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Speaking of the top of the world; here at the bottom (which we mistakenly believe to be the top [shamelessly sucking up in hopes of actually® getting my question answered {Fat Chance of Fong©} emoticon]) of the world, I recently saw a picture in a newspaper of a train traveling on a track which I knew to be, conceptually at least, oriented on the east-west axis. The train was shown as traveling from the right side to the left side of the picture. I drew the conclusion that it was traveling west. If you were to see a similar picture in the true top of the world what direction would you, on some gut level, assume the train to be traveling in?
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If you were to see a similar picture in the true top of the world what direction would you, on some gut level, assume the train to be traveling in?
South.
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tsuwm's 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. AnnaS adds: And then there's those that have been around since Day 1 (AWADtalk calendar), and don't feel the need to rush a good thang. 
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If you were to see a similar picture in the true top of the world what direction would you, on some gut level,
assume the train to be traveling in?
South.
[awaits Zildian indignation manifestations]
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ASp drawls And then there's those that have been around since Day 1 (AWADtalk calendar), and don't feel the need to rush a good thang.
she would be the exception that rues the prole.
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Although magnificently underqualified to interject in this thread I feel the rudimentary, but candid, impression of a newcomer may (or may not, as the case may be) help. I can't help but notice that the threads have a tendancy to become more and more surreal as you progress through the echelons (eg South - not wishing to single out Jackie, but it was the easiest to quote in entirety). I posit that as the posts increase in their bizzareness through the levels, the process of the progress we all operate by is summed up in the name of the state that is given to them that is the most novice (subliminal conditioning of the intakes??) In view of the possibility of the title 'stranger' being taken as an adjective (and thereby suggesting that we would therefore superceed even Pooh-bahs in this strange scale) I move to suggest that the most novice rank should be renamed saner. Am I making any sense?? 
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Am I making any sense??
Nope. You fit right in.
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I can't help but notice that the threads have a tendancy to become more and more surreal as you progress through the echelons...
this could be thought of as following the dialectic of the board [pun intended].
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The Rite of Elevation to Poohbahdom
In the spirit of the character alluded to in the opening scene of GBS' play The Apple Cart, who was a professional ritualist and who died when marooned on a remote island where there was nothing artificial, I suggest a few notes for the mysterious rite:
The candidate for the Exalted Grandiosity of Poohbah is escorted down the aisle of the Abbey by the Hierophant (the senior Exalted Poohbah), both accoutred in white tie and tails (irrespective of gender), and doing the penguin walk to the strains of I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, reaching the chancel just as the choir reaches the middle section, where the Westminster Boys Choir sings, "Vivat! Vivat! Vivat Pu-Ba [name]!" The candidate is led to the throne, which is made from a special edition of the OED in one double-folio-size volume and assisted to sit upon it. The Archimandrite of Linguistics (currently the Most Ven. Anu Garg) solemnly reads out a list of the new Poohbah's postings, after which a trumpet fanfare is blown to wake up the audience. The A.L. then anoints the P.B. with snake oil on the lips, tongue, ears, and writing hand, and proclaims him/her duly installed in the Exalted Grandiosity, after which all AWADers of lesser rank come forward and kowtow. The new EPB then reads aloud a special posting composed for the occasion, which should be not less than 50,000 words. After various other ceremonies which can not be described to the profane, and the ceremony concluded, all AWADers repair to the chosen dining facilty for an elaborate supper, the high point of which is a baloney carried in on a tray with much fanfare whilst The Jabberwock is recited.
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Too close, BobY.
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Note to self: Replenish stock of vellum and goose quills. Write The Great Anu re security at Pooh-Bah elevation ceremony.
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