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TS.
Delicious schadenfreude
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 Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:51 pm Post subject: Election Time Again |
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Hello everyone, it's that time again.
Nominations are now open for the three moderator positions, and will remain open until 11:59PM, PST on February 28. Voting will then be open for seven days, starting March 1.
All three incumbent moderators (Diane Demorney, Tehanu and yours truly) are running for re-election. If you wish to put your name forward for election, please post in this thread, and send a PM to Steve GTG and to one or more of the moderators letting us know.
Let the games begin.
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bagkitty
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I hope we see better bribes than last time.
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TS.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| bagkitty wrote: | | I hope we see better bribes than last time. |
Check your doorstep.
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Tehanu
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| bagkitty wrote: | | I hope we see better bribes than last time. |
Why, bagkitty, are you offering to bribe me to run for moderator? Shucks, that's going above and beyond.  |
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Senor Magoo
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Is it out west that there used to be a noticeable disdain for two-dollar bills, as a result of them being the lure in a vote-buying scandal many decades ago? Nobody wanted to be seen spending one, lest people think they sold their vote. Admittedly, for a lousy deuce, but I think it was back when two dollars would buy many gramophone records and jars of pomade.
Anyway, how about a little populism here, in lieu of the current "dictator for life" complacency? Who's gonna bring in Farmville? Who's ready to promise bigger fonts and more appealing colours if given a mandate? Anyone keen on abolishing some of the more restrictive clauses of the AUP?
C'mon. EARN IT. 
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Tehanu
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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I trust, Magoo, that this will help entail a certain ... cooperation. Don't spend it all at once!
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Caissa
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Magoo for Mod has a nice ring to it. |
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voice of the damned
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| Quote: | | Is it out west that there used to be a noticeable disdain for two-dollar bills, as a result of them being the lure in a vote-buying scandal many decades ago? |
The version I heard was that two-dollar bills were taboo in the west because two bucks was the standard rate at brothels. I read this in a newspaper, though what their source was, I don't know. |
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Senor Magoo
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I trust, Magoo, that this will help entail a certain ... cooperation. Don't spend it all at once! |
Cha-ching!
[aside]Boy, that thing sure does look incongruous now.[/aside]
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voice of the damned
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey, can someone post instructions on how to vote? It's been a year since the last election, and I don't figure out technical procedures easily. |
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Caissa
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voice of the damned
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Snopes wrote:
| Quote: | | In the 1970s, for example, you'd have been hard pressed to find a Canadian $2 bill anywhere in the province of Alberta because one practically couldn't give them away there. |
I'm gonna say that's a bit of hyperbole. I'm pretty sure I saw $2 bills in Alberta in the 70s, quite regularly in fact. Maybe the taboo was strongest in Alberta compared to anywhere else in Canada(though I think the first mention I heard of it was in that newspaper article I referenced, which was well after the 1970s), but that's not the same thing as saying it was strong in absolute terms. |
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Searosia
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Agree with you there VotD, though I'm too young to remember 70's...in the 80's my mom would give me lunch money for school and a decent number of times I remember getting $2 bills.
the again...maybe she was pawning them off on me as she couldn't spend them and I was too innocent to be rejected for a $2 bill by the cafeteria staff. heh
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TS.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| voice of the damned wrote: | | Hey, can someone post instructions on how to vote? It's been a year since the last election, and I don't figure out technical procedures easily. |
Um, funny story, I don't actually know how to set up a vote. Only DD and Steve GTG apparently know how, and neither of them appear to be around at the moment. Either way, when the vote gets opened up, we will have a full seven days of voting.
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Tehanu
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:45 am Post subject: |
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I've done it before but right now am bumping into slight technical difficulties because it appears the voting centre is not having a good day. Stay tuned ...
ETA: It's all good. TS, I'll let you into the Great Secret Balloting Secret.  |
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TS.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:07 am Post subject: |
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Okay, voting is now open. It will remain open until 11:59 PST on March 8.
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voice of the damned
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Okay, voting is now open. It will remain open until 11:59 PST on March 8.
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Okay. So where do I go to vote? When I log in, the "voting centre" thing at the top of the screen disappears.
Sorry to be an idiot, but I really can't remember how any of this works.
EDIT: Never mind, I figured it out. |
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bagkitty
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| TS. wrote: | | bagkitty wrote: | | I hope we see better bribes than last time. |
Check your doorstep. |
Ah, so you are the evil bastard responsible for the drifting snow that blocks my door.
Is there a "NO" option on this ballot.
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TS.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| bagkitty wrote: | | TS. wrote: | | bagkitty wrote: | | I hope we see better bribes than last time. |
Check your doorstep. |
Ah, so you are the evil bastard responsible for the drifting snow that blocks my door.
Is there a "NO" option on this ballot.
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Damn it! Are you telling me the snow demons carried off the fantabulous bribe I left for you? Again?
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Vundo Draxon
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm voting for Dagmar as a write-in candidate. |
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TS.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Bumpity bump bump bump.
Remember to vote in the election!
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:41 am Post subject: |
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Another reminder to vote in the election. You've got just over a day left.
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One more reminder to vote. You've got about seven hours.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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On behalf of myself and the other moderators, thanks to everyone for returning us to office for another six months!
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Senor Magoo
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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You guys could give tips to Hazel McCallion.
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Caissa
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I tried to vote for you, Magoo. |
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Senor Magoo
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Hehe. Think it was a shakeup when Rob Ford inherited the Mayor's chain?
Lordy. That's the sort of thing that gets people selling off all of their belongings and waiting out in a field.
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TS.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Senor Magoo wrote: | | You guys could give tips to Hazel McCallion. |
Yes, you'll see just how much when we start using EM resources to buy tickets to Tehanu's birthday party gala.
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Senor Magoo
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And like the cattle of Mississauga, we'll reflexively vote for you anyway! Heck, misuse your authority to help your son's business, then make EM pay for his lawyer! We'll be out raising money for your statue.
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Tehanu
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Senor Magoo wrote: | | Hehe. Think it was a shakeup when Rob Ford inherited the Mayor's chain? |
Are we going to have "Magoo Nation"?
Thanks by the way to those who voted!  |
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Diane Demorney
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hello, everyone. As usual, I'm late to the party.
I want to thank everyone who voted!
Just so you know, I consider being a moderator here one of my life achievements (sad, really  ). I love this place, even though I don't express it very well. Just sayin'
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Rufus Polson
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| voice of the damned wrote: | | Quote: | | Is it out west that there used to be a noticeable disdain for two-dollar bills, as a result of them being the lure in a vote-buying scandal many decades ago? |
The version I heard was that two-dollar bills were taboo in the west because two bucks was the standard rate at brothels. I read this in a newspaper, though what their source was, I don't know. |
Incidentally, this is another one of those cases where "The West" is thrown around inaccurately. Perhaps "the prairies"? I've never seen evidence of any anti-two-dollar-bill thing in BC, and remember my parents commenting that this was another contrast between BC and Alberta. They always figured it's because the US practically doesn't use the things and Albertans all seemed to imagine/wish that they were actually Texans, so . . . |
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Senor Magoo
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As the first thrower, I'm not even certain that this was a Canadian thing. All I remember is the word "West" in there.
ed'd to add: I suppose I might have checked with Snopes. 
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Raos
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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I remember when they first rid of the $2 bill from circulation, I thought the bimetallic twonie was so neat. And who could take issue with something bearing the image of the majestic polar bear? Now I certainly like the twonie for the convenience of always keeping one in the watch pocket of my pants as a coffee fund. My regard for the coin may not survive inflation forcing coffee above the $2 mark.
Which means, for reference in future mod election campaigns, my vote can always be bought by the promise of a legislated $2(post tax) cap on brewed coffee prices. |
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TS.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Senor Magoo wrote: | As the first thrower, I'm not even certain that this was a Canadian thing. All I remember is the word "West" in there.
ed'd to add: I suppose I might have checked with Snopes. |
One of the partners at my law firm, who grew up in Alberta, confirmed that it is an Alberta thing, but says that it is tied to the policies of Social Credit, and the fact that at the time, Canada didn't issue two dollar bills, but the Social Credit people did. Because social credit had no real value outside of Alberta, people treated those two dollar social credit bills as funny money, and the concern with them stuck even after the Bank of Canada started issuing two dollar bills.
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