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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?

Regards, Michael.
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MJE wrote:
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?

Regards, Michael.
Good question...I've always found Stephen to be be an extremely polite-good natured man.
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MJE wrote: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?
Oh, he is a very nice person and takes our comments in good fun! As Pete says he is very polite and good-natured.

If we're talking about being nice to each other, Nigel and I should probably never talk again. :roll: :lol:
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Ming wrote:If we're talking about being nice to each other, Nigel and I should probably never talk again. :roll: :lol:
Gah! Toad of a girl. :shock:
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First i thought it was Tony or Anita ,these bots. I though maybe they want to hide their status in different way.
How stupid i am.
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zaidi wrote:First i thought it was Tony or Anita ,these bots. I though maybe they want to hide their status in different way.
How stupid i am.
A lack of knowledge is not being stupid. When we are born, we only know how to breathe. Does that make all babies stupid? :D
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My mum says i have no common sense and i am stupid so i always feel for one.
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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!
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Here's something funny I noticed about Bots. They browse the main page but not any forum in particular.
:roll: :?: :shock: :?:
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Google bot is reading General Natter at the moment!
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Perhaps it will give us its opinion on toast. :lol:
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Maybe I was wrong that time but now I'm definitely right
Bots do not post
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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.
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Interesting. The only other usage of yahoo I've heard is someone shouting for joy, "yahoo!", like "woo-hoo!", or "wah-hey!".
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"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.


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"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."
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