Steve

Ah, yes, Grandpa John's, the Blog dedicated to fairness; dedicated to the honest airing of all sides of an issue. It does appear, however, that the air has been cleared of much of its polluting blogosmog. The cream has definitely risen to the top after the dross has been removed and the dregs have been decanted. The most intelligent and well written ideas and opinions seem to have choked out the dogmatic and demagogic tares from the midst of our fruitful garden. And then there were two-- the result of natural selection, the survival of the fittest, apparently. (No, I'm not forgetting the regular sophisticated and erudite contributions by Al, nor the occasional Kiwi sheep dipping by!)

Yes, yes... one day some blogoarcheologist will be carefully cyberdusting off the newly discovered G.J.'s archives and prove that there actually once was a Grandpa John and a Mr. Pterodactyl in ancient times. It will be heralded as a great discovery of the times and shatter the notion that G.J. and M.Pt. were just something of superstitious myths believed in only by children and foolish old women. Of course, they will be shown to be inferior precursors, the mere stepping stones to the higher which was to come; the unseemly underbellys of life that were eventually overcome and supplanted by the more intellectually and morally evolved Lance and Steve.

The missing links may be gone, but never forgotten. Perhaps we can keep their memories alive by writing eulogies and songs in their honor, extolling their virtues-- er, well, maybe just stories and songs about them somehow.

Lance, perhaps you could help me with some lyrics...

"Grandpa John, he started a blog,
But could never quite master his fog.
A son and a brother dominated the scene,
G.J. couldn't keep up, 'cause he was such a ween(ie)."
(Ok, ok, it's just a rough draft!)

"Then there was Mr. Pterodactyl,
Something, and yet something still,
Mares eat oats, and does eat oats,
Fa-la-la, tra-la-la, and Kumbaya, folks"
(Yeesh, that one will be a lot tougher!)

(P.S. Al, don't get used to comments like the one above!)