New Article To Mooch Over
What's constitutes an article on this site? Well, technically, and in my eyes, these are articles and what you're reading now is merely a blog entry. I'd always thought this was clear but I read lots of references to articles on this site , referring to blog entries. What's the difference? Well, articles are more structured, usually much longer and often come with online demos and downloadable examples. Blogs are never that structured and are a lot quicker to write (articles can take hours to write!).
Anyway, I'm thinking about this as I started writing a blog recently about storing, displaying and formatting dates in Notes. It soon became obvious there's was enough to it to warrant an article. That left me with an a blog-free day and so I'm writing this to fill the space.
What's the article going to be about? The short-comings of displaying the date/time values Notes stores in documents. Basically how useless @Text is at formatting dates and how a new approach is needed if you want to get fancy with your formatting.
When will it appear? Hopefully within a week. Will you like it? Undoubtedly. Is it useful? Definitely. Does it solve another age-old problem with Notes? For sure!
Finally, a thanks to the mystery moocher. Sometimes Amazon don't print the name of who bought from your Wishlist on the invoice. Many thanks to the anyway, whoever you are and whatever mooching may be. Sounds rude to me.
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Basically, mooching is reaping the benefits of something that someone else has put time/effort/money into. Most often I would say it's used in the context of food - especially in college. Someone gets a pizza, someone else mooches a slice.
In your case, people (such as myself) "mooch" the information contained on your site. HTH.
-- Mike (Not the mystery moocher)
I'd definately agree that its got something to do with food.
In my family we've always referred to cats being on the 'mooch' for food - generally walking around and trying to find things to eat...
British to American Translation:
to bum = to mooch, roughly with a subtle difference you might expect.
To bum, "mind if I bum a fag?" (when asking for a smoke) is typically polite as you would expect of any good brit. To mooch may or may not seek permission when mooching and may assume it is a conferred right (often a typical American perspective) of the moocher since the moochie obviously has so much to share and is leaving it out in the opon (e.g. open box of pizza or free access website)
Very well put, Jerry. However, I'd like to make an addendum, if I could. While "mooching" itself maye be rude, and is in some ways an American pasttime, the moochie does have the right to tell the moocher "no" to any mooching request, or if the moocher is attempting to mooch without permission, take any necessary actions to stop the moocher from continuing to mooch.
I would add that mooch has an ever so slight negative connnotation -- a moocher is not necessarily someone you want to have around a lot because they are always mooching something off of you (whereas I don't get the impression that bum has that same connotation).
FWIW -- here is the dictionary.com definition
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Didn't Shakespeare write about this in...
Mooch ado about nothing?
I'll get me coat
To mooch is to take from someone without giving anything back in return. Examples of this are people who pretend to be your friend when they want something from you but are never really around when you need help.