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Re: LUGNET needs a Lounge
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lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:13:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John Neal wrote:
   .fun/.pun are for FUs when threads swerve OT; .debate has contentious connotations. A lounge would provide true OT living, where the pithy and the clever could congregate and gentle smack would be allowed-- like an .rtl, without all of the bothersome canucks.

JOHN

Wow, that is a great name! This would’ve been a great alternative to the .off-topic name, back in the beginning... wish we’d thought of it then!

--Todd



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  Re: LUGNET needs a Lounge
 
(...) The name "lounge" for an ot forum is not my idea, mind you. But I disagree. I like the way off-topic works; I just think an o-t.lounge might be in order. The OTL. I'd hang there, just like the Friends who hung out in Central Perk (how was that (...) (17 years ago, 23-Oct-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

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  LUGNET needs a Lounge
 
.fun/.pun are for FUs when threads swerve OT; .debate has contentious connotations. A lounge would provide true OT living, where the pithy and the clever could congregate and gentle smack would be allowed-- like an .rtl, without all of the (...) (17 years ago, 23-Oct-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

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