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- From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
- Subject: Re: Do you ever feel...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.145110.14169@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:51:10 GMT
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- fes9s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Frank Erick Sellin) writes:
- |>In article <C17uLG.1EK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Salter) writes:
- |>>fes9s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Frank Erick Sellin) shares:
- |>>>Geezus, what's up with this ARC-slang, "lurker"??? (Connotations, and all...)
- |>>>Makes me feel like I oughta shed everything except for my raincoat,
- |>>>high tops, and sunglasses...and I only do that on Halloween. ;)
-
- It's not just ARC-slang, Frank... it's net.slang. Over in alt.callahans, our
- lurkers do their lurking in the dark environs of the rafters...
-
- |>>Now, now.....don't you think "lurker" is nicer than "observer?" Or
- |>>"reader?"
- |>
- |>Well, "observer" makes me think of those little blue helmets in the
- |>U.N.--not exactly ARCers and probably impossibly dispassionate while
- |>on duty. No fun there. "Reader????" As if. Dear Abby has _got_
- |>to go. Much too anal. Still, we've got the raincoat problem. How
- |>about "spectator" Too dry, same problem as observer? Maybe "fellow
- |>traveler." Or knights errant (still trying to think up an appropriate
- |>gender mirror for this one...)
-
- Hmmm... 'Errant ladies'? No, sounds too... cheap somehow. Maybe something
- like fellow traveler would be best... After all, I wouldn't want my title
- to be overrun by lurking knights errant...
-
- |>>>I vote for a new word.
- |>>>Oops, looks like I've blown it...gone and de-lurked myself. (*Ouch*.)
- |>>>Good day, ARC-land, hello and don't mind me. Nothing to see here...keep
- |>>>moving...
- |>>
- |>>*laughter* Sorry you hurt yourself there. *Julie pats Frank on the head*
- |>>There. That better?
- |>>
- |>Much, thanks. *gratefulhug* Know where the Delurking Crisis Center is?
- |>(like I said, nothing to see here...don't mind me.)>
-
- I think it's over that way, past the Strawberry Fields (Hi Sarah!); see that
- big vat? That's the entrance - just run over there and jump straight in
- without looking. Don't worry, it's a soft landing... >:->
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- + Sean Roberts + spr@abo.dec.com + Chivalry shall +
- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ never die, as +
- + Official Knight-Errant of the RFA + long as there +
- + Keeper of the Flame + is one man who +
- + Protector of the Gallan-Tree + believes in it +
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