Organization For The Elimination

July 1, 2005

AArgh! I'm sick of this word. I advocate creativity in the use of insulting language. You are encouraged to come up with your own new and fresh way of putting down other people's efforts. I know that if we try we can rid the world of the ugly scourge of the word (dare I utter it) "lame". Come on. Join me in this worthy cause.

9.2k · July 1, 2005

What a lame thread.

July 1, 2005

Not in the least bit original.

July 1, 2005

Well you started it!!!!!

July 1, 2005

Indeed I did. Come a little closer, little one. I need to check out that...that's it, just a little closer. You little....

July 1, 2005

Gee someone's hostile.

20.7k · July 1, 2005

angsty, even.

1.6k · July 1, 2005

I second the motion raised by joypa to remove the word "lame" from the geocaching vocabulary.

I suggest "GIMP" as its new replacement.

22k · July 1, 2005

Sorry, too many people already signed up for the 'Cachers against the term Muggle' club.

Perhaps a union is necessary: UUE (ask me later) I don't want to cause angst so soon in this thread.

July 1, 2005

Angst is as anguish does.

4.8k · July 1, 2005

Angst is as anguish does.

July 1, 2005

Just close the topic atogether an then nobody can say it anymore.

July 1, 2005

Well, sure they can. I mean, that's the whole point, isn't it. If some one says something is lame, they can say it in any thread. My movement is meant to stamp it out. And, just for you, I will explain that I am being facetious. No one is going to listen to this old dodder.

July 1, 2005

So I can say "lame lame lame lame, etc, etc" as much as I want in your thread?

July 1, 2005

Well, I could find you and push you in front of a bus....

July 1, 2005

I am not postting anymore in this thread.

4.8k · July 1, 2005

Various synonyms for lame from Thesaurus.com

Main Entry: lame

Part of Speech: adjective 2

Definition: weak

Synonyms: faltering, faulty, feeble, flabby, flimsy, inadequate, ineffective, inefficient, insufficient, poor, thin, unconvincing, unpersuasive, unpleasing, unsatisfactory, unsuitable

Definition: unoriginal

Synonyms: bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight

Definition: distorted

Synonyms: askew, awry, bent, blemished, bowed, buckled, contorted, cramped, crippled, crooked, curved, damaged, disfigured, disjointed, dwarfed, gnarled, grotesque, humpbacked, hunch-backed, ill-made, irregular, knotted, lame, maimed, malformed, mangled, marred, misbegotten, misconceived, misproportioned, misshapen, twisted, ugly, unnatural, unseemly, warped, writhing

July 1, 2005

Various synonyms for lame from Thesaurus.com

Main Entry: lame

Part of Speech: adjective 2

Definition: weak

Synonyms: faltering, faulty, feeble, flabby, flimsy, inadequate, ineffective, inefficient, insufficient, poor, thin, unconvincing, unpersuasive, unpleasing, unsatisfactory, unsuitable

Definition: unoriginal

Synonyms: bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight

Definition: distorted

Synonyms: askew, awry, bent, blemished, bowed, buckled, contorted, cramped, crippled, crooked, curved, damaged, disfigured, disjointed, dwarfed, gnarled, grotesque, humpbacked, hunch-backed, ill-made, irregular, knotted, lame, maimed, malformed, mangled, marred, misbegotten, misconceived, misproportioned, misshapen, twisted, ugly, unnatural, unseemly, warped, writhing

Ah, excellent. That was a misbegotten, ill-conceived and unpleasing cache you had there!

1.6k · July 1, 2005

Various synonyms for lame from Thesaurus.com

Main Entry: lame

Part of Speech: adjective 2

Definition: weak

Synonyms: faltering, faulty, feeble, flabby, flimsy, inadequate, ineffective, inefficient, insufficient, poor, thin, unconvincing, unpersuasive, unpleasing, unsatisfactory, unsuitable

Definition: unoriginal

Synonyms: bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight

Definition: distorted

Synonyms: askew, awry, bent, blemished, bowed, buckled, contorted, cramped, crippled, crooked, curved, damaged, disfigured, disjointed, dwarfed, gnarled, grotesque, humpbacked, hunch-backed, ill-made, irregular, knotted, lame, maimed, malformed, mangled, marred, misbegotten, misconceived, misproportioned, misshapen, twisted, ugly, unnatural, unseemly, warped, writhing

gimp was on that list when I went to the site.

I still like the word gimp...

"That cache is so gimp!"

"That stupid gimpy TeamK-9 hid that gimp cache right next to my house, and he refuseds to submit it to the site!"

July 1, 2005

ooooo...

"humpbacked" has a certain ring to it. in fact, just shorten it to humping, a la:

"i hate those humpin' lamppost micro's!!"

wow, sailormouth, i feel like spongebob trying out my first big-boy words!!

July 1, 2005

How about "unconvincing". I found your cache to be unconvincing. I was not sure of your actual intent to place a cache in this location.

July 1, 2005

works for me!!

(i do like gimp too)

1.8k · July 1, 2005

Let me see.

A new descriptive term to replace the old one?

My brain hurts trying to think of one.

Eh. I'm coming up empty.

July 1, 2005

Whose humping a lamppost? That's a lame excuse for muggles when you're finding a most excellent cache.

3.1k · July 1, 2005

Various synonyms for lame from Thesaurus.com

Main Entry: lame

Part of Speech: adjective 2

Definition: weak

Definition: unoriginal

Definition: distorted

Oh, "LAME"! All this time I thought people were making caches out of French fabric!

July 1, 2005

Oh, "LAME"! All this time I thought people were making caches out of French fabric!

that only goes for the GOLD ones...

July 1, 2005

YES! Finally! A kindred spirit willing to brave the slings and arrows of contentious cachers in his quest to eradicate the use of "lame" from our language!

KUDOS to you good sir, kudos I say!

In an effort to match the courage and conviction you have thus far displayed in this thread, I heartily embrace the most worthy concept that we found an organization with the sole aim of removing "lame" from our insulting and aggressive speech!

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I GIVE YOU...

LINGUISTS AGAINST MEDIOCRE ENGLISH!

Edited July 1, 2005 by Team Panda

24.7k · July 1, 2005

Whatever.

Yeah, I hate that worse than Lame. A well placed whatever is a lot more powerful.

3.8k · July 1, 2005

Woebegone:

1. Affected with or marked by deep sorrow, grief, or wretchedness.

2. Of an inferior or deplorable condition: a rundown, woebegone old shack or geocache.

7.3k · July 1, 2005

Hmmmmm....flabby.

7.2k · July 1, 2005

Eliminating the word itself is the easy way out. If you want to eliminate "lame" from the vernacular how about advocating folks putting a bit of thought into hiding the cache in the first place.

Otherwise, lame is lame no matter what you call it.

Of course, we could call it "trache" as someone suggested to me a while back.

1k · July 1, 2005

Of course, we could call it "trache" as someone suggested to me a while back.

Now, that's a good term.

We should refer to lame caches as trache going forward.

I second their notion.

1.8k · July 1, 2005

I suggest "GIMP" as its new replacement.

I was thinking adjectivally..... GIMPY... when I saw your post.

How about just classing it up. We have a rather L*** store around Ohio called TARGET, and to make us all feel better we use TAR-GHEE'. Lame', anyone?

July 1, 2005

ANGST ALERT!!!!!!!!!

6.5k · July 1, 2005

All of these post are very inconsiderate of the feelings of the cachers and caches they have put out. The terms "lame, gimp, hunchback, humpy", and any other descriptive term used as a label is just plain wrong.

From now on please use the terms "caches/cachers with a difference."

After all they are caches and cachers foremost.

July 1, 2005

I still like the word gimp...

"That cache is so gimp!"

"That stupid gimpy TeamK-9 hid that gimp cache right next to my house, and he refuseds to submit it to the site!"

Hey now as a temporary gimp I take offense to this one! Feeble or spavined is better!

July 1, 2005

I second the motion raised by joypa to remove the word "lame" from the geocaching vocabulary.

I suggest "GIMP" as its new replacement.

Hey! Who are you calling a GIMP? Unless you're a card-carrying member of the Gimp Squad, you can't use the term "gimp".

3.2k · July 1, 2005

I do like "humdrum", but a "Trache Cache" certainly conveys the idea in a much less lame way than a lame word like lame.

July 1, 2005

Hmmmmm....flabby.

Ouch! Some of us resemble that remark!

July 1, 2005

The application of the L word or Gimp is in the Eye of the Beerholder.

July 1, 2005

The application of the L word or Gimp is in the Eye of the Beerholder.

You hold the beer, and I'll hold the flowers.

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