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Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?  

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.

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bon bon - Jul 09, 2004 6:25:35 am PDT #1581 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Punning the thread number is so over.


-t - Jul 09, 2004 6:25:59 am PDT #1582 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.


billytea - Jul 09, 2004 6:28:20 am PDT #1583 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Zed is a redneck? Isn't it a British thing?

Zed, as I understand it, is a common name in redneck territory. It is not a common name in Britain (or Australia), where it is used to refer to a letter.


Lyra Jane - Jul 09, 2004 6:33:41 am PDT #1584 of 10001
Up with the sun

See, to me Zed is a Baptist Southern Mountain Man name, but not really a redneck name. Rednecks are named, like, Leroy or Earl or Bud.

I'm not crazy about thread titles that need to be explained, but that's me.


Steph L. - Jul 09, 2004 6:34:53 am PDT #1585 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Zed, as I understand it, is a common name in redneck territory.

Hmmm. I come from a long line of rednecks, and I've never heard of it as a redneck name. Or a name at all, really, Pulp Fiction notwithstanding. (I figured it was just a weird Movie Thing, like naming someone Uncle Void. And I have a friend with an Uncle Void, so that wasn't a non sequitur.)

It is not a common name in Britain (or Australia), where it is used to refer to a letter.

I knew that; I guess I didn't clarify that in my last post. I didn't think it was a name at all, whereas I've heard the word used in England (though to designate the letter Z).


tommyrot - Jul 09, 2004 6:36:53 am PDT #1586 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

To me, Zed is a mechanic who owns a small auto repair shop in a small town or rural area.

I have no idea how that association got into my brain.

I had forgotten about the "Z = Zed" thing until it was explained.


billytea - Jul 09, 2004 6:41:14 am PDT #1587 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Jeez. Original COMM.


§ ita § - Jul 09, 2004 6:41:53 am PDT #1588 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dark Natter, and Edited For Content.


msbelle - Jul 09, 2004 6:58:05 am PDT #1589 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Dark Natter.


P.M. Marc - Jul 09, 2004 7:00:16 am PDT #1590 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

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