@bikingjenn 174117 wrote:
Rookie: what’s a sticky?
You know how some things move – bicycles, and loose pieces of paper? And some kinds of paper, like sticky notes, don’t move (also stationary bikes don’t move, or at least not so easily**). Despite the discomfort of us born in near Victorian times*, civilization marches on, and paper, that grand gift of the Egyptians, has been supplemented by electronic records, like the “threads” (but lacking in wool, cotton, linen, or even nylon or rayon) on this forum. Most of which, you will note, move – they leave the front page if no one responds. Except for certain threads which always stay at the top – and hence, by the power of metaphor, are “sticky”.
*First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel. The Dowager Countess, Downton Abbey
** I suppose a stationary bike would be one you ride to the store to pick up envelopes and writing paper, but, sadly, I imagine people order even THAT from Amazon.
