Want to know what
"Bookachow", "YOMANK!" and other lingo means? (1/28/04)
DarkDan, could you add YMMV? I'm
blond, and a member of the church of the clueless. I've had my coffee and pound cake this
morning, so I've got plenty of that caffeine and sugar going on, but still haven't figured
out YMMV. Someone chow me if need be.
Your Mileage May Vary (from any
number of car commercials). Probably not the best candidate for a Snopes-specific acronym
list, as it's a general Internet abbreviation. A good resource for such terms is the Jargon File, which contains
massive amounts of net-lore.
quote:
Originally posted by Four Kitties: We accept anyone with cookies, anyone willing to eat cookies, and anyone willing
to discuss whether or not they shouldn't be eating cookies, well maybe just one, and is
there coffee?
Cookies? So that's the
problem! And here I've been standing outside the door with a box full of session variables
- I feel like the couple in the Cheese Nips commercial who bring Cheeze-Its to the
housewarming party.
quote:
Originally posted by Colonel Pink
With A Mustard Martini: I'm not religious type myself, but I was wondering if I could donate some
chocolate mousse to this particular church...okay, so it's an actual chocolate moose, and
she's named Bullwinkle...but she does windows!!!! And Linux, too!!!
An actual moose? Boy,
this will really liven up the initiations
Gosh. So hi, Kyo, how's your day?
Good lord. Well, my opinions are as such:
I really like this place in general.
I really like Noemi.
I really like Jenn.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Trollface, mostly because of his levelheaded and honest response in the
Simon/musicians thread!! How ironic...
You know, I'll be honest here. Back in the Spring I decided to delurk and post a bit. A
week or two went by, and I was testing the waters, tentatively posting. I received a
response to a post that was (what I then though) a little snarky, and I said to myself,
"Self, screw them! I don't need this place." So I stopped posting and quietly
went away. I still used Snopes, but the ULMB could go hang for all I cared. Actually, I
COULDN'T HAVE CARED LESS (how clever I am!). I kept thinking about it, though, and
realized that people are allowed to have different opinions, and learning to deal with
them objectively and respond accordingly did nothing but keep my mind sharp. I came back,
and I appreciate the opportunity to converse with intelligent, well-rounded people who
share my desire for knowledge.
I mean, jeez. How tough is that to understand?
So bye bye, Kyo, and may you find another MB to annoy.
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311 | From: Connecticut | Registered: May 2003 |
Originally posted by Grouchy Plum
Mustard Pie: DarkDan, could you add YMMV? I'm blond, and a member of the church of the
clueless. I've had my coffee and pound cake this morning, so I've got plenty of that
caffeine and sugar going on, but still haven't figured out YMMV. Someone chow me if need
be.
Good-bye Kyo, we hardly knew ye.
I'm not DarkDan but YMMV stands
for "Your Milage May Vary". Sort of a standard, universal disclaimer that the
info or opinion I have posted is based on my life experience in the world I inhabit. Your
experiences in the world you inhabit may cause different results.
Sham "where do I get an application for the EBMfH clubhouse?" rock
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or in doubt,
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155 | From: New England | Registered: Aug 2003 |
Originally posted by
fyre-in-the-living room-girl: I appreciate the opportunity to converse with intelligent, well-rounded people who
share my desire for knowledge.
I mean, jeez. How tough is that to understand?
Yeah, me too. I even went so far
once as deleting all info from my profile, and simply logged off. Quietly. But GEEZ. Where
else can you have a calm, rational, enlightening, non-belittling discussion while sitting
in your underwear?
Originally posted by DarkDan: Updated! I was thinking of adding something like "To pull a Kyoto-to get fed
up with everyone and call people names", but I don't think that's in good taste.
And isn't it "kyoko?"
Bleh...It was 6 in the morning
when I posted that. Gimme a break.
I could add YMMV, as I do have non-ULMB lingo on the page.
DarkDan
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BIRTHDAY LIST! (1/28/04)
Originally posted by CatoSH: but, anyway, I'm sorry, I have to ask: not meaning to have a go at anyone (no
seriously, I'm not) -- but I recall seeing the cat killing and other threads, thinking to
myself that there was approximately a .000013% chance that they were true (I'd've been
inclined to believe the Vietnam vet one had I not been primed to disbelieve by the others,
so I did give that one a pretty hefty "benefit of the doubt").... but the
majority of the responses, even to the more outrageous ones, read as if the posters were
taking them 100% seriously. I'm not suggesting for a second that people should have
publicly posted "You're lying!" (especially given the infinitesimal chance that
she might actually have been telling the truth) ... but, doesn't acting as if such things
are true encourage the poster to create more elaborate tales? I suppose, on the other
hand, if these things really did happen, it would be cruel to just ignore the threads...
but it just seemed so unlikely... was it really just a case of "benefit of the
doubt" and "apply sympathy just in case"?
I can only speak for myself, but
for me it was definitely a case of “Oh, no, not again.” It seems like about once
a year we get a poster who exhibits the quickly-becoming-classic symptoms of Munchausen by Internet
We’ve had more than one (purportedly) young adult/teenage girl who would begin with
simple requests for advice which quickly became drama fests with all sorts of persecutions
and misfortunes. And usually there was a big long tale about why the poster couldn’t
take our advice. Eventually, these posters get banned or self-destruct. Having got sucked
in by a few of them, some of us will draw back, watch, and wait. That’s what happened
in my case when the dead cat story hit these pages. “Oh, moosepoop,” says I.
“Ain’t no way I’m swallowing this.” Which is when I quit (up until
yesterday) responding to her posts.
There are people here who have real tragedies in their lives, and I have little time to
waste with people who either consciously or unconsciously try to manipulate me with lies
in their constant quest for compassion. We all have our times when we need some support,
but if that’s all a poster can do…. Well, I for one don’t intend to feed
the sympathy trolls.
Posts:
1494 | From: Austin, TX usa | Registered: Feb 2000 |
Originally posted by
fyre-in-the-living room-girl: I appreciate the opportunity to converse with intelligent, well-rounded people who
share my desire for knowledge.
I mean, jeez. How tough is that to understand?
Yeah, me too. I even went so far
once as deleting all info from my profile, and simply logged off. Quietly. But GEEZ. Where
else can you have a calm, rational, enlightening, non-belittling discussion while sitting
in your underwear?
ham "eat cookies, go and be thin no more" bubba
I stopped posted for awhile partly
because I was fed up with the debating "style" of a few people -most of whom are
longer posting here- but mainly because real life overwhelmed me for awhile and because I
was Bloody Addicted to this place.
The kindness and support I got last year when my nephew died, from let's face it total
strangers to me, just convinced me though that barring the occasional idjit this is one of the nicest group of total strangers I've ever
been lucky enough to interact with.
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Posts:
3560 | From: Canada | Registered: Nov 2001 |
**** 20 points for the obscure, localized reference!!!!
Geez Ranger, you're not from
southwestern Indiana are you? I can hear one of the local ministers saying that on a local
cable commercial. Could be false memory on my part though.
Gibbie
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922 | From: A galaxy far far away | Registered: Feb 2000
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Seriously, the boards here seem to have dipped a bit into vulgar territory. I'm not a
prude or anything, but I was a bit shocked at the casual profanity I was seeing in some
posts. I don't remember that being the case at all back when I was posting regularly ages
ago.
I agree. When I first started
lurking here, and afterword started posting, I was impressed by the lack of swearwords
posted. The occasional NFBSK was posted but rarely a vulgarity. Seems to have picked up
somewhat. *shrug* I am not a power user or anything but I feel that I have been here long
enough to suggest the we all try to remember snopes and Barbra's basic rules of order.
Ranger "**** Not a sermon, just a thought" Dog
**** 20 points for the obscure, localized reference!!!!
Sounds like you are being a little
prudish here. I don't abuse the freedom to use vulgarities from time to time but I do use
them within reason and moderation. When it is appropiate.
I am offended when someone 'blanks' out relatively tame words like "bastard" or
even "damn". I refuse to say "the N word" or "the F word" as
a replacement for what they actually mean. "Most" Snopesters are mature enough
not to abuse the freedom for using profanities.
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^^That icon is what I get for
using Bugs' vocabulary.
quote:
Actually, I believe that
ThornyRose was quoting Mr. Buggs Bunny, as he calls himself and others a
"maroon" on more than one occasion. This is possibly the right place to say that
I recently discovered that it wasn't, as I had assumed him saying "moron" in a
goofy way, but him actually being somewhat racist (not a charge I'm leveling at
ThornyRose). Maroon:
quote:
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ma·roon1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-rn)
tr.v. ma·rooned, ma·roon·ing, ma·roons
To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.
To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were
marooned by the blizzard.
n.
often Maroon
A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A descendant of such a slave.
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Let's go back to moron, shall we?
Thanks for setting me straight, Trollface. And thanks Cato, for the kind words. Pass the
cookies please, I need to get that shoe leather taste out of my mouth .
Let's not add terms with poster's names attached. I know it's tempting, and Col. Furious I
understand your feelings about Phosdex, but I think it's a little unfeeling. Plus, we
wouldn't want Kyoko to think she left her "mark" on this place.
Thank you, thank you all very
much... At first, I was able to keep it to a stifled snicker. But by the time I got to
page 5, I was outright chortling. I am about to get kicked out of the library and there
are Hostess Cupcake crumbs all over my sweater. "Verbal sodomy" is sooooo going
to be part of my vocabulary now.
Oh, and:
quote:
Originally posted by Donovan
Ravenhull:
quote:
Originally posted by EvilChimp: I blame the media for this.
No, I blame society...
Alright, We'll arrest society...
Donovan '15 Points for that one' Ravenhull
Monty Python, the sketch with the
dead bishop.
jenna" I'll have a slice with not so much rat in it "katze
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men inte vĺgar flytta dej närmare.
(Tina Holmberg)
190 posts in 22 hours? That's got
to be some kind of thread-posting record, doesn't it?
Wonko
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include detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a
civilzation in which I could live and stay sane."
quote:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Grouchy Plum Mustard Pie:
Good-bye Kyo, we hardly knew ye.
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You say that like it's a bad thing
Not a bad thing, just really
applies in my case! I'm now looking at that dead cats thread in a different light. Guess
if she lied and/or exaggerated, then she pulled the wool over my eyes, hence the "we
hardly knew ye".
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272 | From: somewhere in NC | Registered: Aug 2003 |
Originally posted by TheBobo: Sounds like you are being a little prudish here. I don't abuse the freedom to use
vulgarities from time to time but I do use them within reason and moderation. When it is
appropiate.
I am offended when someone 'blanks' out relatively tame words like "bastard" or
even "damn". I refuse to say "the N word" or "the F word" as
a replacement for what they actually mean. "Most" Snopesters are mature enough
not to abuse the freedom for using profanities.
Perhaps I am being a touch
prudish, but I was really referring to seeing the "F word" pop up more often than I could remember before. Further, in
the posts where it was showing up it wasn't even necessary. It was just sort of there.
As I said earlier, it was the casual swearing that really surprised me. Speaking as
someone who left for a while and then came back, it definitely felt like there was a shift
in tone with the boards. However, that could be attributed to either newbies who hadn't
found their groove just yet, or perhaps because the threads I visited encouraged such
language. I dunno.
I might even attribute it as another case of "Things aren't the way they used to
be." Maybe things always WERE the way they are now, and I'm just not remembering
correctly. It just seemed more prevalent to me.
I'll shush about the subject. I'm not losing sleep over it, I was just curious if things
had actually changed or if I just thought they had.
Mack da "NFBSK" Knife
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350 | From: Atlanta, GA | Registered: Dec 2002 |
Originally posted by trollface: Actually, I believe that ThornyRose was quoting Mr. Buggs Bunny, as he calls
himself and others a "maroon" on more than one occasion. This is possibly the
right place to say that I recently discovered that it wasn't, as I had assumed him saying
"moron" in a goofy way, but him actually being somewhat racist (not a charge I'm
leveling at ThornyRose). Maroon:
quote:
ma·roon1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key
(m-rn)
tr.v. ma·rooned, ma·roon·ing, ma·roons
To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.
To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were
marooned by the blizzard.
n.
often Maroon
A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A descendant of such a slave.
Is there any other reason you have
for believing that Bugs/the WB writer was meaning the second definition of the term?
Normally, when I've heard Bugs use the term, he combines it with another deliberate
mistake, such as "What a maroon! What an ignoramasusus!" (which also implies
that the word is supposed to mean stupid, not the entire list of negative attributes
someone of 1930s America might stereotypically apply to blacks). I also can't imagine
enough people in 1930s America being familiar enough with an 18th century term for a West
Indian slave to make the term worth using. Finally, I presume the current executives feel
the term to be innocuous, as I doubt the name "RK Maroon" would've been used in
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" for one of the main characters and the name of his
studio had anybody felt it had the slightest racial overtones.
buf 'not the biggest hijact since the SNL-Furries discussion, but pretty close ...' ungla
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3101 | From: Washington, DC | Registered: Jun 2001 |
**** 20 points for the obscure, localized reference!!!!
Geez Ranger, you're not from
southwestern Indiana are you? I can hear one of the local ministers saying that on a local
cable commercial. Could be false memory on my part though.
Gibbie
He He! No I am from Virginia and
that reference is also from a radio ad for a particular church here! You get 19 points!
quote:
From TheBoBo. Sounds like you are
being a little prudish here. I don't abuse the freedom to use vulgarities from time to
time but I do use them within reason and moderation. When it is appropiate.
I am offended when someone 'blanks' out relatively tame words like "bastard" or
even "damn". I refuse to say "the N word" or "the F word" as
a replacement for what they actually mean. "Most" Snopesters are mature enough
not to abuse the freedom for using profanities.
I agree with you. After posting,
and reading, I did sound a little prudish. But damnit what you said is what I meant!!
OK when Kyo started on the The Saga of the Viet Nam Vet I thought she might be a
little over the edge, but add: Breakup at the Rock Concert, (or Why I am Gay) The Trouble With Little Brother
and her best selling Cat murderer!!
I knew we had a live one among us. Even better than the young lady who claimed to be being
stalked by former boyfriend. HeHe
Ranger "this is fun" Dog
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410 | From: Home of Peanuts, Pork, and Pines | Registered: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by RangerDog: OK when Kyo started on the The Saga of the Viet Nam Vet I thought she might
be a little over the edge, but add: Breakup at the Rock Concert, (or Why I am Gay) The Trouble With Little Brother
and her best selling Cat murderer!!
YOMANK! I would expect to see
these on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
DarkDan
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BIRTHDAY LIST! (1/28/04)
I've reviewed the literature, I know some members and it seems liek a really nice place.
We've even upset some of the same people in some of the same threads...
I think I'd fit in, even though I'm an ex-cyber bartender (still have it in the basement
in case)..
But, but, I'm just not really sure how to join. Even after reading a couple of
suggestions, I just find myself standing here hoding a pot of steaming Lady Grey (smoother
in the afternoon) and wearing this backpack full of cookies...
What am I supposed to do now??
War "take me to the light" lok
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Posts:
1570 | From: Somewhere in here | Registered: Oct 2001
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Originally posted by Casey, in the
study, with the ninja: [...]Yea, though I walk through the shadow of the Valley of bad ULs, I shall fear
no rumors. Thy MB and PM, they comfort me, they soothe my soul. Thy makest for me a cookie
in the presence of mine enemies, my keyboard runneth over. Yea, goodness and knowledge
shall follow me all the rest of my life.[...]
I've reviewed the literature, I know some members and it seems liek a really nice place.
We've even upset some of the same people in some of the same threads...
I think I'd fit in, even though I'm an ex-cyber bartender (still have it in the basement
in case)..
But, but, I'm just not really sure how to join. Even after reading a couple of
suggestions, I just find myself standing here hoding a pot of steaming Lady Grey (smoother
in the afternoon) and wearing this backpack full of cookies...
What am I supposed to do now??
War "take me to the light" lok
I'm no expert, but I would say,
fling up your hands...and pass the cookies!
By the way, flinging up your hands filled with cookies is one of the best ways of passing
them, but it sometimes annoys Christopher.
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5837 | From: Michigan | Registered: Mar 2000 |
Originally posted by tagurit: I'm no expert, but I would say, fling up your hands...and pass the cookies!
By all means, fling away, but
please put down the pot of tea first. Baptism by scalding is not the way of the Church!
24k" for me"Kate
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768 | From: One Door Away From Heaven | Registered: Nov 2002
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BTW All I have to offer is Cookie Crunch Cereal can I still join the Church of the
Clueless?
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there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all
of that majority who are decent and just."
Heinlein
Originally posted by tagurit: [QUOTE]Originally posted by the original Warlok:
[...]By the way, flinging up your hands filled with cookies is one of the best ways of
passing them, but it sometimes annoys Christopher.
Not nearly so much now that we've
got the dog who licks up the crumbs thus saving me the trouble of cleaning up as often.
Uh...I did tell you we got a Clueless dog, didn't I?
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