The Gunroom 12 Steps

(intended as humor, no offense meant to anybody involved in 12-Step programs!)

Which we admitted we were powerless over POB - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Which we came to believe that a Gunroom greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Which we made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the List Admins as we understood them.
Which we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, because we don't trust those grass-combing buggers at the naval yard.
Which we admitted to the Gunroom, to ourselves and to Rev. Martin the exact nature of our wrongs, and included web links.
Which we were entirely ready to have the Gunroom remove all these defects of character, and strip all attachments from our e-mail.
Which we humbly asked POB to remove our shortcomings, and Charlezzzzz quoted a poem about them.
Which we made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to send copies of Master and Commander to them all.
Which we made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Then we did it offlist.
Which we continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Which we sought through rereading the Canon to improve our conscious contact with Jack Aubrey*as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.
Which having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to non-POB readers and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

*or Stephen Maturin, depending on your orientation