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So is there someplace where all of this taxonomy of heirarchy is written down or is it all verbal lore?
Its a complete surprise to us as we travel down the path. I think it goes: Stranger(0); Newbie(50); Journeyman(!)(100); Member(200); Addict(400).
Jackie is on 599 at this precise moment so we wait with baited breath!
Footnote: ooops - ignore this mail see amendements in next two posts, I knew that there was something missing!
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Its a complete surprise to us as we travel down the path. I think it goes: Stranger(0); Newbie(50); Journeyman(!)(100); Member(200); Addict(400).
Actually, it's not quite that stiff. Newbie is 25, Journeyman 50, member 100. Going at that rate the next rank after addict should be at 800, then 1600!
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Jackie is on 599 at this precise momentOk, here's my 600th! Father Steve, I love it--verbal lore for verbivores! 
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Its a complete surprise to us as we travel down the path. I think it goes: Stranger(0); Newbie(50); Journeyman(!)(100); Member(200); Addict(400).
Actually, it's not quite that stiff. Newbie is 25, Journeyman 50, member 100. Going at that rate the next rank after addict should be at 800, then 1600!
No, see you guys, you left out Enthusiast. I've gone over this before. It's Stranger(0), Newbie(25), Journeyman(50), Member(100), Enthusiast(200), Addict(400), and yes, I would say that the next one will be 800.
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I have dutifully resurrected this thread to humbly congratulate Jackie on her newfound title of "Old Hand".
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Congratulations Jackie
Will the next one be old foot?
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Thank you, folks! I must say I am VERY relieved not to be
an addict (in name, never mind the reality!) any more.
This does blow the geometric-progression theory out of the water, doesn't it? Not a problem for me--Anu can do whatever he takes it into his beloved little mind to do, in my book.
Jo, now that you're back, I hope you will zoom back to your rightful position! And, tsuwm, I'd be delighted if you'd post enough to get ahead of me.
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>if you'd post enough to get ahead of me it ain't gonna happen as long as you are AWAD's Minister Of Salutations gee, if I could only come up with another S-word you could be the MOSS...
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I have to admit. I am more than a little concerned about my status as an addict. It starts to become a problem when one's AWAD life starts to "leak" into real life.
I had a very enjoyable evening wrecked by an argument about tidal waves, bores and those waves beginning with tsu (tsunami - I L'dIU). The difficulty is the person who is convinced that they are right. I really wanted to get out my laptop, and look it up for him. Alternatively, laptops do make effective but expensive projectiles.
I had dinner with some old friends recently. I hadn't seen them for years. The Spanish translation for a dish on the menu was "throat of tuna". You can imagine! I started to discuss what people think of when they hear the word throat - front, back etc. I was just mentioning the phrase "Pearls at her throat", I hadn't even got as far as Pearl the singer when a friend looked at me aghast and said "How did we get onto that subject!". Before I had chance to explain, another friend chimed in "don't worry, she does throw the weirdest things into conversation, we just leave her to get on with it for a while". I had no idea that I was being merely "tolerated"!
Is there a Betty Ford Clinic for logophiles? Or are we into the realms of logoleptia, logomachy or just logorrhea?
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Hi Jo, Very pertinent and wonderful! I try and delay the moment of my turning into an addict. Nothing more disheartening than to feel "tolerated".. Maybe the new DSM-IV classification will be logophagopathy.
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