> Or (in a much likelier scenario), are you merely using this forum as a stepping-stone to conquering the world? I can see how you might be competing against Issachar, trying to find out his weaknesses and strengths in the Site Market Game as well as his postings... or are you Issachar in the first place? (No offense to Issachar if he is reading this thread also, and also no offense to Darien for saying 'no offense to Issachar'.)
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> I don't exactly remember how you would be trying to take over the world via Rinkworks if you were both Iss and Darien (15 minute rule), but I can see how it would work out if you were two arch-rivals attempting to use pen-names in a forum, each subtley attempting to learn the most about the other (under the guise of wanting to know about everybody) before the hostile take-over occurs....

A rivalry between Darien and moi? Not that I know of, but if there were to be such a showdown, I'd definitely change my nickname to something that would make the conflict more epic-sounding, something like:

Darien vs. Lymph Drops

We could call it, "The Dual of the Nanosecond."

Yeah, that's it.

A brawl with Darien, I suppose, could be the most outrageous thing I'd do for RinkWorks, as per Sam's latest reader question in the Site Journal. Regardless of the outcome, the world would certainly be rid of one more person trying to get some use out of an unmarketable college degree by engaging in heady, rhetorical debates on the Internet. :-)

Iss "I wouldn't do squat for a Klondike bar" achar