What kind of person are you: n/t, nt, eom, or "Let them eat cake."

[hisownpetard]

The time has come to declare yourself. What kind of person are you?

Do you follow the rules, and have a desire to be polite, correct and to offend no one (n/t, eom)?
Are you in such a rush that you figure 'nt' is sufficient, without the "/"?, assuming a basic level of intelligence in your readers?
Or do you throw caution (and courtesy) to the wind, and just write your little title heading without inidicating if there's more or not, without
worrying about saving other people the time and trouble of clicking, only to be crushed when they see that their immense enjoyment
of your post is brutally cut short and, therefore, their eager anticipation of further human contact with you has, at that moment,
essentially hit a cold brick wall.

There is one other possibility, as I see it. You may have a strong sense of aesthetics and, when you write that perfect line -
perfectly spaced, perfectly worded, making that perfectly to-the-point point - it may just kill you to ruin the looks of it with a
blunt, inelegant 'n/t,' or 'nt' or (even more clunky) 'eom.'

All responses will be kept somewhat confidential.

[redqueen]

1. I read that (nt) would be best, and I agreed.

So now I am an (nt) person.

[hisownpetard]

3. You are a well-meaning soul. nt

[Cabcere]

2. I prefer "tiaihtsdncotywwytdycybidyd"

...or however LaraMN put it. ;) :hi: But I can never remember the exact phrasing, so I usually just go with "(n/t)."

[hisownpetard]

4. Thanks! You are an individualist. tiaihtsdncotywwytdycybidyd

[KamaAina]

5. Let 'em eat cake, sort of

in such a situation I will put a smiley in as the entire body of the message.

[hisownpetard]

6. Good idea - sort of a pleasant compromise! Is it possible to put a smiley

in the subject line of a post??

[lightningandsnow]

7. I'm not NT.

Neurotypical, that is.

[hisownpetard]

8. So what's your preference?

[lightningandsnow]

9. Let them eat cake, ususally

Or sometimes n/t, although I ususally don't have to use either as the bodies of my posts usually do have text in them.

[Critters2]

10. Nt. Don't see why the "/" should be necessary. nt

[hisownpetard]

12. I agree - saves time, and conveys the same information. nt

[hisownpetard]

14. Sometimes I feel guilty if I put nothing at the end of the line to indicate there's no more text.

[Bucky]

11. I never state "nt" "n/t" or any variation thereof. I always have a little bit more to say.

eom

[hisownpetard]

13. Hahahahaa. eom

:hi:

[Dr. Strange]

15. OMG!

Your placement of "eom" totally invalidates the justification for the term.
:rofl:I am consumed with the hillarity!

[Inchworm]

16. Let them eat cake with a smile

:)

[hisownpetard]

19. You're much nicer than Marie Antoinette. She never smiled, I'm told.

[FloridaJudy]

39. Bad teeth probably. n/t

[Perry Logan]

17. I plead obtuseness. Period.

[hisownpetard]

21. And you have a right to choose your own form of punctuation. Period.

[liberaltrucker]

18. Let 'em eat foie gras(sp)

Good enough? eom.

[hisownpetard]

20. How very hoity-toity of you, Sir! e o m

[hyphenate]

22. I often think that your choice of abruptly ending a

thread within the space of the subject tells how long you've been a computer geek or programmer. While I never programmed for a living, I have been geeky for going on twenty-two years now, and always do a quick subject response with "eom" inspead of the more fashionable "n/t" which actually is more of an effort than eom, which uses an alphabetical take on the keyboard instead of the more ephemeral "/" instead.















:rofl:

[hisownpetard]

24. Wow. I'm totally impressed, not to mention intimidated. eom eom eom eom

[Amerigo Vespucci]

23. Wow, glad I read the "privacy policy" before sharing...Let's take this point by point.

I'm a "let 'em eat scungilli" kind of person. For proper emphasis you need to say it the Italian way:

"HEY! Let 'em eat SCOON-GEEL!"

DECLARE myself? YOU TALKIN' TO ME?



Rules? I got your rules RIGHT HERE!



Polite? Here's some polite for ya. GET OUTTA MY FACE!



Correct? See that highway? Choose between IT and MY WAY. Good. Now get back in the effin' car, sit sown, strap in, and shut up!



Offend no one? Oh, did I offend someone? Well EXCUSE me ALL OVER THE PLACE (Hat tip to Robert Mitchum in the "Cape Fear" remake)



In a rush? First I say HELLO, then I get down REAL LOW and take it REAL SLOW (I have no idea what that means. It just sounded good).



Do I assume a basic level of intelligence in my readers? YES, yes I do. Then I take my best efforts and dumb' em down so that a friggin' CHIMP could understand them and mock my readers as they complain, criticize me, and attempt to verbally disembowel me with the writing skills of a five year old.



Do I throw caution to the wind? HEY! Throw THIS (OK, I know that was weak. YOU TALKIN' TO ME?)



Wait a minute...what the hell do you mean by my "LITTLE" title heading?



More? Oh, yes...there's ALWAYS more. Sometimes people click on my threads thinking there couldn't possibly be more, and there it is...MORE.



"Saving people the time and trouble of clicking?" Save THIS! (Weak again...SUE me)



First rule of show biz: Always leave them wanting more, A.K.A. "brutally cut their immense enjoyment short"



Eager anticipation of human contact with me? WHO said I was HUMAN? Maybe I'm a highly advanced lab creation, tough guy.



Cold brick wall? I'll giev YOU a cold brick wall! (Jeezis, are we at the END of this thread yet? I haven't answered THIS many questions since the frigging S.A.T.s...)



"As I see it?" HEY! Who asked YOU! Are you askin' ME?



Strong sense of aesthetics? YES! I have a strong sense that aesthetics are only for the WEAK and that Darwin was RIGHT...the herd WILL be THINNED, starting with the people who have a strong sense of aesthetics.



EVERY line...EVERY line is a PERFECT line! As Lou Reed once said, "My s**t is worth most people's diamonds." Of course, Lou said that when he was strung out on coke and heroin and meth and I, by comparison, have only had a couple of ice-cold Guinness draughts. But I can tell you I'll be drinking at LEAST a couple more after replying to THIS nonsense!



"EOM"

:evilgrin:

:toast:

[crim son]

25. I think I love you.

:rofl:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

29. "I picked these just for you!"

:rofl:

:hi:

[hisownpetard]

30. GOD, I'm sorry I asked.

Hey, pal, let's just get this straight,
I'm not a broad you can intimidate!
I ain't afraid of you and your scoon-jeel -
a dude and his fish? C'mon, let's get real.

I seen you drivin' that piece of junk
with someone's arm stickin' outta da trunk
and, tell you da troot, I seen a couple feet
stickin' out the window of the passenger seat.
Pretty soon you're gonna be poundin' rocks,
'cause the feet were blue, and there weren't no socks!

But did I go around, blabbin' and tellin' on you?
Did I squeal to the troops back at DU?
No, No, of course that's not what I did.
(I was a good baby and I'm now a good kid).

I kep' it to myself, like a soldier should,
'cause I may be stoopid but I was raised good.
And what did you do? Tried to make me a fool,
forgettin' about the old golden rule,
mocking my words one line at a time,
(Would it be rude to call you a slime?).

And dat's alls I got to say to yiz.
Now, go get back to the sanitation biz.
And don't worry 'bout me, I'll be just fine
(unless your post gets more hits than mine).

[Amerigo Vespucci]

34. This isn't over. Oh no, my friend, this is FAR from over...

If there's one common thread among those who have chosen to take on the 'pooch (short for "Vespucci," kind of like "The Fonz," but maybe 1,000,000 times COOLER), it's this:

They all went crying home to MAMA. Every last one of them. Oh, they started OUT talking trash, but then their little house of cards came a-tumbling DOWN.

And Mama wiped their little noses and powdered their little bottoms and gave them a cookie and a glass of milk and tucked them into their little warm beds while I...the omniscient and omnipresent Amerigo Vespucci...remained the uncontested master of all I survey.

As I stand on the precipice overlooking my domain, the sun glinting off of my ruggedly chiseled features, I can only envy those gathered in my wake. For they have a leader that they can admire and emulate, while I...solitary in my own perfection...must continue to look within for inspiration. It's lonely at the top...don't let them tell you that it's not (Dear God, that's my SECOND Adam Ant quote this week...what's HAPPENING to me?)

:evilgrin:

But I digress...

I realize that I may sound a little over-confident, but I prefer to see it as "self-actualization." The definition of "hyperbole" is "A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis," but greatness cannot be exaggerated. Can you exaggerate the flawless beauty of a diamond as its many facets catch the light and refract it into glimmering shards of warmth? Can you exaggerate the sun as it rises or sets, the sound of the ocean waves lapping on the shore, the beauty of a rose in bloom, the blush of lovers' cheeks upon their first kiss?

FUGGEDABOUDIT! I got yer exaggeration right HERE!

I am a walking master of feng shui, the alpha and omega, the sun and the moon and every constellation in between.

:grouphug:

:evilgrin:

[hisownpetard]

35. Pooch? POOCH? It's Amerigo Ves PYOOCH-ee, not VesPOOCHee. And ya call yerself I-tralian?

I'll hear no more of it. Man can't even pronounce his own name.

And - as is the case with all insufferable blow-hards - you eventually blew down your OWN house of cards by revealing more than you
intended to. Happens every time! Give a PYOOCH enough rope and he'll hang himself. It may take longer than with others, because he has to
figure out how to make the loop so it doesn't get all tangled in his gold chain, but be patient, he'll get to it when he gets to it!

The matter in question is your braggadoccio description of how you - big, strong guy! - made those kids run home to Mama.
You said they were bawlin' - cryin' their eyes out, right? And they went running home to Mama, and what did she do?
She wiped their noses - and "powdered their little bottoms."

Excuuuse me? They're CRYING, not CHAFING!! Why would she go right for their little bottoms and POWDER THEM, unless there
was some kind of unhealthy relationship going on there? And was your assumption made, based on the behavior patterns in
YOUR OWN family? HMMMM???? Answer THAT, Pyooch-boy.

And now, if you don't mind, I must tend to some tasks which await, e.g. need to pack for a holiday trip. Can't wait to use
my new GYOO-CHEE bag.

Hmphh.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

37. Insufferable blow-hard? INSUFFERABLE? I can handle the blow-hard part, but...

My dear hisownpetard,

Wait...scratch that...

I still have that "I need a catchphrase like CaliforniaPeggy" thread I posted the other day on my mind. Hey, did you know that CaliforniaPeggy PM-ed me, and said "I just want you to know that as my name implies, I'm in California, just like you, 'pooch, (my FRIENDS call me that. YOU can continue to address me as "Mr. Vespucci.") and the only thing between me and you getting a serious butt-kicking is the distance between my foot and your BUTT"...I swear, it's true! Then she goes back into the thread and says "My Dear Amerigo Vespucci" and I'm thinking "Well played, Mr. Bond..." She's crafty, she's fast on her feet, and unless you actually have eyes in the back of your head, never, never, never turn your back on her.

:evilgrin:

But I digress. I don't to stray from the matter at hand, which is...of course...replying to the latest shovelful of fertilizer you've spread on my bed of roses. Sit back, here it comes:

Revealing MORE than I intended to? How about I set the trap and you waltzed into it...

"Tra la la la la, I think I'll go for Amerigo's jugular..."

And voila...the HUNTER gets captured by the GAME.

(Don't ask me to back that one up. I just like the song. Jerry Garcia did a great version of it).

:evilgrin:


And just to clarify matters, people cross me DO walk away filled with tears AND chafing. It's a one-two punch kind of thing. Mohammed Ali floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. I make people cry AND chafe. DEAL with it!



My family? No, you don't want to know about my family. The last person who asked about my family...well, nothing actually happened. I pretty much told them about my family and answered their question. But that's not what's important here.

First, I'm glad to see that you're going somewhere for Thanksgiving. Otherwise, how could I miss you if you won't go away?



Second, you have NOTHING to be ashamed about. I'd feel the same way if I were in your shoes. Hell, if I met someone as wonderful as me, I don't know if I'd handle it any better than you are. I don't think anyone reading this thread is judging you TOO harshly. We're all here to support and encourage each other. I can tell that you're on the verge of seeing the error of your ways, and when it finally sinks in, we'll all be right here with you!

:grouphug:

But this comes with the territory. It's like that scene in The Godfather Part II where DiNiro walks down the street and people give him free fruit and stuff. People somehow feel transformed, transfixed, humbled, and with a greater sense of purpose in their own tragic lives when they stand before the magnificence of the 'pooch.

It's OK. Just let go. I get this all the time, and while I've become a little desensitized by the non-stop adulation, I do feel a certain responsibility to let people work through the process in their own way, and in their own time.

By the way, I talked with one of my clients about a half hour ago, and he's a fellow Italian, and he really does say things like "bada BOOM, bada BING." So while I appreciate the free Berlitz crash course in how to speak Italian, and I don't want to burst your bubble (well, actually I do, but I'll pretend that I don't for the sake of brevity), let's not mask what's going on here.

And as soon as I figure out what's going on here, I'll post it in my OWN thread! So THERE!

You talkin' to ME?

:evilgrin:

[hisownpetard]

40. Indeed! Your last post has left me with tears and a chafed butt. Please send tissues & powder.

Have a great Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!


Edit:

[Canuckistanian]

26. I'm just savin' the bandwidth, baby

Although I do allow myself the luxury of the forward slash.

[hisownpetard]

31. WOw, the forward slash? How progressive of you!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

27. I'm more a "divvil take the hindmost" kind of girl

[hisownpetard]

32. And I notice you put NOTHING at the end of your one-liner. REBEL!! eom

[Blue-Jay]

28. I'm more of a "kiss my ass" person.

[hisownpetard]

33. Aww, c'mon - Do they really have to kiss your a**? Can't you just let them eat their cake??

[ZombieNixon]

36. Let them eat cake.

I hate random text in my subject line. Also, I'm a jerk. :P

[Spirochete]

38. I use n/t, unless I forget. (n/t)

[mwooldri]

41. Windows NT.

Actually this time there is some actual text to it.

The point is you got to be careful when using NT, though Microsoft has obsoleted the term Windows NT, it's all Vista now.

I usually put my (nt) in brackets.