For those who are e-mailing me about shakes' comments...As we've discussed before, in a bit of history going back to the first year of this board, shakes is the ONLY poster allowed to flame (within reason) other posters. He is also the ONLY poster that other posters are permitted to flame.
I posted a long explanatory thread about that once, but I feel too lazy to look it up now. But it's out there, if you're really interested.
For those who've asked, shakes is neither the owner/operator of this board nor a moderator. And he doesn't get "special treatment" because he was once a reality-show "star" himself.
He gets special treatment because we're not prepared to give up all of our links to our past. At least, not yet.