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08-24-2018, 12:01 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
Posts: 9,431
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Originally Posted by braumeister
If you have the right kind of infrared light source, they show up. I'm surprised more people haven't noticed that.
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Maybe it is only available to Moderators and Administrators. 
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08-24-2018, 01:51 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 45,758
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Admins and Mods have a number of special capabilities for detecting things that most people can't access. Below is a (very rare) photo of an early-retirement dot org mod with our copyrighted star detection module turned on:
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
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08-24-2018, 01:54 PM
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#103
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
Posts: 9,431
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Originally Posted by W2R
Admins and Mods have a number of special capabilities for detecting things that most people can't access. Below is a (very rare) photo of an early-retirement dot org mod with our copyrighted star detection module turned on:
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Does this mod live in Nawlins?
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08-24-2018, 02:29 PM
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#104
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Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 5,972
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
I don't know for sure, but it looks like moderators, current and emeritus, are allowed to have bigger avatars. If so, that's another benefit to consider.
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Yes - there are amazing perks. Free donuts, a posh breakroom and a larger inbox for the flood of exceptional offers from financial advisers and annuity sales folk. 
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08-24-2018, 03:16 PM
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#105
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 45,758
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Originally Posted by Dtail
Does this mod live in Nawlins?
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Shhhh… ! 
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
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08-24-2018, 04:16 PM
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#106
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Posts: 14,601
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
I don't know for sure, but it looks like moderators, current and emeritus, are allowed to have bigger avatars. If so, that's another benefit to consider.
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I'm not so sure that is the case. But I could be wrong (like I am on a lot of things these days).
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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth...philosopher Mike Tyson
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08-24-2018, 04:49 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 855
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i was more interested on the 'paid to post ' theory here .
i mean i am member of a different forum and because i have made 64,000 posts in 6 years , there are all sorts of unfounded suggestions ( including overloading my ISP )
( wink )
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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08-25-2018, 07:46 AM
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#108
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: Long Island
Posts: 1,754
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Originally Posted by Rianne
I know I eat live spiders at night because I sleep with my mouth open.
Fact: Spiders crawl in your mouth at night when looking for a warm place to hide. It is well known that people who sleep eat at least 3 spiders a month.
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When they were small, son #2 (age 7) told son # 4 (age 3), that a spider was going to crawl into his mouth while he was sleeping and eat his brain. That one simple statement impacted sleeping arrangements in our house for a number of years afterwards . 
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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08-25-2018, 08:33 AM
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#109
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 3,602
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Back in the day (childhood), I thought that very statement was true. Hence, hour(s) of stare outs with spiders until someone came home to remove him/her. They will stare you out. They will not move until you move. If you vacate for a few seconds, and they're gone...they are on the hunt to find and infiltrate your most secure areas.
More reasons to get more stars. I have lived the spider curse. But I am now in awe of them. They are stealth in their ability to hide then come out to scare the cr*p out of you.
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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08-25-2018, 01:19 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 23,458
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When I was growing up one of the neighbors across the street had five kids, four boys and the youngest was a girl. When she was in potty training one of the older brothers told her to beware of the "toilet snake" that lived in there and would bite the unwary on the butt.
IIRC it took at least an extra year to get her potty trained.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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08-25-2018, 01:31 PM
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#111
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 48,611
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Walt34
... beware of the "toilet snake" that lived in there and would bite the unwary on the butt.
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Yep. Janet H has first hand cheek experience with what those things can do to the unsuspecting toileteer.
Note: I suspect that incident may be one of the reason she has so many stars.
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Numbers is hard
The key to understanding human behavior is realizing half the population is below average.
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08-25-2018, 02:12 PM
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#112
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
Posts: 6,335
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Would like to see some recognition for "scars".
I might have the record for making the last and unread post on the most threads.
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08-25-2018, 02:16 PM
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#113
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
Posts: 20,833
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Quote:
Originally Posted by imoldernu
I might have the record for making the last and unread post on the most threads.
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You might have the modern record, but a long time ago I was on a forum that had a member with the user name "threadkiller".
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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08-25-2018, 03:26 PM
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#114
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
Posts: 6,335
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08-25-2018, 03:31 PM
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#115
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
Posts: 6,335
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