monday encouragement

"We don't discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor. (Reserve Officers' Training Corps)

"WITHOUT CENSORSHIP, THINGS CAN GET TERRIBLY CONFUSED IN THE PUBLIC MIND."
- General William Westmoreland
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"WHAT A WASTE IT IS TO LOSE ONE'S MIND. OR NOT TO HAVE A MIND IS BEING VERY WASTEFUL. HOW TRUE THAT IS."
- Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle at a fund-raising event for the United Negro College Fund. He was attempting to quote the line "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"

These pronouncements have earned their immortality epaulettes in the annals of Public Speaking; judging by many websites from whence I am pilfering now.
Their Creators were never censured or banned from Public Speaking.
In fact they, more often than not, were repeatedly offered to Public as an example of “what not to say”.
Proving to be both beneficial and educative.

This OCV forum is stagnating for want of uncluttered traffic.

I wish to encourage all who felt such restraining stigmas to find our fabled PIF-oomph and to reappear on this OCV thread.

In the words of one co-poster who recently wrote to me:
“For the good of PIF”.

And with this encouragement on the forum itself:
“Support your Freedom of Speech on HotCopper”.

Regards,