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Congrats TEddy. Member sounds so dignified and staunch. Doesn't enthusiast sound so much more excitingly fun. (she says while silently whispering in your ear…it’s all a ploy to help move you quietly and painlessly on your way to addict, run away, run away  )
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There was an old poster called Marty
(also "wordie", "ayleur", "Gargler", "YARTie")
Once a stranger (September),
Newbie, journeyman, member,
But now as enthusiast I'll PARTY !
Happy 200th post to me!
(I think that's called burgling your own bugle!)
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But now as enthusiast I'll PARTY !
Happy 200th post to me!
Well done, Marty! I have noticed several graduations recently - Bel, Jazz, troy. I didn't wish to post separate contrafibularities to avoid any accusation of self-serving altruism. To all who have recently fallen deeper under AWAD's spell - keep feeding that monkey until your back can't take the strain!
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thank you max! i'm glad someone noticed! jackie's been away with server problems, i was feeling neglected!
(wish there was markup for mail so i could make thank you bold and red!
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did any one else notice --wordsmith (the great Anu! praise his name!--) is a chief! are we going to end up all chiefs? how many posts? years? or is there to be only one chief?
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My dear Helen, Belated congrats to you and all. Also belated welcome to those who joined up while I was "down". Helen, when you want to put colors and a slew of other things into your posts, go up to the top of your typing screen and click on markup in your posts. These will also work in private messages, but I try to be extra-vigilant there, because you can't Preview your private message. I do advise you to Preview a post where you've used the markup stuff--it's very easy to make { instead of [, or to omit the /, etc. This stuff won't work unless you get everything exactly right. (I know I saw this advice on another thread today, but I don't think it can hurt to keep repeating it, esp. as long as new folks keep signing on.) Also, somewhere today I saw a partial post (not a parcel post! ), can't recall by whom--if you want to delete any post, click on the "left-most" one of the two gold boxes at the right of the top bar of that post. This is how you edit, also. I feel sure there can only be one Chief. The rest of us will have to be Indians (native American, that is), acc'g to the old saying.
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It's Stranger(0), Newbie(25), Journeyman(50), Member(100), Enthusiast(200), Addict(400) As of this writing, we know that at 700 posts we get the title Old Hand.
Seems like after 1000 or 1500 or so we should get to be Geezers.
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These will also work in private messages, but I try to be
extra-vigilant there, because you can't Preview your private message.Au contraire, ma cherie! Previewing private posts is very easy - just a little time-consuming. I have done it often. All one has to do is post the message to one's self first, then check how the markup came out. 
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Also, somewhere today I saw a partial post (not a parcel post!), can't recall by whom--if you want to delete any post, click on the "left-most" one of the two gold boxes at the right of the top bar of that post. This is how you edit, also.
Dear Jackie.
It was mea culpa. I hit control -- or something strange --and off it went. When it vanished I thought I'd cleared the form by accident. It wasn't until I saw it on the board that I realized I'd partial posted. Do the buttons work when it's already gone into the Great Beyond?
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several graduations recently
Perhaps this is just my presumptuous self speaking, but I smell an unprecedented graduation coming. Logic tells me that Jackie will be advancing in another 20 posts when she reaches 1100.
Of course, I was wrong at 700 . . .
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Dear Jackie.
It was mea culpa. I hit control -- or something strange --and off it went. When it vanished I thought I'd cleared the form by accident. It wasn't until I saw it on the board that I realized I'd partial posted. Do the buttons work when it's already gone into the Great Beyond?
wow
Dammit, Wow, and there was me thinking that I'd made you simply lost for words - a kind of finger-bound asphasia!
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... and I'd given you credit for a lovely post-modernist joke about the role of careful editing! 
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... and I'd given you credit for a lovely post-modernist joke about the role of careful editing!
Me too, me too, he cried excitedly! I had automatically assumed the post was deliberate, and chuckled at it, then waited in shamed silence when appraised of my error. I have a malformed public duty gland, and a deficiency in moral fibre, and am therefore excused from being first ot admit to gaffes.
(apologies, and thanks, to D.A.)
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All right tsuwm...put 'er here. You know you want to.
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Anticlimax of the year, bel and all. tsuwm just hit 1100 and guess what? Yep, still an old hand. So who's next to propose an algorithmic theory?
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Michael Fischer
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Whoa, now I can post again! I'll probably be on 1199 this time tomorrow!
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Whoa, now I can post again! I'll probably be on 1199 this time tomorrow!
Might be Anu's little trap for you, Jackie. Perhaps you'll trip the wire at 1101.
Nice to have you back, though. Your tongue must be sore from biting it for so long.
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Helen asks: "Is there to be only one chief?"
As they say on the television program Highlander: "There can be only one."
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Might be Anu's little trap for you, Jackie. Perhaps you'll trip the wire at 1101.
You know, it did occur to me that maybe there aren't any more new titles. I refuse to consider these as levels of achievement, except the kind I prefer not to have pointed out (too much mouth).
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Just before I sign off until 2001, I reckon I'll acquire yet another habit that I can resolve not to give up for the New Year. They made me do it, officer!
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Congrats, shona--official recognition is yours.
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All right, I've been waiting all night for a thread to pop up so that I can finally post my 400th and I am darn well NOT going to waste it on a Céline Dion post, dag nabbit! It's waaaay past my bedtime (12:21 in the a.m.) so I am taking matters into my own hands. So voila, ta-dah, bells and whistles, three cheers pour moi, going to paint the town red, bit of hot nooky, et al, et al, et al. Thanks folks for making the first 400 fabulous!
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Jackie's already acknowledged my advancement elsewhere. She's not sure congratulations are in order. I didn't even notice it until I went back to the 401st post and saw that I had a new attribute ... hot damn!
This board makes me think outside my own enlarged square and face, head-on, how other people think. I agree with Bingley - it's great.
Congrats to us all.
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The apteryx near the apiary did proclaim Congrats to us all.
Indeed! To you and to Celine's not so loyal compatriot, a hearty well done. Ain't it grand to start the new millennium as junkies, he asked provocatively.
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Wowee, congratulations and adulations, all 'round! Way to go, belM! I had wanted to post C.K.'s congrats here, but when I saw that everyone would have to go to page 6 to read it, I remembered someone's (tsuwm's?) plea to be kind and not make people go through that, but... I'm so very glad you-all did! Can't wait to read your-all's next 400! The apteryx near the apiary did proclaim Congrats to us all.
Indeed! To you and to Celine's not so loyal compatriot, a hearty well done. Ain't it grand to start the new millennium as junkies, he asked provocativelyOoh, Max/apteryx--if you'll reside in my aviary, I'll provide all the bees you can eat. Or is it the honey you're after? I know--I'll put an apiary in my aviary!
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Ooh, Max/apteryx--if you'll reside in my aviary, I'll provide all the bees you can eat. Or is it the honey you're after? I know--I'll put an apiary in my aviary!
Now, now Jackie, let's not mix the birds and the bees. This is a forum about words. Haven't you called someone to bring you a ladder to get out of that chasmal gutter?
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the birds and the bees.
I never thought of that! Oh, no, my reputation is
ruined! Positively ruined! What a world, what a world!
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Max said, being alliterative: The apteryx near the apiary did proclaim Congrats to us all.Jackie and Jazz offered bees ... but the apteryx eats roots, shoots and leaves. Sorry folks, understandable error. Max's alliteration referred to the apiary not an apiary. Perhaps y'all can turn your undoubted research talents loose on what he meant ... You have 24 hours to resolve the issue!
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Queen Elizabeth Park -- One of New Zealand's most picturesque cricket grounds surrounded by huge redwoods. Within the park is a cemetery with the graves of early Wairarapa settlers. Attractions include a bird aviary, playground, aquarium, gardens, skating rink, deer park and mini golf. A miniature railway and boating pond operate on weekends and public holidays. The park is also used by sports clubs for croquet, bowls and tennis.... A short drive from Masterton is The Apiary. there you have it; aviary, apiary and cricket, all at once. joe (thie shellan) friday
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Hrmph--I refuse to admit to missing a clue that should ought to have been Capital (Kiwi)-ized, and Wasn't!
And, the apteryx eats roots, shoots and leaves.
No wonder they're extinct. No paternal instincts at all.
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[Jackie harrumphed I refuse to admit to missing a clue that should ought to have been Capital (Kiwi)-ized, and Wasn't
Never fear, Jackie, joe friday did not hit the bullseye with that one! You are right, though, the answer should be capitalised. Keep loooking, and to tsuwm, thanks, I had never heard of The Apiary near Masterton.
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Max was right - I was at Queen Elizabeth Park in Masterton in October last year, and that ain't it. Nice, though, in a rural provincial sort of way. Keep looking! Jackie, Kiwis are not extinct, and neither are kiwis. Three varieties exist. What went extinct was the moa. They were eaten out of house and home by about 1750, although the date is in dispute. Slaughterhouses didn't have to be registered and keep proper records for the EU in them days!
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CapKiwi reminded us that Jackie, Kiwis are not extinct, and neither are kiwi. Three varieties exist.
Sadly, that may not be the case for much longer. I'm sure I read somewhere that 6 out of every 10 Nth Island browns hatched are killed by predators, or was it 4 out of 6?
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Max, I wonder if this could bee The Apiary you were
referring to? (Bzzz--thanks for the hint, little birdie!)
"One of the most striking examples of modern architecture in New Zealand is the so-called Beehive Building on the Parliament Grounds in Wellington. The Beehive Building gets its name because its round stories decrease in circumference as they increase in elevation, and because the shape of its windows resembles the honeycomb construction of a beehive."
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Jaclkie inquired disingenuously Could this bee it? One of the most striking examples of modern architecture in New Zealand is the so-called Beehive Building on the Parliament Grounds in Wellington.Spot on! Did you have to pull that from the Web with a devilshly complicated pair of pliers?
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Hi guys,
I've moved the Graduation thread into the info and announcement section. It moves a little slower and it will be an easy place for the newbies to find it.
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As Max has said, yup, it's the Beehive. It's an odd place, but it has all the ingredients - a Queen Bee of doubtful lineage and ethics, and hundreds of drones. This particular Queen Bee manages to produce all the offspring she sees fit without the need for a pesky male of the species ...
I walk through Parliament Grounds on my way to work every morning. I hardly notice it now unless something draws my attention to it.
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As you can see on the "markup in your posts" page, there is a link to http://www.wwwthreads.com, the company that markets lovely discussion boards like these. I went nosing around this site and decided to take a look at some of their samples and what they offer for the board services. Either this isn't the newest version of the board, or Anu just decided not to use most of the features, because there are a lot of other things that they offer, like being able to put a picture under your name in posts etc. One of the things I noted was that the board administrator (Anu, in our case) is able to customize the titles that are determined by ones number of posts. I took a look around the sample discussion board that they have on their website and lo and behold, it's the same titles as we have here. Unfortunately, no one below administration has gotten higher than Old Hand, so I didn't find any new info concerning new titles, but I've concluded that we've been spending a great deal of time talking about titles that aren't even our own.
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"It ain't so," said joe factitiously.
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