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Overtaken By Events


#145673 08/01/05 01:05 AM
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Now I get it. When I do it, it is mantling. When tsuwm does it, it is being overtaken by events.


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nah, OBE is when three people post all at once.


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OBE is when three people post all at once.

Okay, but if one of them is just a tiny bit slower than the other two, is it, as to the laggard, a mini-mantle?


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Good heavens, my sincerest apologies: I didn't know that there were any of us here who don't get the newsletter.
And I will also add that Dr. Bill is not the first of us to attain fame there: hi mav!


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>a tiny bit slower.. a mini-mantle.

stepping up my self-obnubilation, I had a tiny bit more to say; but I'll leave you to be my judge, Father.
-joe bfstplk


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I'll leave you to be my judge

I'll pass on the judging opportunity. I'm trying to follow a strict policy of only passing judgment when I get paid to do so.



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It's not a mantle if the second poster has had no chance to have read the first post. In that case the first poster is said to have pipped the second.


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Mantle? Pip? This Board is responsible for at least as many new words as is J.K. Rowling (cross-thread emoticon).


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Is that Mickey's son?


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