#32229
06/14/2001 3:05 PM
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Received this message from AWAD HQ today : We're open to the names for future titles. Please raise the issue on the board and give us suggestions.Ready? Set! GO!wow High Priestess Title corrected after a "gentle nudge" (see thread) and boy am I  ing!
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#32230
06/14/2001 3:51 PM
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Wow, you have titled this about 'Themes' and your own contribution suggests that to me also, but isn't it possible to read this as an invitation to dream up appropriate new names for titles (as in, life-beyond-pooh-bah)?
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#32231
06/14/2001 3:55 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Words to describe blabbermouths.
Conversationalist
Bombast
Blabbermouth
Earchewer
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#32232
06/14/2001 4:00 PM
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>appropriate new names for titles we need clarification on this before it gets out of hand! 
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#32233
06/14/2001 4:02 PM
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an invitation to dream up appropriate new names for titles
I, too, boggled for a moment trying to decide titles for what. I thought perhaps titles for new fora and couldn't think of anything. But mav's suggestion sounds like the right one to me. I'll need some time to think of some.
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#32234
06/14/2001 4:05 PM
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isn't it possible to read this as an invitation to dream up appropriate new names for titles (as in, life-beyond-pooh-bah)?
YES YES YES, Because I sent the page about the titles to AWAD HQ ...Banging head on desk
I will change the title IF I can !
Later edit : Ok I changed it to TITLES ...
so the question is what are suggestions for titles beyond Pooh-Bah ?
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#32235
06/14/2001 4:08 PM
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Forgive me for feeling that additional categories seem superfluous, since we cannot even keep "Miscellany" adequately replenished.
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#32236
06/14/2001 4:09 PM
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#32237
06/14/2001 4:09 PM
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#32238
06/14/2001 4:11 PM
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Dr. Bill notes: additional categories seem superfluous
Exactly the reason I had problems with the thought that he was looking for new forum categories. As for me, I can't remember where a given post is.
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#32239
06/14/2001 4:12 PM
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>additional categories seem superfluous, since we cannot even keep "Miscellany" well, it seems that we now have a *third (3rd) interpretation! a) AWAD weekly themes b) AWADtalk user titles c) AWADtalk categories good luck to you, wow, in sorting this one out!
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#32240
06/14/2001 4:15 PM
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My abject apology for causing the confusion. (groveling in the dust before you all -e) Not a new category, not a new theme, the TITLE request is for the information of The Great Anu and his Wonderful Worker Bees as to our preferences for what titles could be awarded after the exalted rank of Pooh-Bah. I think this came as a result of the general disapprobation of the present ascendancy of titles after Pooh Bah. wow Please forgive  and offer titles. Please?
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#32241
06/14/2001 4:29 PM
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The thread with the titles is "Nothing like spoiling the punchline" and the ranks are given thusly:
(If you don't want to know don't drag your cursor across the following.)
0-24 stranger
25-49 newbie
50-99 journeyman
100-199 member
200-399 enthusiast
400-699 addict
700-1,199 old hand
1,200-1,599 veteran
1,600-2,499 Pooh-Bah
2,500-3,999 Carpal Tunnel
4,000-9,999 Turtle
10,000-? Master Aster :)
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#32242
06/14/2001 4:43 PM
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If I recall a semi-recent wwftd correctly, aeolist might be a proper fit, in keeping with Sparteye's suggestions.
(And "bombast" seems to be a category error, relative to the other suggestions - shouldn't it be one who produces bombast? Perhaps bombastard?)
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#32243
06/14/2001 4:56 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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...and akin to incessant talkers, terms to describe prolific writers. A person with many, many, many posts just ought to be called Steven King.
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#32244
06/14/2001 5:26 PM
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Hey, wait a sec, Sparteye ... there is one and only one King around here and his name is Anu!
How about Board Master for the *very *top ranking?
Or is that leaving the person open for Bored Master puns? You out there somewhere TEd?
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#32245
06/14/2001 11:39 PM
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Why does any of it matter?
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#32246
06/15/2001 3:45 AM
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Supreme High Time-Waster? *from one aspiring to the title herself*
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#32247
06/15/2001 4:34 AM
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Harmless Drudge
Lexist Pig
Bingley
Bingley
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#32248
06/15/2001 10:27 AM
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Why does any of it matter? harrumphs half our tag team. Well, the linguist’s Halliday-inspired answer might be: what we do here is produce collaborative texts with both ideational meaning and interpersonal meaning – the need to express not only ideas but also our social relationships with others. We just have to make sure there is some kind of balance of content and context, to avoid sounding like the tedious yapping of stray dogs! 
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#32249
06/15/2001 11:11 AM
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Again, maverick quickly arrives at the essence of what I poorly try to articulate as he Ockhams the need to express not only ideas but also our social relationships with others.
Hear, hear. Notherwise, the tag-team wouldn't have made any kind of announcement here. But I still think all this stuff about chat titles is a bit silly, she said, harrumphing* and enjoying rocking the boat.
*patent pending
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#32250
06/15/2001 2:03 PM
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But I still think all this stuff about chat titles is a bit silly,
Aww, c'mon Anna, Cheer up! Your title ideas are sure to be imaginative if you just get your own self into the spirit of the endeavour!
We just can't let Anu down ... especially after we ragged so on the standard titles ?!?! and Heaven knows there have been comments enough about titles in dozens of threads, n'est ce pas?
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#32251
06/16/2001 1:02 AM
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Has anyone ever seen a Carpal Tunnel Turtle? I, for one, prefer the Carpal Tunnel Rat!  And, now, on a more serious note, how about Word Guru , or something simple like Bard or Grand Bard ...not that the last has anything to do with ageism (ahem).
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#32252
06/16/2001 2:20 AM
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#32253
06/16/2001 4:00 PM
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OK. How about *no titles at all?
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#32254
06/18/2001 11:07 AM
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how about, in ass-ending order:
Pundit (especially for our Francophiles)
Humpty
Jabberwock
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#32255
06/18/2001 5:02 PM
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Pundit (especially for our Francophiles)
And Boffin for our Brit chums?
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a terrific book, especially the Flack Catchers part, for aspiring reporters ... Hi AnnS
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#32256
06/18/2001 5:04 PM
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journeyman
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The pseudo-mythic Flaw Firm of Barnum, Blarney & Balderdash (the specialites of which firm include, inter alia, anti-intelllectual property flaw, has scribbled the following suggestions :
"Grandiloqwonk" "Philologolistissimus" "Logomaniac" "Rara Avis" and "Logolist-in- Chief"
Scribbler rather likes "Mot Justiciar" "Logomach" and "Wordwarder" (and "Warden" in some of its several senses, would also be interesting?!)
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#32257
06/18/2001 10:32 PM
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#32258
06/19/2001 2:33 AM
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maverick has suggested Jabberwock.
I haven't been able to get this one out of my head all day. Looks like I know where my vote is going (oh, yeah, this isn't a democracy).
Jabberwock, unlike the other suggested titles, is rooted within the field that has drawn us borogoves together.
Brandon (who celebrates his first triple-digit post by raising his vorpal sword in the air and chanting "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
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#32259
06/19/2001 4:28 AM
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Bandersnatch! ...for who's more frumious than an ascending Pooh-Bah?
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#32260
06/19/2001 10:42 AM
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Word Prefect
as a pun on "Word Perfect" and "Ford Prefect" and implying the Prefect monitoring role as at school?
I like many of the suggestions already made. Can we change ALL the levels or just the ones higher than Pooh Bah?
Rod
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#32261
06/19/2001 6:57 PM
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Rodward gave me pause by asking Can we change ALL the levels or just the ones higher than Pooh Bah?
I went back and read the note I rec'd from AWAD HQ and sure enough I had copied and pasted OK ... so, since the note said "We're open to the names for future titles" it would seem that FUTURE is the cause for the question.
I presumed the future meant those not already awarded ... but, what the heck, suggest away!
The question was raised about why we needed titles at all ... I can empathize with the feeling ... on the other hand -- for myself -- I find that I am more patient with Strangers and Newbies just as I am more patient with children than with adults.
It's a character flaw! Ahhh, well.
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#32262
06/19/2001 7:31 PM
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I'm with ASp on this issue. I think the titles have been a horrible (an 'orrible) [but not terrible?] distraction. on the other hand, I have no aspirations to become a turtle (why turtle?) and I will retire/expire before submitting to "master aster" (I don't even want to know!) well, obviously we're never going to reach concensus on this, so some benevolent god/goddess will have to decide what to submit to the G&P one. were it up to me, I would choose thusly: 2500 - whangdoodle5000 - nonesuch10000 - Icarusoh, wait... upon second thinking, aster might be meant to be that suffix denoting partial resemblance
: one that is inferior or not genuine; as in, poetaster or criticaster. in which case, masteraster...
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#32263
06/20/2001 9:37 AM
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06/20/2001 7:23 PM
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we are open to names for future titles Well, since it seems that Anu means to look at all suggestions and surprise us with his picks, here's some I scribbled down without posting (until now)...good, bad, winceable, or otherwise. Lest they should go to waste. Bogart (for you could say the post-Pooh-Bahs are bogarting the board!) Speilunker Boardosaurus Wordosaur (--saurus) Word Dervish Pooh-Pooh Bah (sorry...but why waste it?)
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