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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
15. No personal attack.
16. No humour.

17. No freedom of expression.

18. Always be over-sensitive to imagined slights.

19. The highest goal in life is to be a panjandrum.

20. If you must dote, do it in private, offline.

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Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
16. No humour.

17. No freedom of expression.

18. Always be over-sensitive to imagined slights.

19. The highest goal in life is to be a panjandrum.

20. If you must dote, do it in private, offline.
panjandrum

Nice, I had to look it up.

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Originally posted by arbeider
panjandrum

Nice, I had to look it up.

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So did I 😠

a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
So did I 😠

a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence
The definition I was going by was 'a self-important or pretentious official.'

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Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
The definition I was going by was 'a self-important or pretentious official.'
That's why the forum is dying: Too many panjandra and not enough Sioux.

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Could it be because it's just plain boring?

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Originally posted by Startreader
Could it be because it's just plain boring?
there is always the clan forum for excitement
once again it has become a very nasty place
they ran me out

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Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
19. The highest goal in life is to be a panjandrum.
I see what you did there. 🙂

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
That's why the forum is dying: Too many panjandra and not enough Sioux.
Heck, you have at least one Sue, isn't that enough?

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Originally posted by FMF
Well, I must say, I think this is an overly harsh thing for you to say about Grampy Bobby's blanket criticism of fellow posters and his 12 rules with which he seek to govern their forum posts. 😉
Somehow I don't quite think he was talking about GB.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
I see what you did there. 🙂
How embarrassing, I read Pandadrum.

Did wonder why his highest goal in life was to be a panda drum.

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Originally posted by arbeider
panjandrum

Nice, I had to look it up.

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"a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence."

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Originally posted by lemondrop
there is always the clan forum for excitement
once again it has become a very nasty place
they ran me out
I don't find it nasty, Lemon.

I like a bit of good plain speaking, myself.

How did they run you out?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence."
That's waht wolfgang had posted...

Or as Tywin Lannister said: The man who has to say "I am the King" is no King.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
Heck, you have at least one Sue, isn't that enough?
More than enough. 😉

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