Last word

Alan · Wed May 14, 2008 8:09 am *Last word*

Hi,

Are you a lastworder (a new creation of mine freshly minted this morning at 7.30 GMT)? By that I ask whether you always have to have the last word in every discussion/argument/debate or whether you say your piece, make a point and then let it lie there.

Alan

PS

Oh dear! There's me claiming I'd just created a new word and old Mother Google has just proved me wrong.
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Ralf · Wed May 14, 2008 9:30 am *Last word*

I used to be a bit of a lastworder, but participating in discussions on this forum has run rings around me. There are more adamant forces out there that keep coming back like rubber bras bouncing on big mamas stuck in full swing on trampolines.
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Molly · Wed May 14, 2008 9:49 am *Last word*

Molly · Wed May 14, 2008 9:52 am *Last word*

Alan · Wed May 14, 2008 10:25 am *Last word*

Come on Ralf! You're not going to let that go unremarked, are you?

Alan
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Molly · Wed May 14, 2008 11:34 am *Last word*

It would surprise me if he did. Laughing

Ralf · Wed May 14, 2008 16:17 pm *Last word*

Molly · Wed May 14, 2008 17:41 pm *Last word*

And then there are those people who kiss native a*s.

Ralf · Wed May 14, 2008 18:51 pm *Last word*

Jan · Wed May 14, 2008 19:01 pm *Last word*

I am fully recognized as the lastworder in very broad meaning of the word.

Jan

Pamela · Wed May 21, 2008 16:50 pm *Last word*

Hi,

Not every situation follows our certain scenario that makes it feasible for us to leave the last word. That is I am not a lastworder for political discussions.. But if a subject of a discourse answers my profound knowledge and competence I’d not be chicken and perform the role of the so-called lastworder with the greatest pleasure. Wink

Ralf · Tue May 27, 2008 0:36 am *Last word*

What would you say - could (roughly) 1161 posts of a member who's joined the forum on 12 February give any indication of said person's obsessive last-wordiness?
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Molly · Tue May 27, 2008 0:40 am *Last word*

NinaZara · Tue May 27, 2008 13:50 pm *Last word*

I don't always hit the ball it my court. Maybe sometimes.

stew.t. · Tue May 27, 2008 18:52 pm *Last word*

Hi Alan

I have been known to be "a lastworder" and dig my heels in.

Sometimes I walk away from an argument if I see it is becoming ridiculous or if I blow my fuse (the latter usually being with my girlfriend it seems).

But does the one who has the last word have the last laugh, or does it just mean they haven´t run out of gas yet?

cheers stew.t.

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