From: fes9s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Howard Johnson's Got His Ho-Jo Workin')
Subject: Re: Do you ever feel...
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:32:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.145110.14169@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:
>
>fes9s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Frank Erick Sellin) writes:
>|>In article <C17uLG.1EK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Salter) writes:
>|>>fes9s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Frank Erick Sellin) shares: 
>|>>>Geezus, what's up with this ARC-slang, "lurker"??? (Connotations, and all...)
>|>>>Makes me feel like I oughta shed everything except for my raincoat,
>|>>>high tops, and sunglasses...and I only do that on Halloween. ;)
>
>It's not just ARC-slang, Frank... it's net.slang.  Over in alt.callahans, our
>lurkers do their lurking in the dark environs of the rafters...

Heh heh heh. No, I'm _not_ going over just to satisy my curiosity
of what the heck alt.callahans is.  I waste enough time and bandwidth
as it is on the net. ;)>
>|>>Now, now.....don't you think "lurker" is nicer than "observer?"  Or
>|>>"reader?"
>|>
>|>Well, "observer" makes me think of those little blue helmets in the
>|>U.N.--not exactly ARCers and probably impossibly dispassionate while
>|>on duty.  No fun there.  "Reader????" As if.  Dear Abby has _got_
>|>to go. Much too anal.  Still, we've got the raincoat problem.  How
>|>about "spectator" Too dry, same problem as observer? Maybe "fellow
>|>traveler." Or knights errant (still trying to think up an appropriate
>|>gender mirror for this one...)
>
>Hmmm...  'Errant ladies'?  No, sounds too... cheap somehow.  Maybe something
>like fellow traveler would be best...  After all, I wouldn't want my title
>to be overrun by lurking knights errant...

My pardons, good Knight.  I had no idea that was your title; perhaps
it was a subconscious faux pas after seeing your .sig earlier and
not giving credit where credit is due. :)
As long as I don't lose me head over this one...;)>
>|>>>I vote for a new word.
>|>>>Oops, looks like I've blown it...gone and de-lurked myself. (*Ouch*.)
>|>>>Good day, ARC-land, hello and don't mind me.  Nothing to see here...keep
>|>>>moving...
>|>>
>|>>*laughter*  Sorry you hurt yourself there.  *Julie pats Frank on the head*
>|>>There.  That better?
>|>>
>|>Much, thanks. *gratefulhug*  Know where the Delurking Crisis Center is?
>|>(like I said, nothing to see here...don't mind me.)>
>
>I think it's over that way, past the Strawberry Fields (Hi Sarah!); see that
>big vat?  That's the entrance - just run over there and jump straight in
>without looking.  Don't worry, it's a soft landing...  >:->

Nope. No way. I 'ave an 'orrible hang-up regarding vats. I've been told
before to go jump in a vat full of...well, never mind, it was an abusive
joke, meant to ensure growing up was more difficult than necessary. ;)

However, do you suppose Sarah's busy? And in the mood for a little
insanity? >=^)  Hm, well...

frank.  The Wizard of Cheese...Cheez Wiz? (Taking votes, now...:)>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>+  Sean Roberts  +    spr@abo.dec.com     +  Chivalry shall  +
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  never die, as   +
>+  Official Knight-Errant of the RFA      +  long as there   +
>+  Keeper of the Flame                    +  is one man who  +
>+  Protector of the Gallan-Tree           +  believes in it  +
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


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to go and teach me how it's done.
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