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- From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
- Subject: Another naming contest
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.042007.28701@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:20:07 GMT
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- It has recently come to the attention of some of us that while there are well-
- defined terms for both newcomes to talk.bizarre("newbies")and long-time
- residents(patrons?)of talk.bizarre("oldbies"), there is an astonishing lack of
- term for the transitional period in which, let's face it, most of us
- languish. Any ideas? Or is there a term of great tradition with whose usage I
- am unfamiliar?
-
- Otherwise you'll have to kill us all.
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
- "It's not my fault. The orchestra has disappeared."
- ---Hector Berlioz
- Current Album--Grapes of Wrath:These Days
- Current Read--John Irving:The World According To Garp
-