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Old 10-07-2009, 07:21 AM   #3401
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I think it's only appropriate to welcome our mass-poster back with such a flood of posts. (Although, I must say the SPM-level quality is still missing. )

Anyway, glad to see you're back, Saucie.
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Old 10-15-2009, 05:26 PM   #3402
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I'm not really new... but I did use to be online on the chat more and for many years to count not even that... was wondering if there's anyone here still remember ol' me...

Otherwise I'm from Bulgaria, got my education in Germany. Nice to meet you.
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Old 10-15-2009, 05:30 PM   #3403
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I'm not really new... but I did use to be online on the chat more and for many years to count not even that... was wondering if there's anyone here still remember ol' me...

Otherwise I'm from Bulgaria, got my education in Germany. Nice to meet you.
Sorry Yu may have been before me or My memory stinks but at any rate YAY Someone who isn't a spambot!!! YAY
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Old 10-15-2009, 05:35 PM   #3404
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If I only had the energy of a spambot...

happy to get a better welcome tho... I guess the whole tolkien business did die these days... not the best example myself I must admit
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Old 10-15-2009, 05:41 PM   #3405
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Hi there Mirkgirl. I remember you from chat. There's still a few of us who carry the torch here.

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Old 10-15-2009, 05:46 PM   #3406
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Hi there Mirkgirl. I remember you from chat. There's still a few of us who carry the torch here.

Welcome back.
Spiffy, hi Bethberry How've you been doing?
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Old 10-16-2009, 04:57 AM   #3407
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Welcome back Mirkgirl. I remember you vaguely, if that helps. Hope to get to know you better now.
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Old 10-16-2009, 12:05 PM   #3408
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YAY Someone who isn't a spambot!!! YAY
Really nice for a change, isn't it? Hi Mirkgirl, pleased to meet you!
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Old 10-16-2009, 12:22 PM   #3409
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Hi, Mirky! Oh my, it's been awhile! Nice to see you around again!
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Old 11-02-2009, 10:43 AM   #3410
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Old 11-02-2009, 10:51 AM   #3411
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Please forgive my suspicion, if it is unwarranted. I have a few questions though, as your 'introduction' appears rather generic. Do you know what this forum is about? What we discuss? What do you think about the forum theme?

EDIT- Ah, banned already. It's so hard to be a spammer these days.
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Old 11-02-2009, 11:11 AM   #3412
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They're getting more and more cunning these days. This one even introduced himself on the proper thread - and he almost sounded like "Nice Downerss, please don't ban poor Spamgol from their nice forum, we promises to be very nice, yes we doess, my precioussss!"
Kudos to the Security Forces for quick action!
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Old 11-02-2009, 12:19 PM   #3413
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I was going to delete the spam post, but as it seems to be entertaining for the moment, I will leave it there for a short while.
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Old 11-02-2009, 12:54 PM   #3414
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I was going to delete the spam post, but as it seems to be entertaining for the moment, I will leave it there for a short while.
I wouldn't say it was entertaining, so much as pitiful. You'd think after being banned many times they'd get the message. Surely there are other fora out there where they could post things like that with impunity. As it is, our mods and members have precious little patience with such obvious huckstering.
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Old 11-02-2009, 01:12 PM   #3415
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As it is, our mods and members have precious little patience with such obvious huckstering.
Nah. I'm just trying to up my post count...

Giving infractions do count, don't they?
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Old 11-06-2009, 05:07 PM   #3416
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Back again! Evening all.
Saucie??? SAUCIE?????

And there was dancing on the riverbank!

Does it have something to do with Daylight Savings TIme...?
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Old 11-06-2009, 05:11 PM   #3417
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Okay, now for the silly question. Whatsa spambot?
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Old 11-06-2009, 05:30 PM   #3418
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a flaming nuisance... though occasionally diverting.

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Old 11-06-2009, 05:48 PM   #3419
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Oh.

Eeew.

......................

Mith... Flanders Fields. I love your sig.
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the larks, still bravely singing, fly
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Old 11-21-2009, 10:39 AM   #3420
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Hi from Mugwump!

Hello, everyone. Some of you here may (or maybe not) know me by this name. My introduction to fantasy and the Tolkien world began in 1976 when I first started playing Dungeons & Dragons. Mugwump was the name of a Dwarven character from "Talwaithe," a PBM (play-by-mail) fantasy game I ran in the early 1980s, reviewed in Space Gamer magazine, issue 60 (February 1983). I met the player of this character at a gaming convention sometime later, and he looked exactly like Mugwump: short, stocky, with long red hair and beard--not actually a human dwarf, but a perfect fit for a fantasy dwarf. I lost track of him after that, but thereafter I appropriated "Mugwump" as a Dwarven character for playing FRP games.

I'm currently playing Mugwump in LotRO (Lord of the Rings Online) on the Nimrodel server. Since then, I've noticed other "Mugwumps" springing up on other servers.

But that's just a bit of trivia about the name. I've loved The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion for a long time.
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Old 11-21-2009, 11:14 AM   #3421
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Welcome, Mugwump!

I know very little about RPGing and whatnot, but I think you'll find that whatever interests you about Tolkien, this is an excellent spot for discussing it.
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Old 11-21-2009, 11:23 AM   #3422
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Welcome to the 'Downs, Mugwump! I hope you enjoy your death.

We do have a couple or three members here who have been on LOTRO, though I don't know if any of them are currently playing. There's a thread on it here, back when it was still in beta, if you want to check it out.
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Old 11-21-2009, 05:55 PM   #3423
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Mugwump welcome I give one simple warning once you're on the downs you can't get away... it's too addicting!
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Old 11-21-2009, 07:03 PM   #3424
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Hi Mugwump!

And welcome! It's always "fresh" to see older people join...

I hope you enjoy your time here. Just try everything... even the stupid-looking things. They're mostly fun and at best addicting, as Morsul already witnessed.
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Old 11-21-2009, 11:38 PM   #3425
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Yeah, that almost happened to Frodo and his friends, didn't it? Except Bombadil helped them get away.
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Old 11-22-2009, 12:22 AM   #3426
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Yeah, that almost happened to Frodo and his friends, didn't it? Except Bombadil helped them get away.
But at. What. COST??? [/Shatner]

*tries and fails to scrub images of nekkid hobbits from her brain*
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Old 11-22-2009, 08:31 AM   #3427
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And welcome! It's always "fresh" to see older people join...
Whom are you calling "older"? I'm quite young by Númenórean standards!
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Old 11-22-2009, 09:10 AM   #3428
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Whom are you calling "older"?
One of them older guys...
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Old 11-22-2009, 09:35 AM   #3429
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Just try everything... even the stupid-looking things. They're mostly fun and at best addicting, as Morsul already witnessed.
Indeed, it's a perfect place, whether you like discussions or games or role-playing or riddles best, or weird humour and good-natured banter, or just reading and thinking, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
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But that's just a bit of trivia about the name. I've loved The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion for a long time.

And now myself, I thought of the 60's rock band The_Mugwumps, which produced members of The Mamas and The Papas and Lovin Spoonful. Now I'll have to get their music out of my head and consciously think "dwarven" when I read your posts.

Welcome to the Downs, Mugwump!

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Old 11-22-2009, 10:59 AM   #3431
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Yeah, welcome Mugwump!

Did you ever read William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch by the way? You should because it's quite brilliant and also because there are Mugwumps in that novel, but since this is a family friendly site I will not link to any descriptions of these rather unsightly creatures.
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Old 11-24-2009, 02:33 PM   #3432
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Hey folks. I heard about this place from Roa, and it sounds like you guys have a lot of fun. I thought I'd come and give it a try.
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Old 11-24-2009, 02:56 PM   #3433
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Hooray, another fresh corpse!

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Old 11-24-2009, 03:02 PM   #3434
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Yay! Another new Downer! And another new Werewolf player as well!
Welcome to the black-and-green netherworld, Bes! You may find there's a lot of fun to be had here besides WW, too - so tuck in and enjoy!
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Old 11-25-2009, 09:37 AM   #3435
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Did you ever read William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch by the way? You should because it's quite brilliant and also because there are Mugwumps in that novel....
Yes, but the word's derivation is much earlier than that. Mugwump was an Americanism, an early 19th century revival of the Massachusett Indian word mugquomp, a syncopated form of muggumquomp, meaning war leader. About 50 years later mugwump was used to refer to any Republican who refused to support the party nominee, James Blaine, in the presidential campaign of 1884. Thereafter it was used to refer generally to a person unable to make up his mind, or who was neutral on a controversial political issue. The great cartoonist Walt Kelly used the word mugwump in this sense in his comic strip Pogo, to refer to the type of person who can never quite make up his mind, a fence-straddler.

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Not at all... Though I did not think that Burroughs invented the word I nevertheless feel enlightened by that very Tolkenian derivation of your username. Cheers!
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I nevertheless feel enlightened by that very Tolkenian derivation of your username. Cheers!
Well... thanks, but I'd never claim that Mugwump was more Tolkienian than Skip.
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