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Helpmodest, organic feeling?
in reply to a message by puck
Is it a name, or a laxative?
Edwin is the weakest and whiniest of the ed names. Edward is anybody, Edmund is stiff and proper, Edgar is sinister and creepy with just a tiniest bit of dashingness, and Edwin is pale and skinny with a lot of allergies.
Edwin is the weakest and whiniest of the ed names. Edward is anybody, Edmund is stiff and proper, Edgar is sinister and creepy with just a tiniest bit of dashingness, and Edwin is pale and skinny with a lot of allergies.
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there was a discussion the other night ...
At my house, talking about baseball, where Phillip mentioned there's a lot of Hispanic ballplayers named Edgar, and he was laughing about the idea of somebody in Mexico or the Dominican Republic snapping their fingers and going "Caramba! Let's name him Edgar!"
At my house, talking about baseball, where Phillip mentioned there's a lot of Hispanic ballplayers named Edgar, and he was laughing about the idea of somebody in Mexico or the Dominican Republic snapping their fingers and going "Caramba! Let's name him Edgar!"
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I had an uncle Edgar, one of my mother's brothers. He was a bit of a going-from-one -job-to -another, and a drinker.Very nice looking man.
Just like in a story, though,in a big industrial disaster, he saved a fellow worker's life, carrying him to safety,although his own leg was broken.
Just like in a story, though,in a big industrial disaster, he saved a fellow worker's life, carrying him to safety,although his own leg was broken.
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I have a Honduran student named Edwin. I suppose it's an exotic foreign name to them, even though my only association before my student was my cousins' grandpa who died about 25 years ago. My student has darker, but not quite black, skin and short, curly hair. When one of the teachers met him last year, she said he looks like Gary Coleman.
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This is great news! I thought Edgar would be universally thought of as ugly for sure.
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Just because you don't share the original poster's innovative linguistic elan doesn't entitle you to be nasty.
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Jesus Christ, she wasn't NASTY! Will everyone please stop trying to make this board the internet equivalent of Wonder Bread??? Jeez, she's the most interesting poster we have here and everybody's trying to kill it!
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Most interesting according to who????
Fwiw I don't think it was any nastier than any of her regular posts
Fwiw I don't think it was any nastier than any of her regular posts
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According to me. And I'm the second most interesting. And puck is the third. Which is just my opinion, but's it's an opinions board, after all. :-D
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Does anyone remember...
...Sabrina Fair? She was an interesting poster.
...Sabrina Fair? She was an interesting poster.
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YES!
Wasn't she saying that she would name a daughter Michael? Or something like that?
Anyway, I remember here.
Wasn't she saying that she would name a daughter Michael? Or something like that?
Anyway, I remember here.
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I remember her saying some awful things about homosexuality, so she was never one of my favorite posters. Even though it came across as more naive than mean in her case, I still couldn't warm to her. Just my opinion.
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Yes, she was. Remember how she thought Race could be a name and she liked Hazel for a boy?
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True. It IS an opinion board, and some people have opinions about how others express theirs
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But I think that when the objective of some opinions is to squelch other opinions, then there's a problem.
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I hear what you're saying. And like I said I don't think Rox's comment was too out of character, though it did feel a little more personally directed at the OP than objectively directed at the name Edwin.
And that's the whole round-about, because I mean you COULD say that puck's description was "squelched" by Rox is the same way as Rox's was "squelched" by Wordsmith
People have the right to feel offended whether we understand or not. Some people can easily digest 9-grain wheat bread. Others prefer soft, doughy Wonder bread
And that's the whole round-about, because I mean you COULD say that puck's description was "squelched" by Rox is the same way as Rox's was "squelched" by Wordsmith
People have the right to feel offended whether we understand or not. Some people can easily digest 9-grain wheat bread. Others prefer soft, doughy Wonder bread
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Arguing with opinions is just goofing off. Surely everyone knows this. Being squelched and having a problem is a voluntary thing. This whole subthread seems deliberately absurd. I hope ... I hope that nobody is looking to feel squelched and have problems. If so, please take it straight to PM.
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Yeah, it's pretty absurd. I'm trying to squelch the opinions of those whose opinions are squelching the opinions of others and I sure hope nobody tries to squelch me.
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*squelchsquelchsquelchsquelch*
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agree
She's maybe one of the funniest posters. I wouldn't say her humor is never a little nasty, but she almost always stops short of being insulting. She wasn't insulting here, IMO. She was just being sarcastic about the OP's purplish language, which IMO is totally legit. There's hardly any need for people to take it personally on his behalf, and get personal with Roxstar over it. The OP is not all stung over it.
But if her opinions on names are "interesting," my own must be pretty damn fascinating ... and someone should do a dissertation on, say, New Chloe's.
She's maybe one of the funniest posters. I wouldn't say her humor is never a little nasty, but she almost always stops short of being insulting. She wasn't insulting here, IMO. She was just being sarcastic about the OP's purplish language, which IMO is totally legit. There's hardly any need for people to take it personally on his behalf, and get personal with Roxstar over it. The OP is not all stung over it.
But if her opinions on names are "interesting," my own must be pretty damn fascinating ... and someone should do a dissertation on, say, New Chloe's.
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*blush*
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I don't think Rox is being nasty. She's just sharing her opinion about the name, which is the whole point of this board. Different names conjure differen't images. If people only want to hear nice things about a name they like, they should go somewhere else.
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People certainly give Rox a lot of power around here. She should wear a crown.
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Roxstar's comment
"['Modest, organic feeling'?] Is it a name, or a laxative?"
is actually not an opinion on a name. It's a sarcastic joke, the target of which is not the name itself but the poster's use of language.
You might share Roxstar's opinion of the name and therefore be more able to perceive it as a funny joke, but I think you can also see how if you didn't share her opinion, you might think she was being nasty.
"['Modest, organic feeling'?] Is it a name, or a laxative?"
is actually not an opinion on a name. It's a sarcastic joke, the target of which is not the name itself but the poster's use of language.
You might share Roxstar's opinion of the name and therefore be more able to perceive it as a funny joke, but I think you can also see how if you didn't share her opinion, you might think she was being nasty.
This message was edited 10/10/2014, 10:38 AM
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