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Dear Bob

Dear Bob, in the “Merry Cristmas” thread i posted a christmas card, i made from me in a santa costume standing in my store. you replaced it with the following text.

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. [offensive photo deleted] DO NOT repost that photo, or another like it, again. One warning. Email me if you don’t know why. Last edited by Bob McCown (December 20, 2011 15:07:08 MST)

to my email i did not get an answer from you. last night in a chat some other members of this forum, who did not see the pic, wanted to know, what was offending you. so i emailed them the pic. one of them told me, you might have mistaken some earthenware, vases, lamps and others on the shelves for artificial parts of the male body. the picture in question has been sent to and received by dozens of persons in the last years. without any offended receivers. you imply, that i send offending cards for christmas. you imply, that i sell in my store pornografic items. (just one shelf above toys for children) i live in a mennonite community in a catholic country. here we don’t see porn in everything. what did offend you was not my card, but your phantasy. by your action and what it implies, you offended me. thank you not for the blow, you dealt to my christmas feelings. korm ps: or what else did you find so offensive to delet the pic? pps: just to help your eyes to see, what is really shown in the pic (this is a blown up part from exactly this pic. so i did not obey your warning):

I have not received your email, but since its out in the open again, here goes.

Yes, exactly, that’s why I removed the picture. For the last couple of months, there has been a rash of people posting suggestive pictures and comments in both the forums, chat, and the photo gallery. “Hee hee, this mushroom looks like a penis”, or “ha ha, these look like boobs”, or “Hey, look at this barely-dressed woman standing on some railroad tracks”. I’m sick and tired of chasing them down and deleting them, and the perpetrators dont really seem to care. This is not the site for them. There was no reason to believe that your photo was yet another one of these.

I apologize.