nobs
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posted on August 1, 2000 10:44:19 AM
I can't believe that my word (witch with a b) was changed to a bunch of symbols here - a witch with a b is not necessarily a bad word - it is a female dog and I used it in an even lesser way - as an adverb or adjective.
This is just too much! I was shocked when I read what I posted and saw that my "b" word had been changed to a group of symbols - is this something new - an automatic censor?
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stockticker
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posted on August 1, 2000 10:47:32 AM
Nobs, you probably have our favorite permanently suspended poster to thank if indeed the software was altered.
Irene
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nobs
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posted on August 1, 2000 11:00:23 AM
Thanks, Irene, jeez, will wonders ever cease. I can see if I used some kind of profanity, but I used a word that is heard on TV everyday. I used to own a champion female pekingnese and the word is heard constantly in the show dog world.
I posted a thread in the MC to get some clarification. I was a bit surprised to see an automatic censor and on that word surprised me even more.
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pareau
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posted on August 1, 2000 11:16:58 AM
No Parking on the Dance Floor
--Simmons/Lovelace/Calloway
No Beeching on the Quote Thread
--Pareau
[ edited by pareau on Aug 1, 2000 11:17 AM ]
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MaddieNicks
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posted on August 1, 2000 11:19:33 AM
Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug (from a Mary Chapin Carpenter song)
If God was small enough to understand, He wouldn't be big enough to worship (our own pastorleon - I just read it last night, and have it printed over the computer as a nice reminder of that fact.)
What is right isn't always popular, and what is popular isn't always right.
Hi to Nobs and stockticker up there. 
Kris
[email protected]
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stockticker
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posted on August 1, 2000 12:01:54 PM
Hi back!
OK, OK, Pareau. I can make it topic related.
"Swearing is a compromise between running away and fighting."
Irene
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pareau
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posted on August 1, 2000 12:18:51 PM
THE TERMITE
Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good,
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
--Ogden Nash
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KatyD
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posted on August 1, 2000 12:38:25 PM
"Well, it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!"
My Dad.
KatyD
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njrazd
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posted on August 1, 2000 12:41:50 PM
My husband's favorites:
Life's a B*tch...then you marry one!
You can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can't take the Jersey out of the girl!
That's Flunky Gerbiltush to you!
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nobs
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posted on August 1, 2000 01:05:51 PM
pareau
I'm sorry - I took my beeching to the MC (not a quote )
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pareau
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posted on August 1, 2000 03:46:43 PM
No sweat, nobs.
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
Lord Peter Wimsey, "Gaudy Night"
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Antiquary
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posted on August 1, 2000 04:09:04 PM
Dictatorial Diction!!
I feel so safe and secure now. 
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pareau
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posted on August 1, 2000 04:34:38 PM
I swear you and krs are doing a Face/Off these days, A.
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Antiquary
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posted on August 1, 2000 04:46:30 PM
Hi P
I don't know what krs is doing (thank God), but I'm just having a little fun here and there, as I have a few minutes. Don't much care for AW's new screening device, however, so I had to work in at least one comment.
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pareau
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posted on August 1, 2000 04:50:05 PM
If you're referring to the gibberisher-for-bad-wordser, I thought that always existed.
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Antiquary
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posted on August 1, 2000 04:57:31 PM
No, not always. I remember when some of the really bad words were first screened, not all that long ago, but I think that it's been extended somewhat. Didn't realize nobs' word above was in the program. But on the whole, bad words don't bother me so such as bad thoughts do.
edited for ubb
[ edited by Antiquary on Aug 1, 2000 04:59 PM ]
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pareau
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posted on August 1, 2000 04:59:14 PM
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
--Charlotte P. Gilman
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pareau
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posted on August 1, 2000 05:00:38 PM
Weren't you here for the brouhaha attending the use of the word that means forcible removal of feathers?
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Antiquary
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posted on August 1, 2000 05:04:56 PM
LOL--No, I was probably gone then.
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Antiquary
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posted on August 1, 2000 05:07:51 PM
Actually, BLATHER is the only recent bit of semantic controversy I recall.
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pareau
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posted on August 1, 2000 05:11:31 PM
Blather was a bit of a red herring, AFAIC. No, the feather word ended in "uck." A thread got locked and I think someone got monerated.
I'm not setting a good example, so here are some quotes:
"Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind."
"I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet."
"Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition."
--Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts (as if you didn't know)
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Antiquary
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posted on August 1, 2000 05:33:44 PM
The Blather episode turned out to be quite funny though, once everyone understood the definition.
Hadley's insights are fun. I'm off for the night...have a good evening.
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nobs
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posted on August 1, 2000 06:58:51 PM
ah, nostalgia is waxing!
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cdnbooks
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posted on August 2, 2000 09:23:16 AM
quoting a little lower than haute....
The early bird gets the worm.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
Bill
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sylvia
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posted on August 2, 2000 10:01:56 AM
Hi, love this thread, it's so nice to get the
mind off stuff now and then......now a few of mine.....
"It is better to have love and lost than to
have never loved at all" (Gone With the Wind)
a variation.....
"today is the tomorrow you wished for yesterday"
I could quote all of Siddartha, by Hermann Hesse(sorry 'bout the spelling) or the poster
Deserata (again, I know the spelling is off), but they are packed away with very, very
old college stuff.
Sylvia
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Vickster
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posted on August 3, 2000 04:32:40 PM
Hi, everyone!
These aren't direct quotes from any one individual, but they're the basis of my own personal philosophy...
Do your best to be your best.
Smile when you can, cry when you must.
In all things, try to do no harm.
Bringing peace gives you peace.
Realize that "your way" is not the only way.
Let respect and dignity be your robes.
Walk softly, listen carefully, speak wisely.
I could go on and on, but you get the picture!
Vicki
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jlpiece
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posted on May 4, 2001 10:47:03 PM
Don't lose your head to save a minute, you need your head, your brain is in it.
Anonymous
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gravid
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posted on May 5, 2001 04:14:10 AM
Eat desert first. - Life is uncertain.
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MuRiEl
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posted on May 5, 2001 06:55:58 AM
Jlpiece - Why did you decide to bounce these old threads? Is it getting THAT boring on the old Round Table?
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zilvy
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posted on May 5, 2001 07:35:55 AM
Yea men, yea men...it squirtenly is!
A fool and his money________________
Time and Tide___________________________
All's well that_________________________
Your mother__________________________
Life is_______________________________
Then again___________________________
Fill in the blanks...make up your own "Haute
quotes" this otter bee phun!
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