The 2018 Sampson Avard Golden Scepter Award

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moinmoin wrote:
Everybody Wang Chung wrote:It sounds like Allen "The Slug" Wyatt . . . If it wasn't for all the grunt work Allen "The Slug" Wyatt does . . . I also doubt that without The Slug

Where are you getting this nickname from?

Here.
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Kishkumen wrote:
moinmoin wrote:Where are you getting this nickname from?

Here.

Was there supposed to be a hyperlink?
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Analytics wrote:Was there supposed to be a hyperlink?


I meant here at MDB, not a specific link.
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Kishkumen wrote:
Analytics wrote:Was there supposed to be a hyperlink?


I meant here at MDB, not a specific link.


Ah. I did a quick Google search, and the oldest usage still around was from October 2008 by then Mr. Scratch.

http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/vie ... w=previous

With the exceptions of Everybody Wang Chung and perhaps one or two others, it looks like Scratch is the only one who uses this nickname.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.

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