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<p>ebeeee, I see where it might have gone that way with a different crowd. I love the fact that we got very altruistic and had fun decorating each other! </p>
<p>CC - the place where EVERYONE really CAN be special.</p>
<p>Laughing so hard I have tears running down my face! Puffing, indeed! :)</p>
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I, for one, posted much less over the last 2 months … and it felt very much like junior high where the “in crowd” talked about the THE PARTY that only the inner crowd was invited to and in front of all those not invited … personally I believe it was a horrible addition to CC and am very disappointed the official announcement title includes “for now”</p>
<p>Looks like you were a pretty active poster over the past few months, but certainly no one can know how much someone might have posted. The fun part about the greenies is that it WAS open to everyone. Posters with 2 months to 9 years posting history joined in. It was inclusive, so if someone felt excluded for whatever reason, that is most unfortunate.</p>
<p>Yeah, those two threads I was on were open to anyone. If you showed up, we greened you. The longer we were there, the faster we greened anybody. Some people went from 1 to 11 in a day… and none of us knew each other or invited each other.</p>
<p>I guess it’s like a mirror. You saw whatever you thought was going on in there. Me, I just saw a bunch of goofballs who weren’t taking it seriously at all. The exact opposite of the jr. high in crowd, if I recall correctly, where it was deadly serious. And not even slightly fun.</p>
<p>Was nothing like my junior high either. Here, everybody got to play and everybody got to star in the musical. It also had a surreal element - kind of like Lost meets PacMan. As silly as it was, I think it was a win-win for CC - resulted in more hits, big-time bonding, got lurkers (like me) to post and provide help, and distracted from the insane stress of the colleges admissions process.</p>
<p>jym626, I dropped from 10 posts a day to about 3, and went days without even looking at CC. I have friends from this site that just didn’t show up. Glad it was fun for so many, but it seemed a little insane to me. </p>
<p>I would still like to “like” posts however.</p>
<p>No doubt it was insane MizzBee, in a fun way for some, for some, clearly, not so much. But I’m glad you are back.</p>
<p>Sorry you somehow felt excluded, MizzBee. It was anything but. People found one of the threads, popped in, typically excalimed either total confusion or a “eureka, I’ve found where all the greenies are coming from” and joined in the ridiculousness of it all. Funny that as we speak, in the other thread (the prestigiosity thread, that was completely hijacked, but hunt was a good sport about it) posters are sharing just the opposite feeling-- that it was fun, brought out the silliness in people, let people see their lighter sides, enjoyed the lyricists and creativity, etc. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1421664-time-revise-prestigiosity-ratings-78.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1421664-time-revise-prestigiosity-ratings-78.html</a></p>
<p>As we clean for the cleaning lady tomorrow, I am picking up scraps of paper on which are scrawled: texaspg,krlilies,psychmom,moreover,confetti,MTnest,mommusic,neuroticparent, blackeyedsusan,North Minnesota,GMTplus7,07DAD,TOS,blueiguana,CT1417,VAmom2015, JuniorMint,Patsmom, loremIpsum, crittermom, OHmom, Yalemom15, kinderny, somemom,dowzerw, poetgrl, 12rmh18, bookworm,lilmom,niceday,parent56, SLUMOM,simplerules, 4beardolls,mathmom, GA2012mom, and thats just on the slips of paper that are still lying around, not to mention the ones that have already been deep-sixed. It was an honor to play in the sandboox with these and many other posters, many of whom had not otherwise crossed paths. A good time was had by ALL. Not some.</p>
<p>I’m just disappointed that our crowd-sourced story of Wynter stalled!</p>
<p>jym626, Ha! I thought I am the only person clean for the cleaning lady. I too, just today, sadly dispose my neatly organized list of my ‘imaginary friends’ I still plan to rep.</p>
<p>Wow this all beginning to sound sad like the day the circus leaves town or the end of a really cool summer camp. 
I will admit that our green quest was silly and over the top, but that was exactly like we played it to be. I never saw any hidden agendas and every newbie was welcomed with a shower of greenies. All I can say is that when I was sicker than a dog over New Years and my whole family was gone on vacation, I was stuck at home and I found plenty of entertainment here. I don’t think we need a green game to keep up ……but I suppose in the long run we will fizzle out until the powers that be unleash a new system and we will all be back making a new game of it I’m sure :D</p>
<p>jym, you are awesome 
You’re still on the currency of greenieland, and an Empress in your own right.</p>
<p>^^^I agree with yalemom and poetgrl :D!</p>
<p>I am way behind here! I didn’t realize that my post of this evening in the prestigiousity thread was almost a duplicate of one that jym posted this morning in this thread. The ‘game’ introduced me to people I would not have gotten to know as I might not have stumbled across them in the threads I had been following. It also provided quick insight to the personalities of the posters, so I am glad I was able to play along for a while.</p>
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Its a shame you didn’t play along. With your years of history/longevity on cc and your several thousand post count, your “reps” would have been worth a LOT (both of those factors couted in towards the power of your “reps”) and you would have been mighty “popular” (for lack of a better word). People would have begged (as we shamelessly did- it was part of the game) for your “reps”. And for whatever reason, the “prestigosity” thread stayed in the parents forum (it probably should have been moved to the cafe) but in the forum, posts added to postcount as well, so it was a double bonus when posting over there. Silly? Yes. But entertaining to banter and share fun and quick wit, absolutely. Sorry you missed the fun. Yes, it was totally silly and mindless nonsense, but clever and amusing for those who participated.</p>
<p>Although I’m not among them, I can see the point of view of people who felt left out. Amassing vast quantities of greenies required a certain dedication to cc that most people don’t have time for. Although no one was excluded, I can see how someone who didn’t want to expend the time to hunt for greenies could feel outside the group. Also, once the threads became extremely long, there were some lines that were effectively inside jokes because understanding them required reading backwards a long ways.</p>
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<p>Sort of like Hebrew? ;)</p>
<p>^Let me throw out this tidbit–Did you know that in putting Hebrew to music, the music goes forward (as it perforce must) but each Hebrew SYLLABLE is written backward?</p>
<p>Sounds insane but if you are fluent in the language I guess it’s not a problem. </p>
<p>You’re welcome. :)</p>
<p>I also heard that in Hebrew the vowels are left out. So you kind to have to figure out/know how to pronounce a word. Not sure if that’s true?</p>