Grexists.

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Sounds like someone who discriminates againts grexers based upon their level of
grexosity.

I kind of like "Grexians".  It sounds like a video game.

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Grexons...  Grexsters...  Grexels...  Grexots...  I like Grexels.  Kind 
of an analogue of pixels.  We're each part of the whole picture.  Even 
Jamie, though he's a bit off-color...  

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Spaking of which, where's mnet this morning?  Is somebody backing up 
all the copy and paste crap (seems kinda pointless), or did the 
Einsteins let it crash again?

It was up a few minutes ago.

I like grexers, but then I'm something of a conservative.

Re #4: I think he feels he's correct, and it's all the pixels around 
him that are off.

Narcissus seeing his reflection in his computer screen.  Yup.

I've forgotten all the Latin I once learned, but there is probably some 
correct Latin way to construct the word for Grexers, Grex being a Latin 
word.

Hmm.  I guess my four years of Latin was too long ago.  The x ending is a 
special case, but I can't remember what the other associated endings are.

What is the Latin word for "royal"?

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Rex.  Grex, gregus?  Would we be Gregi?

Or Grex, greius --> Greii

It's been too long.

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That would be a highly atypical form.

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lol.

resp:2  grexian is my Yahoo user id.  I think it was created 2 years 
ago or so.

19: that's fuckin' hilarious!  :)

Re #19: Given A Flock of Seagulls, I would refer to their music as 'sucky'.

#23 is ironic, given the poster's handle.

Actually, I usually refer to their music as "sounding a bit like U2, but
without the talent."

they kick ass, and so does their hair.

(1) AFOS sounds nothing like U2.
(2) I've never been terribly impressed with U2's talent since they decided
they had some and got pretentious. I still think War is one of their best
albums. Most everything after and including "Pride (in the name of love)" has
sounded oh-so-artiste-tic.

That's they're style, brighn, not pretention. :)  It works rather well.

  Why don't you carry the U2 discussion over into the music conference,
  where I'm sure you'll find several people (at least) willing to offer
  opinions..

resp:27  I will agree.  I enjoyed War.

resp:29  Agreed, there, too.  The music cf has grown stagnant.

Re #27: I definately agree with you about U2.  They got too polished and
pop-y and full of themselves, IMHO.

        Oh no not U2

#28> U2 was a protest rock group from the early 80s. That was their style.
Then they got rich, and screw everyone else. Bono still remembers those days,
because he does still care about war issues, but he's chosen to stop singing
about it.
 
Then again, it's a hard line. Tracey Chapman got rich and still sung about
being poor, and got blasted by the one review I read of her latest for it.
If you get famous and still pretend to sing for the common man, you get
accused of being fake. If you get famous and stop singing for the common man,
you get accused of being pretentious. =} Ah, entertainer catch-22s.
 
None of which addresses the real issue, which is whether AFOS sucks. AFOS was
the ultimate New Wave group, so if you think AFOS sucks, you probably think
New Wave sucks, just like if you think Abba sucks, you probably think disco
sucks (unless you're a disco purist and think Abba sucks because they
overcommercialized it... just like a New Wave purist might insist the "real
New Wave" is Roxy Music and Ultravox).
 
Compared to Roxy Music and Ultravox, AFOS definitely lacked talent, but they
were great entertainers, the N*Sync of their time.

N*Sync, in contrast, sucks.

And the guy had a wicked cool hair cut!

I thought The Human League was the ultimate New Wave band.

Depends on how you define 'ultimate'.  There were a lot of new-wave
bands more popular than AFOS, weren't there?

The only AFOS album I have is their first one, and in my opinion it's
very forgettable.  Was their other stuff better?

You know, you're arguing about the difference between music that sucks 
and music that *really* sucks.

The nominative plural of "grex" is "greges," pronounced GREG-ess.  A 
single member of a herd would be something like "caput gregalis" (KAH-
put greg-AH-liss) or "homo gregalis."  To a Roman, though, that 
would've implied "one of the herd" -- i.e., a commoner.  A more neutral 
Latin word for grexers would be "gregales" (greg-AH-less) which is 
from "grex" and means "colleagues" or "associates."  It's a plural noun 
that has no singular form, as far as I know, but if you say "gregalis" 
for a single Grexer I won't tell on you.

y0u stil have your books?  -wow- (i do too but that's another story)

Just my old Cassell's Latin-English/English-Latin, plus Catullus, 
Tibullus, Horace and the Goliards.  I wish I had a grammar book, 
though.  I don't know for sure if it's "caput gregalis" or "caput 
gregale."  ("Homo gregalis" is right, though.)  No matter.

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