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#186646 08/29/09 04:35 AM
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it's not pinin'! it's passed on! this forum is no more! it has ceased to be! it's expired and gone to meet its maker! it's a stiff! bereft of life, it rests in peace! it's pushing up the daisies! its metabolic processes are now 'istory! it's off the twig! it's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-FORUM!!

(apologies to Monty Python, and especially to Anu)

but why stop there? <pages through thesaurus> amort, anabiotic, antemortem, asleep, at death's door, at peace, at the last gasp, at the point of death, booked, burial, buried, cinerary, commorient, condemned, dead, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, deadly, deceased, defunct, defunctive, demised, departed, departed this life, dying, eclipsed, eighty, elegiac, encharnelled, exanimate, extinct, fey, funebrial, funerary, funereal, gathered to one's fathers, given over, going, going off, gone, hippocratic, iced, in extremis, in the agony of death, in the jaws of death, inanimate, infernal, intestate, late, launched into eternity, lethal, lifeless, lost, moribund, morient, mortal, mortuary, mortuous, near one's end, no more, numbered with the dead, on one's deathbed, on one's last legs, out of the world, placeparted, post, posthumous, released, sepelible, smabbled, stillborn, taken off, terminal, testate, thanatoid, tottering on the brink of the grave, with one foot in the grave

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THIS IS AN EX-FORUM!!

Hmm, what happened? Why wasn't I informed?


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>what happened?

nothing. but that's rather the point, isn't it?!
-ron o.

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I had noticed an especial lack of posts over the last couple of days.

/beats post on counter


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an especial lack of posts

Oh, that. It's pretty much a Viconian cycle of sorts. But I wouldn't hold the funeral until the patient expires. Rather than meta-posts about the dearth of posts, post a post about words.


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tsu I have noted much the same in Q&A. Maybe the site just isn't as celebrated (notorious?) as once was


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Estivalnating, travelling, on the go, respecting the guest status, being social, renewing the American cultural shock, anti laptop movement. Folks are outdoors. Hope to see you all mid September. Put some salsa in it. Top it off with fajita's. Have a nice Californian glas of red and most of all. KEEP IT ALIVE!

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But I wouldn't hold the funeral until the patient expires

I think Defibrillation was more Tsuwms intent.

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Bran good for you, you're indeed an optimist


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I'm going for "moribund".


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