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Victor Rodgers
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I like a lot of the signatures on the board, some are just dross but I like Al's, and Victor's.
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That was a quote from Tim O'Neil.
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Tim O Neill
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| Posted: 28 August 2009 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | 2
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When did I say that?
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Victor Rodgers
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Long time ago in a Star Wars thread.
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Tim O Neill
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A long time ago in a thread far, far away?
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Tim O Neill
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I could be wrong, but that doesn't seem like me. Maybe Mike O'Brien - he uses "fellow" and we've got the common irish "O".
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Victor Rodgers
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No TIm im almost positive it was you. It tickled me because I had expressed the same thoughts about the Emperor.
Edited by Victor Rodgers on 28 August 2009 at 7:45pm
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Tim O Neill
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I trust your memory more than mine, Victor!
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Ted Pugliese
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I agree with Ben Franklin when it comes to Beer.
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Thom Price
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Not to thread drift too much, but I've been seeing an awful lot of people quoting in their responses without giving any indication that it is a quote -- not quotation marks, no lines, no stars, nothing -- just a pasted line of text followed by more text. I know the quote feature was disabled long ago, and rightly so since it was abused without mercy, but this can be awfully confusing.
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Keith Elder
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I wonder if a parallel can be drawn between sig lines and bumper stickers?
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Writing in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, socialpsychologist William Szlemko and his colleagues found that people who personalize their cars tend to act out on their anger behind the wheel. Such venom takes the form of honking, tailgating or other aggressivebehavior.
Bumper stickers and such are apparently a form of marking territory --just as animals do to ward off enemies. The more "territorial markers"the vehicle has, the more aggressively the person tends to drive when provoked, according to this study. |
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It seems like it might be a similar psychological impulse driving them.
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Steve D Swanson
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Thom, I often do that where I don't indicate it's a quote or whom I'm quoting for a few reasons; normally it's pretty obvious and the times it isn't I like thinking I'm tickling someone's memory. Even if no one knows where the quote comes from. None of the quotes come from me but if anyone is wondering they can always ask. The time to indicate who said what (I feel) is when it adds something to the quote or when it is so clever but obscure that you don't want people to think you came up with it. Also, it's my little protest in that a lot of phrases that are attributed to people were actually either written by others (see modern politicians, actors) or are purposefully or accidentally misattributed (see Go West Young Man, which is attributed to Horace Greeley but seems not to have come from him, or probably all of the works of Shakespeare), or sometimes a common saying in a small region that is broadcast by one person to the larger world and is then attributed to that person.
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Robert Young
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I agree with JB that most sigs equate to saying the same thing over and over (broken record syndrome). But here they're mostly harmless, and you can turn them off or just ignore them, so, no harm/no foul.
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