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Subject:	Re: If you're an AFOL and you know it raise your hand (WAS: Blacksmith Shop)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2001 05:04:20 GMT
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Maggie Cambron writes: > > > > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Steve Bliss writes: > > > > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford wrote: > > > > > > > > > You win. Label me a quitter, because I give up on this debate. > > > > > > > > (pssst! You forgot to mention 'Hitler'!) > It is understood around .debate that if you mention the name Hitler you > automatically concede the debate. I guess it's not completely understood. ;) I've been posting to LUGNET for over 3 years. This isn't my first appearance in the .debate groups. This is certainly the first time I've seen the use of a name like that. It really seems in poor taste for LUGNET. Couldn't you have picked a more comical name if (as it appears) your intent was to draw humor from it? > Geez, you guys need to lighten up! Hey, I'm just sorry I brought up this whole "I'm not an AFOL" thing in the first place. It's clear that some people have really taken offense to me *not* wanting to be one of them. Isn't it usually the other way around? You have some guy who bitches and whines and you tell him, "We don't serve your kind here, you'll have to wait outside." :) Maggie, your other reply to my post really left me stumped. I replied to it in a serious tone, although I somewhat suspected you were kidding, or at least tying to make light of things. But you didn't use a single smilie in your comments... therefore I was forced to take them at face value. Is this another convention of the .debate groups? Regards, Allan B. (Still not an AFOL, and as my friend Martha says, "That's a good thing.")

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		Re: If you're an AFOL and you know it raise your hand (WAS: Blacksmith Shop)
(...) The name wasn't arbitrarily chosen like yelling "uncle". I think it has more to do with the tired examples involving Hitler that are invoked whenever someone can't think of anything better to support their argument. Here's a bit about it. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: If you're an AFOL and you know it raise your hand (WAS: Blacksmith Shop)
(...) It is understood around .debate that if you mention the name Hitler you automatically concede the debate. That's all Steve was referring to. Geez, you guys need to lighten up! Maggie (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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