How dare you threaten us with a good time?!

I’m sure you’re a hoot at dinner parties, Richard! your skills at emptying a room are probably unrivalled! 🙄

For me, MAT, I love browsing FML in the little moments of the day when I’m bored. But only like 4-5 a day are published, so the comments for me are like dessert that extend my little fix. Some people add long paragraphs of amazing life advice, and others make silly dad jokes and puns. Some people go for shock humor, and some people complain about the state of society. It runs the gamut, and I know I’ve done all of them (as has RichardPencil and a few others). Aside from Reddit, FML is one of the few places online that still has a comment section that hasn’t been driven off by political trolls and bots. This is in no small part due to Alan’s meticulous and dedicated monitoring and moderating of the comments back in 2009-2010-ish. Today, the community is much smaller, and it nearly disappeared when I came back to FML a few years ago. At one point, barely anyone commented anymore because no one replied - what was the point? But there was one lone voice who stuck around and commented on every. Single. *******. FML. It didn’t matter if anyone replied. It didn’t matter if anyone complained about his often crass humor. It didn’t matter if people cursed him out or Alan himself put him in time-out for a few days. He was there, consistently. And people replied, and a tiny community was kept alive here after so many moved on. Thanks to his persistence, RichardPencil kept the comment section alive, and I believe that thanks to him being a catalyst for some form of conversation, several people kept coming back probably more often than they would have otherwise. So the comment section lives on, and I can extend my little FML fixes. For these reasons, I will always appreciate RichardPencil’s presence here regardless of his type of humor. Thank you, Pencil Dick.

I don't think you understand how a farm works. Cows will line up and wait. They will even wait in the same order day after day. They love to get milked. ydi

Thank you for your kind words! I think it's more fun to let readers figure out the joke buried in my name. Nevertheless, I have fun here and I think it makes my writing in other areas better (although I don't use "...wait on it..." very much outside of FML.) And, yes, Jack, I do know how dairy farms work. Do you know how Stockholm Syndrome works?