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Ralphie
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All right, admit it. You do a name search on your userhandle either daily, or at least weekly.

C'mon. Don't make me raise my hand at you for lying in front of Jesus and everyone.

(I would like to say that it is entirely appropriate that I start this thread as no one else could do it justice like I have. And while the content may be scanty - or another word that sounds like 'scanty' but has a much more positive connotation [but I can't think of it right now] - the quality is superb.)

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Scanty doesn't have a positive connotation?

I don't have to run a search. I know they're all talking about me. [Angst]

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Ralphie
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No, you're right.

I chose exactly the right word.

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I think the problem we're having so far is that no egomaniac wants to post in a thread started by someone else. Unless it's some hapless newbie that they can kick around and shift the topic back to something more interesting. Namely, me.

:checks watch:

Where's fallow?

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I can't do that, Toni, cause everyone calls me T. And as far as searching for Nathan goes, I don't. HOWEVER, I do know when you people are talking about me. I have spies. And I know where you sleep.
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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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In a bed, of course.

>_>

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Not here.
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Ralphie
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I dinnit say this was the thread for Paranoids, dammit! [Mad]

(Anger is one way an egomaniac can draw attention back to themselves. Now you're learning!)

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:gives T a therapeutic backrub: Nothing like a little ego massage.
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I find the best way to draw attention to myself is to be a combination of paranoid, sexy, lightheartedly funny and sneaky. I call it parsexfunneaky. That, and just say random things like I can lick your nose.
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*stabs pooka*
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pooka
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Oooh, not quite so deep there, mack. mack the ripper.
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[Confused]
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I also admire the random violence and cryptic response school. Simultaneously Kafkaesque and minimalist.
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*clap* *cry*
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Ralphie, I wasn't really going to respond to this thread until at least 3 or 4 of you mentioned my name.

Having failed that, I am forced to scold you all with scant chance of being appeased.

It's all about me, people, get with the frickin' program.

-Bok

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pooka
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[Hail] Bokonon
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Dunno 'bout you but once I found my lazee-boy my questingly ergomaniacal days were over. like a happy bug in a rug. kaput! finished!

fallow

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Whenever I worry that I have too many posts for how long I've been here, I can always think of fallow.
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I am SO tempted to tag almost every thread with a one-word post, just to play with Ralphie's results. [Smile]

I have to admit that last week or a few weeks ago or whenever that day was where my name was in the subject line of three threads on the first page was pretty dang cool.

But saxy still wins that contest. *pout*

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I have to admit, kat, I think the use of "Zoolander" as an adjective is pretty funny. You should use that for your landmark avoidance handle.
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I have never searched for my name. I doubt if anyone talks about me. [Cry]
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There's too much Annas in this world : I never searched but I'm sure there won't be anything about me.
*opens a google page to check*

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Anna
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Yep. Evrerything is about Anna Kournikova [Roll Eyes]
With my real name there is something I wrote when I was studying.
And with my AIM name there are links to forums I posted in just one or two times.

[ June 19, 2004, 10:04 AM: Message edited by: Anna ]

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Jalapenoman
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Stop all of this senseless babble now or I am going to lose my temper.

You have my permission to return to worshipping me.

You, in the black lazyboy with the laptop, peel me a grape!

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Anna
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[Taunt]
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Shan
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*cringes*

"But, Ralphie - really - how DOES the search dunction work?"

*ducks*

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Fallow:

quote:
ergomaniacal
Cool word! I discovered those mechanical pencils with the gel-filled comfort grips and went absolutely nuts.
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Ralphie
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quote:
You have my permission to return to worshipping me.
Oh, okay.

Who are you, again?

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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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snap!
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I search for my name fairly often, but in my defense, it's only to see if there are any interesting farm related conversations going.

All I've found so far, though, are some measly arguments over the extent of my awesomeness, and a couple of ceremonies.

Farms, people! Give me farms!

I am not pleased. [Mad]

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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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Aww... wook at wittle goatie and his wittle angwy face...
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Geez I never thought of doing such a thing if that tells you anything of the size of my own ego. But now I am wondering if I should be doing a name search.

Which means that I should probably be starting a thread titled "A thread for, and About, Neurotic, Paranoid Sociopaths".

[Big Grin]

[ June 19, 2004, 04:32 PM: Message edited by: Alucard... ]

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Oh, my! I seem to have been quoted in a professional journal.

Industrial Engineering Magazine
quote:

RAIN MARIE SMITH
Industrial Engineer
Pretty Products Inc.
Division of Lancaster Colony Corp.
Coshocton, Ohio

The best thing about being an IE is that I can work to improve just about any area of my company, either alone or as part of a team.
I can accomplish anything I want -- possibly including my ultimate goal of eliminating my own job -- and still have plenty
of interesting work.

(This was published in May 1999, 8 months before they laid me off.)
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The thing that's wrong with this thread, is that there isn't enough me in it!

[No No]

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T_Smith
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From this post on, I am going to include Ralphies name at the end of every post, just to throw her off.
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rivka
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See, if you put it at the end of every post, it makes it too easy to scan and ignore.

You have to stick her name in a sentence somewhere in the middle.

OR, you could simply refer to her as using solely pronouns, and never use her name at all.

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I am always shocked to realize that fallow must think he/she/it is funny.
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I'm not shocked when PC comes out of lurkerdom to make a pissy comment, then leaves again. [Smile]

And while I'd love to stay and chat about egos, a single thread could in no way contain mine.

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*dons construction hat*
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I am not an egomaniac, since Egomania is a flaw, and I, being perfect, have no flaws.

If I did, why then my legions of adoring fans would have less of a reason to adore me.

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"Hey, you got your Egomania in my Superiority Complex!"

"Ahhh! You got some of your Superiority Complex all over my Egomania!

(pause)

Both: "Hey, this is great!"

(OK, you have to be over thirty-five to get the reference, and it may only be funny to me, but there you have it.)

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LOL

But you forgot to mention me.

[No No]

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With everyone else, it is egomania and a superiority complex, but with me....it is my inate, God given right to rule over the peons from high atop my golden thrown.

Now, who brought me my donuts this morning?

P.S. Yes, I will show my age by saying that I am over 35 and got the Reese's joke.

[ June 20, 2004, 10:43 AM: Message edited by: Jalapenoman ]

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I got the Reese's reference, and I'm way younger than you people.

And Dan_raven wins this thread, cause he's so cute.

[ June 20, 2004, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]

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Reese's reference? Nah, it's a Breathe Right reference.
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I search for my name hourly, but friggin' mackillian screws up my searches by throwing alot of duds around.
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"I got the Reese's reference, and I'm way younger than you people."

Hmmph. I think it just means you watch retro tv commercials from the 70's so you can be more like us. You know you want to be in our clique, Ralphie, so just admit it. We are older, and have far more years of ego than you.

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Weren't those actually early-eighties? And I was aboot in the seventies. [Smile]

Of course, regarding the ego issue: It's quality, not quantity, dammit. I don't think anyone around here would argue that my ego is quality. With a 'q'.

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The "chocolate in my peanut butter" commercials continued through 1986. I'd imagine that anyone over the age of 25 probably remembers them well.
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