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RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This poll is in honor of Goose.
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wish.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    RYK......you are such a troublemaker.image
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    the way laura defines a wannabe is so descriptive it has to be true. imagine running around a convention center looking for seven people's opinions on a coin you want to buy. you are a dealer! geez. you should not need seven people's opinion. what a wannabe.

    i used to be offened by the term widget until i learned it is true. some coins are ALWAYS for sale. you turn around and they hit you in the face constantly. one can replace another. so it is also accurate.

    long live our wannabe widget buying overlords.
  • DismeguyDismeguy Posts: 496 ✭✭✭
    Why would we do that? Forums thrive on controversy....image
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    imagine running around a convention center looking for seven people's opinions on a coin you want to buy.

    I hate to disagree image but professionals in other fields (including my own) routinely ask colleagues for help and advice with challenging problems. It is expected.
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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    you are talking about 1 in 1000 RYK? I agree talking with others about questions you have is ok... but the word is describing someone who does it everytime.

  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    How about a truce? We stop using widget and wannabee and also certain elements stop bashing the honorable Judge Laura.



    widget - item available in such quantity that competition keeps the markup very low - so that top-tier dealers can't make a living selling them

    wannabee - an unfair competitor with low investments in education, experience, inventory, staff, brick storefront, etc who can sell widgets for a few dollars profit and be happy with it
  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    If we eliminate polls with those words, we are halfway there. Otherwise, they are brought to the fore once again.
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    <Can we agree to retire the words "widget" and "wannabe"...>

    My answer to this question is an emphatic "YES"!!! In fact, I'd like to give a personal and public apology for starting two different threads yesterday (Thanksgiving Day of all days) which touched on both words.imageimage ...I am terribly sorry to all fellow forum members and I, for one, will never bring those two ridiculous words up again.imageimage
    ...Here's what we should do to those two words...image

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  • razorface1027razorface1027 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭
    Sounds like a winner to me.image

    Moreover, I'm still confused as to its meaning.image



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  • questor54questor54 Posts: 1,351 ✭
    It's OK either way. I collect widgets and will deal with wannabes.

    This forum is just full of puppies and kittens - no one blames puppies and kittens for acting like puppies and kittens. The rest of us can look at them and smile and be entertained.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I'm a Wannabe and I live in Widgetville.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The anti-wannabee camp seems to be strangely divided into three different groups. Perhaps the poll taker was demonstrating some bias image
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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    How about we retire some of the poles and lapdogs too!!!!
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>How about we retire some of the poles and lapdogs too!!!! >>



    That should be "polls".

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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    NO it shouldn't.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This poll is in honor of Goose. >>


    Hey, what about me? I was squacking as loud as anyone back when "wannabe" was the boards favorite word.




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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How bout the lackeys as well?
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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    don't forget "insignificant" as well.
  • weresteveweresteve Posts: 1,224 ✭


    << <i>I'm a Wannabe and I live in Widgetville. >>



    Hmmm ... almost sounds like you are in with the guy who stole all those Legos up in your neck of the woods ... image
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  • weresteveweresteve Posts: 1,224 ✭


    << <i>from US Coin forum discussion? >>



    Most definitely ... with a one month grace period to allow smoe peoplez here to adjust accordingly. After the start of the new year anybody caught using these words should be publically tarred and feathered at one of the big national coin shows.
    1st You Suck - 04/07/05 - Thanks MadMarty!

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  • TUMUSSTUMUSS Posts: 2,207 ✭
    Laura will never "retire" these words. They define her. She cannot be "whole" without degrading others and placing herself above the pack (The ironic thing is they accomplish the exact opposite as far as I am concerned).

    I love to see her use these terms as I believe it loses her customers (Lost this one!).
  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭


    << <i>The anti-wannabee camp seems to be strangely divided into three different groups. Perhaps the poll taker was demonstrating some bias image >>




    Of course, but in the opposite direction from the negative that is implied by the answers. A disingenuous way to bring her up again, from a dedicated sycophant.
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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  • riprip Posts: 191
    I'd rather retire SMOE and all other AOL language.
  • questor54questor54 Posts: 1,351 ✭
    Let's retire all language and express ourselves in interpretive dance.
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,254 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If were taking votes on killing words I nominate "NEWP".
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    rip,

    Ha! lol rofl r u sure u w4nt th4t? imageimageimage
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'd rather retire SMOE and all other AOL language. >>



    I'm pretty sure smoe was invented in the open forum here. At least that's what the strange brew that hangs out there claims.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • markglickermarkglicker Posts: 1,486 ✭
    Please don't. I will have to change the name of my shop.
  • BASEagleBASEagle Posts: 383
    We'll retire the terms when Laura wants to retire the terms.

    And, not one second before.

    Mike

  • questor54questor54 Posts: 1,351 ✭
    Who has a picture of the lovely Laura? I am a lonely man.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Yes, Definitely, and Positively. Plus the others: I wish, Soon I hope, Please, Any day now, etc.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,867 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Who has a picture of the lovely Laura? I am a lonely man. >>



    Do a google search on "Laura Sperber pictures". Let us know what you think.

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  • TUMUSSTUMUSS Posts: 2,207 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Who has a picture of the lovely Laura? I am a lonely man. >>



    Do a google search on "Laura Sperber pictures". Let us know what you think. >>



    Now he's lonely AND scared.
  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    Let's not miss the opportunity to also strenuously discourage the use of image as a substitute for thought and expression. If you can't do better than that, why post?
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

    image
  • questor54questor54 Posts: 1,351 ✭
    No longer lonely, just glad I am alone.
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭


    << <i>Let's not miss the opportunity to also strenuously discourage the use of image as a substitute for thought and expression. If you can't do better than that, why post? >>

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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    There... I seem to have gotten it out of my system... Laura?

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  • 66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭
    put them in the pile with ' I concur'
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Let's retire all language and express ourselves in interpretive dance. >>



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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>put them in the pile with ' I concur' >>



    I concur.

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh, look - the Coin Forum has cheat threads also!

    +1
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does not!

    -1

    So there!

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