How will you tell someone (like me) to shut up?

[NaMeaHou]

let's be creative?

[kanrok]

1. I'd probably start with introducing myself

"Hi, my name is Bill O'Reilly...shut up, shut up...shut...up!"

[Rhiannon12866]

4. LOL!!! Al Franken really got the better of him, a pleasure to watch

My freeper mother watches him religiously and I have often wanted to scream ``SHUT UP!'' at O'Reilly myself, so I particularly enjoyed the Franken confrontation!:-)

[BiggJawn]

2. Knock it off. you're getting maudlin.

And bringing me down.

[NaMeaHou]

3. I liked that movie

Maudlin Rouge?

[ornotna]

8. Ok that's enough

Shut up. :evilgrin:

[NaMeaHou]

9. Well, I did

but

I hear voices sometimes that I have to respond to?!!!!!

[ornotna]

10. .

.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. I wouldn't

it simply isn't polite :)

Hi NaMeaHou

[Shakeydave]

6. My dearest NMH.............................

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, or I'll eat you!

[Swede]

7. Drop your guns, and raise your hands in the air.

[NaMeaHou]

12. I have a friend in the loft

and a few others in the saloon that are thinking about things, so

[Swede]

13. Naturally being a Canadian it's a bluff

I got nothun.

[deek]

11. pat you on the head

stroke your brow.
shushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
it'll all be ok
really

[NaMeaHou]

14. I have two brows dagnabbbit

Okay. I'm working on it!

[FloridaJudy]

15. Four little words

"...And your point is???"

A good friend who's a Unitarian minister taught me this one. It actually makes folks who are going off on a pre-digested rant stop and think.

It also makes well-meaning people who are groping for the right words clarify their thoughts as well. Either way, the chances of *real* communication are enhanced by these four one-syllable words spoken calmly, and with respect.

Unless you're a die-hard freeper, or one of the members of my family whose major joy in life is putting other people down. "Only an idiot would ask that" is my clue to decide that person isn't worth my time.