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The Chatterbox is an amazing incubator of creative thought, randomness, and intelligent ideas for readers of Cricket, their friends, cousins, and siblings. It's a place to RP, state "What are You Wearing?", and profess your nerdiness/Nerdfighteriness (not a word...yet--DFTBA!) to those of equal nerdiness/Nerdfigheriness. A place to fangirl/boy (is there a gender-neutral verb? Please inform me), write, and create. A place in which many have found a safe place to talk about their problems.
So let's make a dictionary with all of the terminology that has come out of it!
It's amazing how many unique terms people have coined out of the Chatterbox (Actually, many things spring out of MuseBlog, but they have become a part of the ChatterBox nonetheless), probably because of the minor amounts of intervention and heaping servings of encouragement from Admins (A free market forum!) and the brilliant ideas of users. Some notable examples: Pie Wars, Middle Pages, "What Are You Wearing?" thread, Silly Stupid Smiley Story, DTRA, TCCP, Spammy, Debate Era, TOP/Gloop/Poke, the Author Pairs, SI, Lemming War, Warriors RP Era, Smiley Buddies, the world domination through jellybean thread, Random Thread, Add-On...the list goes on and on.
So why go through with this project? One, it will be an amazing testament to the Chatterbox. Two, new users could use it to decipher much of the randomness that floats around threads. And three, perhaps, with lots of help from users old and new, we could finish it in time for the anniversary of the first posts on the Chatterbox (June 18th, 2008)!
My idea: We all post our terms (they can be inside jokes, names of famous threads, popular books or topics amongst Chatterbox users, or simply legendary CB terminology--anything that pertains to the Chatterbox in some way) with definitions to this page. Then, we alphabetize them and post them, in alphabetical order, on another thread for the public to see after editing and whatnot.
Who's in? I am!
How about fan/person?
Admin
submitted by WritingWarrior
(April 13, 2013 - 9:50 am)
(April 13, 2013 - 9:50 am)
I am in! I am very much in! Although you kind of took all of my ideas. Huh. I'll think.
--L
(April 14, 2013 - 8:01 pm)
I just listed stuff off the top of my head. :) :) But yes, list!
Hink Pinks. That's another term. Not Chatterbox-originated, but Chatterbox-associated.
(April 15, 2013 - 6:15 am)
Fan-personing is great, Admin! Thank you! :)
(April 15, 2013 - 6:15 am)
I'll try!
(April 15, 2013 - 4:41 pm)
This sounds cool. I'm in! :)
(April 16, 2013 - 6:28 am)
Cool! I'll try!
(April 16, 2013 - 5:39 pm)
Well, Both of these aren't necessarily Chatterbox specific things, but they do get mentioned a lot, so, here goes!
NaNoWriMo- National Novel Writing Month- tons of CBers do it
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Museblog. Also get mentioned a lot...
Chergloofigan says mdvh. Maryland vehicle haters.
(April 16, 2013 - 8:33 pm)
Box of cookies:
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(April 18, 2013 - 4:26 pm)
Top and Poke. Should there be a link to my thing?
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/112106
(April 19, 2013 - 9:20 am)
I read your thing, MTLB. Thank you for the contribution!
(April 19, 2013 - 7:59 pm)
Poisoned cupcakes......... sort of.
(April 21, 2013 - 6:24 pm)
Huh? Do explain.
(April 23, 2013 - 7:09 pm)
It's part of Red and SC's battle for world domination.
Speaking of which, both world domination threads; ZNZ and Ima's jelly beans vs. pies, and Red and SC's lemmings vs. assorted dragons and personifications of states and other crazy things.
(April 25, 2013 - 10:03 pm)
I think there were essays in there too, somewhere. And the Penguin King.
(April 28, 2013 - 11:31 am)
So far I'm not seeing any definitions.
Top/goop/poke: A comment submitted to the thred to make it go to the top of the page (the thread most recenty commented on or posted being at the top).
SI: A thread in which everyone pretends to be someone else, and guesses who the others are. They usually have themes: villian/ess SI, Moviemaker SI, etc
RR: Round Robin. A story where people take turns writing. In real life this would be passed around a circle in an orderly fashion, but seeing as they are not, they are often confusing, which is why I generally stay out of them.
Lemming wars: See Hey Everynyaa... , submitted by Red.
Random Thread: The thread in which you can say any random thing you want.
Add-on: A game in which everyone participating suggests a feature for a character, then after a predetermined date everyone stops suggesting and starts drawing the character with all the features.
(April 28, 2013 - 5:39 pm)