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How many posts does it take to lose the 'stranger' stigma?
I sympathize with your feeling stigmatized. Stranger than whom, or what? Being comparative, "stranger" is neither as clearly stated as the positive, "strange," nor as unique as the superlative "strangest," a position to which I have long aspired, but shall not likely reach.
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Two boll weevils grew up in Mississippi. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.How come the first boll weevil didn't go to Bollywood? 
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How come the first boll weevil didn't go to Bollywood?
Ha! 
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didn't Shona make it in 5 minutes? 46-1/2 hours (ICLIU, somewhat harder since shona is a nickname for a screen name.)
I suppose one could try to take a positive view and say that the unwanted designation is an incentive for newcomers to post often, in order to reach 25 posts and become a newbie, a less dyslogistic term, and a brief stop before journeyman. ?
Yep -- that's exactly why I've been on line so much the last few days. A stigma motivates some folk and intimidates others. Is that a good trade-off? To quote a PM: "we're so used to people coming in here, asking some kind of question and we see them maybe once or twice more and they fade into the woodwork."
Given that the existing titles are irrevocably hard-wired into the software, what then?
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Less money in Bollywood. And India doesn't cotton to anyforeign weevils.
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Here's a couple more conundrums from "Riddler 1829" from The Boys' Own Book since I doubt I'll be posting a third installment (the first two are available by searching this thread for those who missed it): If the letter D were never used more, why would it be like a dead man? Answer: It would be D-ceased (Deceased.)Why are the eye-brows like mistakes? Answer: They are over sights (oversights.)>poster designations< I just "graduated" from enthusiast, which I loved, to addict, which I'm not really comfortable with staring at next to my name...but it's just a spot of frivolous board-jargon and we move on. And, yes, stranger did feel like I was wearing The Scarlet Letter when I first arrived. But, actually I got some fun play out of the name, too. When I posted my first major thread, someone who I've become very friendly with here PM'd me that I certainly fit the designation of stranger!...which was well-taken and gave me a good laugh, and I sent them back and said so. 'Cause I had to admit, the Neanderthal thread saw some pretty strange posts!
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Of course, if someone adopted the boardname of Camus, s/he might want to remain "stranger" forever...
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Hugh, and only Hugh can prevent florist friars.
i didn't see that one comming. funny!
i'm not too good at telling jokes, but here goes;
there's an old man who owned a ranch. on his death bed he brought his two sons together and told them that he was passing the ranch on to them. all they had to do was pick a new name for the ranch. after some consideration they decided to name it "Sun's Rays Meet"
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Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
Oh, yes it did ... caught me -- good!
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