{"id":757,"date":"2006-12-11T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2007-01-24T23:11:30","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T06:11:30","slug":"punch-and-pie-at-this-weeks-carnival-of-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/757\/punch-and-pie-at-this-weeks-carnival-of-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Punch and Pie At This Week’s Carnival of Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my world, I need<\/i> order, rules. This may be hard to believe when you consider I manage a household that includes thirteen rescue animals and a colony of about a dozen feral cats in our side yard. Ever hear of “herding cats”? This is something I try<\/i> to effect every single day. I was the one, for example, who asked Greg to modify his open-forum policy on BHB comments, by removing extreme profanity. I understand that trash talk needs to be trashy or it loses its flavor, but sometimes comments on this site go beyond the pale. For a standard of what’s acceptable I like to use South Park<\/a>. I realize this is a pretty low standard, but IMHO Matt Stone and Trey Parker are so spot on philosophically that I’ve learned to accept the verisimilitude of the vernacular of their eight-year old characters. If Comedy Central is up to it, then I suppose BloodhoundBlog can be, too.<\/p>\n

All of this to get to why I would even care to paraphrase a quote from South Park – Bigger, Longer & Uncut<\/a>. This is a very clever parody on, among other things, Les Miserables. Greg’s teenaged children have demonstrated to us that we’ve garbled the Eric Cartman quote, “people like pie,” but we remembered this quote by implication<\/i>. There’s a scene in which the boys are trying to figure out how to get people to care about a meeting they’ve called to save the world, and Cartman suggests “more people will come if they think we have punch and pie!” Actually having punch and pie isn’t important… it’s only important that the people think<\/i> there will be punch and pie, and people like pie<\/i> (I still believe this must be an actual quote in one of the ten-seasons-worth of episodes), so give them what they<\/i> want.<\/p>\n

And it’s with this in mind, that I commend you to this week’s Carnival of Real Estate, which is up at ActiveRain<\/a>, for some punch and pie.<\/p>\n

More on me and rules… When BloodhoundBlog hosted CoRE this past October, we set up a system for ourselves to judge Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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