#10543
11/16/2000 11:20 AM
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This question has probably been asked a million times ... but what's with the "stranger" (moi) and "Addict" e.g. Jackie, use of adjectives to describe posters?
How do they change?
Why are they there?
Just curious. Well, no, absolutely obsessed, actually!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#10544
11/16/2000 11:45 AM
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Look under 'Miscellany' - the Graduation threads - updated to the new thread - "Graduation (part 2)". I'd link, but I'm too lazy.
cheer
the sunshine warrior
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#10545
11/16/2000 1:03 PM
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Dear C.K.,
(For some reason, every time I look at your screen name, I want to read it as Captain Kiwi!)
These "adjectives" are actually titles. They change acc'g to how many posts you put up. When you reach 25, you will become a Newbie.
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#10546
11/16/2000 9:20 PM
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Dear Captain ~
I didn't like being dubbed a "stranger" when I had twenty posts, had been welcomed by Jackie, had exchanged private e-mail with others, and felt like a was getting a sense of my way around the board. If it were up to me (which it ain't and never will be), the title "stranger" would attach only to one's first post and thereafter a kinder, gentler, softer title like "Immediately Post-Natal Person" would be substituted.
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#10547
11/16/2000 9:26 PM
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>Dear Captain
well, it looks as though Jackie isn't alone on this titular monderead -- I read it as captain too the first n-teen times.
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#10548
11/16/2000 9:34 PM
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I didn't like being dubbed a "stranger" when I had twenty posts
I like your idea a lot. Twenty-four posts as "stranger" is too many, I think. It is a very intimidating, unwelcoming designation.I can see that more than one post as "stranger" might be in order, just to establish that the person will be around for a little while. Perhaps five posts would be a good threshold for the first graduation. How do others feel? Maybe we could toss this around and come up with a consensus(ha!) on a good first graduation point, as well as suggestions for what it should be called. Then we supplicants can petition Anu/Ea for a consideration of the suggested revision.
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#10549
11/16/2000 9:38 PM
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well, it looks as though Jackie isn't alone on this titular monderead -- I read it as captain too the first n-teen timesWhereas I automatically read it as Capital Kiwi, and assumed that the person posting lived in the southernmost national capital in the world - probably also the windiest national capital in the world! 
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#10550
11/16/2000 9:39 PM
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That's what absolutely everybody says about Jackie and me: "Those two are just a pair of titular mondereaders."
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#10551
11/16/2000 9:40 PM
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well, the easiest remedy (and probably the quickest software fix) would be to let 'newbie' stand for the 5 to 50 range. in an engineering environment the rookie label seems to last forever (or until the next rookie comes along).
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#10552
11/16/2000 9:43 PM
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I agree, FS, "stranger" doesn't seem right. My perception is that the longer one sticks around here, the stranger one's posts get. Perhaps we should propose a new progression: stranger, odder, weirder, curiouser (and curiouser),.... Not sure where that puts Jackie, tsuwm and Jo on the scale. 
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#10553
11/16/2000 9:45 PM
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>Not sure where that puts Jackie, tsuwm and Jo on the scale.
I can't speak for the others, but I fear I would fall into the eldritch category.
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#10554
11/17/2000 3:18 AM
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ugh, I remember thinking 25 posts would be so far to get to when I started out. A person who becomes a newbie at 5 will be daunted by the miles ahead to reach a new title.
How about a tourist since you are actually looking around finding new places and meeting new people?
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#10555
11/17/2000 4:13 AM
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How about a tourist since you are actually looking around finding new places and meeting new people?As much as I like your suggestion, I shall refrain from endorsing it, as history suggests that a recommendation from me is the kiss of death.
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#10556
11/17/2000 7:39 AM
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I can't speak for the others, but I fear I would fall into the eldritch category. I'll go with that one. 
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#10557
11/17/2000 10:22 AM
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I shall refrain from endorsing itAwww, go on Max. I'll back you up! Though I have to say I do like Chookman's stranger, odder, weirder, curiouser (and curiouser).. and the end-point on this scale of graduation would have to be surreal.
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#10558
11/17/2000 2:55 PM
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yes, i liked stranger too, and even as a journeyman, i still think i am stanger..
but the whole thing is meaningless. i was surprised by "graduation" and "graduation2" -- and the wholw thread about what do we call ourselves....
The only thing i think i am called here is "welcome'd" . but if we have to have names or titles, jackie should have a little pineapple icon next to her name, since she is the hospitality hostesss. Tsuwm, i picture like St Luke, a lion with a book, (authorative, but warm, and very learned) jo, our gypsy, looks like mercury with winged feet... she is a gadabout, but with quicksilver lightness!
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#10559
11/17/2000 3:15 PM
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- probably also the windiest national capital in the world!Is that in a meterological or an oratorical sense ?
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#10560
11/17/2000 5:28 PM
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Is that in a meterological or an oratorical sense ?I wouls say both, but since the dissolution of our upper house nearly 50 years ago, there hasn't been a forum for open filibustering. What intrigues me is how The Mother of Parliaments, and all her bastard children, have the ability to reduce speakers of prodigious intellect and skill to the level of insult-hurling kindergarten kids.
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#10561
11/17/2000 5:37 PM
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Awww, go on Max. I'll back you up!Gee, such support - it's really been ayleurning experience for me. The "odd" list might perhaps include eccentric, and, for Jackie when she gets to 2000 posts (next week? ) - why not the wonderfully descriptive "barmy"? Or even, in honour of our Mumbaikar, incorrigible Bombayite that he is, "doolally"?
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#10562
11/18/2000 4:18 AM
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Is that in a meterological or an oratorical sense ?
I wouls say both, but since the dissolution of our upper house nearly 50 years ago, there hasn't been a forum for open filibustering. What intrigues me is how The Mother of Parliaments, and all her bastard children, have the ability to reduce speakers of prodigious intellect and skill to the level of insult-hurling kindergarten kids.
Max has it right. I do, indeed live in Windy Wellington. I chose my nom-de-bonmot(OK, it's slaughtering French, but this is an English list, n'est-ce pas? because (a) capital has, and has had, so many interesting meanings, and "Kiwi" gives location - head south and turn left at Australia.
I'm rather flattered to have started a thread, when I all I really wanted was some information!
In regard to Max's comments on legislator puerility, I would agree that "kindergarten kids" is an apt description. But being in Parliament in NZ has a number of disadvantages not found elsewhere, which may be the reason for the extra special brand of drivel produced - (a) you can't get elected if you're dead. This is not true in the States; and (b) there are no convenient places such as Knightsbridge for conservative (and Conservative) MPs to nip off to when things get especially fraught for a quick whipround by jackbooted madams. Having said that, many of our MPs give a fairly convincing performance of being dead from the neck up, and we have Helen Clark as PM. So maybe things aren't so bad after all!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#10563
11/18/2000 6:34 AM
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Desperately seeking an excuse to officially become a junkie, I did a bit of number crunching to see how the regular posters here rate in terms of ppd - posts per day. Here are those who average at least 3 ppd, calculated from their respective start dates, and rounded to the nearest tenth: 1. Fishonabike - 7.4 2. Maverick - 4.8 3. Jackie/MaxQ - 4.1 5. tsuwm/BelMarduk - 3.9 7. RhubarbCommando - 3.6 8. jmh - 3.4 When considering this post, please bear in mind that it is an utterly meaningless, totally shameless, bit of self-promotion, in the most literal sense.
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#10564
11/18/2000 3:19 PM
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CONGRR-RR--ATULATIONS, MAX !!!!
(Feed that habit, feed that habit...)
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#10565
11/18/2000 9:57 PM
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>jmh - 3.4
I keep working on getting my "batting average" down. I'm worried about what comes after "old hand" and would like plenty of time to think about it! Old codger?
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#10566
11/19/2000 12:07 AM
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Having been the recipient of such sincere contrafibularities on descending to the next level of the inferno (anything resembling hope having been abandoned long ago), I feel it only proper to congratulate our judiciously posting judge, Father Steve, and BelMarduk (my high school French says, ought that not be "belle Marduk"? ) on their respective promotions. By now, both of you will realise where your good intentions have taken you!
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#10567
11/19/2000 6:55 AM
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"The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up … that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even—ultimately, God willing, one day—that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men’s eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself."
~Tom Wolfe
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#10568
11/19/2000 11:28 AM
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Or even, in honour of our Mumbaikar, incorrigible Bombayite that he is, "doolally"?
For a truly appropriate Hindi word, perhaps deewana would suit - carrying as it does, along with the notion of madness, the connotation of addiction (to love).
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#10569
11/19/2000 11:32 AM
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Ah but... I noticed that I was here virtually on day one (probably registered even before Jackie, though I think Jo was a few minutes earlier than me), and then spent about three months in aestivation (web wise!), so my rate since returning (about 250 in the last month or two) is frighteningly high. For goodness' sakes - I'm only about half a century away from addiction, and when I left the board earlier I had only just become a journeyperson-thingy-wossname.
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#10570
11/19/2000 11:35 AM
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Hey Cap (or Max if you know)
Some time ago I heard that NZ was promulgating laws granting certain civil rights to chimpnazees, bonobos and perhaps the other anthropoid apes. What, if anything, came of it?
cheer
the sunshine warrior
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#10571
11/19/2000 5:06 PM
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The great apes legislation has taken a back seat to economic woes for the present - the Right, having lost the last General Election, has mamaged to persuade many here that the End is not so much Nigh as Now. Perhaps, Capital Kiwi will be able to provide more detail, living as he does where our elected naked apes hang out.
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#10572
11/19/2000 5:09 PM
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In reply to:
For a truly appropriate Hindi word, perhaps deewana would suit - carrying as it does, along with the notion of madness, the connotation of addiction (to love).
Sounds good - pity it doesn't carry the implication of inappropriately clinging to a colonial bastardisation of an "Indian" word.
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#10573
11/19/2000 8:01 PM
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For the sake of posterity here are the arrival times at this board of some of the people who joined in the early days and are still around at the moment: (apologies to anyone I've missed)
AnnaStrophic: Wed Mar 15 13:19
Jackie: Wed Mar 15 21:38
Emanuela: Thu Mar 16 01:32*
Shanks: Thu Mar 16 04:44
JMH: Wed Mar 22
Tsuwm: Mon Apr 3
Looks like I was after you Shanks but Anna and Jackie beat us to it!
[*See, I knew I'd miss someone!
Emanuela - looks like you pipped Shanks & I to the post,
Anu was, of course, (thanks Jazz) first of all]
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#10574
11/19/2000 10:11 PM
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But Jo, look who beat even them:
wordsmith: Sun Mar 12 16:22:07 2000
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#10575
11/20/2000 8:07 AM
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... be doolali if you want.
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#10576
11/20/2000 8:46 AM
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... be doolali if you want.Mais non! deewana is both aesthetically pleasing and very apt. I would be honoured to be so called. Make me some fresh jilebis and it's a done deal.
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#10577
11/20/2000 9:22 AM
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Make me some fresh jilebis and it's a done deal.
Max
My culinary skills, on a scale of 1 to 10, run into the negative numbers, but come to London and we shall trawl Southall for the most exotic, yet authentic, of Indian delights - stuff yourself on jalebis, halwas, laddoos, barfis and all other fattenings, ghee-filled sweets to your heart's content.
cheer
the sunshine warrior
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#10578
11/20/2000 2:05 PM
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Non vale! (Our way to say : there is something wrong , against me)
I registered in Thu Mar 16 01:32:09 2000,
but tried several times the day before, but there was still something not working... otherwise I would be the first!
I feel like Lucy in Charlie Brown ... Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Emanuela
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#10579
11/20/2000 3:30 PM
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the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itselfExactly so, Father. I just knew I had the most noble and honourable of goals, and that I wasn't just chattering like a chimp, increasing my status whilst adding no real value to this glorious establishment. I almost put down 'chattering like a cheetah'. Then I remembered that in the TV series Tarzan there was indeed a chimp called Cheetah.
How weird is that??
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#10580
11/20/2000 3:35 PM
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come to London and we shall trawl Southall
Yum! Can I come?
Purely on Board business, naturally.. sorting out the "eccentric" graduations and so on.
Oo doolali, oo doolali
Golly what a day
(we could really do with some musical note icons)
(e-noticons??)
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#10581
11/20/2000 3:38 PM
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I am more than willing to explore Southall with any all denizens of this Board who make it to the Big Smoke. One condition, though - you have to sit through a Hindi film with me, and clap and cheer and hoot and whistle when nudged. If dancing breaks out in the aisles, it is mandatory to join in. (Any of you any good at chewing paan and making really bright red spit?)
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#10582
11/20/2000 3:53 PM
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If I am not mistaken, this will be the 300th post within 'Information and Announcements'. Q&A rocketed through the 4000 mark last week. Do these forums get titles too? Or colours? Or are we simply supposed to gauge their popularity by reading the numbers? I like to think, somewhere, that 'Information and Announcements' can be reified enough to become an 'addict' in its own right...
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