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Re: Fob

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:39 pm
by Slava
PL, look at the numbers. You yourself are about to double up.

Re: Fob

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:49 pm
by gailr
^ *raises an eyebrow at that phrasing*

Re: Fob

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:20 pm
by MTC
PL, ... You yourself are about to go bi.
I'm shocked, shocked that Slava would so blatantly comment on Perry's sexual orientation. If Perry comes out, that's his business. :shock: :)

Re: Fob

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:50 pm
by David McWethy
MTC:
I'd like to add, to the accolades of others:

Congratulations!!!

I, too, had no idea that you were approaching--or had reached--this maximo possent (highest possible) level. I trust that you are not like Alexander the Great: weeping, having no more worlds left to conquer :wink:

This gives me the segue to ask a question that has been buzzing around in my head like a cerebral mosquito--content to land and remain quiet on a spot until an idea zips by, penetrating its comfort zone and causing it to buzz and whirl, crashing into half-formed thoughts to the point of distraction: What are the status levels in the Alpha Agora, and the requirements for each?

In over a year I haven't found anything remotely resembling a link to this information, yet others seem to know it.

Re: Fob

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 2:19 am
by Philip Hudson
The "status levels" on the Alpha are simply a matter of how many postings you submit. I think I am a Grand Panjandrum because I have too much time on my hands.

It is something like being made a senior member of the technical staff at a big electronics company. You get a plaque and the title but no raise in pay and nobody notices. Charlie Brown remarked that getting such an award is sort of like wetting your dark trousers. You get a warm feeling but nobody notices.

With a title like Grand Panjandrum, I can go into one of those high faultin’ coffee shops and get a latte (whatever that is) for about five dollars. The price is just a guess. I don't frequent that kind of place. We make our own coffee at home.

Re: Fob

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:00 am
by MTC
I see the Grand Panjandrum status in a more positive light, and I suspect Philip does too despite his efforts to present himself as an unrepentant curmudgeon. Hey, real men don't drink latte, right Philip? Just the black, bitter dregs of coffee boiled over a campfire by trail-weary cowboys. Ahhhhh, that's the stuff! Real java! None of that wimpish wash sipped by pinkie-extending snobs in Starbucks. Why a real man...but never mind. I do run on....

Back to Grand Panjandrums, I am delighted and humbled to join their august ranks. It's a monument to perseverance at the very least. Every day I learn something new from all of you on the forum while (I hope) contributing something myself. Anyway, real men don't slobber over these things, do they. No, they deflect. Sure do like my new GP pocket watch. Think I'll print out the picture and frame it.

Re: Fob

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:33 am
by David McWethy
AHA!! There's one apparent requirement, right there: The ability--which gailr has recently demonstrated, to remove all doubt--to post a link to an off-site image!

When I've tried, by entering IMG and pasting the URL of the photobucket pic between the ] and the [, what Preview shows is along the lines of [img]photobucket/dkfjgjv89s0spedkd8kj[/img] instead of the desired .jpg image.

And trying to upload directly from my computer. I get a distinction without a difference: [img]Desktop/MyPix%/2013/MISCELLANEOUS/FUNNIES/PURRRFECT.JPG[/img] instead of the .jpg image found at that spot.

In short. "...[I've] come a long way from St.Louis but...[I've] still got a long way to go!"

Re: Fob

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:42 pm
by LukeJavan8
PL, ... You yourself are about to go bi.
I'm shocked, shocked that Slava would so blatantly comment on Perry's sexual orientation. If Perry comes out, that's his business. :shock: :)

Nothing personal, MTC, but I get castigated if I make personal
comments, careful here.

Re: Fob

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 2:08 pm
by Slava
PL, ... You yourself are about to go bi.
I'm shocked, shocked that Slava would so blatantly comment on Perry's sexual orientation. If Perry comes out, that's his business. :shock: :)
Nothing personal, MTC, but I get castigated if I make personal
comments, careful here.
Well, I can see that double-entendre was poorly received. :oops:

Though it's been mis-quoted, I've edited it.

Re: Fob

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:48 pm
by MTC
You've set the record "straight."

Re: Fob

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:01 pm
by Perry Lassiter
As anyone who has been reading my posts must know by now, I am only amused at becoming a GP2! One requirement is humility.

I am but an egg...

Re: Fob

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:25 pm
by MTC
But "a good egg."