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#83566 10/18/02 08:41 AM
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redpepper, is there a point to your last post or do you just enjoy reprinting such articles for some strange, lascivious pleasure?


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red pepper made a total of 8 posts over the weekend (last) and has dropped out... as a newbie, we can't expect him/her/(hos?) to know and understand the protocal here. and since they have stopped (for the moment) posting, lets cut some slack.

Red Pepper we prefer out humor a bit subtle... like the comment about going down on an escalator... your posting, well, might have been fine for a medical/health board, but really has nothing to do with words. see the difference? plays on words, even if slightly blue are fun, out and out posting are out of place.

and if you read the current threads you find others, even old timers, have been called to task this week for similar (albeit shorter, and less lascivous) posts of similar nature. we tend to be alternately be naught school kids and school marms... cutting up, and joking one minute, and being stern and correct the next.

there are no rules here... (that is, externally imposed ones!) but this is a very strict place! we all work to keep it focused on words, while enjoying them too!


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in rp's defense, there are two word related concepts in the original post:
the term "vertical-ites" and
the "word a day" feature in the ad content.
maybe it would have been better placed in another forum section? I struggled with that myself this morning when posting about the free Mac software. is Information and Announcements the best place for something like that? or this?



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Eta - I&A was exactly the right place to announce the Free Mac offer.

To be honest I'd say that Wordplay & Fun is the natural home for, say, dodgy advertising terminology (and buzzwords and so on). In my opinion verticality fits the bill on that front.

Mea culpa for continuing the bike-seat sidetrack, though. Nothing word-related at all. My apologies.


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It's almost as bad as turning something serious into a food thread ..........




#83571 10/19/02 10:59 AM
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you find others, even old timers, have been called to task this week for similar (albeit shorter, and less lascivous) posts of similar nature
Like "Don't miss!-Shocking new OZ cultural phenomenon!", de Troy? That thread drew almost 600 views (more than any other current thread I can find) and 54 replies.

Thank you for your guidance, de Troy, and your willingness to cut me some slack. Now that you have explained everything, I see that I was wrong to ask Fishonabike a question about bike design. In my own defence, I can only say that my question was sincere, and, once Fishonabike gave me his informed reply, I did not explore the subject further.

In any event, it would be a bit of a stretch to call my interest or my post "lascivious". Cycling is pretty much a universal activity in our society and the study I mentioned was reported as serious science in a respectable newspaper. I did use the term "private parts" in my post, but that reference did not excite a fraction of the interest generated by the far more explicit "Oz cultural phenomenon" thread. That thread produced a sustained frenzy of discussion about "penis puppetry".

Incidentally, my take on the Oz Phenom thread was the same as my take on the stage performance itself. It didn't tickle my fancy so I didn't choose to buy a ticket or join in the reviews. No offence to those who did. To each his own.

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Do we contradict ourself? Very well, then we contradict ourself, we are large, we contain multitudes.


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Do we contradict ourself? Very well, then we contradict ourself, we are large, we contain multitudes.

Ok, its early in the morning but I'll play...uh...Orson Wells?


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Orson Wells?

Freely adapted from Walt Whitman.


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