Yeah, that.

Very interesting comments.

I changed the color of the yellow. It's a superficial change that obviously in no way changes the content of the signature line, but for now, take it as it is.

I'm still ruminating on the comment about the search engines dropping parents off at this site. That is really a concern to me.

I don't want to embarrass Davidson in any way.

If an elephant wants to dance, why not? Go Elephant!

fun picture book:
"Gerald the giraffe doesn't really have delusions of grandeur. He just wants to dance. But his knees are crooked and his legs are thin, and all the other animals mock him when he approaches the dance floor at the annual Jungle Dance. "Hey, look at clumsy Gerald," they sneer. "Oh, Gerald, you're so weird." Poor Gerald slinks away as the chimps cha-cha, rhinos rock 'n' roll, and warthogs waltz. But an encouraging word from an unlikely source shows this glum giraffe that those who are different "just need a different song," and soon he is prancing and sashaying and boogying to moon music (with a cricket accompanist)."

http://www.amazon.com/Giraffes-Cant-Dance-Giles-Andreae/dp/0439287197

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Putting a sleight-of-hand artist in a cemetery doesn't make him a necromancer.


Alright, Iucounu! Your "new siggy" is really too much. As the daugher of an undertaker, I'm offended.
*wink*

Well, remember that this forum has two moderators (I think that Julie is new? Hi Julie!). If you had written something that would make the DI look bad, you'd probably have heard about it from one of them by now.

As I mentioned on the Forum Guidelines thread, I think that Mark has done a great job of moderating this forum, and my feeling is that we should leave these decisions to him. I personally don't like the idea of having self-appointed guardians telling the rest of what we can and can't say (YMMV).

Color-ism!!! I love yellow

Uh, but seriously--the grammar is still wrong. The subject is "tap shoes." You wouldn't say "These tap shoes doesn't make me a dancer," right?

(Gee, I wonder where my daughter gets her compulsive desire to correct people.)

How's this?

I appreciate the grammar help.

The problem is with my laptop at work. The yellow hurts my eyes on it, even in it's new orangish form.

When I'm at home, it's fine. I noticed that.

So, the problem is with this Dell Laptop, not the color itself.

My bad.

The thing is, a child of average build and coordination can be trained to become a great dancer. I don't expect that children with greater potential as dancers suddenly, at six months old, just teach themselves the Charleston as if it were an innate pattern in their superior dancer minds. So I think the analogy is weak.

I can't think of a better way to say it. Maybe something like, "You can't teach a sparrow to soar by telling it to flap its wings harder." But then that sounds offensive.

Speaking of offensive, are there any gifted child jokes floating around, like How many gifted children does it take to screw in a lightbulb?