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DCaD Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbia City, Indiana, USA Posts: 836 Good Answers: 96	What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 12:54 AM
	A GURU now I am, I be To sit this lofty place. Now I must grow my hair To hide my olden face. When once I only wrote on walls Whilst sought to defecate Now I walk these hallowed halls And seek to pontificate The wisdom born of years of trial From my mind I must now pry For the lives of so many CR4s On my words will now rely But, lo, these words are shallow Just bits amongst the fray Will anyone find real help From what I have to say? But still, Dear Friends, I thank you No matter the names imply For to all, the truth is crystal clear I'm just an average guy. But one can tell so easily If the answer's correct or not One thing's for sure, as GURUs go We like to talk … a LOT __________________ "Just when I had all the answers, they changed all the questions"
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#34 "Re: What's in a name ..." by DCaD on 08/01/2009 12:28 AM (score 5)

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#21 "Re: What's in a name ..." by kvsubramanyam on 07/31/2009 12:02 AM (score 1)

Steve S. Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1790 Good Answers: 87	#1 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 1:48 AM
	Congrats and welcome to the club.... Don't quit your day job. Poet you are not.....
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DCaD Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbia City, Indiana, USA Posts: 836 Good Answers: 96	#2 In reply to #1 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 1:54 AM
	fer sur ... and GURU doesn't pay too much either :-) __________________ "Just when I had all the answers, they changed all the questions"
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rakesh_semwal Guru Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: India, 200 Km. North of Delhi. Posts: 1393 Good Answers: 53	#3 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 2:42 AM
	You deserve it with a wild card even if you don't have 500post, 10% of good answer is a very good case. Congratulations any way.
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user-deleted-1105 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 16512 Good Answers: 670	#4 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 2:48 AM
	Bravo, As a Guru, I'd have though you would have worked out how to post without the extraneous carriage returns by now. (Shift C/R) aviods 'em . Del (the teasey Cat) __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#5 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 3:25 AM
	__________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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CJMcGill Guru Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SoCal USA Posts: 556 Good Answers: 23	#6 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 12:13 PM
	DCaD , Nei Hi yut go teen choi. Tsai chien, CJM __________________ I do not 'know it all', but i will admit that I would like to. CJM
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#7 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 2:26 PM
	Becoming a Guru is just a sign of having too much time on your hands.
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DCaD Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbia City, Indiana, USA Posts: 836 Good Answers: 96	#8 In reply to #7 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 2:40 PM
	Oh, if only that were true. It is now 2:37 AM, and I'm pushing to finish some last minute details on a project ... endless reports. I keep telling myself this must end someday, but that's just salve for my brain. Frankly, if not for the diversion of CR4 chatter now and then, I'd probably be more crazy than I already am :-) Kind regards ... __________________ "Just when I had all the answers, they changed all the questions"
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gsuhas Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: 18 29 N 73 57E Posts: 1390 Good Answers: 31	#15 In reply to #7 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 11:12 PM
	I do not agree with you. But, I would say, becoming a GURU is sign of addiction to CR4
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#16 In reply to #15 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 11:17 PM
	OK! OK! I didn't want to go there! Finding CR4 surely leads to addiction.
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#33 In reply to #15 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 8:46 PM
	Hi gsuhas, That CR4 'addition' is no bad thing is it? Out of the thousands of sites I have seen, there is yet to be one that better's it! Info' and spreading the word of knowledge is no bad thing right? I cannot get enough knowledge and I know my favourite place to find it. (If that does not sound too pompous...........). Take care my friend............. __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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langyaw Guru Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Dubai, UAE Posts: 744 Good Answers: 58	#39 In reply to #7 Re: What's in a name ... 08/02/2009 6:57 AM
	or, as someone said here, "easily distracted" <LOL> __________________ Now the darkness only stays the night-time, in the morning it will fade away. -- George Harrison (All Things Must Pass)
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Jaxy Guru Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1149 Good Answers: 36	#9 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 4:03 PM
	Congrats! Hopefully I am not too far behind
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#36 In reply to #9 Re: What's in a name ... 08/01/2009 1:34 AM
	Hello Jaxy, I just Hi-5'd your hand, did you feel it?. Good thread this do you not think so? I cannot believe how many posts and emails I have answered in the last two days. Three times as many as the whole of last week! Take care my friend. __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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artsmith Guru Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 3523 Good Answers: 146	#10 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 5:24 PM
	we like to talk.. A LOT but you, DCaD, have 50 GA's out of 500... well spoken, then! cheers, artsmith __________________ incus opella
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user-deleted-1105 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 16512 Good Answers: 670	#11 In reply to #10 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 5:55 PM
	Yeah, but I recon he thinks before he types, that's gotta be cheating. Probably reads the posts too...no fair. Del __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
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artsmith Guru Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 3523 Good Answers: 146	#13 In reply to #11 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 7:16 PM
	yeh well, "talks a lot" is relative init. I've only been here six months and passed the 500 mark in spite of my full time ahem self-employment. DCad maybe was holding his breath for part of the time, and then only the good stuff got out... We can't all afford that luxury you know. okay, call me "socially needy" __________________ incus opella
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bob c Guru Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fort Lauderdale Florida Posts: 5708 Good Answers: 123	#41 In reply to #11 Re: What's in a name ... 08/03/2009 10:19 AM
	Thinking before opening my mouth. My mother used to warn me about that. I thought she was just kidding me. Congratulations to DCaD. __________________ Bob
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#29 In reply to #10 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 6:03 PM
	Hi artsmith, how you doing? Yes, a very good percentage of GA's! = Mine is heading for closer to a 1% score! __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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artsmith Guru Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 3523 Good Answers: 146	#31 In reply to #29 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 7:24 PM
	hey babybear, we're in the hot days of summer up here. nice to get a day to talk a LOT now and then. Don't disparage your 50 GA's just because you made more comments! Good job, I say... Cheers and beers artsmith __________________ incus opella
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#32 In reply to #31 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 8:36 PM
	Hello artsmith, Appreciate your kind remarks Art! I suppose another way of putting it is "I am halfway to the 'TON'? It has been so busy these last few days, but it usually slows at the weekend, so I can get some jobs done? Take care...........And thanks again! __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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Transcendian Guru Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Transcendia Posts: 2963 Good Answers: 93	#12 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 6:51 PM
	A Guru now I be. When once I wrote on walls. Now I protect the halls. Will anyone be helped, From what I have to say? As I have been,they will be. Veterans. __________________ You don't get wise because you got old, you get old because you were wise.
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gsuhas Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: 18 29 N 73 57E Posts: 1390 Good Answers: 31	#14 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 11:09 PM
	Welcome to club I am happy from my inner (soul and body) and dancing I agree with Rakesh, you are really a guru with great proportion of GAs
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yesyen Guru Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: India-Chennai. Posts: 722 Good Answers: 30	#17 In reply to #14 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 11:27 PM
	Congrats from a non-member of Guru club __________________ A picture worth thousand words: needless to say if it is animated.
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Anonymous Poster	#18 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 11:37 PM
	OK. So what's the answer?
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agua_doc Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Brecksville, OH Posts: 1621 Good Answers: 18	#19 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 11:51 PM
	Congrats. Indeed, with 50 GA's from 500 posts, there should be a special honor for that alone. __________________ "Consensus Science got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" : Rephrase of Will Rogers Comment
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Anonymous Poster	#20 Re: What's in a name ... 07/30/2009 11:58 PM
	Congrats! Suzhou is a nice place to live, once I had been to for one day trip. I have been with CR4 for long time now, but never tried to get good answer scores; though I know how to just get score. In India now most rich people are Film actors, Mafia dons, politicians (uneducated), land grabbers, so on but not Scientists, Engineers, Excellent Technicians; We exchange ideas helping each other and some one gives good answer score it gives immense pleasure that money can give. Recently one engineer from Srilanka thanked me for my help through CR4; I felt very happy; that money can not give.
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kvsubramanyam Guru Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hyderabad, India Posts: 596 Good Answers: 12	#21 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 12:02 AM
	Congrats! Suzhou is a nice place to live, once I had been to for one day trip. I have been with CR4 for long time now, but never tried to get good answer scores; though I know how to just get score. In India now most rich people are Film actors, Mafia dons, politicians (uneducated), land grabbers, so on but not Scientists, Engineers, Excellent Technicians; We exchange ideas helping each other and some one gives good answer score it gives immense pleasure that money can give. Recently one engineer from Srilanka thanked me for my help through CR4; I felt very happy; that money can not give. __________________ Subramanyam
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chrisg288 Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Clive, Alberta, Canada Posts: 5916 Good Answers: 204	#22 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 12:18 AM
	I enjoyed your poetry. I don't think Guru is a waste of time, but a defender of the faith. As the world slides into the television abyss of reality shows, the true of heart and sharp of mind stay the course. You are a bastion of critical thinking and wise leadership. If not, then who?
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user-deleted-1105 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 16512 Good Answers: 670	#23 In reply to #22 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 3:08 AM
	WHAT!!?? ...Oh Bastions... must read more carefully __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
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chrisg288 Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Clive, Alberta, Canada Posts: 5916 Good Answers: 204	#26 In reply to #23 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 8:36 AM
	you, yourself are a 'cornerstone'
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Andy Germany Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 50.390866N, 8.884827E Posts: 17996 Good Answers: 200	#24 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 7:08 AM
	Well done. __________________ "What others say about you reveals more about them, than it does you." Anon.
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double_j_b Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Broken Arrow, OK, USA Posts: 838 Good Answers: 26	#25 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 8:34 AM
	Pleased to have you join the Elite. Ok just kidding congrats and enjoy the Kudos it's not everyone that can get a 10% GA ratio. That's what happens I guess when you think before you speak. I REALLY Need to work on that! __________________ If necessity is the mother of invention then is laziness the mother of necessity?
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NiCrMoNoMore Power-User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 303 Good Answers: 5	#27 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 9:08 AM
	Congrats...my treat for the sandals and robe. __________________ "I had not anticipated that the work would present any great difficulites" SHACKLETON
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YesMAM Power-User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Land o' Lincoln Posts: 124 Good Answers: 7	#28 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 11:20 AM
	DCaD, Certainly congratulations are in order. As a relative newcomer to CR4 (aside from a couple of posts as a Guest before actually joining) I can appreciate the time and effort contributed from making so many posts. As was commented, this may mean you have too much time on your hands, have become a CR4 junky, or are truly a man of wisdom. And a hearty Good Job for the 50 GA's, which I think speaks more for your capabilities than the total number of posts. Five "gold stars" from me. __________________ If you can't do it right the first time ... do it wrong, then let the professionals fix it.
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#30 Re: What's in a name ... 07/31/2009 6:11 PM
	Hello DCaD, hope you are well? Congrats on your 'virtuoso' piece. I like some of the rhyming mixers. Well done. __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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DCaD Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbia City, Indiana, USA Posts: 836 Good Answers: 96	#34 Re: What's in a name ... 08/01/2009 12:28 AM
	To all who read, and to all those who responded, a word or two of clarification about my post: For me, titles are only words, because the true character of a person comes in their consistent actions, and not in what label may be applied. Be it Doctor, Sir, Vice President, Senator, Congressman, Chief Engineer, or Guru, since there is great evidence that many have who do not deserve, and many who deserve who will never be known, the issue of title, in my own mind, becomes one of responsibility rather than privilege. I have been called (and remain to be called) many things … some earned, some not, some deserved, some not, some flattering, many not. It is the same for our 'good answers'. Some are received but probably not deserved … many are deserved, but never received. But, at "the end of the day", all that matters to me is if I can rest at night hoping I did more things 'right' than 'wrong'. A great day is if someone's life is made better, and those come mostly in simple acts of which few will ever know. Do I enjoy the titles? Do I enjoy the 'good answers'? Certainly, because I, too, have an ego to be fed. But, my greatest titles are "dad" and "friend", and my best 'good answers', are a heart-felt 'thank you'. CR4 has become maybe not what it was originally intended, but, if not, it surely is more. We are a community, sharing ideas and knowledge, sharing facts and opinions, sharing questions and answers, and sharing humor and even frustrations. It's all good. So, from this Mister Vice President Guru Human Being Seeker Pilgrim, thank you, for the accolades and compliments, but mostly thank you for allowing me to be a part of this interesting community we share. Kindest regards … __________________ "Just when I had all the answers, they changed all the questions"
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#35 In reply to #34 Re: What's in a name ... 08/01/2009 1:29 AM
	Hello DCaD, Aaaarrrhhhh, .............. After reading your post #34 I have just put my 'hanky' in the wash. You write a good sentence and a great letter my friend! I doubt we or most of the wonderful people on CR4 will ever meet 'face to face', but I hope the people whom I call "friend" do not think it 'too forward'? DCaD, I am pleased and honoured to call you and others here my friend, thank you. Take care.......... bb __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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CJMcGill Guru Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SoCal USA Posts: 556 Good Answers: 23	#37 In reply to #34 Re: What's in a name ... 08/01/2009 2:04 AM
	DCaD, I think it's fitting for this vote to break through the fifty mark, enjoy, CJM. __________________ I do not 'know it all', but i will admit that I would like to. CJM
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rakesh_semwal Guru Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: India, 200 Km. North of Delhi. Posts: 1393 Good Answers: 53	#38 In reply to #34 Re: What's in a name ... 08/01/2009 5:01 AM
	Very well said. It is the same for our 'good answers'. Some are received but probably not deserved … many are deserved, but never received. Its exactly like getting wicket on a bad ball and being thrown out of boundary on a good ball. Only difference is, One is gentlemen forum other is a gentlemen game.
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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	#40 Re: What's in a name ... 08/02/2009 5:17 PM
	__________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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