I hate the usage of the word "Wxxre". Like mileage whxxe or starbucks whxrx etc etc

Hacker reminds me a horror movie or that scene in the movie Fargo. Actually that was more like chopping...

Yes! haha

Well, I hate when you put on a kid's show like, say, Curious George on ON DEMAND Comcast Cable or something, and the kiddos are watching, and then when it's over, you happen to be coming out of the bathroom but the movie guide thing comes up when the show ends--you know, the screen with the gal yapping about what the top 5 new releases are--and there's a small screen in the corner that shows clips from the new releases and it's like SAW III or something or some new mafia movie where someone is getting the crap beaten out of them. Then my kids get to watch that as I fumble to find the clicker and change it. You are pulling your pants up like George Costanza had tried to in that Seinfeld episode where he was trying to tell the unemployment office he was a latex salesman as you rush to fix the breach.



Buttttt to stay back on topic, I would rather be called things like:

Travel (or miles) enthusiast
entrepreneur
(if a blogger, then instead call it a "writer")
miles monger
promotions specialist
heck, even a points HOUND!
and so forth.

But definitely NOT a "gamer" or a "hacker" or a "scammer"

That is unless there's something wrong with things like MS and something illegal is being done by those in this forum.

I don't like "hacking/hacker" because it makes me picture hacking up phlegm or something gross!

Well after going to many area CVSs and Walmarts all day to MS you kinda feel sick anyway but yeah, there's that too.

here are some terms I have batted around... this end of the discussion has definitely been had before in FT...



~travel technician
~travel alchemist
~promotions guru
~travel gandalf
~promotions ninja - promo ninja or P Ninja (my favorite because a ninja has to be stealth, deadly and often working defensively as well as offensively but with style) We deal in knowing how to work within promos like airline or cc offers or store deals.

A hacker by definition finds a way to create or breach a back door to wreck things. What many MSers do, by contrast, is to work with the doors that exist... many just not known by others unless you think outside the box.

MM, in my mind MS means multiple sclerosis. I think you may want to find a different acronym...@:-)

Yes well that you may wish to take up with every other MSer out there for I didn't invent the term.

I guess it comes from a woman who lived some years ago named Emily Esse or Em S.