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January 19th, 2002, 02:32 AM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
dumbluck, I really hope the punchline was worth it!
if you want to hear a good lawyer joke, I think the best doing the rounds at the moment is
Q "what do lawyers use for contraception?"
A "their personalities"
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January 20th, 2002, 05:01 AM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
More or less on the off-topic of "Forum Decorum", I was just browsing postings and looking at people's "ranks" (wondering if I would ever post enough to get myself promoted to corporal), when I noticed something that gave me a chuckle -- all you "seargeants" out there have your ranks misspelled (should be sergeant, according to my dictionary). So there! Now I can feel better for still being a lowly pfc.
(Actually, whoever is responsible for this can count themselves in good company. I read somewhere that Leon Uris -- and his editors -- misspelled sergeant 108 times in his bestseller "Battle Cry".)
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January 20th, 2002, 01:20 PM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
suicide_junkie, you sometimes post a message with a single word, BUMP. Please, can you tell me what does it mean? 
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January 20th, 2002, 01:29 PM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
He does that to bump the thread back up to the top so that it doesn't get lost in the mass of old topics no-one looks at anymore. He does it to keep the discussion going, to keep the thread alive.
PS I know I'm not SJ, but hey, I knew the answer, and I'm sure he won't mind! 
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January 20th, 2002, 05:09 PM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
Do I really bump that much more than other people around here?
I really can't remember the Last time I did...
...A search tells me I've only used the word bump in five threads, not nessesarily as a "bump", either.
[ 20 January 2002: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]
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January 20th, 2002, 08:53 PM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
Thank you for your answers, I'm learning...
quote: Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Do I really bump that much more than other people around here?
Not really, but every time I see it I cannot understand anything  and that annoys me because I'm usually very interested in the discussion
I mentioned your name because the first time I saw it was in one of your Posts a while ago, and I spent some time trying to imaginate an English phrase that could match that four characters (B.U.M.P.) and with some sense  (Expressions, components, strategies even PBW games)
Of course, I couldn't 
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January 20th, 2002, 09:43 PM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
" English phrase that could match that four characters (B.U.M.P.) and with some sense"
Heh. That is your problem right there- it is NOT a phrase. It's a word.
"bump" in this case means "bump it to the top". Think about keeping a volleyball in the air. "bump" in a non-internet context just means a small collison.
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