Message For New Members

[taylovesthebeatles]

give me one reason to stay here baby ...and i'll turn right back around....

well $1850 is a pretty good one! happy posting newbies! just look at it this

way...... remember school?, remember how girls that put out got reputation?

It's just like that here! All you are asked to put out here though is posts.

ahh high school! ...ahh putting out!(remember it's not all about you Sue)....the good old days!

Ahaha Sue that made me laugh so hard I woke Matt! Wooow that was a great comparison! I will love you forever for that. Someone please +rep that post, it was priceless.

[JJmaverickQQ]

I too have wondered where the term came; post. It is an old term and I have gone on excursions to find the why but no diffinitive answer could I find.


[Power On Self-Test (my favorite...no POST, no posting...lol)

In papermaking. a stack of 144 sheets of handmolded paper, interleaved with felt.

posting is a moderate to deep passing route in American football

part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging or POST)

Posting or postadh (Scottish Gaelic) was a process in washing clothes

Post, a name for a military base

Post, an entry in a blog or internet forum.

a POST message is a type of HTTP request message

The Persian system worked on stations (called Chapar-Khane), where the message carrier (called Chapar) would ride to the next post.


Well before the Middle Ages and during them, homing pigeons were used for pigeon post.]



But this is the one I think it comes from:
The verb meaning "to affix (a paper, etc.) to a post" (in a public place) is first recorded 1650.


anybody have a better concept?

[CubFan]

Could Post-It-Notes have anything to do with it???

[thejuanupsman]

Could Post-It-Notes have anything to do with it???

Joke? The word is at least a few centuries older than post it notes.