouth approvingly.

Are we staging a replay?

Because I was just about to submit
millennium hand and shrimp! when the last thread went poof!

It was delicious. Like the MN of old.

In terms of children's books, I am not in the least religious but the chapter in Pollyanna when she meets the minister in the woods and talks about the 800 'rejoicing' texts, always brings a lump to my throat. The chapter ends -

'Thus it happened that the Rev. Paul Ford's sermon the next Sunday was a veritable bugle-call to the best that was in every man and woman and child that heard it; and its text was one of Pollyanna's shining eight hundred:

"Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart."

Somebody went home and took their ball with them. Spoilsports.

@EyesOpening

Somebody went home and took their ball with them. Spoilsports.

😆😆

Honestly. What did they have to do that for? It was a lovely thread!

At least on that thread I knew where my towel was!

I am so gutted I missed this. It's like everyone saw the unicorn except me.

Agreed. Twas a shame MNHQ that one of you had a sense of humour bypass this evening.
That thread was whimsical and rather lovely.

@Phobiaphobic

I am so gutted I missed this. It's like everyone saw the unicorn except me.

I posted that there was a unicorn! And a squirrel.

They seek him here, they seek him there, that elusive sha-a-a-dow.

I was just getting going to Urmston with dinnerladies.

I've reported the OP, asking MN to reinstate the original thread. If everyone does the same MN will notice.

We made no haikus
Before most cruelly snatched
Was our lovely thread

Couldn’t we keep that troll as a pet if we promise to look after it?

*direct sunlight will kill it
*never give it water
*never ever feed it after midnight

Did the OP post anything other than the first post? Is it trolling to star a thread stating something you believe which nobody argues with?

So gutted I missed it, I wasn't even doing anything interesting

@ErrolTheDragon

Did the OP post anything other than the first post? Is it trolling to star a thread stating something you believe which nobody argues with?

One other post, replying to a saying about the complexity of the universe.

I am disproportionately upset that I missed it. It just confirms what a shitty day (week/year/etc) I’ve had, when I miss out on unicorns, trolls and poetry.

It was barely trolling too. Really nothing to delete in it.