Calling all Members with "and" in their name(s)

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Neither are we, because that seemingly innocent remark opens a whole new can of worms.

Let’s say that a new member joins this message board. Her location is given as Windsor, and her profile tells us that her hobbies include travel, horse racing, corgis, opening parliaments, and consoling divorced children. Her user name is TopBitch and she is currently shacked up with another new member who calls himself TheDorkOfEdinburgh.

Without a word of introduction TopBitch leaps into GQ with a deeply recherché question, something like:

We would like to know what is the current protocol in Royal Circles vis-a-vis dipping the end of one’s banana into one’s marmalade. If our banana is 12 cm in length, what is the correct weight of preserve permissible on the end of that banana in established Aristocratic Society. Please give answers in Imperial Measure and assume marmalade is Medium Cut with bits in. We thank you in advance.

Just the sort of subject Comrade Mapcase can get his teeth into.

What is the current board rule concerning members who insist on posting in the first-person plural thereby drawing suspicion on themselves and possibly unsettling other members with this totally unnecessary and gratuitously affected style?

Thank you in advance.

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What about the "or"s? Why is the disjunctive operator always ignored? :mad:

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This way madness lies.

Regards,
Shodand

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You’re both missing the point. The Doper whom M&P quoted is actually the 01 who has a strong philosophical antipathy to the negative disjunctive operator. In short, he is the Anti-“nor” 01.

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Bah.

::trudges out of thread::

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Shod and what? Not socked, I hope?

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But that Deb always seems to have better things to do.

And what about Polycarp? Lots of fishes…?

–g and g

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It’s not that at all. It’s just that there’s a frog in our pocket.

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I’m disappointed. I wasn’t in the list.

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This reminds me of a Geico commercial… I keep looking for the Neandthal guy to show up whining.

and BTW Dex who the hell is this we that you were referring to.

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Well, Left H thinks we oughtta fess up, but Of Dorkness disagrees, so we’re keeping mum.

Daniel