minstrel: GW VIII

[Fred (Flieg) Hollander]

At 09:31 PM 3/16/99 -0500, (Jam Master) Efenwealt Wystle wrote:
><start stupidity>I just got tickled reading a recent post about Gulf
>Wars VIII. I saw the abbreviation GW8 and thought of Elmer Fudd saying
>"It was weawy a GWEAT war".  :-P
>
>On another rather stupid note, I'm told that a recent BoD decision
>abolished the use of the term "mundane" to refer to modern things and
>people. Does that mean we singing "Freaking the Mundanes" is right out?

   Actually:
   1 -- It has been noted that this decision applies only to 
official pronouncements and publications.
   2 -- It isn't recent; it's at _least_ 6-7 years old. (It dates to a time
when Hilary was still Steward.)
   3 -- It is reasonable in a sense because "mundane" was being used in 
a perjorative fashion and the feeling was that we wanted to get away from
an image of "us vs. them".
   4 -- There are lots of ways to refer to "mundane" items which aren't as
intrusive to the atmosphere of an event.

   I'm not a great fan of "The BoD", but in this case, especially in its  
limited applicability, I think that the ruling was correct.
   

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