This post is the impetus for this thread:

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Mistah Rabbit Patting rhyme
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 11:20 PM

Thank you Q

Some of Axix's posting are more than a smidge-bit A-centric.
thread.cfm?threadid=97895&messages=25#1932875 Re: Lyr Add: Mistah Rabbit Patting rhyme

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I'm taking the liberty to re-post this comment because I consider it to be pertinent to my response to the questions I posed in my initial post to this thread.

Let me first state that I believe that the "Guest" who wrote that post could have been either a Mudcat member posting anonymously or a non-member.

I did not comment about that post in that Mistah Rabbit thread because I didn't [and don't] think it was appropriate for me to do so in that thread.

However, I want to congratulate whoever posted that comment for crafting a good example of a coded message. After all, the word
"A-centric' could mean several things.

When I first read that comment, I thought that "Guest" meant
"afro-centric". http://www.answers.com/topic/afrocentrism gives this meaning for that adjective:
"Centered or focused on Africa or African peoples, especially in relation to historical or cultural influence".

Yep. That's me [on Mudcat and elsewhere] at least it is me much of the time.

However, upon some reflection, I thought 'Maybe when "Guest" wrote "A-centric" she or he was thinking about the word 'eccentric'".

One of the definitions for "eccentric" that http://www.answers.com/topic/eccentric gives is "1. Departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern."

Hmmm. Perhaps because a synonym for 'ecentric' is 'strange', I prefer to think of myself as 'eclectic'.

http://www.answers.com/topic/eclectic indicates that the adjective 'eclectic' means: givf
1. Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles:

2. Made up of or combining elements from a variety of sources

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Yep. I'm proud to say that I'm eclectic. Or at least, I consider myself to be electic.

You may ask can a person be afrocentric and eclectic at the same time. In my opinion, Yes a person can be afrocentric and [at the same time or at different times] also select and employ individual elments from a variety of sources, systems, or styles-not limited to those from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Since my focus was on the topic of the Mistah Rabbit thread, it wasn't until later on that it occurred to me that "Guest" may have misspelled my name on purpose, and that "Guest" may have been alluding to my name [which after all begins with the letter "A"] when she or he wrote that I was "A-centric" and meant that I was being "a smidge bit" too self-promoting.

It should be noted {for those who have dial up Internet connections and may not want to waste time & effort visiting that Mistah Rabbit thread for to check this} that prior to "Guest" posting that comment, there had been 7 comments to that thread. Three of the comments were posted by Q {that thread's starter}, and 2 by me. My first post to that thread contained no "I", "me" or 'my' sentences. However, my second post to that thread included a number of "I" sentences in which I shared my experiences and thoughts about the topic under discussion. And because I considered it to be pertinent to the discussion, I also provided a link in that Mistah Rabbit thread to another Mudcat thread, one-by happenchance, that I had started.

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I believe that there are many occassions when self-promotion on Mudcat threads is appropriate and efficacious [or whatever the right form of that word is]. However, when I share my experiences with and thoughts about certain subjects of Mudcat threads, I usually do so not as a means of self-promotion but as one would do during the normal course of a conversation, that is to provide a context for, to add information, to validate, and/or to qualify one's comments.

That said, there are times that I have posted a hyperlink to my website http://www.cocojams.com/ as a means of promoting that site. However, I believe that the times I have done so have been appropriate and efficacious.

Of course, "Guest" or Guests or Members may not agree. And they have the right to disagree.

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The beauty of a coded message such as that one which "Guest" 10 Jan 07 - 11:20 PM wrote in that Mistah Rabbit thread is that it might mean multiple things at the same time.

The analytic {Virgo rising/Mars in Virgo} side of me says "Kudos" to "Guest" for the way you crafted that comment.

I've taken that post as a compliment.






I made no comment about this post in the