# A nerd walks into an aborted business club meeting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nerd-walks-into-an-aborted-business-club-meeting/632237>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 22, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nerd-walks-into-an-aborted-business-club-meeting/632237 "2012-08-22T01:44:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nerd-walks-into-an-aborted-business-club-meeting/632237/21 "2012-08-22T08:27:14Z")

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> [@Isamu](#):
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> moocher.

Thanks. Quite a difference an “s” makes.

“Moochers and Smoochers” ought to be the title of something.

“And welcome to Earth, MichaelEmouse. It seems all those years of studying our ways have finally paid off.”  
Indeed. I made rookie mistakes at first like trying to pass myself off as one of your gods. I now see that I was badly mistaken as to both its divinity and the formality required in its name.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nerd-walks-into-an-aborted-business-club-meeting/632237/22 "2012-08-22T08:37:30Z")

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> [@MichaelEmouse](#):
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> My English not good. What do you call someone who freerides off others?

A person who freerides is a snowboarder or a mountain biker who rides down the hill in while expressing him or herself by performing tricks. A person who freeloads is a person who [mooches](http://youtu.be/PJypiADHBTk) off another person. More often than not, the former is also the latter.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-nerd-walks-into-an-aborted-business-club-meeting/632237/23 "2012-08-22T08:43:57Z")

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[del]in[/del]

As you can see, my English is not so good either.

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