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Post number level names...
« on: June 29, 2011, 05:48:56 PM »
I've never cared for McPostypants or whatever. I'm moving in on 5000 but I'll still be McPosypants, and I will be at least until 10,000, I think...  *sigh* I really do hate it. It makes me think of that saying, "Put on your woman's grown up panties and deal with it."  (Men, if you have to ask what I mean then ask your female friends.) See why I hate it?

Could we please, please, please go back to the original ones? They were fun and they were sort of like role playing.

Well, just a suggestion...  Now I'll go back to being a grown up and ignoring the title...  if I have to...
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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2011, 05:51:34 PM »
Did the original system go up that high?

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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2011, 10:18:06 PM »
Why are we mcpostington now?
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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2011, 10:22:16 PM »
What are the upper levels?  Is there anything above 'Seriously?'

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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2011, 11:28:47 PM »
Isn't there "Needs a Life" for 20,000+?
Is it just me or is it getting a little solipsistic in here?

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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2011, 12:15:24 AM »
I liked the Dresden-themed labels we had before, personally.
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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2011, 04:12:36 AM »
In case you weren't around.. I think the old ones were--what?  Mortal, Apprentice, Wizard etc?  White Council (or should that be Gray now?) was reserved for moderators I think.  Jena may have a better memory.  There is a line in a Noel Coward play, Waiting in the Wings, "My mind is like a sieve."   Yep, that's my mind.

Don't care about the number of posts to get to different levels, I just prefer the old classifications.

And yes, that's better. Thank you!
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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2011, 06:33:19 AM »
There is a line in a Noel Coward play, Waiting in the Wings, "My mind is like a sieve."   Yep, that's my mind.


So that's where that comes from!

I have learnt so much from this forum in the past week.  Thanks meg_evonne.

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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2011, 08:42:39 PM »
I like to think of my brains as a broken egg dribbling through a metal sieve---yuck, and far too true.  *sigh*
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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2011, 07:51:42 AM »
As they say around here - Brain fart!!

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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2011, 11:09:27 PM »
What exactly was wrong with the pants?  I've never heard of that saying, so I'm lost.
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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2011, 12:01:10 AM »
What exactly was wrong with the pants?  I've never heard of that saying, so I'm lost.

"Put on your big-girl panties" is an even more derogatory way of saying "Grow up." Although I'd never heard that version; I'd seen "Put on your big-boy pants" far more often (not directed at me, 'cause I was born a surly old man :D ).
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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2011, 12:14:43 AM »
I've had that version said to me, and I'm a girl.   :D

I still don't see how the McPosterpants were offensive, though, since nobody was being insulted.  Personally, I liked the pants.  They kept my virtual butt nice and toasty. 
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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2011, 12:15:30 AM »
Ehren wears pants.  I would not consider a comparison to him to be derogatory. :D

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Re: Post number level names...
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2011, 12:22:15 AM »
*gasp*  They must have taken the pants to cripple our batmanning skills!  How could they?!  >:(
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