This is a nomenclature question...

**tvphotog** · 07-07-2008, 10:35 AM

Are "mupppets" Mach 3 users? I've seen the word used a couple of times in a sentence, and you know what your second grade English teacher said about that?

So now I'm working backwards and trying to deduce the meaning.

Thanks.

Best,

**Doc4** · 07-07-2008, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by tvphotog

Are "mupppets" Mach 3 users? I've seen the word used a couple of times in a sentence, and you know what your second grade English teacher said about that?

So now I'm working backwards and trying to deduce the meaning.

Thanks.

Best,

Well, there's the Muppet Show ...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_aG5MzPVM[/YOUTUBE]

as for the term morphing into meaning a Mach 3 user ... I've never come across that one ...

**soapbox** · 07-07-2008, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by tvphotog

Are "mupppets" Mach 3 users? I've seen the word used a couple of times in a sentence, and you know what your second grade English teacher said about that?

So now I'm working backwards and trying to deduce the meaning.

Thanks.

Best,

At least some of us have been granted, er, custom muppet avatars by the mods. Prior to this, some of us were "Golden Girls" and then "karate animated Golden Girls."

As for muppet as a derogatory term, an M3 hasn't touched my face or my scalp for months. I think burnwood still uses an M3, that wuss, but I don't call him a muppet (to his face anyway).

**IGNITERS** · 07-07-2008, 11:30 AM

dude please the prefered nomenclature is manually animated fictional character... ( John Goodmans voice)......"big lebowski" reference

**tvphotog** · 07-07-2008, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by 1969Fatboy

Burnwood, Is it that you dont like the DE's or you just prefer the M3 more? If so I have some M3 turbo blades collecting dust

As a fellow muppet I might let you have them...

Please forgive my ignorance and I mean no disrespect, but this was one of the quotes I was talking about. Perhaps it just refers to the avatars.

Best,

**Ltltony** · 07-07-2008, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by tvphotog

Perhaps it just refers to the avatars.

Best,

It was

**soapbox** · 07-07-2008, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by tvphotog

Please forgive my ignorance and I mean no disrespect, but this was one of the quotes I was talking about. Perhaps it just refers to the avatars.

Ah, yeah, definitely correct. Not a bad neologism for a mildly derogatory term for a cartridge user, though. Perhaps we'll give it a try!

**Doc4** · 07-07-2008, 05:24 PM

Task for the overly-eager ... I searched briefly and without success for the Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels clip/quote "I don't care who you use, as long as they're not complete muppets."

Anyone feeling industrious?

**soapbox** · 07-07-2008, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by Doc4

Task for the overly-eager ... I searched briefly and without success for the Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels clip/quote "I don't care who you use, as long as they're not complete muppets."

Anyone feeling industrious?

Oh sweet, good thinking! I couldn't find a clip though. Cue someone with Final Cut Express...

**Prince** · 07-07-2008, 06:25 PM

I've always been fond of Rowlf myself.

**DeaconKC** · 07-07-2008, 08:29 PM

I've had Kermit riding in my Jeeps for 25 years. And I'm still using a Quattro occasionally. Is that enough for 2 muppet referrals?

**FaceMan** · 07-08-2008, 02:39 AM

It may be different for you guys across the pond but here in the UK 'muppet' is slang for a fool, a chump or an idiot. Usuallly used jokingly.

**soapbox** · 07-08-2008, 06:18 AM

Originally Posted by FaceMan

It may be different for you guys across the pond but here in the UK 'muppet' is slang for a fool, a chump or an idiot. Usuallly used jokingly.

Huh, I never knew that. Well, it surely explains the line in "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" doesn't it? I think for "Yanks" (and "Johnny Rebs" too) "muppet" is fairly closely defined as "The Jim Henson Workshop's Marionette/Puppets" or something like that.

Thanks for chiming in.