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Old 11-30-2005, 01:31 PM   #1
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And while we're on the subject of davem, I've always wondered if his name shouldn't be pronounced Dave M. Hmmm....
It should. I seem to remember that way back when I joined the Downs I saw some thread that I urgently wanted to respond to, so I just came up with the first name I could. My real name is David M*****
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Old 11-30-2005, 01:55 PM   #2
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Yet even though I have known this for some time.. I cannot alter my mental pronounciation of it... Da Vem sounds much more mysterious..... Oh well I am sure noone gets Mithalwen right
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Old 11-30-2005, 02:02 PM   #3
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It should. I seem to remember that way back when I joined the Downs I saw some thread that I urgently wanted to respond to, so I just came up with the first name I could. My real name is David M*****
For historical interest, I have found that first post.

I find it quite fitting.
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Old 11-30-2005, 02:13 PM   #4
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Hmmm, that topic sounds familiar - one of my old threads it is!
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Old 11-30-2005, 02:32 PM   #5
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Yet even though I have known this for some time.. I cannot alter my mental pronounciation of it... Da Vem sounds much more mysterious..... Oh well I am sure noone gets Mithalwen right
davem is pronounced either dayvum or Oi! to me.

Mithalwen is mithul-wen to me, though dayvum pronounces it mith-arl-wen.

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For historical interest, I have found that first post.

I find it quite fitting.
How the heck do you find early posts then? It only seems to bring up the last 500 or so when I look.
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Old 11-30-2005, 02:41 PM   #6
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davem is pronounced either dayvum or Oi! to me.
Mithalwen is mithul-wen to me, though dayvum pronounces it mith-arl-wen.
Well I guess that is your prerogative .... but as for my moniker... well neither is the way I think it is.. but I am trying not to be too chuffed that it is pronounced by either of you since it could well be in the context of "oh no! Mithalwen has gone off on one again......"
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Old 11-30-2005, 03:00 PM   #7
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davem is pronounced either dayvum or Oi! to me.

Mithalwen is mithul-wen to me, though dayvum pronounces it mith-arl-wen.



How the heck do you find early posts then? It only seems to bring up the last 500 or so when I look.
Ahhh...for that, m'dear, you need to possess two things:

1) a good working knowledge of your intended target, and

2) patience with the clunky search engine round here.

The key, as you have noted, is entering a search that returns less than 500 results.

To do this for the Downer in question, one must know first that he posted only to the Books forum for the first couple of years and limit the search to that.

Then, say you want posts only from a year ago or older, and sort them in ascending order.

I would add in passing that in the first two years of davem's time here, he posted only 243 times. But with post number 244 -- to my own much-beloved Canonicity thread -- the pace picked up drastically....

Did I create two monsters....?

(Make sure you search only for posts, and for davem only, obviously.)
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