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>Perhaps my title should read "journeyperson... or mayhap it ought to be just 'journey', to focus attention on the trip and not the tripper. 
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Journeyman : an old and honorable title.
Meaning one who has completed an apprenticeship and is now qualified to work in an art, craft or trade. The OED goes on to say the journeyman works for wages. In the case of the Board, the wage for posting is promotion!
And dear Tsuwm, isn't this entire Board a trip (of the non- pharmaceutical kind?)
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tsu>>or mayhap it ought to be just 'journey', to focus attention on the trip and not the tripper. wow>...dear Tsuwm, isn't this entire Board a trip (of the non- pharmaceutical kind?) this may quite possibly have been the whole Thrust of my postage.  -ron
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When I first came to the Board, Sparteye was a "journeyman", and I was shocked on our first PM to realize that she was a girl (woman/lady/female...). That just goes to show how much something subtle like "journeyman" under a poster's name coloured my expectation of what she would be like!
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That just goes to show how much something subtle like "journeyman" under a poster's name coloured my expectation of what she would be like!
How dull life would be without surprises!
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When I first came to the Board, Sparteye was a "journeyman", and I was shocked on our first PM to realize that she was a girl
Mem'ries .... [hearts and flowers emoticon]
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I was shocked on our first PM to realize that she was a girlJeanne Chretien? That's one uuuugggly woman! 
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I was shocked on our first PM to realize that she was a girlJeanne Chretien? That's one uuuugggly woman! Actually, our first PM would be Jeanne A. MacDonald!
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Man is an Old English word meaning human being. If a chairman is necessarily male and to be non sex specific we must say chairperson and if a salesman is necessarily male and to be non sex specific we must say salesperson, then a woman is necessarily male and to be non sex specific we must say woperson. Women, take back your manhood!
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