Ming wrote:I wonder if Stephen's conspiracy theories had something to do with attracting them to the forum? :wink:
I seem to come across remarks about Stephen here from time to time - what's this all about? Why do people seem to take digs at Stephen? (And what is his conspiracy theory?)
If I recall, he's actually a forum member, isn't he? And we're supposed to be nice to each other here, aren't we?
Ming wrote:I wonder if Stephen's conspiracy theories had something to do with attracting them to the forum?
I seem to come across remarks about Stephen here from time to time - what's this all about? Why do people seem to take digs at Stephen? (And what is his conspiracy theory?)
If I recall, he's actually a forum member, isn't he? And we're supposed to be nice to each other here, aren't we?
Regards, Michael.
Good question...I've always found Stephen to be be an extremely polite-good natured man.
Theres heaps more about his unique book here...
zaidi wrote:My mum says i have no common sense and i am stupid so i always feel for one.
I wouldn't take it literally. It is often said to people, "Oh, don't be so stupid!" It is not often meant! I've just called Pippa-Stef an idiot on another thread, of course, I don't mean it literally!
"What a lot of trouble one avoids if one refuses to have anything to do with the common herd. To have no job, to devote ones life to literature, is the most wonderful thing in the world. - Cicero
It makes me laugh when I hear the word yahoo.
It originally came from Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels to describe a race of people who were savages who loved digging in mud, the term has become a form of abuse to describe a coarse person.
Interesting. The only other usage of yahoo I've heard is someone shouting for joy, "yahoo!", like "woo-hoo!", or "wah-hey!".
"It's the ash! It's falling!" yelled Julian, almost startling Dick out of his wits...
"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.
"Oh blow! I've broken the spade!" said Dick
"Don't be such a yahoo" sighed Julian.
"What's a yahoo?" asked Dick throwing the spade away and reaching for a ginger beer.
"Look it up in wikipedia. And before you ask it's a poor mans Encyclopedia Britannica" said Julian.
George with her short curly hair and sunburned face looking almost like a tinker laughed, "So Dick now you know."