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In celebration of my recent graduation from stranger to newbie, and in sympathy with all strangers out there, I thought I'd post an explanation of the acronym YART.
Having come across the term in a post some weeks ago, I went looking on the Web. Tried a couple of acronym sites without success, then my usual search engine. I waded through the list of hundreds of references to some sort of 3D graphics program called YART, pages for the "Y-ART Gallery" and links to community organizations' Young Adult Round Tables,.....
Then I found the answer much closer to home..... It was coined by tsuwm on this very bulletin board - see "British v American" thread in Wordplay and Fun - on Wed 30 Aug 2000. And I quote:
>the structure of this board makes moving
from thread to thread a little awkward
Yet Another Rehashed Topic! (time to coin an acronym: YART)
I'm sure that tsuwm or some other kind correspondent will give this thread a shake from time to time, in order to bring it to the attention of strangers we haven't yet met, he said tautologically.
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Then I found the answer much closer to home..... It was coined by tsuwm on this very bulletin board - see "British v American" thread in Wordplay and Fun - on Wed 30 Aug 2000. And I quote:
>the structure of this board makes moving
from thread to thread a little awkward
Yet Another Rehashed Topic! (time to coin an acronym: YART)As the inspiration behind tsuwm's coining the phrase (or, perhaps, the grit in his oyster responsible for that pearl), I feel that it is probably the most significant contribution I've made to this board! 
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there was an old yonner from oz
who went searching for YART becoz
he wanted to help out
those strangers that yelp out
"this tsuwm behaves like a quoz"
well spotted, Marty
you newbie, you YARTy (yet another rehashed topic yonner)
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There was an old newbie called Mart
Who dared to decode tsuwm's YART
tsuwm called him a yonner
He thought "I'm a goner...
...tsuwm hates those that fart at his art."
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Marty, if you find something on this board that you don't quite understand, it's probably best to ask one of us first because chances are we made it up (especially if I wrote it).
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Marty, not only have you used interior rhyme to good effect, but you have suggested a real, live Stinky-Pinky®, to wit:
clue: creative wind-breaking
s-p: fart art
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creative wind-breaking
In pursuit of a sweet yawping YART,
Marty parted his cheeks for a fart.
The interior rhyme
Hid the scene of the crime -
tsuwm’s storing the fart art apart!
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mmmmm .... You just turn your back for a few moments, leave those boys to themselves and it's back to toilet humour ...
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Jo, my admiration for artful interior rhyme notwithstanding, I think you, Jackie, Bridget and I need to post watch here in 6-hour shifts.... it's probably doable given the time differences (swatch, schmatch).
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leave those boys to themselves Sorry girls - I've already been upbraided by Jax! But I just had to get that word 'yawp' onto the board somehow, didn't I tsuwm  Now where does that expression upbraid come from...
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