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Delia DeLyons

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Re: Abbreviations/Definitions
« Reply #135 on: September 30, 2010, 02:48:41 PM »
Ahhh... I always thought LW meant "Leading Woman"... and it still makes sense to me, so I'll probably still think that, LOL
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« Reply #136 on: May 20, 2011, 10:37:31 PM »
I'm sorry to ask, but I've been scratching my head over this one and couldn't find it after searching around the forum.

PPs?  :(
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« Reply #137 on: May 20, 2011, 10:38:34 PM »
Previous posters, maybe?
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« Reply #138 on: May 20, 2011, 10:42:23 PM »
Previous Post or Previous Poster, I'm thinking.
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Re: Abbreviations/Definitions
« Reply #139 on: May 20, 2011, 10:43:52 PM »
Thank you kindly. *tips hat*
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Re: Abbreviations/Definitions
« Reply #140 on: May 20, 2011, 11:07:49 PM »
Quote from: MsOverThinker on September 30, 2010, 10:56:33 AM
Ok, I understand from context that LW usually means the OP (original poster).  But what does it stand for?

Letter Writer.  :)
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Re: Abbreviations/Definitions
« Reply #141 on: July 20, 2011, 07:23:43 PM »
Quote from: CreteGirl on September 16, 2007, 01:37:38 PM
Quote from: Chivewarrior on December 05, 2006, 06:22:08 PM
Unless it's going to be banned, can we just stop discussing pod and let people use it as they please (or not)?

Thank you Chivewarrior.  I personally love POD, and think it is cool that "our" board has its own term.  Its really not too hard to figure out its meaining if people are on the board for even a short length of time, and don't think that such an innocuous term should be banned.

POD is not native to this board. It means "Post of the Day."
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Re: Abbreviations/Definitions
« Reply #142 on: July 20, 2011, 09:41:03 PM »
Here pod means like-minded as in peas in a pod.
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« Reply #143 on: July 20, 2011, 10:59:14 PM »
Quote from: Animala on July 20, 2011, 09:41:03 PM
Here pod means like-minded as in peas in a pod.

Yep. And it is native to this board -- a former poster coined it when this forum was on Delphooey.
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« Reply #144 on: July 20, 2011, 11:05:23 PM »
Think of it as convergent evolution ;D
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Re: Abbreviations/Definitions
« Reply #145 on: July 20, 2011, 11:12:13 PM »
Quote from: Courtney on July 20, 2011, 10:59:14 PM
Quote from: Animala on July 20, 2011, 09:41:03 PM
Here pod means like-minded as in peas in a pod.

Yep. And it is native to this board -- a former poster coined it when this forum was on Delphooey.

I thought the term migrated over to the EHell forum from the iow forum.
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Re: Abbreviations/Definitions
« Reply #146 on: July 21, 2011, 11:49:19 AM »
Quote from: Animala on July 20, 2011, 09:41:03 PM
Here pod means like-minded as in peas in a pod.
Weird. Do you have a source for that? It's an unusual etymology.
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« Reply #147 on: July 21, 2011, 11:54:46 AM »
Quote from: Etta Kett on July 21, 2011, 11:49:19 AM
Quote from: Animala on July 20, 2011, 09:41:03 PM
Here pod means like-minded as in peas in a pod.
Weird. Do you have a source for that? It's an unusual etymology.

It originated here - at EHell.  There's no "formal" etimology of it.  It's a term that we coined on this site for "like minded as in peas in a pod/I agree."  It's really that simple!
« Last Edit: July 21, 2011, 11:56:23 AM by DottyG »
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Re: Abbreviations/Definitions
« Reply #148 on: July 21, 2011, 02:04:39 PM »
Quote from: Etta Kett on July 21, 2011, 11:49:19 AM
Quote from: Animala on July 20, 2011, 09:41:03 PM
Here pod means like-minded as in peas in a pod.
Weird. Do you have a source for that? It's an unusual etymology.

Oral tradition, or the electronic version thereof.
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« Reply #149 on: July 21, 2011, 03:34:08 PM »
I think the confusion comes in because people use it in all caps like it's an acronym.  As I understand it (it predates my time on Ehell) it's not.  It's just a shortening of the phrase "peas in a pod."  The acronym for that, I guess, would be PIAP, which is just unsightly.
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