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Bruce R Leech
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Posts: 6796
Registered: 9-20-2004
Location: Ensenada formerly Mulege
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Mood: A lot cooler than Mulege
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20 things you should know or do before posting on Baja Nomad
1...Make sure you no the facts about your subject be for you post.
2... use spell check
you other Nomads fill in the rest.
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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Frigatebird
Nomad
Posts: 215
Registered: 9-12-2004
Location: L.A. County
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Mood: Soaring
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3. Register Mr./Mrs./Ms Anonymous
Avatar courtesy of Herb 
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surfer jim
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Posts: 1891
Registered: 8-29-2003
Location: high desert
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4. have a stiff drink (or a big smoke) before posting or reading replies...will ease your nerves...
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Hook
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Posts: 9011
Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
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Mood: Inquisitive
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-Expect to wade through 20 posts
that are only marginally about Baja.
-Expect to be deemed a P-nche cabron, responsible for every malady on the peninsula, if you admit to being Canadian.
-Expect to have someone redirect you to a spell checker for a typo you made.
-Expect David K to plug his website even if you are asking where the best paletas in San Quintin are? (of course, it will be the best damn guide info
and pics you could find anywhere.....it really will be!)
-Expect to search long and hard for better info on any other Baja site.
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MrBillM
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 21656
Registered: 8-20-2003
Location: Out and About
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Mood: It's a Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Day
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No the facts ?
Would that be as opposed to "yes" the facts ?
I guess that No. 2 (spell check) wouldn't have
helped.
Just kidding.
[Edited on 1-22-2005 by MrBillM]
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Mike Humfreville
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Posts: 1148
Registered: 8-26-2003
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Baja Spellchecker
Accept the fact that we're all unique but fit as contributors and join in with enthusiasm. We can each post in our own style and add to the warmth we
have for this board.
And---Baja Spellchecker: stuff it with your superior attitude. Retire yourself Amigo, only from this self imposed obnoxious obligation to tell others
when they're incorrect.
I know your direction is well intentioned, but some of the best stuff we read here isn't focused on spelling. Spelling is a thing we learn in grade
school. But it doesn't matter when someone is not a spellmaster and has a valid point.
The personal feelings, the integrations, the merging and interactions and loves; they don't need to be spelled correctly. They just need to be
expressed.
Have you ever considered that your need for conciseness (perhaps a need to attempt superiority???) that may have stifled others writing that we may
have appreciated reading? There is no reason here to demonstrate superiority. We all just love Baja.
rite on an engourge baad speeling.
Pque it out.
I would encourage us to just write with our hearts and if we don't know the exact alphabetical arrangement of every letter in a word, just put your
heart there, think what your really mean, what your issue is, where your hurt is, write like you feel; screw the spelling. Well figure it out, close
or afar, that everything in your words is meaningful, what's to care for.
While I appreciate where you are coming from and run my own longer posts through a checking mechanism because I want to be read, I frequently read
unedited posts with many misspelled words, read the reasons for the issues, and find greater meanings because of the causes of the misspellings. The
issue has the import. Who cares otherwise?
Perhaps because you criticize spelling you stifle creativity?
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BajaVida
Senior Nomad
Posts: 541
Registered: 9-1-2003
Location: Motown, Califas
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Mood: muy cool
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expect to be attacked
by someone who has too much time on his/her hands who knows it all and just wants to pick a fight
read complaints about David K from many who wish they had 10% of David's knowledge
No se apure y dure.
Don\'t hurry and you\'ll last longer.
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Skeet/Loreto
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Posts: 4709
Registered: 9-2-2003
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Expect to read Scriptures and Christain Sayings from That ole Fart Skeet/Loreto.
No Quotes
Skeet/Loreto
"Fight or be Defeated"
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Mexitron
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3397
Registered: 9-21-2003
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Mood: Happy!
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Expect to meet some great people, broaden your horizons, but don't ever ask about the Seven Sisters!
That was classic Skeet--good one!
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yankeeirishman
Banned
Posts: 1070
Registered: 3-5-2004
Location: Kalifornia
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Yule kan sea
3. Yule kan sea I kan spill excellent, but do use spill checker.
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David K
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Posts: 65197
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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'Baja Spell Checker'
Is often more than one person, but the person I know who takes that job does it ONLY for Baja place names (not English words) and to educate about
Baja California. Never to put down anyone.
For example, on Fred's board San Jose del Cabo was called San Juan del Cabo by someone... and Baja Spell Checker just reminded or educated the person
the correct name.
Usually it is for the most misspelled places in Baja, like Los Barriles, Guerrero Negro, Alfonsina's and Puertecitos! Afterall don't we often come to
the Internet to learn things?
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Tio Rocky
Nomad
Posts: 176
Registered: 6-30-2004
Location: La Paz
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Ready
Have the Cerveza, Tequila, Lime and Salt opened, cut and ready and located just above your mouse pad for easy access??.. 
Tio
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Paulina
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3810
Registered: 8-31-2002
Location: BCN
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Spell Check
I feel that using Spell Check would greatly lessen the entertainment value we get from reading this board. It is because of this board that we've
developed our own version of Phonetic Scrabble, a fun game played by all ages. We have a list at work on our "Wall of Shame" of high scoring words. We
also find it amusing to try to form sentences from words used on any particular game board. For example:
" Allmost allways durring the holliday I like to take my familly out at knight on my Bosten Whaler hunting for goast shrimp. We can spend houres on
the water as long as I have beers to through down. Allso I make sure to keep an eye out for hurricans comeing on Wensdays and Saterdays. I have to
make shure to watch the bottem comeing in so I don't heavilly hurt the moter."
See, it's fun and easy and couldn't be done without this board, or with the use of Spell check.
Please don't take offense, this post is made in good humor. Borrowing this phrase from another poster, my tung is firmly planted in the side of my
cheak.
<*)))><
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Bruce R Leech
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6796
Registered: 9-20-2004
Location: Ensenada formerly Mulege
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Mood: A lot cooler than Mulege
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you should try to market that game
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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aha baja
Nomad
Posts: 221
Registered: 1-19-2005
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Mood: wherever you go, there you are...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mike Humfreville
Accept the fact that we're all unique but fit as contributors and join in with enthusiasm. We can each post in our own style and add to the warmth we
have for this board.
And---Baja Spellchecker: stuff it with your superior attitude. Retire yourself Amigo, only from this self imposed obnoxious obligation to tell others
when they're incorrect.
I know your direction is well intentioned, but some of the best stuff we read here isn't focused on spelling. Spelling is a thing we learn in grade
school. But it doesn't matter when someone is not a spellmaster and has a valid point.
The personal feelings, the integrations, the merging and interactions and loves; they don't need to be spelled correctly. They just need to be
expressed.
Have you ever considered that your need for conciseness (perhaps a need to attempt superiority???) that may have stifled others writing that we may
have appreciated reading? There is no reason here to demonstrate superiority. We all just love Baja.
rite on an engourge baad speeling.
Pque it out.
I would encourage us to just write with our hearts and if we don't know the exact alphabetical arrangement of every letter in a word, just put your
heart there, think what your really mean, what your issue is, where your hurt is, write like you feel; screw the spelling. Well figure it out, close
or afar, that everything in your words is meaningful, what's to care for.
While I appreciate where you are coming from and run my own longer posts through a checking mechanism because I want to be read, I frequently read
unedited posts with many misspelled words, read the reasons for the issues, and find greater meanings because of the causes of the misspellings. The
issue has the import. Who cares otherwise?
Perhaps because you criticize spelling you stifle creativity?
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bajalera
Super Nomad
Posts: 1875
Registered: 10-15-2003
Location: Santa Maria CA
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I agree with Mike H.--when it comes to posting on this board,spelling really isn't important, and worrying about it serves only to put a damper on
enthusiasm and creativity. The standards commonly applied to printed material (which have kept me employed as an editor for more years than I care to
count) don't have any relevance in the casual exchange of ideas, opinions and whatever that makes this board interesting to bajaficionados.
Shove the Spel-Czech!
Lera
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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Me No
Banned
Posts: 444
Registered: 11-24-2003
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaVida
read complaints about David K from many who wish they had 10% of David's knowledge
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Ahhhhhhhaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!! You phunny Listen to the radio show he was on. You
tell me.
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jrbaja
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Posts: 4863
Registered: 2-2-2003
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Thats funny Me No
but probably pretty accurate for the folks on here.
I think theres only 3 or 4 on here who have actually spent any time in Baja. The rest are just pretending.
Unfortunate for them but not for us eh?
When are you coming down again?
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bajaandy
Senior Nomad
Posts: 769
Registered: 2-7-2004
Location: North County
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Expect to meet some great people, broaden your horizons, but don't ever ask about the Seven Sisters!
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That was classic Mexitron! Better yet, don't ever TELL about the seven sisters, or you might get into trouble with the Sacred Society of the Secret
Spots.
Oh, and about this whole "before you post" thing; there's nothing to do before you post.... JUST POST.
subvert the dominant paradigm
"If you travel with a man, you must either fall out with him or make him your good friend."
JBL Noel
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Me No
Banned
Posts: 444
Registered: 11-24-2003
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JR, I made a 1 day trip last weekend to check on a mountain top I am buying. I can't decide weather to build a nice 20 unit development out of
concret, with satalite TV. Or, an artist colony made out of Bamboo, that relys on solar and wind power for the creature comforts.
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