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boydegg 
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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 Posted - 02/17/2007 : 20:01:04
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The mysterious MERPs.
Who are they? Do they know each other? How do they get appointed? Do they get to vote on their own reviews? So little is known!
Well, it stands to reason the MERPs are regular FWFRers. They are also probably long time members of the site, and therefore quite prominent on the top 100 ... people you often see submitting FWFRs, posting on the forums etc.
Yet they remain shrouded in mystery!
From time to time, a debate springs up about the MERPs. How does their process for accepting or declining reviews work etc ... and during those debates, most regular forum users chip in with their thoughts.
Now ... I'm thinking the MERPs themselves use such debates to help keep their identity secret. They bluff us. So a MERP (it could be Foxboy. It could be Bife. It could be Baftababe ... we just don't know)sees the thread, and adds a comment along the lines of "Gosh, yes I wonder how the MERPs decide what counts as too generic"
Well their little bluffs aren't fooling me. After careful observation of the forums over the last 12 months, I now have a complete list of every MERP. 
And before someone asks ... NO ... I'm not one of them.
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Boydegg 
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 20:20:43
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And how much to keep your mouth shut?
(Remember, I'm an ex-Chicagoan. And I had an uncle... County Coroner... during Capone's day... I've got connections. Serious connections... No kidding.)
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thefoxboy 
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 21:56:42
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rabid kazook 
"Pushing the antelope"
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 22:05:16
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Josh the cat
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 22:12:58
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Gosh, yes I wonder who the MERPs are?
Josh the non-merp cat. |
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redPen
"Because I said so!"
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 23:07:00
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I think boydegg is secretly Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
"I have this list of MERPs. I know their names. They have infiltrated us. No, I cannot release the names, but rest assured that I have the list."
Paranoid? Did you call me paranoid? . . . Why, what do you know????
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 23:35:05
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Originally posted by boydegg
The mysterious MERPs.
Who are they? Dunno. Do they know each other? Rumour has it that they do. But who believes rumours? How do they get appointed? Benj appoints them. Do they get to vote on their own reviews? I bloody well hope not, but no doubt thay can vote on anyone else's, including each other. So little is known!
Well, it stands to reason the MERPs are regular FWFRers. They are also probably long time members of the site, Yep and therefore quite prominent on the top 100 ... people you often see submitting FWFRs, posting on the forums etc I suppose.
Yet they remain shrouded in mystery!
From time to time, a debate springs up about the MERPs. How does their process for accepting or declining reviews work etc ... and during those debates, most regular forum users chip in with their thoughts. Well, I certainly do.
Now ... I'm thinking the MERPs themselves use such debates to help keep their identity secret. They bluff us. So a MERP (it could be Foxboy. Maybe It could be Bife Maybe. It could be Baftababe ... Let's keep it serious, Boydegg! we just don't know)sees the thread, and adds a comment along the lines of "Gosh, yes I wonder how the MERPs decide what counts as too generic"
Well their little bluffs aren't fooling me. After careful observation of the forums over the last 12 months, I now have a complete list of every MERP. PM it to me, I'd live to know!
And before someone asks ... NO ... I'm not one of them. No, they are people of the highest integrity, so that rules you and me out.
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Boydegg
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duh 
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 00:55:51
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I know Sean is an ex-MERP because he announced here when he quit MERPing. There are a couple that are pretty obvious, to the astute observer.
I enjoy the mystery surrounding the MERPs.
Too bad we don't see much of Noncentz anymore...it was fun to try to figure out who he was, although I don't think he was a MERP. I have this really great screenplay that I wrote and I just KNOW that Noncentz would just love it and would help me find a producer...NAAAAAHH, just playin' with ya! |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 06:13:59
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
And how much to keep your mouth shut?
(Remember, I'm an ex-Chicagoan. And I had an uncle... County Coroner... during Capone's day... I've got connections. Serious connections... No kidding.)
I hope no one thought I was really threatening boydegg with this post. I wasn't, really I wasn't.
(But it is true that my uncle was the County Coroner during Capone's time and he really did have LOTS of connections.)
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 06:39:30
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
And how much to keep your mouth shut?
(Remember, I'm an ex-Chicagoan. And I had an uncle... County Coroner... during Capone's day... I've got connections. Serious connections... No kidding.)
I hope no one thought I was really threatening boydegg with this post. I wasn't, really I wasn't.
(But it is true that my uncle was the County Coroner during Capone's time and he really did have LOTS of connections.)
I envisioned Chocky arriving at boydegg's door, all the way from Israel, set to bust his kneecaps.  |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 07:01:38
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Originally posted by duh
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
And how much to keep your mouth shut?
(Remember, I'm an ex-Chicagoan. And I had an uncle... County Coroner... during Capone's day... I've got connections. Serious connections... No kidding.)
I hope no one thought I was really threatening boydegg with this post. I wasn't, really I wasn't.
(But it is true that my uncle was the County Coroner during Capone's time and he really did have LOTS of connections.)
I envisioned Chocky arriving at boydegg's door, all the way from Israel, set to bust his kneecaps.
Darling, that's just silly.
(I said I have connections. They can do that for me. [insert smug smilie here])
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 08:44:33
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S/he who is the most voluble
Ain't necessarily the most soluble
S/he who shouts the loudest
Ain't always the proudest
S/he who makes lotsa fuss
Don't mean a MERP's among us
PS
boydegg darling, don't you have some ironing to do or something?
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 15:39:41
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| There was a time when the fourum was broken and a MERP category exposed to us mere mortals - but I won't tell - and I'm from Chicago too and went to Catholic school so my connections can handle Chocky's connections!! |
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chazbo 
"Outta This Fuckin' Place"
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 18:29:22
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I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of the MERP party.
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 18:37:09
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Originally posted by turrell
There was a time when the fourum was broken and a MERP category exposed to us mere mortals - but I won't tell - and I'm from Chicago too and went to Catholic school so my connections can handle Chocky's connections!!
If there's a MERP fourum, then they must know each other, even if all they do is post questions to benj. I too would rather not know who the MERPs are. |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 02/18/2007 : 19:24:57
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Originally posted by Randall
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Originally posted by turrell
There was a time when the fourum was broken and a MERP category exposed to us mere mortals - but I won't tell - and I'm from Chicago too and went to Catholic school so my connections can handle Chocky's connections!!
If there's a MERP fourum, then they must know each other, even if all they do is post questions to benj. I too would rather not know who the MERPs are.
What does a MERP look like? |
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MERPs among us ...
