A personal clarification

Very well written! I don't know nuthin 'bout your bone of fides or whether it does or does not include gravy-tas; I just know that your participation here and enormous contributions of, uh, well, that aside for now, is justified, warranted and much fun and education.  

Goodness, it's just as well I am totally impervious to flattery (but of course I do recognise a soundly-based and intelligent judgement when I see one).

It's just like when the Dean bestows the honor of Summa Cum Laude or the regional Mensa Chapter recognizes a High Genius; you get the official - You Da Man!!

Wow! So now I've got all three! That must qualify for a special recognition award. (Oh God, not another bloody Trabant. We are up to our knees in horseshit already, although we are making it into briquettes to be dried for winter fuel. But enough is enough.)

Posted by: @graeme-ogg

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Wow! So now I've got all three! That must qualify for a special recognition award. (Oh God, not another bloody Trabant. We are up to our knees in horseshit already, although we are making it into briquettes to be dried for winter fuel. But enough is enough.)

Thanks for your openness and candor, Graeme. The only additional mention of your posts that I am able to lend to this erudite and accurate compilation is that, without them, there would be a considerably sized blank space where they would have been.  With that in mind, I would also have to say that there are those among us who enjoy the same status. I count myself privileged to be among them and, following your erstwhile example, shall herewith add this achievement to my resume.

tl; dr  

@jkuvakas JK; your mention of "considerably sized blank spaces" is a reminder of the level of collective mental ability and the resulting scrutiny provided by we, The Think Tanked Admissions Committee, to the recently approved application of Graeme Ogg of the GMT.  Aside from Graeme's frequent intelligence claims and work history in managing effluent residue, which are both in a strange way related, his well considered and presented ramblings offer consistent insight into dark places that would otherwise remain unvisited.  While it is wonderful that Graeme has expanded our organization's representation to another continent, some members feel that the Atlantic Ocean buffer, as it were, serves us well.

Without hyperbole, I do believe the given curriculum vitae is ideal for most positions - gate keepers - in today's world.  Anything independent would paralyse the system.

@charles-rockett I always thought Hyperbole was the modern commercial vacuum flushed toilet mechanism.  Come to think of it, I guess the resulting shitnaumi caused by such a powerful system may well have drowned our Graeme back in his days working the main line.....but I think I digress.

@jack-dodds That sounds like a daydream, rather than a digression.

@jack-dodds, your reference to the now ubiquitous vacuum flush toilet mechanism brought to mind the unfortunate end of my late uncle Heathrow, who was most unpleasantly taken aback while volunteering to test an early prototype.

@jack-dodds, indeed! Our collective blank spaces fueled by our profound paucity of intellectual paltriness would successfully occupy a startling vacuity absent of any significance whatsoever.

@jkuvakas Ach...such a horrible way to go and to be honest not  the legacy anyone would choose.  Although to be positive about it, I suppose your Uncle Heathrow's suffering being vaccugutted by pushing the flush button while still seated prompted the autoflush safety feature we all enjoy today.  I think your family can proudly call him a vacu-pooper pioneer.