Paul Barnett recognizes Julie and Fran

Julie and Fran get recognized

It’s always good to be recognized for one’s work.  George Carlin once pointed out that he was one of the few people who had an audience on his job…and followed up with wouldn’t it be great if we all had an audience on our jobs (“Yay way to balance the debits and credits”).   From time to time we receive what my NCO (non-commissioned officer for all you non-military types out there) used to say constitutes an “Atta-girl”.  He always cautioned that one “Ah Shit” wipes out a thousand “Atta-girls”.  We’re not sure if the email that we received from Paul Barnett (who has been a guest on our show three times) late last night constitutes an “Ah Shit” on his part or not…

The curious aspect of the email was that it consisted of one line: a URL address. Here is what it went to…

Now we have received various forms of recognition before – professional developers have contacted us and asked to be on our show from time to time. We have even received a few write ups in the gaming press.  At this point we can only think to quote the immortal Charles Schultz, author of the comic strip Peanuts, in the form of his character Linus:

“There’s a lesson to be learned here somewhere but I’m not quite sure what it is.”

When Fran wrote back to Paul she pointed out that the term he may have been searching for was celibate not celebrex and certainly not cialis. We instantly recognized some of the names in the email (all but two have been partially deleted by ourselves) but one of the names that popped out at us instantly was the name Keen from Keen and Graevs gaming blog.  Keen has been a guest on the No Prisoners, No Mercy show a few times, but he seems like such a strapping young lad that the email can’t possibly be insinuating something about Keen either. It was at this point that we can only assume there is one of two factors at work here.  The first would be that Paul Barnett has decided, for some oddly twisted and incredibly painful reason (my eyes hurt just reading the advertisement) to share the more intimate details of his life (doubtful), in which case we will say simply “too much information Paul – really.”   To address the second, and more probable, factor at work we will simply suggest a good spyware protection program.  In any case, it’s nice to know that Paul Barnett still thinks about us from time to time, no matter how twisted the thoughts may be.

 See you online,

Julie Whitefeather