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Old 03-26-2009, 05:12 PM
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Re: Theming Thursday, what is an "Epic?"
Jeezus H. Tap-dancin' Christ...I first thought that I must have completely missed the point of the the theme...When I saw "Epicurean delights", I thought of food again...I remembered food was the theme last week, but I thought WTF?...let's try it again...guess, I missed the italics... time for new peepers...
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Jeezus H. Tap-dancin' Christ...I first thought that I must have completely missed the point of the the theme...When I saw "Epicurean delights", I thought of food again...I remembered food was the theme last week, but I thought WTF?...let's try it again...guess, I missed the italics... time for new peepers...
Well, I didn't want EPICs to be the theme. Simple pleasures comes to mind with today's theme.
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Well, I didn't want EPICs to be the theme. Simple pleasures comes to mind with today's theme.

My gut (never quite full) was the simple pleasure zone where I ended up...Suppose I just enjoy the feed bag a wee bit too much...
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Well, I didn't want EPICs to be the theme. Simple pleasures comes to mind with today's theme.
Well, then why put EPIC in all caps? Why not say "Simple Pleasures?" I know what epicureanism is, and that means more than food, but what did you expect when you put EPIC in caps? It's been epics all day!
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so I nominate "short and sweet" for next week's theme
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Well, then why put EPIC in all caps? Why not say "Simple Pleasures?" I know what epicureanism is, and that means more than food, but what did you expect when you put EPIC in caps? It's been epics all day!
Epic was not in all caps.
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Well, I didn't want EPICs to be the theme. Simple pleasures comes to mind with today's theme.
That's very clever. While I got your meaning, I can understand why people were confused.

Stressing the word "theme" is probably not a bad idea because the easy thing to do is use the literal search function as pointed out in your BLUE rant (which was pretty funny).

When Moses does this in his show and because he follows variations on a topic of is choosing, it puts a constraint of english only based selections typically, while the more generic use of the theme concept as done in Theming Thursday is more broadly based and our non american friends can play along too. It's not a criticism but rather an observation (about the fusion reactor).
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