<p>I’d nominate driver for creating this noun: “paleo-alum”.</p>
<p>Shucks, nobody ever called ME a special friend!!! and I always thought I offered such sage advice!</p>
<p>Dig - I was wondering about Serene, too! I think that Twinkle just types fast (ever IMed her?). Or has a lot of energy. Or both.</p>
<p>TheDad - c’mon, feminist federalist tree-hugging missives should be easy to respond to! Or not.</p>
<p>Aries, it’s the fact that your e-mails have implicit footnotes, citations, and endnotes that make for the need of careful, well-constructed responses. :)</p>
<p>TheDad… still laughing some minutes after reading your last post. I would have thought you were kidding until this exerpt from Aries:
I’ve filled up my little slateboard with grammar diagrams trying to parse this, but it only tells me that it’s a good thing I never went to law school.</p>
<p>Sigh. 
to both of you. </p>
<p>The footnotes, endnotes, and citations are implicit because I have two bad habits:
- remembering darn near everything I read; and
- forgetting where I read it. </p>
<p>Ergo, the implicit footnotes, endnotes (hopefully only one of those at a time!), and citations - shall work on making them more explicit.</p>
<p>Aries - you gotta know we’re kidding you… You’re an older-timer than me aroung here (779 posts up to now vs my total of 584 - counting this one). </p>
<p>dig - old-timer
aries - older-timer
TheDad - OLDEST-TIMER!!</p>
<p>LOL! </p>
<p>Of course I know that y’all are just giving me a hard time. We go back to the “Archieved forum” and Twinkle’s thread, which the young 'uns around here have only heard about. :)</p>
<p>Of <em>course</em> we’re giving you a hard time…if we don’t, who will?</p>
<p>After thoroughly groaning in another thread and realizing that no bad pun should go unPUNished, I feel I must post a nomination: </p>
<p>The Coward for Pun-ster in Training - hayden</p>
<p>(“training” of course implies that the winner’s trophy will be a rolled-up newspaper. 
)</p>
<p>Zeus takes care of that! As I’ve said to TheDaughter, we have similar fathers. It’s a good thing that whoever separated us before birth was kind enough to arrange that.</p>
<p>Coward’s special “Elmer Fudd Award” : Curmudgeon :)</p>
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<p>Aries, there are some unnerving congruences on this board. I could swear that I’m closely related to Curmudgeon, despite our almost completely antithetical lifestyles.</p>
<p>Btw, do you know anyone who wears a Zeus suit?</p>
<p>Digi, it’s interesting, but there’s a good handful of posters who antedate me on this site. Shennie is one of them and I recall finding at least a couple of others when I went back to see when I had first posted on CC, thought a couple now have new screen names. I’m one of the dinosaurs but I’m not <em>the</em> dinosaur.</p>
<p>Of course not. Then you’d have been TheDinosaur.</p>
<p>Groans. Are you also related to TheDad, BassDad? </p>
<p>Groans at TheDad’s joke - just had to say it out loud to get it. Zeus would not be caught on an internet board, so no fear of him joining in the CC fun.</p>
<p>Well, I have been called a highly encourageable punster (at least I think that’s what they said.) Had TheDad not written the setup line himself, he probably would have beaten me to the punchline.</p>
<p>BassDad, I’ve been meaning to ask: the fish, the musical instrument, or the vocal range?</p>
<p>Btw, we have a stuffed stegosaurus named Rex. He’s rather gloomy much of the time…kinda like Eeyore…all because he’s extinct.</p>
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<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=60202[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=60202</a> post #93
Could also have been nominated as Coward for “Thread De-fuser”</p>
<p>I second that nomination. Grace under fire indeed. In fact, we can have a new abbreviation: LUABN - Lighten up and be nice.</p>
<p>mootmom - that’s hilarious. Thanks! I’ll treasure the rolled up newspaper. The New Yorkie Times, perhaps?</p>