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or snakes.


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We ain' goin' nowhere wit'out no contex'.

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 Originally Posted By: Faldage
I like postergeist.

Me too.

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We ain' goin' nowhere wit'out no contex'

Me neither

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Context, we don't need no steenkin context. We can post for pages widout no context.

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 Originally Posted By: Zed
Context, we don't need no steenkin context. We can post for pages widout no context.


True. True. Never been known to stop us.

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Postergeist is brilliant. My hand's up to adopt it.

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Depending upon who the translation is meant for, he can use "swing back and forth"; sometimes, it makes just as much sense to use a phrase as a word your reader won't understand.

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 Originally Posted By: belMarduk
Postergeist is brilliant. My hand's up to adopt it.


thankee. all it takes is usin' it.


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Well, we'll need a citation to sneak get it in to Urban Dictionary, so:

He asked the question, but will our postergeist ever make it back to see if there's an answer?

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speaking of needing citations, check this out!

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 Originally Posted By: Faldage
Well, we'll need a citation to sneak get it in to Urban Dictionary, so:

He asked the question, but will our postergeist ever make it back to see if there's an answer?


postergeist gets about 11k ghits, including this one - Phantom, which has some relevance, I think.


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Whoa; that's kind of scary.

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