A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Although I secretly agree to Cindy's choice (of the titles presented so far, anyway - I'm sure somebody will come up with something much better than any of them in the future days), I must protest it's adoption. P-C can't get TWO Natter titles IN A ROW. His ego would grow, like, real big and stuff.
Who knows what kind of monster we might unleash?
ETA: Cindy, yes, I knew that part. My joke came from the fact that nobody knows what it comes from, in the show. As in:
Tara:
Five by Five? What does that mean?
Willow:
That's just it, nobody knows! It's stupid!
(Not exact quotes. Approximate. From the one before "Who Are You?" whose name I never remember.)
EATA:
Didn't know the radio "all clear" thing, though it makes sense. Still don't know what the heck it MEANS, though. Does it actually come from that song?
Didn't know the radio "all clear" thing, though it makes sense. Still don't know what the heck it MEANS, though. Does it actually come from that song?
NovaChild, five by five is the measure of the strength of the signal:
FIVE BY FIVE: Comes from military radio operators [was in use by time of Korean War (1950-53) and appeared in print in 1954 – see below and] who used the phrase to tell the person they were talking to how well they were being heard. There was a five point scale in two categories, strength of signal and clarity of transmission. A strong, clear signal was coming in ‘five by five,’ lesser signals would be judged with lesser numbers. An similar but less quantitative expression was ‘coming in loud and clear.’ Radio operators, pilots, the military, and others picked up the phrase and used it to characterize generally good circumstances. So when someone says everything is ‘five by five,’ things must be going well and they are doing fine.
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Gah. I think I was happier not knowing what it meant.
Not knocking your fabulous knowledge, though. Trust the buffistas to figure something like that out. =)
That said:
Natter 25: Nuttier than a Planters factory.
(man oh man do I need to go to sleep.)
Natter 25: In case of the removal of the President...
Natter 25: Shave and a Haircut
I like this as well. Although I also thought of:
Natter 25: Two bits and they're both naughty.
Natter 25: Two bits and they're both naughty.
Hee hee. This reminds me of a story. At Rice, someone put on an original show called Pre-Med: The Musical. It was rough around the edges, and thusly earned only a two-star review.
The following week, they posted fliers of a voluptuous, topless woman with stars covering her nipples. The caption: "We may only have two stars, but we know how to use them."
<pedant>
Oh, since I'm in here...I might be the only person who's bugged by this kind of thing, but in the new Minearverse title the "is" should be a capitalized "Is," due to its being the verb, despite its shortness.
I'd close the pedant tag, but we all know how futile that is.
Damn. I wanted to come in and be all geeky about 5x5, but Cindy beat me to it.
the "is" should be a capitalized "Is,"
So it is written. So it shall be done.
