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Re: If you're an AFOL and you know it raise your hand (WAS: Blacksmith Shop)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:16:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Maggie Cambron writes:
> > > > > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Steve Bliss writes:
> > > > > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford wrote:
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> > > > > > You win. Label me a quitter, because I give up on this debate.
> > > > >
> > > > > (pssst! You forgot to mention 'Hitler'!)
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> > It is understood around .debate that if you mention the name Hitler you
> > automatically concede the debate.
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> I guess it's not completely understood. ;)
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> 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?
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.
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=5095
There may be better examples in other posts, but I'm not inclined to look them
up at the moment-- this gives you an idea though.
> > Geez, you guys need to lighten up!
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> 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." :)
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> 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?
Yeah, I was being tongue in cheek. The problem with the smiley is that while
the one I normally use is :-) I always feel like an imposter using it because a
more fitting one for me would be 8o) since I wear glasses and inherited my
dad's Irish nose. Not very flattering though, huh?
> Regards,
> Allan B.
> (Still not an AFOL, and as my friend Martha says, "That's a good thing.")
Hey Allan, don't tell me you're an AFOM? 8o)
Maggie (who also likes Martha)
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