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Right you lot see as though youve trashed my last topic im putting it back on track, alison (moyra) is our 2,000 member, so pop in to intro and give her a welcome, not bad putting approx 1,600 on in 2 1/2 years that weve been together and growing fast at an average of 50 + a month.

So i would like to say a big thankyou to admin for taking us in (must of been a shock for him ) and to you lot the forum for making this such a pleasant site to be a memeber off

and an extra special thanks to the members below who joined at the same week as me, they stayed and posted which started the membership growth off, thanks all,

BC Wench , ellie, dianel, Carol, gardener, Rob, Silver surfer, FarSide, Ganggang, a5baggie, Rosegarden, mumbles, Dennis, linell, Margarett, Jimmy, Northern Lass, mallosa,

But dont forget without good members that post, there wouldnt be a forum, full stop, so well done all and here to the next 2,000 members

Peterd

You know where you say full stop do you mean a full stop or do you mean a comma?
cos you put a comma

just want you to get your caesuras correct

Northern Lass wrote:You know where you say full stop do you mean a full stop or do you mean a comma?
cos you put a comma

just want you to get your caesuras correct

ok mrs rob

Northern Lass wrote:You know where you say full stop do you mean a full stop or do you mean a comma?
cos you put a comma

just want you to get your caesuras correct

At least he bothered to use them.

don't you start I got told off before about not using
punctuation but I am with the enjambement lot
fast and loose baby!

It's great that we roundd 2000 members, it's a testament to the hard work of the moderators, you deserve a clap on the back!
The greater the number of members we are, the more we can help each other.

Northern Lass wrote::oops:

don't you start I got told off before about not using
punctuation but I am with the enjambement lot
fast and loose baby!

Oh dear I don't always use punctuation, so will pull my socks up and add it.

Annie

2,000 members That's an awful lot of mumchancers.

Mumchancer as in Salem's Lot?

What is a mumchancer?
Pat

Is it this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzE32ChEp24&feature=fvsr

No Like i said it's to do with Salem's Lot!! Right SRD?

18chestnut wrote:What is a mumchancer?
Pat

Good question chestnut I'm wondering myself what it is.

Annie

With the whole of Google at your fingertips you need me to explain.

I discovered the word from the Words column in the Oldie magazine. Originally mumchance was a game (cards I think but I'm not going looking it all up again) that had to be played in silence, from this a mumchancer came to be someone who looked on without contributing, it can be either from a point of advantage or because one hasn't the bottle, it is in the latter meaning that HG Wells uses it in his 'The Plattner Story'. I thought it suitable, and much more entertaining, as a description of those others call lurkers - those who join forum and don't post.

From the same article came rantipole, someone who acts childishly by doing such acts as kicking the furniture in frustration and giving vent to rants about things, rantipole is a self-conferred title that I carry from my days on the old Tiscali forum (and others) where my occasional outbursts of fury and malarkey would give entertainment (or not) to other forum users.

As rob has pointed out, either because he is a member there who I don't recognise or because his Googling skills are up to scratch, I am a current member of a small social site called Salem's Lot where I have been known to use the term mumchancer, and where I carry the title rantipole. Googling mumchancer will also give many of the other sites where I am/have been a member. Despite my efforts to get it adopted all over the web, it seems I am still the only user of the term.

Excuse me SRD as people who know me will verify i very rarely feel the need to Google!!!