BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 09:44 AM

Ted. if you keep stealing all these landmark posts i am going to kill you.

you must have no life i bet you just sit at your computer sifting through mudcat threads looking for one that is one post of a hundred landmark.

well i think its disgusting.

death to the anti shatner, and el ted

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 02:43 PM

A milestone usually denotes something important when used in that sense. As this thread is of no importance whatsover, the so called 'milestone' is as significant as the hair on a pimple on a gnats testes.

Let's see you get persnippity about that then, my proud and haughty wench.
John

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 03:13 PM

youre the one who just GOT persnippity!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Mudlark
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 03:20 PM

Back about 20 posts or so I noticed that F.Underhill made a valiant attempt at putting this baby to sleep with poetry. Nice try, Freda! The fact, however, that it still has legs says something profound about the human spirit.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 05:41 PM

is persnickity just a pleasant term to mean anal?

   j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 07:00 PM

its persnippity !

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 04:00 AM

How come everyone is using persnippity now that I have on another thread? Huh? Huh?

Dear Mr Shatner, don't listen to them, come back and give us the wisdom of your age and experience. Don't forget to check out the UFO thread as well. We are all waiting for your next landing...don't be put off by these persnippity folk...and remember my name next time or my friends won't believe I know you..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: freda underhill
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 05:40 AM

yes mudlark - people (myself included) will do anything to survive a poetry attack.

Mr MacKenzie is using this thread to indulge in interpsecies insensitivity.

"hair on a pimple on a gnats testes"

this may seem an insignificant simile to him, but even gnats are sentient beings, with their own hopes, dreams, and pimples. I had a pimple on my nose this morning, actually, maybe thats why I'm empathising with that gnat.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 07:22 AM

Pimples are a sign that God/Goddess/All That Is remembers you. He/She/It is pretty busy, so in His/Her/Its Infinite Wisdom He/She/It shows His/Her/Its affection by sending pimples to us. I personally think it's awfully nice for Him/Her/It to take the time out of His/Her/Its busy schedual to do this for us...xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 07:38 AM

Dr Edward de Bono Gold Medal for that one EP.

John ROTFLMFAO

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 07:52 AM

eh... little earth day chorus for you

Cause it's Earth Day in Can a da.
Garbageless lunch - all the rage.
Pick up the trash that was tossed out the window.
Write on the back of the page.
Yes it's Earth Day in Can a da.
The day we atone for our greed
Pretend that we care and are doing our share.
And never take more than we need.

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 07:57 AM

'Show Off'

There needs to be more opportunities for people to show off. If the basis is valid then there is nothing wrong with showing off. It is only when there is a mis-match between showing and the substance that the process becomes disagreeable. A talented trapeze performer in a circus is showing off and deserves the applause he or she gets.

We need to design opportunities for achievement and then to applaud achievement. In a survey ninety-four per cent of youngsters said they valued achievement more than anything else. There is sport, but what other avenues of achievement?

Edward de Bono nmt
19th April 2004

(So, um, thanks, I guess...xx..e)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,nurse ratched
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 08:02 AM

Giok

You will find out the true meaning of persnippity when I've found my surgical scissors.

You are getting to big for your own brogues, lad.


n.r.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,nurse ratched
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 08:03 AM

oops, forgot the sporrancheck...

TOOO big, Mr Giok, too big.

n.r.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: el ted
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 08:27 AM

Post number 315. Another landmark! I thank you, my work here is done.
ps: yes adam you are right, I don't read any of this crap I simply cruise about looking for 100th posts. Carry on everybody.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: el ted
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 09:11 AM

I've just pinched the 700th post on the Guam thread.Isn't life great?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 10:17 AM

Try this ep Lateral thinking is what I meant, re your post.
John

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 12:37 PM

Yes, dear 'Giok', I understand that. I went to all the trouble of hunting down this man's website after you conferred that "Honour" upon me. What I posted was the man's daily words of wisdom (Well, close enough...it was his latest post in any case). I figure more people needed to be aware of his greatness.

I am only a shadow of the reflection of the ghost of the spirit of the original..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Mudlark
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 12:42 PM

Fowler says, and I agree, that persnickety is more than just fussy, it's prissily fussy and irritatingly arch with it. Fowler would never use a word like anal.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 01:12 PM

What does Fowler say about arabocious?
John

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 01:26 PM

i think i will lead by teds example..

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,lurker
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 05:30 PM

Persipacious persnippity pernickity perfidious pantalooning pandynamic pathological pasteurised polluminous posters.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 05:34 PM

Pusillanimity!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: ranger1
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 07:28 PM

In honor of this thread, a little poem I wrote on the back of a cocktail napkin after several pints of Bass and wee bit too much Jamison's.

Ahem:

I don't think this thread was meant to inspire
To have the last word is everone's desire
From Little Hawk's obsession with Bill Shatner
To anyone posting who might be covered in cat fur
El Ted landmarking without reading the posts
Pimples on gnat's testes (oh, gross!)
Ellenpoly's lovely vocabulary word persippity
(Not to be confused with persnickity)
As this thread continues
good sense dwindles
I know this poem is simply absurd
But I really, really want the last word!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 08:12 PM

Google search for "persnippity" 1710 hits
Google search for "persnickety" 25,000 hits

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: ranger1
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 08:17 PM

Yeah, but did you like my poem?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 08:35 PM

nope

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 10:40 PM

the poem was loverly.

       j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 10:50 PM

It was indeed. It made me cry. I am touched.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 04:24 AM

It was an inspired poem Ranger1, even though you, ahem, misspelled persnippity.

The fact that there were less hits of this wonderful word than the more commonplace persnickety just proves that a little elitism is not a bad thing.

Now! For all of you who have kept the faith and refused to let this thread die the death of the unloved...here is my gift back to you.

It is a word of my own devising. You may use it, but I'd like to think you'll give credit when asked, to moi...

Here we go...

The word is "Wasband"; referring to ones "Ex-Husband". I invented this back around 1984, when I had to refer to my own dear friend but no longer partner as Something and I hated the idea of having to "Ex" him out each time he came up in conversation.

There you are folks. Use it, abuse it, but know that it was devised out of love and affection...xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 05:45 AM

persnippity wasband... sounds like a country band

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 06:32 AM

another word,combination of husband and ex, "hex"...


fred

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 07:14 AM

I think I need an "english to dumbbell" dictionary.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: el ted
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 08:23 AM

Interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 09:57 AM

very

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 02:49 PM

I have 3 ex wives of my own, and they are known as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd mistake, in that order.
John

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 04:39 PM

You are a true optimist!

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 05:36 AM

Okay...new word having fallen on deaf ears or blind eyes, or, well, you get my drift. Not everyone remembers their ex's fondly..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 06:52 AM

I like both wasband and hex....I'm still thinking of mine as 'that drunken jerk' however and haven't been able to shorten that phrase to anything cute and useful.

Soon!

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 07:37 AM

derk ?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 08:36 AM

I've got three exes.

One is a hippie, lives in a gypsy caravan on an organic farm (run by his capable wife who looks like I did 30 years ago) with stained glass windows, has a huge telescope thru which he looks at the universe in all its glory, paints mandalas, goes surfing and flies kites. We are still good friends.

the next is a businessman, lives in London, has an antiques and shares, suits & briefcase lifestyle. enough said.

the third is a pianist and artist, earns his living through his music, studies Kabbalah and plays, sings and writes new Orleans style blues. we are still good friends.

two are wasbands, one is a hex.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 12:10 AM

Thanks! I like that. Derk!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 06:31 AM

Now can someone come up with something better than ex-wife? "Were-wife" strikes me as being a little harsh when the moon is full..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: s6k
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 06:38 AM

hahahahahahahahaha !!!!!! *howwwwwwwwlllllll !

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 07:16 AM

talk about your running with the wolves!

How about pre-curser?

old spice?

strife?

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 09:33 AM

Ellenpoly, sorry about mispelling persnippity, I think it was actually a typo. My brain moves much faster than my two pointer fingers.

As to a word for ex wife, how about swife?

Can anyone come up with a good name for a fiance who dumps the girl for an affair with a married woman? The best I could do at the time was pondscum. Now I rarely think of him at all, the best revenge, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Peace
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 04:57 PM

How about heterosexual.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 06:01 PM

Previous owner!
John

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 07:20 AM

all very charming and descriptive as well.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 12:25 PM

I love swife!!!!

As for the bastard who trades in the latest model for a used one before the purchase even takes place, I say, he'll get what he deserves... more mileage than shown on the meter, and lots of nasty surprises under the hood.

Count yourself lucky..xx..e