Thread Pollution

coquette

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20 May 13 16:44

~~Frank Burns~~

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07 Jun 13 15:40

Originally posted by kevcvs57
Are you sure there are three 'O's in Ooops I thought it only had two, thus making it an anagram of 'Poos' thus associating it with all the other colloquialism's for crap as in 'crap/poo I've started another crappy/pooey word association game'.

It can have as many as four o's. Depending on how heavy or light the exclamation is. Yep, up to four. But no more. State law.

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07 Jun 13 16:04

Originally posted by Frank Burns
'Cause maybe they could be? Dunno, just spitballin' it a bit here.

By the way, did you hear HandyAndy died?

You're kiddin! Ooooops...I mean Oooops.

coquette

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15 Jun 13 15:22

this has no association with WA threads

Grampy Bobby

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20 Jun 13 04:19

"Word Association threads are the new spam" (op)

... and the old spam?

empovsun

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20 Jun 13 05:57

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
Actually, I agree with you.. up to a point.

There should be one word association game -- the original WAG, the one we've come to know and love.
All the others, the A-Z, Z-A, last-letter-first clones and satirical copycats, should be dispatched forthwith.

Spam can serve a useful purpose, if kept within reasonable limits.

that's reasonable

no harm in one wa game

coquette

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20 Jun 13 21:56

one would not be a problem, it's the flood of A-Z, Z-A, Free association WA, the latest one, the oldest one

personally I can't connect with any of them, hence the non association one, but that didn't work, there's always some sort of association

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20 Jun 13 22:36

Originally posted by coquette
one would not be a problem, it's the flood of A-Z, Z-A, Free association WA, the latest one, the oldest one

personally I can't connect with any of them, hence the non association one, but that didn't work, there's always some sort of association

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20 Jun 13 22:56

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Stees, do you have permission from coquette to play Word Games with her "Thread Pollution" thread?

Management adage: It's often easier to get forgiveness, than permission.

Grampy Bobby

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20 Jun 13 23:14

Originally posted by JS357
Management adage: It's often easier to get forgiveness, than permission.

... and, common courtesy's the first casualty in internecine internet war.

Ponderable

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21 Jun 13 11:07

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"Word Association threads are the new spam" (op)

... and the old spam?

has been eaten up.

(see the appropriate Monthy Python thread)

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23 Jun 13 20:42

Originally posted by Ponderable

has been eaten up.

(see the appropriate Monthy Python thread)

It's a very sad day
in the global village
when its citizens care
more about eating
than waging.