sfowler, sending you a foderdenda, a new species for your garden....

Interesting..To think that all this time, I never worried about the Origin of this term...Just took it for granted...
Like I always says; Is NEVER TOO LATE TOO LEARN NEW THINGS..

Telling people how to post:
a Pompfodorass.
Southern postings:
fodoryall
Northern postings:
HowYaFodorin?
When one needs to do something other than posting nasty posts on Fodors, one needs a
Fodorectomy.
When one needs to do something other than posting on Fodors all the time, one needs a Fodorintervention.

Scarlett, your loyal Fodorite~

Scarlett, you are just fodorable!

I think we are all fodoraddicts. I'm perfectly happy with fodorite, although if I had been asked to choose originally, I would have chosen fodorista because it has a more exotic sound appropriate for a travel forum. Some days I'm just a fodorette, though.

Right now I've got to fodorun to an appointment! (This is kind of fodofun, like the splendidizing thread -- we can fodorize everthing!)

Of late, there are many here who I believe should be ex-fodoricated for their un fodorlike conduct.

Thank you Marilyn, I return the compliment!
Iregeo, true true!
Then there is the need for all of us to be Light and Fodorfluffy~ which irritates some people to no end

I feel like the term "Euro-dite" (an erudite, Euro-centric Fodorite?), a "daughter neologism" also goes back to 1999 or 2000, but I can't find uses of it that far back. Not sure if I coined it or just repeated it a few times, after someone else first used it.

Best wishes,

Rex

Re: <i> am interested in the first appearance of the term &quot;fodorite&quot; on the forum as people remember...</i>

As I recall, someone here had been trying to get a snapshot of the Eiffel Towel developed at some cheapo photo-finishing place and it kept coming back with a problem every time. On the seventh or eighth time, the place <i>finally</i> developed the shot properly and I remember the person posting on here with elation, &quot;They FINALLY got my fodo rite!&quot;

capo -- to your room -- NOW

Wait, wait, those of us who are truly addicted should be calling ourselves fodorheads!

I just reread this thread. Oh my, someone's posts have been removed, which has the effect of making me look like I have lost my mind. Enough said.

Hmmm, it is possible that I created the term ?fodorites? but I really can?t remember. But I?m happy to take credit for starting the fodorite GTGs, with Paris 1999 being the first one ever. It?s been a blast since then and has spread throughout the USA (and elsewhere). It?s been a pleasure knowing so many other people with the same travel passion that I have.

Now, I better get home ? need to pack for my Italy trip in 2 days!!!

Monica
http://www.luvtotravel.homestead.com/home.html

Four guys pretending to be Jim Morrison, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore would be the Faux Doors.

Gosh Marilyn, I hadn't even noticed that &quot;someone's&quot; postings had disappeared. In the circumstances, I now officially withdraw my &quot;Fodork&quot; remark.

Jim

Marilyn,
You are crazy! You're just not stupid.

Capo,
&gt;Faux Doors&lt; - that's funny! Are their fathers the Faux Pas?

I am now going Fodormant for the rest of the day.

JoeG

Thank you, Jim, for withdrawing your remark. I wouldn't want it to look like you meant me.

JoeG, thanks, I guess.

Faux Doors, Faux Pas -- you guys are too funny! Fee fi faux fum, I smell a really bad pun.

Marilyn,

&gt;I am crazy but I'm not stupid!&lt;
That's a punchline from an old joke.
I did mean it as a compliment.

A traveling salesman is driving from town to town when suddenly he has a flat tire. He gets out of his car and realizes that he broke down in front of a State Mental Hospital. Worse yet, it begins to rain. As he jacks up the car and removes the flat he notices that one of the patients is peering at him through the fence.

He puts on the spare and when he reaches for the lug nuts he accidently knocks them into the sewer. He immediately starts swearing and scratching his head trying to figure out what to do. The mental patient yells out &quot;Hey Mister, why don't you take one lug nut off the remaining wheels and put them on the spare. That will hold you until you get to the next town.&quot; The saleman thinks about it for a moment and realizes that it makes sense. &quot;That's a good idea, I thought you were crazy.&quot; he says.

&quot;I am crazy, but I'm not stupid!&quot; replies the man.

JoeG

Faux you two: Faux ever funny,
I don't faux get capo who is fauxdorable.

JoeG, I knew it sounded vaguely familiar. No offense taken anyway -- I'm not too thin-skinned and I tend to think the best of people until I'm shown otherwise.

Bye faux now...

Marilyn, or...

Fee Fi Fodors Parfum
Who's buried in Grant's Tum?