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    Why so serious? Tinker's avatar
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    Yeah fuck all y'all and your splinter forum. Now I have yet another forum to cycle through in my forum internet addiction. Thanks a lot!

    Tinker formerly known as mswas.
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    Quote Originally posted by Tinker
    Now I have yet another forum to cycle through in my forum internet addiction. Thanks a lot!
    You think I give a tinker's damn ?!?!



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    Quote Originally posted by NinetyWt
    Quote Originally posted by Tinker
    Now I have yet another forum to cycle through in my forum internet addiction. Thanks a lot!
    You think I give a tinker's damn ?!?!



    I think you need a softer lube.
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    Quote Originally posted by Tinker
    I think you need a softer lube.
    I just couldn't resist!!

    It's better if you imagine it in my Mama's voice.
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    What the fuck kind of name is Tinker, you fucking cunt?



    I keed, I keed...

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    Quote Originally posted by NinetyWt
    Quote Originally posted by Tinker
    Now I have yet another forum to cycle through in my forum internet addiction. Thanks a lot!
    You think I give a tinker's damn ?!?!



    That's a tinker's dam, which is a small piece of metal the tinker can melt down to repair pots.

    You're welcome.

    -- Baldwin. Formerly Baldwin.

    ETA: I'm enjoying being a douche. Maybe a little too much.

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    Quote Originally posted by Baldwin
    ETA: I'm enjoying being a douche. Maybe a little too much.
    Well then I'm going to enjoy being argumentative.

    The problem with that interpretation is that all those accounts ignore an earlier phrase - 'a tinker's curse' (or cuss), which exemplified the reputation tinkers had for habitual use of profanity. This example from John Mactaggart's The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824, predates Knight's version in the popular language:

    "A tinkler's curse she did na care what she did think or say."

    In the Grant County Herald, Wisconsin, 1854, we have:

    "There never was a book gotten up by authority and State pay, that was worth a tinker's cuss".

    So, we can forget about plumbing. The earlier phrase simply migrated the short distance from curse to damn to give us the proper spelling of the phrase - tinker's damn.
    From here.
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    Quote Originally posted by NinetyWt
    The problem with that interpretation is that all those accounts ignore an earlier phrase - 'a tinker's curse' (or cuss), which exemplified the reputation tinkers had for habitual use of profanity. This example from John Mactaggart's The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824, predates Knight's version in the popular language:
    Oh, sure, clog up the pit with your FACTS and your LOGIC, will you? Cuntwaffle. No, wait, you're worse then a cuntwaffle. You....you...ED ZOTTI, you!



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    Another website, Michael Quinion's World Wide Words, has this to offer:
    [Q] From David Halperin, Israel: “Why the tinker in a tinker’s damn?”

    [A] There are two theories about this one. One points to the very low social status of tinkers, itinerant menders of pots and pans, and to their well-known tendency to include a swearword in every sentence. So to say that something “isn’t worth a tinker’s damn” is to say that it’s of no value at all, not worth even a moment’s consideration.

    A more ingenious explanation was put forward in the latter part of the nineteenth century: when a tinker was soldering a pot, he would make a small wall out of bread dough around the place he was to flood with solder in order to stop it from spreading. After he had finished, he would naturally throw the dough away as being of no further use, so that “a tinker’s dam” was equally something of no value.

    A century ago, the compilers of the First Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary were scornful of this attempt to make a simple matter more complicated, though it is still to be found in current works on phrase histories. It speaks to that part of us that wants to convert the mundane to the magical, to find something of mystery and interest in even the most ordinary of expressions.

    You may gather that I consider the simpler story to be much the more likely. It is supported by variations such as tinker’s curse and tinker’s cuss.
    You may now resume the cuntwaffling already in progress.
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    You fuckin' edzotti.

    The best cuss term evah!
    They weren't singing....they were just honking.
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    Quote Originally posted by NinetyWt
    Quote Originally posted by Baldwin
    ETA: I'm enjoying being a douche. Maybe a little too much.
    Well then I'm going to enjoy being argumentative.

    The problem with that interpretation is that all those accounts ignore an earlier phrase - 'a tinker's curse' (or cuss), which exemplified the reputation tinkers had for habitual use of profanity. This example from John Mactaggart's The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824, predates Knight's version in the popular language:

    "A tinkler's curse she did na care what she did think or say."

    In the Grant County Herald, Wisconsin, 1854, we have:

    "There never was a book gotten up by authority and State pay, that was worth a tinker's cuss".

    So, we can forget about plumbing. The earlier phrase simply migrated the short distance from curse to damn to give us the proper spelling of the phrase - tinker's damn.
    From here.
    Well played. See, we're fighting ignorance over here!

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    Oh yeah.

    Fuck you tinker for changing your name. Now I have to stop and think, MrsWhatsit or mswas every time I see your name here.

    As if I don't have enough to do already.
    They weren't singing....they were just honking.
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    Feh. My only complaint is that it uses phpBB. On the main forum page, you can't see the names of the most recently updated threads, unlike some other free message board programs. Maybe if Domebo takes off, TPTB will move the message board to vBulletin or Invision Power Board.

    I do think it will be one of the more successful splinter boards, because it's not a "vanity board" that is all about the administrator; e.g. Fabulous Forums of Fathom, Skip's Magic Palace, and so on. Would Something Awful be as successful as it is if it was called "Lowtax's Place?"

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    Something Awful is successful due to the marvelous logistical organization of Goon Fleet, and for no other reason.
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