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bexter #194527 12/02/10 03:51 PM
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Merriam/Webster defines 'panjandrum' as:
Definition of PANJANDRUM

: a powerful personage or pretentious official
Origin of PANJANDRUM

Grand Panjandrum, burlesque title of an imaginary personage in some nonsense lines by Samuel Foote
First Known Use: 1856

(ain't it grand??)
I presume the titles in any of these sites (and I belong
to two now, three at one time until it died) are the
whim of the person who set up the site.


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one forum I frequent uses names of fish, and another uses different "biscuits" or "cookies". much fun!


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I think we established that here the default titles that came with the software were used.

edit: just try googling something like: pooh-bah journeyman carpal tunnel

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Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu
one forum I frequent uses names of fish, and another uses different "biscuits" or "cookies". much fun!


Is it a word discussion site like this, or other topics???


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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu
one forum I frequent uses names of fish, and another uses different "biscuits" or "cookies". much fun!


Is it a word discussion site like this, or other topics???


both progressive rock forums!


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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
I think we established that here the default titles that came with the software were used.

edit: just try googling something like: pooh-bah journeyman carpal tunnel


Well the first thing that came up was a no limits poker strategy (which kinda ruins your point tsuwm...)


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interesting.

change your search string to:
pooh-bah journeyman carpal tunnel +ubbthreads

I wonder which forum s/w copied from which..

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Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu
one forum I frequent uses names of fish, and another uses different "biscuits" or "cookies". much fun!


Is it a word discussion site like this, or other topics???


both progressive rock forums!


Ah, thanks.


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I just had to post links to our early maunderings on this subject:
graduation thread

and

Graduation, part 2

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And what exactly is a Grand Panjandrum? I know that Pooh-bah is the name of the head of the club Fred and Barney go to in the Flintstones...also possibly a riff on the leader of the Masons?

ps I'm a journeyman now! I wonder what's next...and when wink


And don't forget Pooh Bah in "The Mikado" by Gilbert (an exceptionally talented wordsmith) & Sullivan. Pooh Bah is the "Lord High Everything Else" in Titipu, and is prone to such statements as "Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative"

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