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1300!!!!!!!!!..... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Did any of you frequent nonsense posters lose post count when the thread caught its tail?

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I certainly didn't. I don't have that many Posts, and a lot of them were in this thread.

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The lost Posts are still searchable.
If one searchs for words in one of the recent Posts it finds the thread with the name that was being used at that date.
But when you try to open that thread you open an empty page.

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The case of the missing Posts.

We need Perry Mason... Columbo... Angela Lansbury... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif (ack!) well maybe not her....

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[Glares at Stone Mill through pipe smoke] And what do you think I've been doing here? Can't you see the Sherlock Holmes hat I'm wearing? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Ahem. Well, yes, you are doing a credible job, Holmes. It's probably that Bloody villian... the treacherous Professor Moriarty!

I was merely invoking support from other sleuths. Did not mean to step on your case.

Now where is that CSI team? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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Oh, drat! I just realized that we've dropped behind the Bab5 crew again...and under mysterious circumstances! I think one of them is probably responsible for this dastardly deed. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Quick! Everyone on overtime! We must not let this deficit stand for long! Nonsense production must continue at full speed!

[ July 09, 2003, 06:54: Message edited by: Krsqk ]

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dixon hill. he can get out of the holodeck and use that sophisticatesd 24th century computer to track them down.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes it does, actually. Not to a layman though. Just a few fields in the forum database could have become corrupted through a random bug or even a power glitch. Every post in the thread is not stored as the same field in the database. Ever have a hard drive crash? It is quite possible for some files in a folder to be recoverable, while other files in the folder are not. This is analogous to the most probable explanation (the random bug/glitch) of the loss of Posts.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bunch of posers, the lot of ya! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif j/k

[ July 09, 2003, 08:25: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[Draws a long puff on pipe, stares sidelong at Fyron]

Perhaps. And I will admit that I am no expert in programming and computer operations. But there are others here who are. Is Mssr. Fyron correct in his assessment? For myself, I find the nature and extent of the damage to be far too convenient for some in these Boards, to chalk it up to an "accident"...

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Hmmmm...

The missing Posts were detected on July 7th.

Astute observers that we are, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif the Posts may have gone missing on the 6th.

A warning was issued a week ago about hackers planning to disrupt sites on Sunday.

July 6th = Sunday.

Did a hacker do it?

[ July 09, 2003, 15:16: Message edited by: tbontob ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I doubt it. An outside "hack" would probably have tried something much more spectacular and damaging to the site as a whole. Besides, hackers usually leave some sort of calling card.

[tamps pipe, relights]

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Hmmm... there's a lot of logic being used in here lately.

All chickens have feathers.

Bill has feathers.

Therefore, Bill is a chicken.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Do not be deceived. Despite the missing Posts, the appearance of seriousness, and the lack of a name change (and all my wonderful suggestions are gone...), this is still the same thread.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Do not be deceived. Despite the missing Posts, the appearance of seriousness, and the lack of a name change (and all my wonderful suggestions are gone...), this is still the same thread.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm sorry for your loss... and the loss of others's Posts.

At least we all still have nonsense. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Post hoc, ergo propter hoc:

The rooster's crowing caused the sun to come up.

It has been proven that all heroin addicts smoked marijuana in their youth. Therefore, smoking marijuana leads to heroin addiction.

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yeh, if the Posts were nonsense...

then all that was lost was nonsense...

So why all the grief? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Because we are no longer the largest thread at the forums! We had just overtaken the B5 thread a couple weeks ago before this happened. All that hard work gone down the drain.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And of course, it was all a random accident. [draws long puff with ironic smile]

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Too bad no one has a Butler Avatar.

Why, you ask...

Because the Butler always did it.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Because we are no longer the largest thread at the forums! We had just overtaken the B5 thread a couple weeks ago before this happened. All that hard work gone down the drain.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmmmmm

I still think it may have been part of the Sunday hacking party. Maybe the B5 guys did the hacking?

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&#1 Rabbit detective is on the case. &#1

One Sherlock Holmes type character previously known as General Woundwort has been seen snooping (and smoking) into the disappearance of the Name Changing Thread Posts.

While this reporter has had unpleasant encounters with certain members of the bunny species ( http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif I trust he is NOT related to that BUGS creature! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif ), all help towards the swift solution of this mystery is to be desired. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

With this goal in mind, I have included the following document:

I, Taz Devil , hearby swear that I have no knowledge of and no participation in any conspiracy to steal and/or destroy the missing Posts.
________Signed: Taz Devil

With that out of the way, I now volunteer to be Judge, Jury, and Executioner of any suspects sent my way! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ July 10, 2003, 04:19: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

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Guess we'll have to post a ton of nonsense to get this thread to the #1 position again... but now we are so far behind that it may take a year to get there.

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i found a math joke site.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">found this while looking for all cats have five legs. this'll do.

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[ July 10, 2003, 07:06: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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When the same thing happened to the Iraqi war thread we never found out what had ahappened did we?

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This is the third time that random Posts in the middle of a thread have disappeared, which makes it that much more likely that it is a bug with the software. Unless, of course, you want to tell me that the hacker has been at work for nearly a year.

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i don't know. for a long while, our firewall was reporting a lot of port scans, although not for a year, just a few months. although, given the number, if it was a hacker, he was using something automatic.

[ July 10, 2003, 08:57: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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Wow i thought this site was pretty much safe...am I wrong in that assessment?

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i've found that WinXP + being on a sucky router makes it very rare occassion that you get a virus or hacked/nuked/whatever (didnt have any, not to my knowledge, since a while)

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hey ruatha check your sig, you had shift pressed a little too long there http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">found this while looking for all cats have five legs. this'll do.

Quote:

(idea) by Wntrmute (10.9 hr) (print) Theorem: All Cats have nine tails. Proof: No cat has eight tails. One cat has one more tail than no cats. Therefore, all cats have nine tails. All Cats are mortal. Socrates is mortal. Therefore, Socrates is a cat. (idea) by exceptinsects (1.5 d) (print) ? Sun Jul 22 2001 at 7:28:03 In a Musical Acoustics (AKA Physics for Idiots) class final at Oberlin College, we were given a question that began: Imagine you are playing a saxophone on the planet Jupiter and there is a large cat blocking the mouth of the saxophone...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Great stuff!!!!

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[From Dilbert...]

(Dilbert) I think, therefore I am...

[PHB looks in]

.. but I am micromanaged, therefore I am not.

(Later, Dilbert to Dogbert) I have a philosophical question for you...

(Dogbert) You are not me, therefore you are irrelevant.

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A physicist an engineer and a mathematician are all staying in the same hotel.

Late at night, a fire breaks out in the physicist's television. He wakes up and see that the television is on fire. He then finds the room's sink and a bucket (originally for ice). Making a reasonable estimate of the heatmass of the burning television he calculates the necessary amount of water to douse the flames, measures it out in the bucket (estimating again), unplugs the television and dumps the bucket on the television, putting the fire out. He then goes back to sleep, satisfied that his vocation allowed him to solve this problem.

The engineer also wakes to find his television on fire. He also finds the bucket and the sink. He fills the bucket to over-flowing and dumps the entire quantity on the fire, right after kicking the television's power cord out of it's outlet. He fills another bucket and dumps it on the television, and throws the whole mess out the window. He goes back to bed and sleeps, because he has work to do the next day.

In a freak coincidence as you will only find in such stories, the mathematician also wakes during the night under similar circumstances. He sees the burning television, the bucket, and the sink and satisfied that there is a solution, he goes back to sleep.

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SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NEW ELEMENT

The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by university physicists. The element, tentatively named "Administratium," has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 15 assistant neutrons, 70 vice neutrons, and 161 assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 247. These 247 particles are held together in the nucleus by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called "morons."

Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction with which it comes in contact. According to discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium added to one reaction caused it to take over four days to complete. Without the Administratium, the reaction occurs in less than one second. Administratium has a half life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Studies seem to show that the atomic mass actually increases after each reorganization.

Research indicates that Administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate in certain locations such as governments, large corporations, and especially in universities. It can usually be found polluting the best appointed and best maintained buildings. Scientists warn that Administratium is known to be toxic and recommend plenty of alcoholic fluids followed by bed rest after even low levels of exposure.

[ July 10, 2003, 17:35: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

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A physicist a biologist and a mathematician were at a bar, drinking and looking out the window. As they watched a building across the street, they saw one person walk in and two people walk out.

"Reproduction by fission!" the biologist claimed.

"No, no. This does not fit our well tested and published theories," countered the physicist, "we must not have all the data."

While these two were arguing, the mathematician watched another person walk into the building. "It's settled then," he said to his two friends, "there is no reason for argument: that building is empty."

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One day a mathematician decides that he is sick of math. So, he walks down to the fire department and announces that he wants to become a fireman.

The fire chief says, "Well, you look like a good guy. I'd be glad to hire you, but first I have to give you a little test."

The firechief takes the mathematcian to the alley behind the fire department which contains a dumpster, a spigot, and a hose. The chief then says, "OK, you're walking in the alley and you see the dumpster here is on fire. What do you do?"

The mathematician replies, "Well, I hook up the hose to the spigot, turn the water on, and put out the fire."

The chief says, "That's great... perfect. Now I have to ask you just one more question. What do you do if you're walking down the alley and you see the dumpster is not on fire?"

The mathematician puzzles over the question for awhile and he finally says, "I light the dumpster on fire."

The chief yells, "What? That's horrible! Why would you light the dumpster on fire?"

The mathematician replies, "Well, that way I reduce the problem to one I've already solved."

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what did the constipated mathmatician do?

*runs away giggling*

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*Grabs bottle of exlax. Reads label.*
"1 teaspoon for fast, effective relief." *Evil grin comes across his face as he pours in the teaspoon...Perplexingly looks at bottle again and then pours in the whole bottle.*

Name that movie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nope, It looks just fine to me! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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*Narf screams in agony*

yes, i recognize that movie.

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A fellow decided to go somewhere via hot-air balloon and got lost. Looking down, he saw a guy standing in the middle of a field, so he decided to ask for directions. "Hey", he called, "excuse me, could you tell me where I am ?"

"Sure", the guy on the ground replies, "You're inside a hot-air balloon, ten meters from the ground."

"You wouldn't be an economist, would you ?", asks the guy in the balloon.

"Actually I am, how did you know that ?"

"Because you gave an answer that is as correct as it is useless.", says the balloon guy.

"Oh yeah,", says the economist, "well I'd say you're a politician."

"Yes I am, how did you know that ?"

"Well, you had a destination to reach, but chose a tool that was inadequate for the job. You made no plans and brought no instruments that could have helped you. And now that things aren't going as you expected, you're blaming an economist !"

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A pilot is flying a small, single-engine, charter plane with a couple of really important execs on board into Seattle airport. There is fog so thick that visibility is 40 feet, and his instruments are out. He circles looking for a landmark and after an hour, he is low on fuel and his passengers are very nervous. At Last, through a small opening in the fog he sees a tall building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor. Circling, the pilot banks and shouts through his open window: "Where am I?" The solitary office worker replies: "You're in an airplane." The pilot executes a swift 275 degree turn and executes a perfect blind landing on the airport's runway five miles away. Just as the plane stops, the engines cough and die from lack of fuel. The stunned passengers ask the pilot how he did it.
"Simple," replies the pilot, "I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer he gave me was 100% correct but absolutely useless; therefore, that must be Microsoft's support office and from there the airport is three minutes away on a course of 87 degrees."

[OT - allllmost there!]

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Bit of an addition to that one:

Pilot: "What? That's useless! You must be tech support."
The Microsoft guy answers back " Yes. Are you a CEO?" the pilot replies "Yes, why?"

"Because you're the one flying blind, except now its somehow my fault."

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On the same lines...

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[ July 11, 2003, 19:19: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

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If an idle mind is the devil's workshop, then offsite training is Hell. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Not that I should complain, the spare time (and internet access) this week has allowed me to get my promotion. Now if you all will excuse me, I will go home, cut off my stripes, and pin my butterbar on. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

EDIT- Done!

[ July 11, 2003, 20:16: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

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I see this thread is being replenished nicely.

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Mmmm...

butta.

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and I know we're all focused on the Bab5 crew, but...we even have fewer Posts than the KOTH thread! Looks like we're back to third place for the time being.

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Dog's Letter to God



Dear God:

Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another?

When we get to heaven, can we sit on your couch? Or is it going to be the same old story?

Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a dog?

How often do you see a cougar riding around? We dogs love a nice ride!

Would it be so hard to rename the 'Chrysler Eagle' the 'Chrysler Beagle'?

If a dog barks his head off in the forest and no human hears him, is he still a bad dog?

We dogs can understand human verbal instructions, hand signals, whistles, horns, clickers, beepers, scent ID's, electromagnetic energy fields, and Frisbee flight paths. What do humans understand?

Dear God, can you arrange for more meatballs, less spaghetti on pasta night, please?

When we get to the Pearly Gates, do we have to shake hands to get in?

Are there mailmen in Heaven? If there are, will I have to apologize?



Let me give you a list of just some of the things I must remember to be a good dog:

1. I will not eat the cats' food before they eat it or after they throw it up.

2. I will not roll on dead seagulls, fish, crabs, etc., just because I like the way they smell.

3. I will not munch on "leftovers" in the kitty litter box; although they are tasty, they are not food.

4. The diaper pail is not a cookie jar.

5. The sofa is not a face towel; neither are Mom and Dad's laps.

6. The garbage collector is not stealing our stuff.

7. My head does not belong in the refrigerator.

8. I will not bite the officer's hand when he reaches in for Mom's driver's license and registration.

9. I will not play tug-of-war with Dad's underwear when he's on the toilet.

10. Sticking my nose into someone's crotch is not an acceptable way of saying 'hello.'

11. I do not need to suddenly stand straight up when I'm lying under the coffee table.

12. I must shake the rainwater out of my fur before entering the house.

13. I will not throw up in the car.

14. I will not come in from outside and immediately drag my butt across the carpet.

15. I will not sit in the middle of the living room and lick my crotch when company is over.

16. The cat is not a squeaky toy; so when I play with him and he makes that noise, it's usually not a good thing.

And, finally my Last question;

Dear God, when I get to Heaven may I have my testicles back?


Best Regards,

Spot