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The comma is wrong. Some possible alternatives:
Welcome to Hatrack. You are wrong. Welcome to Hatrack! You are wrong. Welcome to Hatrack; you are wrong. Welcome to Hatrack--you are wrong.
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But people are really friendly, so the welcome gets the exclamation. The fact that they are wrong is merely a fact, thus the period. It's the whole point of the motto...we are friendly and disagree with you.
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Well, for starters, you just used it in an area where there explicitly wasn't a single correct answer, and my instinctive response was not "what a fun way to signal polite disagreement!" it was "Man, this guy goes around announcing his opinions as facts," and it was pretty annoying. ("Welcome to Hatrack..." is annoying in general when I've been here for four years, unless being used in a particularly ironic or funny way.
In general, though, the statement feels confrontational in a way that I don't really want on this forum. There ARE other forums I hang out on where people rib each other more often and I enjoy them, but I like being able to come here for polite conversation. (I know that's been less of a thing hatrack is known for lately, but I still pretend).
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Yeah, I've never been a huge fan, either. For one thing, it's been blatantly stolen from Ornery, where it's also more likely to be true.
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quote:Originally posted by Raymond Arnold: ("Welcome to Hatrack..." is annoying in general when I've been here for four years, unless being used in a particularly ironic or funny way.
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Yeah, I've never been a huge fan, either. For one thing, it's been blatantly stolen from Ornery, where it's also more likely to be true.
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Well, I signed up on ornery, but apparently they need to approve me...so after that happens, I'll ask them if that is their saying.
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quote:Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_: Well, I signed up on ornery, but apparently they need to approve me...so after that happens, I'll ask them if that is their saying.
Here is the earliest one I could find there, but even that one references an earlier one.
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Since trying to Officially Slogan it would be one of the fastest ways to make people tired of it, I'm all for it.
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Sadly I always manage to be wrong here, though most people are fairly nice about it, seems apt to me.
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Phrase or no, I'm happy to see that Hatrack has maintained the delightful taupe/gray scheme. It's so easy on the eyes.
I don't know why other forums think that White text/all black background makes them so awesome and tough. I just go half blind and when I look away, I see Darth Vader everywhere.
Teh interwebz, making people act superior since 1970.
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