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09-04-2007, 12:10 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Central Coast
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|  Where does it come from?
Anyone know where the term "35%" originated from?  |
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09-04-2007, 12:12 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Del mar
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09-04-2007, 12:17 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: England, Where the birds fly backwards.
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09-04-2007, 12:24 PM
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| ~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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hes talking about the not work safe threads. all my other forums put NWS on the title, when i came here they had this 35% thing. i have no clue what it means or where it came from, but put 2 and 2 together and figured out it was the "not work safe" threads.... |
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09-04-2007, 12:35 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Central Coast
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09-04-2007, 12:58 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding from Goodall
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My understanding is that it originated from pictures of women whom had less than 35% covered,it later evolved into another form of NWS.
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09-04-2007, 01:21 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: May 2007 Location: Tearin down a dirt road, rebel flag a flyin, coon dog in the back, truck bed loaded down with beer.
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i believe it also deals with language. i posted a video of a jeep that was fast and surprised another guy and he yelled holly ---- after that my thread had that 35% thing |
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09-04-2007, 01:58 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
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I think 35% is stupid, people don't understand it. NWS works much better.
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09-04-2007, 02:32 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Deer Park
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Fordzilla MIGHT you be a Red Green Fan?
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09-04-2007, 02:53 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: VARCOR
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It used to mean nudity, or close to nudity, in a thread. The old story behind it was that work web filters would block web pages that contained at least 35% of "skin tones," although I have no idea if that was the actual beginning to it. It is/was used most often over on PBB, and since a lot of the members/mods here were members over there before coming here, the tradition just kind of continued here................and has come to signify anything that would inappropriate to open at work. |
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09-04-2007, 03:02 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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I always thought it meant that 35% of you will get fired for looking at this at work.
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09-04-2007, 03:17 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Albuquerque
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I prefer NWS and generally I use that denotation.  It surprised me to see people here not know what that meant.Hell, I liked it so much, I own a website called isnot.ws (is not worksafe). |
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09-04-2007, 04:27 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Sierra Vista
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This is kind of how I heard it explained once also... My understanding is there is some sort of program that the IT people used to search peoples computers at work for at least 35% of skin tones in their history folder or whatever...either way, the idea is there and I believe one of these or a combpnation of both to be the actual meaning.. | |
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