I love the bard, partly because it has been always been sort of an experiment since the beginning.
Telling stories?
Entertaining the masses?
Tons of knowledge?
Snarf, I've got some news for you. You'd better sit down...
Us your Expertise fo the Knowledge check, did you?You know .... back in the Old West, implying someone was a Bard was considered such a vile insult that you could legally be hanged.
As put forth by Judge Mills "I'll Allow It" Lane when he let 5 stone-cold killers free while sentencing the person who implied that they were Bards to death, "I've met people that needed killin', but never met a person whose blood wasn't angered to boilin' by bein' called a despicable Bard."
Rather than ending bard threads, I'd prefer Snarf just move on to a different schtick. The anti-bard "humor" has not gotten better with age.