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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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The girls prefer delicate prose
To bad language that gets up their nose.
I can never resist a
Bad pun, but (dear sister)
For Jo I'll remain in repose!
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Jax Jax? Jax?? (I shudder to think what her pet name for you might be )
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her pet name for you...HAH - you should see our substantial off-board correspondence - suffice it to say she addresses me as uncle Beside, Jax & Max go together like... However, despite the attractions of this board I am suffering an attack of pandiculation, so fear I must go home before dusk falls. Have a great weekend, peeps :)
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Beside, Jax & Max go together like...
Wait! Don't tell me... fishes and bicycles?
(wondering if there's room for two Maxes in this here town...)
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>I think you, Jackie, Bridget and I need to post watch here in 6-hour shifts
Yes, I think you are right, do we have to do it 365(6) days a year or do we get bank holidays?
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>you should see our substantial off-board correspondence
You two timer - I'm shocked!
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>You two timer - I'm shocked!
it's okay, jo; jackie corresponds with *everybody. ; )
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Thank-you Marty. You have unwittingly taken a load off my mind. I went into your profile and noticed that you became a Newbie after some thirty posts. You know I'll be typing away to make my way out of 'stranger'. I feel like a peeping Tom with 'stranger' title. Not exactly in the game but loving it anyway . Be catching up to you soon!!
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(wondering if there's room for two Maxes in this here townNo, I think one Max is probably the max. we can handle.
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THANK YOU, ANNA!! At LAST, at LAST, I have something I can hold over the mav's head, should he have the nerve to try and orientate me again! Hee, hee! >evil grin<!
To my own surprise, I don't mind Jax, though I hate the
singular. As I have said before, I are not a male, and don't ever expect to be.
Another weirdness is that there are many "bad" words that I
don't mind at all, and only a few that I do. Go figure.
I just don't think they need to be part of ordinary speech.
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Have a great weekend, peeps :)
ATTENTION, ladies!! Do any of you agree that this sounds
suspiciously like mav is calling us "chicks"???
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jackie corresponds with *everybody
Making rather an assumption there, weren't you, Bub?
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just extrapolatin' here, boss. <g>
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just extrapolatin' here
It's not polite to extrapolate in front of people, son.
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(typing this as I chortle at the Jackie/tsuwm quid-pro-quo)
belM, check out the 'graduation' thread @ Miscellany. That should sort of clear up how this all works, hierarchy-wise.
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>as I chortle at the Jackie/tsuwm quid-pro-quo<
...long may this sort of quip-pro-quo continue!
But seriously, am I to extrapolate from earlier posts that Jo, Jackie, Anna and I are the only females on this board? I'm shocked! I'd never thought about gender (im)balance on AWAD before.
..can't we just be people?
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Bridget, there are several others, but so far they have
tended to post with periods of inactivity in between.
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I guess that RhubarbCommando (Hilary) and Emmanuela would count themselves as female too.
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>>I guess that RhubarbCommando (Hilary) and Emmanuela would count themselves as female too.
Yes, I do. But don't let me feel guilty for "lack of posting" .
Ciao
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>But don't let me feel guilty for "lack of posting"
No we won't, it probably means that you have a life!
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Speaking of imbalances around here. . .is there anyone else here under the age of 18?, 20?, 25?, 30!!?
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>Speaking of imbalances around here. . .is there anyone else here under the age of 18?, 20?, 25?, 30!!?Quite a few, I think, Jazzo, if you let people include their grandchildren in the count.
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..can't we just be people? I'm quite happy being a female alien, thankyouverymuch (aside to Jo: I'm under the impression Hilary, of the Lancaster Rhubarb Commandos, is a ... how you say in your language... "bloke")
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>I'm under the impression Hilary, of the Lancaster Rhubarb Commandos, is a ... how you say in your language... "bloke"
We'll just have to ask her/him then, won't we?
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it probably means that you have a life!Not kidding - I leave the board for only about 60 hours (to crawl around in the Welsh mud digging some foundations for a new 'withdrawing room') and get back to find there are more postings than I'll ever catch up with! By the way, peeps was intended as a ref to the catchphrase of a character created by the UK comedian Harry Enfield, whose wonderful Greek referred to everyone collectively as <peeps>, being short for the asexual 'people' - which of course is why I used that one being careful to try to not upset anyone. After all, it's no fun (no fair?) upsetting someone without meaning to...
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I'm under the impression Hilary, of the Lancaster Rhubarb Commandos, is a ... how you say in your language... "bloke"
We'll just have to ask her/him then, won't we?As I have, for much of my life, staunchly defended the principle that in almost all activities the gender of participants is totally irrelevant, I will cite the Fifth Amendment.  For those who find it necessary to know such things, there are, in any case, plenty of clues in my postings from which you might deduce my gender. BTW, I am not "of the" Rhubarb Commandos, I "am the" RhubarbCommando - isn't "commando" one of those words whose singular and plural forms are the same, like sheep. (Like that of sheep, I should say: sheep are not the same as each other, before any smart-arse makes a thing of it)
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in regards to the sex/age questions, i am fem and <25, stranger tho i am
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Glad you joined us xara. Hope you have fun with all these old codgers!
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(I see my attempt at non-toilet humor has utterly failed... oh, well, Excelsior and all that!)
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xará, welcome. Are you Brazilian, by any chance? (hoping it's OK to ask this question)
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