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over there, they have just started a topic asking "what is C.U.P.S.?"

the acronym has gone global...

IAIN wrote:over there, they have just started a topic asking "what is C.U.P.S.?"

the acronym has gone global...

And so it begins... MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Hahaha, that makes it sound like they are fearful about it like "What is that thing shuffling towards us?!"

What is Cups?

Compulsory Unnecessary Purchase Syndrome

Jordan C wrote:Compulsory Unnecessary Purchase Syndrome

Close, it's Uncontrollable rather than Unnecessary as all things in magic are necessary (superb excuse to keep on buying!)...

Jordan C wrote:Unnecessary

Its uncontrollable, as no magic purchase is unnecessary!

Snap!!!

It is easily identified by the symptoms presented in the chart :

is Saucers the answer ?

Stopping
All
Uncontrollable
Compulsions
Eases
Relations (with)
Spouses

S.A.U.C.E.R.S. huh?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Riiiiight, nice thought but good luck with THAT one!

I hate to break it to you all, but this is a term that's been around a heck of a long time, and memory serving me right it was first introduced by one of the better known wives of a famous mage... might have been Jan Jones but I'm uncertain.

What I do know is that the spouse tends to be more disgusted by the addiction factor than we, the guilty parties.

Craig Browning wrote:I hate to break it to you all, but this is a term that's been around a heck of a long time, and memory serving me right it was first introduced by one of the better known wives of a famous mage... might have been Jan Jones but I'm uncertain.

What I do know is that the spouse tends to be more disgusted by the addiction factor than we, the guilty parties.

Sorry Craig you are wrong (and it's not often anyone can say that) - I came up with CUPS myself. Here is the original thread from Jan 27 2004
http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic2676.p ... e+syndrome

Quite possibly, people have been talking about it for years - the "disorder" certainly existed long before I named it - but as far as I know - the term CUPS is original to me.

Maybe it should be CUPS (tm) and I should get a royalty for everytime it was used? Actually as it was first coined on TalkMagic, maybe it should be CUPS tm (tm)...

bananafish wrote:

Craig Browning wrote:I hate to break it to you all, but this is a term that's been around a heck of a long time, and memory serving me right it was first introduced by one of the better known wives of a famous mage... might have been Jan Jones but I'm uncertain.

What I do know is that the spouse tends to be more disgusted by the addiction factor than we, the guilty parties.

Sorry Craig you are wrong (and it's not often anyone can say that) - I came up with CUPS myself. Here is the original thread from Jan 27 2004
http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic2676.p ... e+syndrome

Quite possibly, people have been talking about it for years - the "disorder" certainly existed long before I named it - but as far as I know - the term CUPS is original to me.

Maybe it should be CUPS (tm) and I should get a royalty for everytime it was used? Actually as it was first coined on TalkMagic, maybe it should be CUPS tm (tm)...

As blurry as my memory can be I can understand how the two things got blended together in my head... what can I say, I was born a blond