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Proposed Lexicon Injection: Boxhead
Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
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02-21-2006 12:53
Instead of 'n00b', which is a bit like a racial slur now. Let's call them Box Heads!





- Burke Prefect,
Feeling a little Boxheaded at work.
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Lash Xevious
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02-21-2006 13:00
But "box" sounds so ... kinky. I think it's the X. :p
Burke Prefect
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02-21-2006 13:07
From: Lash Xevious
But "box" sounds so ... kinky. I think it's the X. :p


What isn't kinky to you? You wasted that russian dudes hometown!
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Salazar Jack
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02-21-2006 13:15
How about cubies?
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Chris Wilde
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02-21-2006 13:15
Lets call them "burkes" instead of n00bs. ;)
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nimrod Yaffle
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02-21-2006 13:18
From: Chris Wilde
Lets call them "burkes" instead of n00bs. ;)

I think that might fall into the insult category that he wanted to stay out of.
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Lash Xevious
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02-21-2006 13:19
From: Burke Prefect
What isn't kinky to you? You wasted that russian dudes hometown!


I did?! Huh?

I prefer to just call new people "new." Sometimes the folks will make their own new reference. Some don't mind being called newbie. Or n00b. I don't use the n00b one often though. I use t00b though, t00bing. Anyhoo ... Boxhead would make sense in SL.
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02-21-2006 13:20
From: nimrod Yaffle
I think that might fall into the insult category that he wanted to stay out of.

ouch! haha
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Burke Prefect
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02-21-2006 13:29
Burke you!
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Chris Wilde
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02-21-2006 13:37
you're all burkes
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Taco Rubio
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02-21-2006 13:41
From: Lash Xevious
I did?! Huh?

I prefer to just call new people "new." Sometimes the folks will make their own new reference. Some don't mind being called newbie. Or n00b. I don't use the n00b one often though. I use t00b though, t00bing. Anyhoo ... Boxhead would make sense in SL.


this will sound like a joke, but I mean it.

When I hear the term "new people" in reference to noobs, it always makes me uncomfortable. I realize that most people don't know of the connotation of the term, so I try not to let it bother me, but I will never call a newbie a 'new person'.

/shrug
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Burke Prefect
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02-21-2006 14:09
New Residents?
Fresh Of The OI?
n00b?
Box Head?
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Ordinal Malaprop
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02-21-2006 14:14
"Boxheads" is too much like "blockheads", which is too Charlie Brown for me.
Taco Rubio
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02-21-2006 14:25
Bland Grits?
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Intent Unknown
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02-21-2006 15:00
Suicide Girls?
Burke Prefect
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02-21-2006 15:07
From: Intent Unknown
Suicide Girls?


Nah. Taken.
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Phoenix Psaltery
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02-21-2006 15:59
"Experientially challenged."

P2
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Torley Linden
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02-21-2006 16:09
"Boxhead"; it doth remind me of Gumby's nemesises.
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Krashnburn Hillquit
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02-21-2006 18:56
A n00b is a n00b is a n00b, whats the point in calling a noob anything else?

Why would any one be offended by being called a noob? Getting offended by being called a noob is stupid... and being called stupid 'is' something to get offended about. lol

Call someone an idiot, a moron, whatever, sure they have a right to get offended, even if its true. (more likely if its true)

I have been a noob in many games, some of those I went on to master, others I chose not to. I am a noob in SL right now, it is possible that coming from differnt gaming backgrounds the term has different connotations for us, but for me the term noob implies nothing negative that a little /Played time won't fix.

P.S. If the name means that much to you contact me in game I have a little car in mind, 3 prims, no script, and default texture, but I plan to lable it porsche! :P