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what's so wonderful about being a pooh-bah (pb)? at least one of the pb's amongst us gets upset at being constantly held up for approbation (or ridicule), so maybe it's time to examine the thrall of it all. first, consider all the perks....
- if you don't post for an hour or so, speculation is rife as to your health, well-being and/or visitation hours.
- it is well established that you maintain archives of all of the private mail you have received and sent and can answer any question in regards to the workings of the known multiiverse.
- everyone knows about the friendly competition to reach that next, unknown, level and provides encouragement for reaching same.
- as is well known, we pb's have the ear of the sainted yet ostensible wordsmith and have inside information into the workings of the system. (you'll notice that max no longer complains about his lack of juice.) [what was that about an unknown level?]
consider these truisms: pb's either a) have been around a long time or b) have something to say about everything (or both). but look, if you've been around for a year it's only 4.383562 posts a day to reach poohbahdom. some of you just haven't been trying hard enough.
"but once having reached poohbahtude, what is there to look forward to?", one might ask (or not). I'm sure there must be something, said joe adumbratively.
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as is well known, we pb's have the ear of the sainted yet ostensible wordsmith and have inside information into the workings of the system. (you'll notice that max no longer complains about his lack of juice.
Max no longer complains about his lack of juice because he has accepted it as an immutable fact, not because the situation has changed. I have received no indication that Anu has altered his decision to ignore any correspondence from me.
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Ahhh! I was so glad to see that title - since ...I cannot bother someone for each thing
that I don't understand ...but I really would like to know the meaning of "Pooh-ba"!
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> ...some of you just haven't been trying hard enough.
Oh, I don't know.
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Pooh-Bah was a character in The Mikado who had about 20 jobs, and so it was entered in the dictionary as a peson with many jobs.
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Well well, looky what we have here, ..I have, since my last post said goodbye to standard membership here, and therefore taken one step closer to this Pooh-Bah-ism. So tell us you three, is it over-rated?
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Congratulations, BY,  just one small step at a time. By the way, honourable Pooh-Bahs, do you share the 20 jobs or do they think up another 20 as each new Pooh-Bah is announced? (What is the name for the ceremony of being made a Pooh-Bah?) I can see that "Checking that each other Pooh-Bah is doing things right" will add to the job stack of each, and may even put a limit on the number and eventually reduce the efficiency and output of the set (lair, ministry, wunch??) of Pooh-Bahs to zero. A bit like our governments really  . Rod
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tsuwm - That was a side splitter for me....  especially the math... but especially the existentialism. "...to ignore any correspondence from me."I'm *sure it's not as whelming as your desire to make it so... 
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I'm *sure it's not as whelming as your desire to make it so... You may well be right, but in that delightful USn idiom, I'm 0 for 4, an loathe to endanger my eggshell fragile self-esteem by trying again! 
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