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So is there someplace where all of this taxonomy of heirarchy is written down or is it all verbal lore?
Its a complete surprise to us as we travel down the path. I think it goes: Stranger(0); Newbie(50); Journeyman(!)(100); Member(200); Addict(400).
Jackie is on 599 at this precise moment so we wait with baited breath!
Footnote: ooops - ignore this mail see amendements in next two posts, I knew that there was something missing!
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Its a complete surprise to us as we travel down the path. I think it goes: Stranger(0); Newbie(50); Journeyman(!)(100); Member(200); Addict(400).
Actually, it's not quite that stiff. Newbie is 25, Journeyman 50, member 100. Going at that rate the next rank after addict should be at 800, then 1600!
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Jackie is on 599 at this precise momentOk, here's my 600th! Father Steve, I love it--verbal lore for verbivores! 
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Its a complete surprise to us as we travel down the path. I think it goes: Stranger(0); Newbie(50); Journeyman(!)(100); Member(200); Addict(400).
Actually, it's not quite that stiff. Newbie is 25, Journeyman 50, member 100. Going at that rate the next rank after addict should be at 800, then 1600!
No, see you guys, you left out Enthusiast. I've gone over this before. It's Stranger(0), Newbie(25), Journeyman(50), Member(100), Enthusiast(200), Addict(400), and yes, I would say that the next one will be 800.
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I have dutifully resurrected this thread to humbly congratulate Jackie on her newfound title of "Old Hand".
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Congratulations Jackie
Will the next one be old foot?
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Thank you, folks! I must say I am VERY relieved not to be
an addict (in name, never mind the reality!) any more.
This does blow the geometric-progression theory out of the water, doesn't it? Not a problem for me--Anu can do whatever he takes it into his beloved little mind to do, in my book.
Jo, now that you're back, I hope you will zoom back to your rightful position! And, tsuwm, I'd be delighted if you'd post enough to get ahead of me.
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>if you'd post enough to get ahead of me it ain't gonna happen as long as you are AWAD's Minister Of Salutations gee, if I could only come up with another S-word you could be the MOSS...
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I have to admit. I am more than a little concerned about my status as an addict. It starts to become a problem when one's AWAD life starts to "leak" into real life.
I had a very enjoyable evening wrecked by an argument about tidal waves, bores and those waves beginning with tsu (tsunami - I L'dIU). The difficulty is the person who is convinced that they are right. I really wanted to get out my laptop, and look it up for him. Alternatively, laptops do make effective but expensive projectiles.
I had dinner with some old friends recently. I hadn't seen them for years. The Spanish translation for a dish on the menu was "throat of tuna". You can imagine! I started to discuss what people think of when they hear the word throat - front, back etc. I was just mentioning the phrase "Pearls at her throat", I hadn't even got as far as Pearl the singer when a friend looked at me aghast and said "How did we get onto that subject!". Before I had chance to explain, another friend chimed in "don't worry, she does throw the weirdest things into conversation, we just leave her to get on with it for a while". I had no idea that I was being merely "tolerated"!
Is there a Betty Ford Clinic for logophiles? Or are we into the realms of logoleptia, logomachy or just logorrhea?
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Hi Jo, Very pertinent and wonderful! I try and delay the moment of my turning into an addict. Nothing more disheartening than to feel "tolerated".. Maybe the new DSM-IV classification will be logophagopathy.
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it ain't gonna happen as long as you are AWAD's Minister Of Salutations
gee, if I could only come up with another S-word you could be the MOSS...Don't think I care to be walked all over, thank you! 'Sides, there is absolutely NOTHING preventing YOU (or anyone) from offering salutations, now is there? You could even do it retroactively. Hmm--If I became the Big Old (both very appropriate for me) Salutations Supervisor, then I'd be the... But I think that job is really yours. Oh, I LOVE this place!!!
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it ain't gonna happen Can I be the first to congratulate you on your newly-won status - I am sure it owes nothing to simple minds
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feh.
[and I don't care *what Enigma says!]
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It strikes me that 25 posts take a bloody long time to reach, which creates some sort of inhospitality, at least from the perspective of "The Stranger."
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I know what you mean. It seems like I've posted and read enough not to be a 'stranger' anymore! 
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I think Xara is two posts away from emerging from her chyrsalis and becoming a butterfly of sorts. Quick, kiddo, say two more things and see what happens.
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imagine what you have to do to reach 700!? (well, posting inane messages like *this one helps.... ;)
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tsuwm, I notice you have been posting more lately, and
I'm glad.
Father Steve--you encouraged xara, but you're only one away
from graduating! Oh, man! Couldn't you think of just one more??
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>tsuwm, I notice you have been posting more lately, and
I'm glad.
thank you; but if you respond to every one, how will I ever catch up?!
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Quick, kiddo, say two more things and see what happens.
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twoHey look, it worked! Thanks for the tip Steve! 
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There are many such secrets to be revealed in the Kingdom of Anu.
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Congratulations on your own recently acquired newbie status!
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Congrats xara & Father Steve. Isn't it nice to be out of the <stranger> limbo. Believe it or not, you will be amazed at how the points (posts) rack up in the beginning. There are so many interesting threads to participate in. Write on.
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Could someone with a 20th-century computer please start a Graduation2 thread starting with maybe the last half-dozen posts here (or whatever number the volunteer deems appropriate)? Took me five minutes to get here... and it'd take another five to do what I've just requested.
Thanks... *tossing pellets to the mice in the modem wheel*
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