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The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename T******y, Thing!
Shorty† (ACE, Keeper, Muse, MuG, Thingite) Posted Oct 18, 2001
*gasp*
Backlog... what long, long, (but interesting), long backlog!
beans Clive! 
* everyone else too*
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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Oct 18, 2001
Ottox! I'm impressed! It's all I could do to read all that, much less keep track of it!
The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename T******y, Thing!, to save Sock Suspenders and to get a "Thing" Badge!! And to Don't Panic (yet) about the Vogons blowing up the earth.
Researcher Ford Posted Oct 18, 2001
Transmitting from the Sub-etha net (from the inside of a Vogon ship)
DON'T PANIC Plastic Squirrel!
This was just a small ship. Besides I'm going to get these Vogons so drunk that by the time I leave the ship, they won't even remember their names.
"Give me some of that good ol' Jinx Spirit..."
Transmission ends
The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename Thing, Thursday!, to save Sock Suspenders and to get a "Thing" Badge!! And to Don't Panic (yet) about the Vogons blowing up the earth.
Ottox Posted Oct 18, 2001
THURSDAY!!! 
The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename T******y, Thing!
Evil Roy: Maestro of the Thingite Orchestra, Knight Errant of the Thingite Cause, Prince of Balwyniti, Aussie Researchers A59204 Posted Oct 18, 2001
Now where is that damn duck.
Not that I've ever seen it before in my life.
Shorty
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Evil Roy: Maestro of the Thingite Orchestra, Knight Errant of the Thingite Cause, Prince of Balwyniti, Aussie Researchers A59204 Posted Oct 18, 2001
Shea Ottox
And now, I'm outta here. Things to do on this Poets.
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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Oct 18, 2001
Hi ER! Congratulations!
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Oct 18, 2001
*stumbles of out the backlog*
The stumble has nothing to do with the size of the backlog, just that this is third night running I've been to the pub! 
Well I see now that those knighthoods were well earnt!
I'd never really sat back and admired the beauty of the week (yes, Ottox, I said "beauty" 
) Sodit - does contain a sort of inherent pause doesn't it? I don't think this is a bad thing though, no not at all, if anything it reflects the sort of suttering stat to the week the Sodits characterise. Wimpy, Wibble, Thing - 'nuff said. Poets - See Amy and Shea, I always said "Piffle" but I've been threatened with *whispers in Clive's ears* in the past. what's a Warlord to do? 
Even Plastic Squirrel has picked up on the P.O.E.T.S / Doobry discrepency.
and then there is Doobry and Dontbry, like the Knights said, days for doing or not doing whatever the hell you want. And essentially set apart from the rest of the days. A Weekend as it was always meant to be!
G'night thingites.
- "QUACK!"
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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Oct 18, 2001
But the fact that Poets has such a discrepancy makes it fit so beautifully into the whole manifesto (not that Piffle isn't a lovely word, as well) ...
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Oct 18, 2001
Yeah. I know.
*head in hands* 
Like I said, what's a Warlord to do?
I think we got a fairly good compromise though.
...
Just as a quick aside for anyone whoose interested:
The story of Doobry & Dontbry.
Sitting down a dinner one day with my friend Nick Clement (becuase he deserves credit for this) we were discussing something unimportant. so unimportnat infact that we quickly resorted to using assorted pro-nouns and made up names like doohickies and thingmagummies. Now at this point I was strugglinging to find names for the weekend days to enter into the manifesto. It was Nick who amongst the liteny of goobledeegook uttered forth the word "doobries" (his spelling.)
"What?" said I.
"Doobries. Y'know...stuff."
I had an epihany, what drunks would refer to as a moment of clarity. It was clear: Doobry and the natural anithesis: Dontbry. I rushed upstairs after that meal and entered them into the manifesto. and thus the new weekend was created.
Not that anyone of you needed to know that of course.
But that's the gawd's 'onest troof guvna.
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T J: Mr. Shea Posted Oct 19, 2001
Well give my thanks to Nick Clement Clive because I think that Doobry and Dontbry are just perfect for the purpose! 
Hey Ottox! How are you tonight?
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Ottox Posted Oct 19, 2001
Still a bit after post 10080!
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T J: Mr. Shea Posted Oct 19, 2001
That was kinda amazing of you! I don't think I could have kept track of it all like that. You had me bouncing back and forth between red dots to see what you were talking about! 
Phew!
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Busterbone Posted Oct 19, 2001
*Busterbone enters wearing French Foreign Legion Captains outfit*
Its still a long way to 100,000 posts. No resting on laurels. Or hardy's for that matter.
Post, you dogs, post!!!!
Post or die!!!
*marches off into the desert*
Hmmm..the natives at Questions Only seem restless tonight......
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T J: Mr. Shea Posted Oct 19, 2001
They're not the only ones who seem restless.
::watches BB march off into the desert::
::waves::
Please visit us again soon!
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Oct 19, 2001
vestless? ... 
... 
...
Just a thought ... the days have been renamed, we even gambolled with renaming the months, but I think "Piffle" should be given pride of place, and blow me down if the week shouldn't be renamed the Piffle, after all that's all it is ... a load of Piffle, typified by the misery of Sodit, the ineptitude of Wimpy, the sheer, brazen mid-weekedness of Wibble, the might of Thing, the splendour of Poets, the relief of Doobry and the haunting apprehensiveness of Dontbry ...
long words for a Poets morning, but I hey, I was woken at 7 by John Humphreys and James Naughtie and if that doesn't inspire the use of long words then I don't think anything could.
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Infinity, Thingite Grand High Witch and wysiwyg the black cat. Please participate at A626221.South Africans to A579459 Posted Oct 19, 2001
I just want to say that today being called Poets day is Piffle. I was woken at 6.30am and told that two wheels were stolen off my car during the night!
Where's the poetry in that?!!?
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Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Oct 19, 2001
its nowhere. its unpoetic. its terrible. why did they only steal two?
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The Manifesto for the Campaign to rename T******y, Thing!
- 10081: Shorty† (ACE, Keeper, Muse, MuG, Thingite) (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10082: Shea the Sarcastic (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10083: Researcher Ford (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10084: Ottox (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10085: Evil Roy: Maestro of the Thingite Orchestra, Knight Errant of the Thingite Cause, Prince of Balwyniti, Aussie Researchers A59204 (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10086: Evil Roy: Maestro of the Thingite Orchestra, Knight Errant of the Thingite Cause, Prince of Balwyniti, Aussie Researchers A59204 (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10087: Shea the Sarcastic (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10088: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10089: Shea the Sarcastic (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10090: Ottox (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10091: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10092: Ottox (Oct 18, 2001)
- 10093: T J: Mr. Shea (Oct 19, 2001)
- 10094: Ottox (Oct 19, 2001)
- 10095: T J: Mr. Shea (Oct 19, 2001)
- 10096: Busterbone (Oct 19, 2001)
- 10097: T J: Mr. Shea (Oct 19, 2001)
- 10098: Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki (Oct 19, 2001)
- 10099: Infinity, Thingite Grand High Witch and wysiwyg the black cat. Please participate at A626221.South Africans to A579459 (Oct 19, 2001)
- 10100: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Oct 19, 2001)
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