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DwnWthVwls 09-14-2014 03:56 PM

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buffalo verb
buffaloed buffalo·ing

Definition of BUFFALO

transitive verb
: bewilder, baffle; also : bamboozle
Examples of BUFFALO

<I'm not some newcomer that you can buffalo with that nonsense.>
<in this debate I refuse to be buffaloed by a flurry of irrelevant issues>

First Known Use of BUFFALO

1891

Another failed attempt at trolling. :P We don't even have buffalo here! Blame the New Yorkers.

The Batlord 09-14-2014 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1487729)
Another failed attempt at trolling. :P We don't even have buffalo here! Blame the New Yorkers.

Having buffalo would be pretty awesome, which is of course why New Jersey doesn't have them. Not that having buffalo is a requirement for awesomeness, but it's just one more thing that increases New Jersey's suckitude.

DwnWthVwls 09-14-2014 04:20 PM

Stop derailing my fantastic addition to this thread. Your ****ty state doesn't have them either.

Pet_Sounds 09-14-2014 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1487644)
Um, I thought you were already in love with me? :( Are you more in love with me because of my sexy grammar powers? ;)

Um, what? Are you addressing me or Pet Sounds? If me, then how can misspelling the word "lose" be wrong? I'll just assume it's directed at PS.

But we are a bunch of pedantic assholes!

You want correction darling I'm your man! ;)

I thought the new rules say every non-member can only be caught once? If that's the case, then I feel it makes this a little boring.

Point of order: I think it's up to Unknown Soldier to confirm if his journal capitalises the word "decibels", as strictly speaking (Roxy! Settle down...) that word would only be capitalised if it were at the beginning of a sentence or was for instance the title of a band.

LeHetfield James belongs to the Grammar Nazis.

I changed the rule in question, because The Batlord and Frownland pointed out that members such as WhateverDude would make it too easy. However, you can correct fellow Grammar Nazis all week, which, in my opinion, will increase competition among us and make for a thrilling finish.

Pet_Sounds 09-14-2014 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1487678)
I knew it was intentional but I'll let Pet_Sounds be the judge of whether or not it counts.

I'll let Goofle off. It was too obvious.

The Batlord 09-14-2014 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1487735)
Stop derailing my fantastic addition to this thread. Your ****ty state doesn't have them either.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1487731)
Having buffalo would be pretty awesome, which is of course why New Jersey doesn't have them. Not that having buffalo is a requirement for awesomeness, but it's just one more thing that increases New Jersey's suckitude.

Virginia has many awesome things to make up for our unfortunate lack of bison. New Jersey does not.

Trollheart 09-14-2014 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1487742)
Virginia has many awesome things to make up for our unfortunate lack of bison. New Jersey does not.

Springsteen? Bon Jovi? Tom Waits? Shut up.

The Batlord 09-14-2014 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1487746)
Springsteen? Bon Jovi? Tom Waits? Shut up.

Fail.

Frownland 09-14-2014 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1487746)
Springsteen? Bon Jovi? Tom Waits? Shut up.

One of these things is not like the others.

The Batlord 09-14-2014 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1487748)
One of these things is not like the others.

Yes, one of them doesn't suck.

Trollheart 09-14-2014 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1487747)
Fail.

Fell right into my trap. Mister Obvious strikes again! :cool:

Frownland 09-14-2014 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1487749)
Yes, one of them doesn't suck.

That was the idea.

Trollheart 09-14-2014 05:23 PM

How in Hell have I just gone from two points to one on the scoreboard, huh? Would someone like to explain that? Batty has 8, I have 1. My head is spinning.

The Batlord 09-14-2014 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1487750)
Fell right into my trap. Mister Obvious strikes again! :cool:

Who fell right into your trap? Was it me? Was it Frownland? Was it zombie Elvis? Fail.

RoxyRollah 09-14-2014 05:42 PM

you peOple R PsycHOTic #%!.,

;)

The Batlord 09-14-2014 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1487752)
How in Hell have I just gone from two points to one on the scoreboard, huh? Would someone like to explain that? Batty has 8, I have 1. My head is spinning.

If you are corrected by a fellow Grammar Nazi, then you lose a point. :finger:

TheBig3 09-14-2014 06:48 PM

Hold on. Why is Jersey getting credit for Tom Waits?

The Batlord 09-15-2014 05:10 AM

Well, I think the fact that we got shut down after a day makes Grammar Nazi week officially a success. See ya, folks.

TheBig3 09-15-2014 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1487873)
Well, I think the fact that we got shut down after a day makes Grammar Nazi week officially a success. See ya, folks.

Ya done got Chruchill'd. I, for one, am thrilled. This was a stupid idea by bored kids who'd rather get off on other people's reactions that music.

I'm glad it's dead.

DwnWthVwls 09-15-2014 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3 (Post 1487881)
Ya done got Chruchill'd. I, for one, am thrilled. This was a stupid idea by bored kids who'd rather get off on other people's reactions that music.

I'm glad it's dead.

Did this go beyond the "Lounge" section?

RoxyRollah 09-15-2014 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1487884)
Did this go beyond the "Lounge" section?

No not passed the lounge but there was enough annoyance for it to an issue in other threads.

TheBig3 09-15-2014 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1487884)
Did this go beyond the "Lounge" section?

No idea. I just don't think much of Pet_Sounds, so I'm glad this failed. :beer:

The Batlord 09-15-2014 09:22 AM

I kind of saw this coming, but I figured the hooplah would just die down in a day or two and people would go back about their business.

Trollheart 09-15-2014 10:15 AM

I must admit, Grammar Nazi though I am, even I got bored with this. To be fair, Batty kept it fun for me, but the rest turned out to be a little, er, po-faced. I quickly realised that I had better things to do than constantly checking threads for new posts to see who had misspelled or used wrong grammar, and I did voice a worry in our group that this could make people uncomfortable.

I wouldn't agree with Big3's idea that it was "kids who had nothing better to do" --- I'm far from a kid and I have plenty to do. But I thought it would be fun. The problem is I think a) too many people took it way too seriously and conversely b) a lot of people didn't take it seriously enough. Honestly, there is no way I could have seen me carrying this on for a week: a day felt like a week.

I think it was a good idea in principle, but perhaps one day might have been enough and we definitely ended up spamming the other threads, as the lovely Roxy pointed out. We had fun, but others did not, and in fact felt sort of threatened by or annoyed at the fun we were having (which is not surprising, as we were really having it at their expense) so it was time to call a halt.

I would have preferred a PM to Pet Sounds asking him to cut the thing short rather than an out-and-out UberNazi Urban "this ends now", but point taken. I did learn some things from it though, most interesting of which was that I am not perfect. This is something I will have to ruminate (I said RUMINATE, you dirty...!) upon and contemplate in the coming days. It has come as a shock to me, I can tell you.

On behalf of I think/hope all* the Sturmgruppens of the Grammar Nazis I would like to offer our apologies if we offended anyone. I'm sure it was not intentional, though the was badly executed (oops! Bad choice of words!) and if we were to do this again I think it's taken as read that we would have to be a lot more circumspect.

Anyway, certainly for my part I'm sorry if we overstepped and I'm sure I can rely on you all as character witnesses at our upcoming trials at Nuremberg ... what's that you say? When Satan is what to work?

Oxfordis in extremis, my friends. Oxfordis moderatus.
Peace.
TH

* Obviously, this is unlikely to include Batty, who loves annoying and getting a rise out of people and was probably in his element here.

Oh, and anyone (I'm looking at you Batty!) who thinks it might be funny to grammatically correct this, please don't. The joke has worn wafer thin and I think we all agree it's now over. Let it lie, menschen und frauleins!

The Batlord 09-15-2014 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1487921)
* Obviously, this is unlikely to include Batty, who loves annoying and getting a rise out of people and was probably in his element here.

Who, me? http://www.atheistnetwork2.com/image...ace_smiley.png

Plankton 09-15-2014 10:36 AM

As soon as the grammar arguments broke out in the Forum Boards, I figured it was screwed. Keeping things in the Group Board would have been a good rule. It did make things a bit detrimental to the health of the community, and I like reading things as they are posted which is the character of the poster. Grammar is mainly a guideline for standardization. I was a bit perplexed as to why I even signed on for it, but I made a commitment and did what I could. At least I got one on Batty.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...6/Yes_Baby.jpg

RoxyRollah 09-15-2014 11:20 AM

Maybe Urban was paraphrasing GW Sr. "The buck stops here." That was GW Sr, right? Who can recall I can't.

Pet_Sounds 09-15-2014 11:23 AM

TBH, all the fun went out of it for me as soon I had to keep track of scores. I extend my apologies to anyone we may have offended. If this was to ever happen again, we'd have to keep it completely separate from the forums. Briks was a perfect example of how this should have been done. Roxy, I hope you don't think any less of me after this. Big3, that's unfortunate, because I happen to think highly of you. DwnWthVwls, you are now one of my favourite users.

Anyways, I apologize again, and I hope nobody thinks any less of me or the others because of this.

Pet_Sounds 09-15-2014 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1487935)
Maybe Urban was paraphrasing GW Sr. "The buck stops here." That was GW Sr, right? Who can recall I can't.

I think it was Truman, right?

RoxyRollah 09-15-2014 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds (Post 1487938)
I think it was Truman, right?

Ass!

DwnWthVwls 09-15-2014 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1487921)
b) a lot of people didn't take it seriously enough.

It was fun trolling all of you :D

also, batlord paid me to get him points.

RoxyRollah 09-15-2014 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1487943)
It was fun trolling all of you :D

also, batlord paid me to get him points.

With what a sense of accomplishment? (You got pimped, trick! ;))

Isbjørn 09-15-2014 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds (Post 1487937)
TBH, all the fun went out of it for me as soon I had to keep track of scores. I extend my apologies to anyone we may have offended. If this was to ever happen again, we'd have to keep it completely separate from the forums. Briks was a perfect example of how this should have been done. Roxy, I hope you don't think any less of me after this. Big3, that's unfortunate, because I happen to think highly of you. DwnWthVwls, you are now one of my favourite users.

Anyways, I apologize again, and I hope nobody thinks any less of me or the others because of this.

My reaction

DwnWthVwls 09-15-2014 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1487944)
With what ... (You got pimped, trick! ;))

with more promises of Icky Vicky.. I'm never gonna get my hands on that doll :(

My day officially sucks.

The Batlord 09-15-2014 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds (Post 1487938)
I think it was Truman, right?

Yup, it was Truman.

Scarlett O'Hara 09-15-2014 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3 (Post 1487881)
Ya done got Chruchill'd. I, for one, am thrilled. This was a stupid idea by bored kids who'd rather get off on other people's reactions that music.

I'm glad it's dead.

http://memefiles.alphacoders.com/135/1352.jpg

The Batlord 09-15-2014 11:55 AM

FYI, just because Grammar Nazi Week is over, doesn't mean I'm gonna be any less of a grammar Nazi than I already was.

RoxyRollah 09-15-2014 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1487953)
FYI, just because Grammar Nazi Week is over, doesn't mean I'm gonna be any less of a grammar Nazi than I already was.

But you'll always be my grammar nazi..... :banghead:

Trollheart 09-15-2014 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1487939)
Ass!

Mmm. Yes please! :tramp:

RoxyRollah 09-15-2014 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1487970)
Mmm. Yes please! :tramp:

Jokes on you, ain't got one!


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