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  1. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
  2. Subject: Re: Another naming contest
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
  4. From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
  5. Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
  6. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:33:35 GMT
  7. Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
  8. Message-ID: <9211081233.40@rmkhome.UUCP>
  9. References: <1992Nov8.042007.28701@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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  12. In article <1992Nov8.042007.28701@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
  13. >It has recently come to the attention of some of us that while there are well-
  14. >defined terms for both newcomes to talk.bizarre("newbies")and long-time
  15. >residents(patrons?)of talk.bizarre("oldbies"), there is an astonishing lack of
  16. >term for the transitional period in which, let's face it, most of us
  17. >languish.  Any ideas?  Or is there a term of great tradition with whose usage I
  18. >am unfamiliar?
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  20. Masochists.
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  23. Rick Kelly    rmk@rmkhome.UUCP    unixland!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP
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