Dear Pat & Robert. This is not so anonymous anymore. ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif.pagespeed.ce._hfWAz_QHO.gif)
Nevertheless, perhaps it should just be TEA. We all get it, with or without the nixies. (Although the nixies certainly exacerbate it.)
Test Equipment Addicts? Yeah, that works...
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And the nixies are like the bacon bits or the cherry on top...
Damn you, Robert - you're probably going to wind up costing me MORE money!!
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So much for group therapy. ![Grin ;D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xgrin.gif.pagespeed.ic.QVVz6XIT20.png)
Yeah, huh? More like group reinforcement or encouragement... Kids do
dumb things when they get into groups and get positive feedback started; adults do
$$ things.
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Thank you for using "piques" instead of "peaks" or "peeks". ![ThumbsUp :-+](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif.pagespeed.ce._JElyJQqdB.gif)
![Grin ;D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xgrin.gif.pagespeed.ic.QVVz6XIT20.png)
People misusing words and phrases is one of those things that makes me grit my teeth when I read forum posts, so it's something that I try not to do in my own. One of the others I frequently see that makes me want to bang my head on the table is 'to shay' or any of its many incorrect variants. That and people using catastrophe 's' EVERY time the pluralize a word.
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The apostrophe is for possession or a contraction, dammit!!!!
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As soon as you clear one of your evilbuy search terms by getting whatever it is
You clear them after acquisition? That must be where I'm going wrong. ![DMM :-DMM](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiliey_dmm.gif)
Well....
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Truth be told I actually usually only clear them when I go to add another and it tells me I can't because I have too many active searches. At that point I'll go through and delete one or more of the ones for things I've gotten already, but that's about the only time the list gets any pruning. The reminders that pop up are more likely to be only very briefly glanced at or sometimes outright ignored once I've gotten something I was on the hunt for, but they're still there...
-Pat