TBAY or not TBAY

[potioncat]

I found the perfect post for those like me...there are those like 
me, aren't there?...who have a bit of trouble getting a handle on T-
BAY. Dicentra, obviously a seer who knew someone would one day need 
to understand T-Bay, wrote this amusing introduction to a post:
Number: 38561 
From: dicentra63 <dicentra at x> 
Date: Wed May 08, 2002 05:45:59 PM UTC 
Subject: Re: TBAY: Stoned Harry 
 
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Dicentra looks at the subject line, then at the messages beneath it,
then at the subject line again...

Something is very wrong with all this.

If this is a TBAY thread, then where is the water? The SHIPs, and
other flotation devices? The CARPing? The ACRONYMS, fer peetsake! 
Amy said she was de-TBAYing this thread, but I bet it didn't even get
mud on her doormat when she brought in inside. People! Chop! Chop! 
If you're gonna TBAY, you gotta get your feet wet! 

Dicentra resolves to, er, resolve this problem by grabbing the two-
man
kayak abandoned the Fourth Man crew and bringing it near the shore. 
Then she runs over to Stoned!Harry, gets a handful of his robes, and
with surprisingly little effort drags him to the kayak.

"Look," she says to Stoned!Harry. "Yeh gotta have a boat to use that
TBAY prefix. Otherwise, there's no reason to use it."

Stoned!Harry, looking a bit dazed, doesn't seem to understand. 
Dicentra grabs his right leg and shoves it in the kayak's opening. 
Stoned!Harry shifts his weight into the kayak, and upon feeling the
vessel move into the bay, quickly swings his other leg out in front 
of
the kayak. To Dicentra's surprise, his left foot doesn't sink into
the water. Stoned!Harry doesn't seem to notice anything unusual about
this, and he pulls his right leg from the kayak and begins to stride
across the water, still looking as if he'd just awakened from a long 
nap.

Dicentra, realizing that there needs to be a point to all this, runs
over to a can(n)on sitting on the shore and takes careful aim at
Stoned!Harry, who is now standing about 30 yards out, watching some
fish swim under his feet. 



Kathy W again:
Never mind that the rest of the post predicted gore and death in 
such a shocking manner that I ran from the room screaming.

So of course, most of you will rush to post to read about it!  :-)