Personally I enjoyed Rip's boat pics, even if he never did answer my trim tab question, and I admire the fact he's proud enough of his family that he posts pics of fishing trips, soccer games or KKK marches with his kids.
The carpeted garage is over the top, but when I asked him about it privately he said he likes to wrestle the newspaper boy, so it all makes perfect sense- here in Sunny California we're able to wrestle our newspaper boys out in the back yard.
Sometimes the best response to a thread might be no response at all, especially after the thread has been whistled dead. Now it's a personal foul, and that's a fifteen yard penalty.