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Right, now what's this business with 'Oh please, ..someone else mentioned that once before' or 'That's a YART!' going on here of late. If the vast majority of people adding to the thread have not related their opinions on a particular topic then surely they are warranted to do so (an indication that the topic has been touched upon with a link will suffice). After all we all are just reiterating the information of others and/or other opinions on it anyway. Nothing much discussed here is entirely untried, nothing is strikingly new or novel. Doesn't mean it's necessarily rehashed; when topics are rediscussed they often take new unexpected twists. The question on the tip of some oh-so original, smart-alecky tongue, 'Is this a YART too?' is answered here: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=7668jj_ulysses@recylcedthought.org
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Hey belly (do you mind if I call you that?)
Since silence is supposed to be an ambivalent response these days (see other posts fluttering around making a virtue of it), I thought I'd respond and tell you that
I agree with your post.
cheer
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Hey belly (do you mind if I call you that?)
Since silence is supposed to be an ambivalent response these days (see other posts fluttering around making a virtue of it), I thought I'd respond and tell you that
I DISagree with your post.
cheer
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I agree, and I've got another reason why I will sometimes restate a subject. Perhaps some others run into the problem as well. My computer gets seriously bogged down on any subject that runs more than 30 posts. A subject that's up into the 50's is downright painful. I don't even try anything over 60 posts, unless I'm desperate. Threaded or flat, it can be difficult to find or continue something YARTish.
So until the message program or this computer improves.....
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Dear belligerentyouth: I agree with you that bringing up an old thread should not be strongly objected to. The old timers can ignore it, and the newcomers may enjoy it. We can have so many threads going at once that it deprives nobody. And the newcomers may well have interesting new slants on an old thread. And again,DOWN with acronyms.They are a disagreeable way of teasing the newcomers.
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Well said, Bill - we wouldn't want to TTN, would we? 
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It is possible to tease in a way both parties can enjoy. But acronyms are fun only for the perpetrator.
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arrgh! YAGWUTPWNPCFP! (yet another game we used to play with no/minimal props commercialized for profit)
[see The Dictionary Game (Balderdash®), Minnesota Eights (Uno®), etc.]
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