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What exactly is Zot?

Posted on 11/27/2005 8:57:27 AM PST by SDGOP

What exactly is it when people or mods say zot on some of these threads? I've been noticing it lately but never really figured out what it was for?

Thanks..


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To: Paul_Denton

Good afternoon!
Long time no see!
Ms.B


141 posted on 11/27/2005 10:32:54 AM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history.)
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To: SDGOP
One ZOT can ruin your whole day:

I hate it when that happens

142 posted on 11/27/2005 10:33:33 AM PST by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

Good afternoon :) Yeah was not feeling well. But I am well enough to post now :) How are you?


143 posted on 11/27/2005 10:35:41 AM PST by Paul_Denton (The U.S. should adopt the policy of Oom Shmoom: Israeli policy where no one gives a sh*t about U.N.)
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To: Paul_Denton

I haven't been feelin' all that great myself..
But better today!
Good day for Freepin'!
Ms.B


144 posted on 11/27/2005 10:38:34 AM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history.)
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To: Danae
Don't you just wish this site allowed sound links??? LOL Maybe not.... lol

Embedded sound was permitted waaaaaaaay back in "the good old days".
My favorite was the circus music that accompanied one of our very first HTML for noobies threads.
Of course, that was also back in the days when the posting software didn't check for errant font tags (intentional or otherwise). So we spent a lot of time trying to close tags on the threads and getting the font back to something looking halfway normal and readable, while trolls and disruptors would trash other threads with their html bombs.

((((sigh))) Yes, it would be nice to have sound again.
Unfortunately, there is a downside to it as well.

145 posted on 11/27/2005 10:40:03 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever
zot, your feedback has been requested.

Heh! Zot is the sound that lightning makes in the BC comic strip. I first read it in 1962. Then, for many years as our boys were growing up, Zot was the name of my character in Dungeons & Dragons games (Zot was a lawful-good magic user). When I signed up for FR several years ago, it hadn't been taken, so I entered it as my nicname here. Later, ZOT took on its special meaning in FR as the lightning-bolt by which the moderators dispatch trolls and disruptors.

146 posted on 11/27/2005 10:46:23 AM PST by zot (GWB -- four more years!)
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To: Willie Green
So we spent a lot of time trying to close tags on the threads and getting the font back to something looking halfway normal and readable, while trolls and disruptors would trash other threads with their html bombs.

Entire pages blinking and scrolling.
Good times.
Really.
147 posted on 11/27/2005 10:48:18 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

Yeah same for me lol. I agree :)


148 posted on 11/27/2005 10:52:55 AM PST by Paul_Denton (The U.S. should adopt the policy of Oom Shmoom: Israeli policy where no one gives a sh*t about U.N.)
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To: MaryFromMichigan
It was all the fault of those pesky italians.
149 posted on 11/27/2005 10:54:19 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: zot; ARealMothersSonForever
Hehe in the novel I am writing, Zulu Oscar Tango is a nuclear weapon arming code.
150 posted on 11/27/2005 10:54:26 AM PST by Paul_Denton (The U.S. should adopt the policy of Oom Shmoom: Israeli policy where no one gives a sh*t about U.N.)
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To: Willie Green

YES!!!! LOL!!!


151 posted on 11/27/2005 10:55:12 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: No Blue States

How do old timers get reinstated?


152 posted on 11/27/2005 11:06:08 AM PST by babydoll22 (If you stop growing as a person you live in your own private hell.)
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To: SDGOP

It's when a poster is banned after posting a thread asking questions...


153 posted on 11/27/2005 11:11:21 AM PST by streetpreacher (If at the end of the day, 100% of both sides are not angry with me, I've failed.)
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To: babydoll22
How do old timers get reinstated?

I do it.
The first step involves sending me $1,000.
154 posted on 11/27/2005 11:13:40 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan (Spell check is my freind :)
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To: babydoll22

"How do old timers get reinstated?"

Im not sure having never tried it.
My guess would be they have to crawl over broken glass and beg the mods to trust them to not lose their kewl again.

Usually old timers leaving involves an Opus.

The smart FReepers simply take a long break when they have had enough, and then they come back when they are mentally rested.


155 posted on 11/27/2005 11:15:16 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: MaryFromMichigan

lol

Paypal only?


156 posted on 11/27/2005 11:16:09 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: No Blue States
Paypal only?

Of course.
157 posted on 11/27/2005 11:18:47 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan (Spell check is my freind :)
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To: SDGOP
Huh...???

158 posted on 11/27/2005 11:48:47 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: All
Bumping for the " ZOT " of it!
159 posted on 11/27/2005 12:07:43 PM PST by tiredoflaundry (The right wants victory, the left wants surrender. It's that simple.)
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To: MaryFromMichigan

Dang, I just got an E-Mail saying my Pay-Pal account had been suspended. I'm getting ready to link to their site and reactivate it.


160 posted on 11/27/2005 12:12:58 PM PST by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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