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Video Poker Forum is a new group for active discussion of video
poker. Membership will be limited to those that actually participate
in the discussion. The bar will be set high for participation, it is
expected that each member will make a posting every month, original
or reply to previous posts. Ten to twenty active members would be
great. The link below will get you to the new Forum.

Veritas Redux.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Video_Poker_Forum/

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To: vpFREE@Yahoogroups.com
From: "vp_mavin" <vp_mavin@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:36pm
Subject: Re: Oriental? Bob Dancer is Correct In His Usage

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "girillaman" <ChasAyers@a...> wrote:

You may or may not know that the term "Oriental" is used to describe
things like rugs or food. When referring to people the preferred

term is "Asian". I don't want to come across as some kind of expert
on this (I'm not)

- Charlie in Chicago

Charlie you are WRONG in your definition.

Using three sources:
1. The OED
2. The American Heritage Dictionary
3. The Random House Dictionary

ALL define Oriental as a native or inhabitant of the Orient or of
Oriental Heritage.

The OED dates the written usage dates back to 1701, with additional
examples cited for 1859; 1864; 1897

I think everyone who libelled Bob Dancer, owe him an apology on this
forum.

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Video_Poker_Forum/

#2

vp_mavin wrote:

Video Poker Forum is a new group for active discussion of video
poker. Membership will be limited to those that actually participate
in the discussion. The bar will be set high for participation, it is
expected that each member will make a posting every month, original
or reply to previous posts. Ten to twenty active members would be
great. The link below will get you to the new Forum.

Exclusivity doesn't necessarily translate to higher quality
participation. For that matter, I'd find a group composed solely of
the 20 most active vpFREE contributors to likely be tiresome (In
another's shoes, I'd skim over my stuff in short order :wink:

I expect that most others are like myself and will wait for some true
indication of what will distinguish this group from others. Thus far,
that distinction appears to be "not vpFREE".

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Subject: Re: Oriental? Bob Dancer is Correct In His Usage

Perhaps because this subject has little more relevance to vp than the
topic "To what extent do fire ants threaten LV?"

- H.

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--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@v...>
wrote:

Exclusivity doesn't necessarily translate to higher quality

participation. For that matter, I'd find a group composed solely of
the 20 most active vpFREE contributors to likely be tiresome (In
another's shoes, I'd skim over my stuff in short order :wink: I expect
that most others are like myself and will wait for some true
indication of what will distinguish this group from others. Thus
far, that distinction appears to be "not vpFREE".<<<

Video_Poker_Forum is an experiment, hopefully in the sense that the
Founding Fathers spoke of an experiment at this Nation's founding.
Why be small souled!

Think of this analogy: in college some classes are large lecture
format, where the lecturer does most of the talking, with a few
students asking questions versus a small discussion class where
everyone participates in the class---most psople have a preference
for one format versus the other, obviously I'm looking for the latter
group to join Video_Poker_Forum.

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> The vpFree moderator is back at it, can you guess the problem

with

> the Rejected Posting below. Note, because of moderation delay,

this

> was posted long before the topic was pushed to free^2.

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> Subject: Re: Oriental? Bob Dancer is Correct In His Usage

Perhaps because this subject has little more relevance to vp than

the

topic "To what extent do fire ants threaten LV?"

- H.

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Harry, there were already many posts on this topic, so you know your
answer can't be correct. I'm a little disappointed in your guess.
Care to try again?

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--- In FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter"
<harry.porter@v...> wrote:

Thus far,

that distinction appears to be "not vpFREE".

That was all it took to pique my curiosity. The major benefit of
VPFree for myself as a non-Nevada traveler is the entertainment
value that comes from lurking. Since the new mod puts the kibosh on
things I find entertaining much faster than VPFAE, I welcome any
well-run alternatives.

Plus, I thought the mavin shut down veritas prematurely. He had
done fine work.

-MARK M.

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> The vpFree moderator is back at it, can you guess the problem

with

> the Rejected Posting below. Note, because of moderation delay,

this

> was posted long before the topic was pushed to free^2.

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> Subject: Re: Oriental? Bob Dancer is Correct In His Usage

Perhaps because this subject has little more relevance to vp than

the

topic "To what extent do fire ants threaten LV?"

- H.