"Sorry that was in response to Mark"

Ugh.

Aren't you Mr.TAW? Or is it Mr. T.A.W.?

I can't be both? Heck, there's less variety in things to call me than with him - I've never changed my nick here.

You're insignificant to us. Your only claim to fame is you are a moderator here, however that came to be still puzzles most.

I tend to refer to you as "Mark", and ex-muppet as "Mark W" -- you were Mark first, so it seems fitting you get the simpler version.

The only problem with that is Mark and Mark W could still refer to either of us.

I think it's pretty obvious that Mark W is meant to refer to me, as hardly anybody knows that your last name is actually Wieczoricz or whatver. :)

I think most people think your last name is Taw.

You're the only one here who would call you "Mark W", so get over it. :)

That still doesn't change that whenever I see Mark W I think it's about me.

Yeah but you think nearly everything is about you.

;-)

Yeah, that's the problem with ambiguity. Once there's TWO Marks, now you have to add a modifier -- Mark T. and Mark W.

I struggle with this at work all the time -- people think a term is ambiguous, so they try to define the ambiguous term as being ONLY THIS interpretation (instead of simply adding, and maintaining, the modifier).

This sounds innocuous, I'm sure, until you find that one of the terms is "Queue". As in "The replay queue has never worked very well, so we don't want any more queue's in this design."

Well, in software, it's really crippling to remove the concept of "queue" that way. And these people resist quite strongly having their definition of "replay_queue" as "queue" being challenged, for some reason.

Then there's the idiot who insists that HIS un-ambiguous definition of Queue should be the one that it really means, even though the customer is insisting that THEIR unambiguous definition should be the only one. Neither of their definitions match the generic, vanilla 'queue' of course.

Oh, we have so much fun at work.

"Me, me, me..." That's the trouble with the youth of today. :)

Exactly.

From now on, I'm {a6c3d375-1a8b-46ef-a408-fa1d8ae6a826}.

What about "The Notorious T.A.W."? Has a ring to it.

But, Mark, doesn't Mr.Warner sounds too formal for this forum? Or what do you you think Mark? :-)

Hmm, it just occurred to me that Mark TAW's real last name does in fact begin with W, not T.

Back to the drawing board.

Be a TAW for a day?

Modifier.. shouldn't that be 'qualifier'? Mark remains the same after all.
I suggest you call your selves Mr.Mustard and Mr.Turquoise.

"Modifier" versus "Qualifier". Interesting.

I'm going to have to think about that.

There's not much to think about. He's right and you were wrong. It's plainly obvious.

It must be wonderful to live in a world that is so black and white, Mark W. My father is the same way.

Oh, wait, from your stories it's not that wonderful. Never mind.

Oh, and Modifier/Qualifier:
http://www.answers.com/topic/qualifier

The noun "qualifier" has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition


Meaning #2: a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
Synonym: modifier

So, since "modifier" is a synonym with "qualifier", I don't think either is wrong.

Now, I still need to think about it, because of course the implications of the two are different.

Synonymns are similiar, not the same, Mr. Allan.

Read carefully. Did I SAY they were the same? No, I said neither was wrong.

And I also said their implications were different, so I still wanted to think about this.

Patience Mr. Warner, I'm sure I'll say something idiotic soon enough that you can call me on.

You're just upset because I fucked your dad.

There you go.

I fucked him all night long.

Nope, still not "torture".