Is this the first time a contributor has had his handle used as the Word for Today?
Interesting that the young lady was a maverick because she chose to study worm sex. I remember very vividly the only time I ever saw an earthworm sex orgy. I was night telephone operator at McLean Hospital, and one early April morning at first light left switchboard to look out window. There on the lawn were thousands of earthworms copulating. I couldn't time the duration, but they were all gone by the time the sun was up. No early bird was early enough dine on doubles.
It seems to me that that the Army has a special meaning for maverick. A mustang was a West Point cadet appointed from the enlisted men, I think. Perhaps maverick referred to officers trained at the other military schools. Corrections invited.
Is this the first time a contributor has had his handle used as the Word for Today?
Sad that he is missing his moment of fame.
I think so, yes. And, he knows.
"Date: Tue Sep 23 00:02:56 EDT 1997
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--anastrophe"
'Scuse me, but this is not the same as our lovely Anna's name.
Say--I notice this was in Eastern daylight time. Wonder when and why the switch to Central?
hey, as long as it's not about sig lines, i can enjoy it as much as the next person.
hey AS... wanna borrow my sledgehammer??
I'm thoroughly confused. Which happens more and more often as I enter my dotage.
Dr Bill,
I think it is the first time. And Maverick has replied in the Weekly Themes forum.
Jackie,
Sad that he is missing his moment of fame.
Who are you quoting?
'Scuse me, but this is not the same as our lovely Anna's name.
...And who are you responding to?
Faldage,
How you do dat post-a-subject-without-a-body?
And if you say AnnaS 3x fast does it come out Anaïs?
bridget96,
See Dr Rieux comment in the *approprate forum.
Thanks, looks like my ball-peen approach ain't working
Ok, Anna--
I was very confused myself, trying to track down the "sad that..." line. It is all too easy to convince me that I have lost my mind (as this is in fact often the case), but I believe the good doctor must have deleted it from his post, subsequent to my copying it.
As to, "'Scuse me, but this is not the same as our lovely Anna's name.", that was in response to Faldage's subject title, which I presume was meant to tell me that I had committed a faux pas by saying maverick was the only handle used as the W.A.D. And, I guess you can just do a subject title, then hit Submit, and you get the empty box as a post.
But like a ghostly presence at the feast, I am still reading the conversations as streamed via email...
...so take a leek yourself, Cap!!
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I fear that the secret of posting an empty post shall remain unknown to all but the serengyrating few.
This touches on YART status, since it was a proposed solution to the oh-woe-is-me*-too-many-posts-to-read crisis that struck this board some months ago. It was, at best, roundly ignored as utterly useless.
*Dative of possesion.
Jackie, thanks for the explanation. It's all clear now; obviously a post-post deletion. Roger Wilcox.
And I think Faldage was referring to something else, but that would be a big-time multiple YART were I to mention it
[duck]
as long as we're just swotting the tse-tse here ASp, is there some explanation attendant to the use of roger wilcox (as opposed to wilco), and congratulations on gravitating to the e-less lexical emoticon.[wooo-woo-woo]
tsuwm,
It's a reference to the classic cartoon "Super Chicken." I thought *everyone would recognize it.
Yes, it finally hit me that the e is redundant (and thanks again for teaching me "attendant" - the important thangs I don't forgit).
Finally, congrats on your OldHandhood, Faldage.
