Post #413246 by woofmutt on Tue, Oct 14, 2008 7:58 AM

"...I do think it should be allowed to discuss anything in a forum like this one, so long as the people involved in the discussions argue rationally, without insulting anyone else or their ideas and beliefs." -lois201-

As you're a new arrival I will do this interpretive dance while telling you part of our story...

Many many lime harvests ago the island of Tiki Central was apparently formed on top of some sort of semi-dormant psychological volcano. Over the years of our inhabiting this beautiful place there have been numerous sudden eruptions.

Being a primitive rum drinking people we can't explain the reason for the eruptions but they seem to be connected with deeply held beliefs and opinions and the fact that a lot of us our descendants of the Hothead People. (The Outer Intelligencia Hothead People, not the Smallhead Hotheads of Numbskull Island.)

But because of the eruptions some former inhabitants have left the island never to be heard from again. A few have had to be set adrift when it was found their heads could not be cooled.

Those of us who stayed have often reacted to an eruption by banging on King Hanford's hut door and whining or demanding to know what he's going to do about the eruptions and vowing to not let him marry our daughters when they come of age.

King Hanford decided long long ago it would be far easier to prevent the eruptions from happening in the first place rather than spend his time running around negotiating peace deals among the various condo developments of Tiki Central. And that is why he gave us The Tiki Central House Rules.

Some islanders may regard the no politics and religion discussion rule as "No you can't!" but I think that's sort of like going into Grog's 151 Flavors Ice Cream Hut and Fine Malt Liquors Shack looking over the list of 151 ice cream flavors and saying "What? No Banana Pomegranate Swirl???"