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Hello all, how long til i loose my newbie status next to my name. Ive been a member here almost 2 years now. Does it go by the amount of posts?
Jack
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Yup.
Two more and you'll change.
Explained in the FAQ.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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Yep, # of posts; found this in the FAQ section:
0 stranger
25 newbie
50 journeyman
100 member
200 enthusiast
400 addict
700 old hand
1200 veteran
1600 Pooh-Bah
2500 Carpal Tunnel
5000 Baron
6000 Viscount
7000 Earl
10000 Marquess
15000 Duke
Regards,
Tom
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Thanks guys, 1 to go. The faqs??? That would require me to read something besides on how to improve my bike. No time for that. LOL
thanks for the replies
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Hello all, how long til i loose my newbie status next to my name. Ive been a member here almost 2 years now. Does it go by the amount of posts?
Jack
It depends on how much of an opinionated loud mouth you are...Me I went from Newbie to Poobah in less than 2 years. 
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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C'mon Jack , you can think of just TWO MORE things to post .
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Hey now more newbie. thanks guys. Have a good night.
Jack
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You could be at a forum the gives you the Navy Guy Avatar
where you look,
Um,
Like the Navy Guy from Village People.
I went through that.
Sigh
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I used to be a Newbie once. Argh, those were the days. Back then you could get a bag of fish & chips, take your bird to the pictures, have a pint and still get change from a shilling.
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
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Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche of Chattanooga
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I used to be a Newbie once. Argh, those were the days. Back then you could get a bag of fish & chips, take your bird to the pictures, have a pint and still get change from a shilling.
You could do all that, get a full tank of gas and still have change for the lecky meter up north!
One day as a tiger is worth a thousand as a sheep
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I used to be a Newbie once. Argh, those were the days. Back then you could get a bag of fish & chips, take your bird to the pictures, have a pint and still get change from a shilling.
You could do all that, get a full tank of gas and still have change for the lecky meter up north!
Or a wee piece of thin plastic shoved in the side of the meter to slow the wheel down ...ahem just something I heard..... 
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Cue the Monty Python skit: "O, you had a box..."
Steelheart- '03 Speedmaster Black/Yellow
The Hayabusa Killa
16" Shorties/140 mains/Airbox drilled
Procom CDI
"There is no cure for Celibacy. But we can treat the symptoms."
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I used to be a Newbie once. Argh, those were the days. Back then you could get a bag of fish & chips, take your bird to the pictures, have a pint and still get change from a shilling.
You could do all that, get a full tank of gas and still have change for the lecky meter up north!
Or a wee piece of thin plastic shoved in the side of the meter to slow the wheel down ...ahem just something I heard.....
I heard you could open them up and there was money inside!! Lecky man wasn't too chuffed when he tallyed up though!
Anyway what's wrong with being a newbie? One day you watch - I'll make it!
One day as a tiger is worth a thousand as a sheep
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Don't know if it works on the new meters or not but the old ones you could take them out and flip them upside down and they would run backwards.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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ooo! I'm almost a member!
2006 Speedmaster: Marble red and black, AI removed, flame finishers, solo seat
1982 Suzuki gs650glz
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Hello all, how long til i loose my newbie status next to my name. Ive been a member here almost 2 years now. Does it go by the amount of posts?
Jack
Dog can show you how to get rid of that. 
2004 Triumph Speedmaster (J Lo) 2006 Yamaha Stratoliner (Adele)
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as this has come up i shall ask the following ( or should i have gone to faq ) what or where does pooh-bah and carpal tunnel from  the rest i can do just a barrow boy me not alot of schooling lol
2003 black and silver T.B.A A1 removed,Specialty Spares long slashed Pipes .
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carpal tunnel comes from repetitive motion and pooh-bah comes from the Flintstones!
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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 thats  learn something new every day cheers matey
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I was joking, actual carpel tunnel does come from repetitive motion and is common among people who type a lot as well as any other profession where you make the same motion with your hands over and over.It is a nerve condition causing numbness.
Pooh-bah I don't know the real origin of but on the cartoon The Flintstones the head of Freds lodge was called the Grand Pooh-bah.An arrogant or conceited person of importance is what I got for a definition when I just googled it.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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you boys over the water  sometimes you had me
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Hey Ian! Let me know when you find out the word for "an arrogant or conceited person of NO importance", will ya?!
(you see...I've been workin' on my autobiography again lately)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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actual carpel tunnel does come from repetitive motion and is common among people who type a lot as well as any other profession where you make the same motion with your hands over and over.It is a nerve condition causing numbness.
Good point. AND, if you get Carpel Tunnel from your employer you can get you one of those Lawyer type people and sue your employer and get mucho money.
So, now that TBA.com has officially given me Carpel Tunnel....WHO DO I SUE
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
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Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche of Chattanooga
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Hey Ian! Let me know when you find out the word for "an arrogant or conceited person of NO importance", will ya?!
(you see...I've been workin' on my autobiography again lately)
Tell me Dwight, who's writing the Forward for you. Do you want one of us to do it.
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
Seller of fine automobiles.
Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche of Chattanooga
423-424-4000
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So, now that TBA.com has officially given me Carpel Tunnel....WHO DO I SUE?
Oh! Well THAT'S all handled by those Brit Iron Rebel fellas, Mark!
(have your mouthpiece contact THOSE folks...I understand they're pretty reasonable people)
Last edited by Dwight; 05/07/2008 1:45 PM.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Hey Ian! Let me know when you find out the word for "an arrogant or conceited person of NO importance", will ya?!
(you see...I've been workin' on my autobiography again lately)
Tell me Dwight, who's writing the Forward for you. Do you want one of us to do it.
Well SURE! Why not?! I figure at least ONE of you folks around here might'a caught the "essence of my personality" after all these years! 
(but don't expect any royalities comin' your way once it hits the N.Y.Times Best Seller List)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Dog can show you how to get rid of that.
Now that's funny right there I don't care who you are...
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Onejack - You've been round the clock and round the block more than once ! Keep postin' buddy ! 
If you do it today you MIGHT regret it. If you CAN'T do it tomorrow you WILL regret it.
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I used to be a Newbie once. Argh, those were the days. Back then you could get a bag of fish & chips, take your bird to the pictures, have a pint and still get change from a shilling.
You could do all that, get a full tank of gas and still have change for the lecky meter up north!
I went into a chip shop the other night and they wanted £1.50 for a bag of chips !
When I was a lad there worn't enough spuds in Birmingham to make £1.50's worth of chips !!
If you do it today you MIGHT regret it. If you CAN'T do it tomorrow you WILL regret it.
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Ever since I was unceremoniously deleted along with all my posts I've not paid any attention to that stuff.
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Should be Riding
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Don't feel too special, You're not the first to get mystereously deleted during a forum update...
Benny
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Too many mods to list
Not enough miles ridden
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I found this.
""Poobah" comes from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado," which
debuted in 1885 and skewered the then-current rage in Britain for all
things Japanese. Set in the fictional small Japanese town of Titipu,
The Mikado tells the story
of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, Yum-Yum, his fetching ward, and
Nanki-Poo, a wandering minstrel who is actually the son of the Mikado
(Emperor) in disguise. The plot of The Mikado is far too baroque to
relate here, but one of
the other characters is, you guessed it, Poo-Bah, who holds the
exalted offices of Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Buckhounds and
Groom of the Back Stairs, as well as the handy catch-all post of Lord
High Everything Else.
"Lord High Everything Else" was such a brilliant summation of the
self-important puffery of bureaucracy that "Poo-Bah" (and its variant
"poobah") immediately became a popular mocking synonym for someone who
holds a number of offices, wields ultimate power, or exhibits an
inflated self-regard. "
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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"an arrogant or conceited person of NO importance"
That would just be poo. 
Soren
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