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[viza at larryman.net]

Zachary Stern wrote:
> And poser is not fine. Look it up. I did. Poser IS a word, but it does not mean what he meant it to mean. In that context the word is poseur. Poser means to pose in the sense of a model or photograph.

poser
   • noun 1 a person who poses; a poseur. 2 a puzzling question or problem.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/poser?view=get
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth 
Edition.  2000.

poser
NOUN:	1. One who poses. 2. A poseur.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/33/P0463300.html
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S: (n) poseur, poser (a person who habitually pretends to be something 
he is not)
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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pos·er
2.  (informal)
Same as  poseur
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861737807/poser.html
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poseur   Show phonetics
noun [C] (ALSO poser) DISAPPROVING
someone who pretends to be something they are not, or to have qualities 
that they do not possess:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=61663&dict=CALD
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poser: n.

[from French poseur] A wannabee; not hacker slang, but used among 
crackers, phreaks and warez d00dz. Not as negative as lamer or leech. 
Probably derives from a similar usage among punk-rockers and metalheads, 
putting down those who “talk the talk but don't walk the walk”.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/poser.html

-Viza