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Re: don't feed the trolls!
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:51:41 GMT
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> > * etc
> Please elaborate on this item - I don't get the joke but I normally am
> not a
> troll although I assume that I have made "The List" since I'm a member of
> Jlug
> ;-)
You're asking me about "etc"?!
Etc is a popular abbreviation of etcetera, meaning a number of unenumerated
things. I used it to avoid the combinatoric explosion that results from all
combinations of "fail to get the joke", "take offence", "accuse us of being
trolls", and "attract irate responses from 'E who must not be named". There
are of course 15 non-empty combinations and it would have been tiresome to
enumerate them all. Hence the potency of "etc" in such a situation.
On the alternate theory that you are asking about 'E who must not be named,
this was a double entrendre, trying to create guilt by association of two
independent concepts being:
* He Who Must Not Be Named, the evil Dark Lord in Harry Potter, aka
Voldemort
* Eric Sophie who signs himself somewhat minimally "e" (being usually the
only minimal aspect to his posts)
k
[By signing myself k I am of course making humourous reference to Eric
Sophie's signature and to the fact that my posts too are rarely minimal]
This could be tedious ...
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: don't feed the trolls!
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| (...) My apologies sir - the winkie was supposed to mean that I don't really want you to elaborate on etc. since I am very familiar with it's meaning. :-) I was just trying to be funny. It appears that I have failed and now I probably must resign (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
| | | Re: don't feed the trolls!
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| (...) Here I was thinking it was an acronym for "Every Troll Counts" (or something similar, which I dare not post here). Thanks for the clarification, CL Kerry! Cheers Richie (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: don't feed the trolls!
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| (...) Hmm - are you impling that only politicians fail to get your jokes? ;-) (...) Please elaborate on this item - I don't get the joke but I normally am not a troll although I assume that I have made "The List" since I'm a member of Jlug ;-) (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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