AU,

I initially wasn't going to reply to this post. At this point enough other people have tried to talk some sense into you to no avail so I'm not going to try. Might as well piss into the wind.

I am going to do my best to keep this civil as the long standing board members don't seem to enjoy our little tiff. I'm making great progress I'll have you know. For example, in my first sentence I merely referred to your post as "this post" instead of something more appropriate like "your most recent cry for help" or "your latest drama show". See? Progress!

Anyways, it was nice of you to throw more baseless accusations around this morning. I'm here to clear it up. I am not opc. I suspect you probably knew that all along but just couldn't help yourself. The timing of my first post was suspicious I'll grant you that. Allow me to explain.

I have been watching this board from before you ever got here. Why I never chose to post before is simple. Quite frankly, I don't have anything of value to add to it. The amount of knowledge that many of the board members have is staggering. If someone has a question or wants a comment on their speculation, there are people far more qualified than I am to answer so I don't. What I do is sit back and try to learn.

Clearly you do not share this sentiment. You prefer to blindly throw around opinions and pass them off as the gospel. At no point do you even attempt to back up anything you say with facts or research, and if anyone has the gall to even suggest an opinion that opposes yours you create a new thread crying about how mistreated you are.

That is why I made my post last night. I'd had enough. The degree to which people were patient with you was nothing short of saintly. Yet instead of appreciating a good discussion, you keep throwing things in their face, made more baseless accusations, and continued to spout opinions that had no backing whatsoever.

That's when I decided to step in. I would like to apologize. Not you you, but to the members of this forum. I don't regret a thing I said to you, but I can look back and see that perhaps I could have taken advantage of the private message feature.

I would have done so tonight, but when you address me personally in a thread title, I feel like I should be able to respond publicly. As far as my response goes, please understand that at this point this is simply as close as I can come to remaining civil. Believe me, I haven't even begun to hit my stride on the things that I would like to say to you, but out of deference to the other members I will leave it at that.

We both know you are reading this, and we both know you are going to return to this forum. Since the stock was flattish today, maybe I can play a game with the rest of the gamblers. I was going to say you would stay away for three days but be unable to resist after that. By virtue of saying that I am going to up it to five days since you'll just do it out of spite. So, lets set the over/under on AU's return at 4.5 days. Any brave soul willing to take the over?

Regards, (<--- that was just for you, AU)