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Post by slb2 on Dec 20, 2006 2:37:33 GMT -5
That Emi. She sure knows how to pick 'em.
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Post by Trusty on Dec 20, 2006 6:13:07 GMT -5
That Emi. She sure knows how to pick 'em. Pickin' and grinnin'... ;D
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Post by Tillie on Jan 20, 2007 21:16:37 GMT -5
Tonight I've been smited by a secret admirer, please own up and tell me why I hurt you. 'Twasn't intentional you sweet sensitive one & I certainly wouldn't want to hurt you unintentionally again. Maybe, I can make your hurt bettah?
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Post by booklady on Jan 20, 2007 21:51:22 GMT -5
'Twas not I, Tillie.
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Post by gailkate on Feb 18, 2007 15:25:43 GMT -5
If people boost my karma rating, will I stop being GRUMPY??? I just noticed this and it's making me - well, cross.
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Post by slb2 on Feb 18, 2007 17:04:14 GMT -5
gailkate, I just exalted you from a 32. Feel better now? Just post more. You'll be up from a grumpy rating in another couple weeks.
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Post by brutus on Feb 18, 2007 18:26:15 GMT -5
If people boost my karma rating, will I stop being GRUMPY??? I just noticed this and it's making me - well, cross. Would you rather be Dopey??? A little black pepper in the vicinity of the schnoz will make one Sneezy! ~B~
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Post by gailkate on Feb 18, 2007 19:06:06 GMT -5
Thank you, slb2, and whoever else has boosted my score. Thanks, Brutus, I didn't realize it was how often you post. So if I just right "yes" after every post I read I'll get out of Grump-dom? Whatever, I'm now going to devote myself to exalting someone every hour. It's my new mission.
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Post by doctork on Feb 18, 2007 20:01:06 GMT -5
I've been troubled by this "Grumpy" label myself, but then I figured "Well, it's February...isn't everybody grumpy in February?"
I suppose if you reply "yes" or "agreed" to every post you would graduate faster. At least on this board, only your name changes. On some boards, you can't post at all in the really interesting places until you have a certain number of member-months and posts!
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Post by joew on Feb 18, 2007 22:37:44 GMT -5
I suppose I could go back to the original discussion, but if memory serves, the highest status available is "Dopey Member" — as an implicit response to GK when he said he found the former Chatterbox "dopey."
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Post by Trusty on Feb 18, 2007 23:57:38 GMT -5
Doing things...
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Post by Trusty on Feb 18, 2007 23:58:56 GMT -5
to increase the number of your posts...
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Post by Trusty on Feb 18, 2007 23:59:39 GMT -5
just to get your status up...
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Post by Trusty on Feb 19, 2007 0:00:09 GMT -5
would be CHEATING,
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Post by Trusty on Feb 19, 2007 0:00:36 GMT -5
and that's not nice!
;D
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Post by doctork on Feb 19, 2007 0:00:43 GMT -5
I've been thinking more about the upcoming cruise, since Thomas mentioned the passing of Gordon Wright (who was a guest on the Alaska cruise) in yesterday's show thread.
Five months after GK pronounced us "dopey" I find my feelings are still hurt; such an insult was uncalled for. I am not unduly concerned regarding his opinion of me, but I do question if I want to spend a lot of money on a cruise to Norway with such an individual.
But it does help to know that here,"dopey" is the highest status!
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Post by juliastar on Feb 19, 2007 7:30:28 GMT -5
I've been thinking more about the upcoming cruise, since Thomas mentioned the passing of Gordon Wright (who was a guest on the Alaska cruise) in yesterday's show thread. Five months after GK pronounced us "dopey" I find my feelings are still hurt; such an insult was uncalled for. I am not unduly concerned regarding his opinion of me, but I do question if I want to spend a lot of money on a cruise to Norway with such an individual. But it does help to know that here,"dopey" is the highest status! For me, it is like that country song Anj quoted not too long ago, I could have missed the pain but then I would have missed the dance. I still feel there is a missing piece to the puzzle, some fact, something somebody else knows that if I only knew it, too, it would all make sense and the sting would stop. Garrison surrounds himself with incredibly talented and seemingly authentic people as contrasted to the plastic paraded as celebrity in our current cultural climate. His tastes (except sometimes in poetry, Billy Collins being exhibit 1) meshes so well with my own that to not go on the cruise would be to cut off my nose to spite my face. And, the fjords in Norway are rated by National Geographic as the number one most recommended spot to visit. I have some travel books. It looks like Alaska on steroids. We have a layover in Paris, time enough to get a good glass of wine and a real croissant. I'll be there. If nothing else, we would be letting down our table mates from cruise I & II who have never been out of the country and are screwing up the courage for this last trip, but unless something changes between now and then, some miracle of insight, I won't be writing any more essays for the ship's newsletter about how flawless I think the host is.
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Post by rogesgallery on Feb 19, 2007 12:10:39 GMT -5
Personally I expect to be smitten at least once a day so the karma rating may work for mw in ways most people can't appreciate. What would really make me feel self concious is if you all could watch me type. Yikes!
In the words of my favorite Pedant Poet
I Yam wadI Yam and thats all thatI Yam Aak akakakakakakakakakakak skidilydobedo akakakakak oouu gotta go see olive pick some nice flowa's akakakakakak
If it weren't for Bugs Bunny I'd be illiterate.
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Post by rogesgallery on Feb 19, 2007 12:15:45 GMT -5
How does someone know who's smitten them?
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Post by joew on Feb 19, 2007 12:31:43 GMT -5
The only way of knowing who did it is if the smiter admits it. Same for exaltations.
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Post by Trusty on Feb 22, 2007 22:50:38 GMT -5
The only way of knowing who did it is if the smiter admits it. Same for exaltations. I believe it's called the Smiter's Privacy Act. It's a law. Yes it is. Is too.
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Post by gailkate on Feb 22, 2007 23:50:04 GMT -5
I've exalted Roges and promise to get back on my once-an-hour regimen tomorrow. I didn't like GK's snippy answer to the person who wrote asking about Norway's whaling policy. I think you all should pester him about it if you take the cruise. Also demonstrate in front of the castle or whatever it is.
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Post by juliastar on Feb 23, 2007 8:52:43 GMT -5
I've exalted Roges and promise to get back on my once-an-hour regimen tomorrow. I didn't like GK's snippy answer to the person who wrote asking about Norway's whaling policy. I think you all should pester him about it if you take the cruise. Also demonstrate in front of the castle or whatever it is. Not sure this thread is the place for this chat, but as far as I know, it is only doctork and myself that are booked on this next cruise and I don't intend to go to Norway to protest anything. I love whales. I won't buy any whale by-products. It took me until I was 48 to actually see a whale in the wild. I would probably position myself between the shooter and the whale if I were present when one was being hunted and beg that the life of the whale be spared, but these matters are often quite complex. I'd like to see one of us try surviving living off the coast of Norway. And given our own callous disregard for human life in the form of this misadventure in the Middle East, I would have to go to Washington and shake my fist at the current occupant for bringing unnecessary carnage to 3,000 of our own and the people of Iraq before I dared tell any people in any other country that what they allow makes them reprehensible. There are people that denounce cruise ships for the environmental impact. There are people that denounce cars. I was hiking as a teenager once and had always followed the personal rule to never leave trash behind but if something was biodegradable, I didn't carry it out. I was reprimanded once by a kooky stranger for tossing orange peels under a shrub. When I protested that they were organic I was told they would impact and change the acidity of the soil. Well, yeah, and my footprint is an impact. Any good idea can be taken to the point of paralysis.
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Post by slb2 on Feb 23, 2007 12:36:06 GMT -5
Tillie, I somewhat think Ellington is someone's idea of a smartie-pants joke. I welcome Ellington to correct me if I'm mistaken.
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Post by gailkate on Feb 23, 2007 16:19:14 GMT -5
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Post by Trusty on Feb 23, 2007 16:24:05 GMT -5
Well, Slb2, if that's true Trusty might be able tell us who the smarty-pants is or is not? True, Tillie. I might be able to tell you. But you see, I have this thing about privacy - and, hopefully, responsibility - so it ain't gonna happen.
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Post by joew on Feb 23, 2007 20:44:48 GMT -5
Well, Slb2, if that's true Trusty might be able tell us who the smarty-pants is or is not? True, Tillie. I might be able to tell you. But you see, I have this thing about privacy - and, hopefully, responsibility - so it ain't gonna happen. I exalt you, Trusty.
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Post by Tillie on Feb 24, 2007 5:48:57 GMT -5
Well, Slb2, if that's true Trusty might be able tell us who the smarty-pants is or is not? True, Tillie. I might be able to tell you. But you see, I have this thing about privacy - and, hopefully, responsibility - so it ain't gonna happen. Oh, silliebillie! I thought 'twas you and your smartie-pants jokin' around! Now I know 'tis true, all too true. I mean you do say you just know enough to get into trouble.
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