How many 11-pointers do you have?

You're in good company. I'm a newbie too. And I've been having a good time, though not sleeping (or doing my dishes) as much as I should.

ez

Hunh. That's weird. Could be a secret admirer. Check out their personal information on their account. You can click on their name and see what state they are from. You can also check the membership map. Maybe they are a friend of a friend, or something. Or, maybe a secret celebrity radio/tv producer who heard about how wonderful you are and wanted to check you out. ... I prefer that fantasy to the one involving a stalker. Good luck!

p.s. I once didn't know what "11-pointer" meant either. I asked around, even googled it. I thought maybe it was a term used by self-help book authors or psychologists or something like that. Heh. Turned out I was wrong, but maybe I may just start implementing it in my everyday speech. Perhaps we could get it introduced as a new word by the Modern Language Association (or whoever it is that approves new lingo), like truthiness and my latest favorite, crotch-fruit (meaning: children of large families. An English professor friend of mine introduced me to that one. I always imagine a cluster of grapes ... but I have no idea whether he just made this one up himself.)

ez

Are you for real? Never heard of it...that's funny, and disgusting. Okay, now I have to start using it in random conversation and throw folks off...It'll be funny to see expressions following that!
BTW, I din't know what 11pointers were either. Shoot, I admit I only recently learned what wtf, btw, and a few other email phases were:-

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."
---Maya Angelou

Yeah, I'll admit it. I'm not a text messenger. Do it if I have to, but otherwise, it just seems silly. I'm a fast talker and a VERY fast typist. Maybe I'll change my mind someday. But anyway... I still don't know what a lot of those text-speak acronyms mean. There is one I just read and blushed because I still can't figure it out (they are like word-puzzles for the uninitiated). OK, what the heck does ROLF mean? I figured out BTW out of the context, but still don't know how to punctuate around it. This all makes me feel so old. I'm a tween, between Gen Y and X, and sometimes I feel older than I am (like in these instances) and at other times I relate to a completely younger crowd. Ugh.

I really want to be forwarded to the appropriate source so I could figure out what these short (handy?) phrases mean.

ez

Hey Elizabeth! Crotch fruit. That's...evocative. But oddly, not so provocative.

Here's a site with Text Messaging shorthand that's pretty helpful:
http://familyinternet.about.com/od/sharingonline/a/acronyms.htm

ROFL = Rolling On the Floor Laughing. There's also:
ROTFLMAO - Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off

Some people use the "T," some don't. I actually never use them. I just type Ha!

I never text messaged until I..uh...well, I dated a 26 year-old guy recently. There. I said it.

The texting was fun. As was some other stuff.

I'm oversharing now.

I have 4 11-pointers, I think.
Courtenay

hahahahhahahahahah

My entry at Public Radio Quest:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/7572

My College Radio Myspace (feel free to friend me!):
http://www.myspace.com/girlsongprimerradio

It used to be that a good ROLF was the sound of one's stomache relieving itself via one's mouth... It was also the name of the dog piano player on the Muppet Show (I think). These young people today subverting the good old fashioned, classic onomatopoeias (and Muppet dog names).

I was going to add my two bits about the whole 11-pointer issue, but I think it's been pretty well hashed over. I have no 11-ers, but I know of one person for sure who voted, but did not leave a comment (10-pointer). Maybe that could be the new hot topic to rake over the coals. How many people voted for you and didn't leave a comment? Since this is something that we are likeley to know even less about it should make for good discussion, with both sides raging that they have the answer!

I can't stop laughing 'bout that Muppet Show shout out. Yeah, his name was kind of like the sound a dog makes. I aslo know rolphing as that new agey full body treatment, but it's probably spelled way differently. Lot's of tweeners here, I see. ('Tween the generations marked X and Y.) I always thought it unfair that we got abandoned by the media that way.
TAB

Yeah, totally ignored. Not quite a slacker, not quite a "why." Apparently the mid-70s represented a significant dip in birth-rates. My mom tells me she used to get chewed out at the grocery store for toting her two kids who were "sucking up everyone's air." Something to do with the environmental movement, fears about overpopulation and perhaps the lull before the storm, when the babyboomers started breeding. Always sucked in school, too. Public schools are funded by attendence, and I never had the cool electives the kids in the grades just above and just below me. What, photography? In high school. ... We were sharing books and brown bagging it, all the way.

ez

I never really thought about that. Excellent idea for a story! You're right about sharing books. There was even one year when our annual musical production was cancelled for lack of actors and I assume, funding. Not that I'm complaining. I think it made us tough. Like you, going to the radio station and pitching your own position. That rules!
Theresa

Heh, thanks. I just learned to ask for what I want. And this is a small enough town that they went for it. As for a story about the tweens, perhaps NPR is going to do that tomorrow. Today on Morning Edition, a guest reported on living without TV for a week and watching all his programs over the internet. Since I posted that on one of Q's polls as one of my "guilty secrets," I entirely expect there to be a new story about our Tween discussion on NPR. Or maybe your newly coined acronym, DIO, (Do It Ourselves, for those not yet in the know). I love this new idea even better than DIY, and I am a big fan of that movement. I think I might even like it better than watching free tv shows on-line. So, everyone spread the word. DIO culture is the next big thing!

ez

Steve

I’ve come to see that the ultimate source of all human anguish is that we are finite beings sentient of infinity.

Ha! I, too, just dated a 26-year-old guy, too. Funny. Why should we be embarassed? Any guy my age (31) would think dating a 26 year old is normal. But, the young beau didn't have his texting skills down. So, I never learned.

Thanks for forwarding the shorthand web-page!

ez

ps: I just googled crotchfruit. And, apparently it is not hyphenated, nor written as two words. And, I guess my friend wasn't making this up after all.

31? Dude. I'm so totally older than you.

Anyhoo, can't tell you how much I appreciate the clarification on the proper spelling and punctuation of "crotchfruit." (Known as Fruit de le Paquet en Francais.) Would hate to use it for months only to read in William Safire's column that I'd been misspelling it the whole time. Hello? Lifesaver!

Courtenay

... i dated a 30 year old and a 45+ year old. Ok, so that last one was a little bit older than I am used to, but not really too much. It becomes a lot more relative over time. I am all for women with younger partners. Except when i was in college I dated an 18 year old, and that I just couldn't handle, even though it was only like 3 years' difference.

Elizabeth

My entry at Public Radio Quest:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/7572

My College Radio Myspace (feel free to friend me!):
http://www.myspace.com/girlsongprimerradio

Bwaaahaaaahaaa! *gasps for breath* Bwaahaahaa!

Heh, well you never know ...
ez

Since we were so close to approaching that topic. : )

http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1153

HA!
Ok, so you just put this image in my mind involving a speculum, ... And I will stop there, because it is really not appropriate.

ez

coming from someone with 20 11 pointers!!

Who cares? What's the difference, if the judges, who are picking 90% of the finalists, are only listening to the audio and are not factoring in comments? (That's what the rules say, BTW.)

And even if I have 20 loyal friends - and you have 2 or 200 - what's the difference if thousands of people are voting on the 10 finalists?

Moreover - if PRX were concerned about creating a completely level playing field, they wouldn't have allowed people to drive thousands of voters here via banners on personal websites or podcasts.

This whole thread is much ado about nada. Worry about your audio product - the voting will take care of itself!

Rich Meitin
www.richmeitin.com
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1038
Please stop by!

That is a really valid point, and one I share (read to the end of the thread). I started this topic because I was reading A LOT of chatter in the forum debating the merits (or "evils") of 11-pointers leaving comments. I thought it was an interesting debate that was worthy of its own space. So I asked. (How hosty is that?) It is really fascinating to me how worked up some are about the 11-pointers, and I think it reveals different attitudes about the Quest. There are those focused on winning (goal oriented) and those focused on networking (process oriented), and of course a smattering of many who toggle between those two perspectives. Anyway, thanks for lending your voice to the debate. All comments are welcome here.

ez

Steve

It falls to the enlightened, and the intelligent and the sane to take responsibility for the deluded or doltish or insane.