For our new members, here is a list of the board adjectives that appear under your names/handles, and the number of posts you have to make to graduate to the next level.
Thanks to Jazz, one of our members, for getting all these straight for us...Stranger(0), Newbie(25), Journeyman(50), Member(100), Enthusiast(200), Addict(400), Old Hand (700) ADDENDUM: we now know that at 1200 posts is Veteran level
What the next level is, we have yet to know....sit, chat, stay for a while, it'll be fun finding out together.
Wot's this, mate? I'm sorry, but we can't just go moving threads around like this! Graduation has been in Miscellany before most of us were members and we can't break such a great tradition.
Between sniggers at the possible connotations/combinations of bushusuru and memberhood, I'll say congratulations, Nick-o. (Ooh! I think I just reclaimed the gutter throne.)
>congratulations, Ms AnnaStrophic.... you did it!!! (did you think nobody would notice?)
We did but we all sneaked over to the thread in Miscellany, while you weren't looking .......[sound of footsteps petering out into the distance emoticon]
ahhhhh, that'll teach me to read all of the new messages before i begin posting for the day.
i was ignoring the miscellany section, hoping the recess bell would ring and the children chatting around the water fountain would wander back into their classrooms to eat paste or something.
Congrats Madame S. But don`t you just feeeel the whisper of the veteran tag..."post more, post more, you are so close." [evil, hunched over, hand wringing, greasy smile addict emoticon]
But don`t you just feeeel the whisper of the veteran tag..."post more, post more, you are so close."
So close?! It seems to be taking me forever to get anywhere near veteran. It was only a day or two ago that I passed the halfway point between old hand and veteran. After making 700 posts to move through six levels, having to post 500 more times to move up one level don't seem so close to me, but!
Well Max, if you have an email wiz handy, you could probably set up a routine to spam the board 200 times on your behalf. You could even vary the message each time.
Hey! Hey! I already did that! Shamrocks as we are close to St. Patrick's Day and the golden wheel that is part of the Indian flag -- a bow to the Great Anu. Green and gold. Evergreen postings and the golden thoughts of the posters. Tah-Dah! Now, if Sein can think of something even better I will withdraw my suggestion with a cheerful mien.
As some of you may have figured out today, I have posted quite a lot in the last few hours. Why?
Agendum no 1: To convince Anna that it's not all doom and gloom and off-topic stuff. Though I have to admit that I haven't necessarily been completely on-message in all my posts today.
Agendum no 2: Since I am likely to be incommunicado (virtually) for the next few weeks, I will effectively be going cold turkey as far as AWADtalk is concerned. Now everyone knows what a bad thing it is for an addict to go cold turkey. An old hand, on the other hand, can simply be given time off. So yes, sneakily, or perhaps obviously, I have tried to ensure that this post, if my calculations are correct, leaves me able to take some time off.
Of course, being an old hand at 35 definitely makes me feel like one of those stereotypical troglodytes who should have been a grandfather by the age of 35, and dead by the age of 40. Hmmmm... not very comforting thoughts.
And since, though this is only info and announcements, let's save a thread by my asking the question here: Is incommunicado an absolute word like unique, or can one be partly incommunicado?
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that'll teach me to read all of the new messages before i begin posting for the day.
It took a year of hard work and effort
