Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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In summary, Franzbear is the most prolific thread killer in the forum. He has killed at least 12 threads and is likely responsible for 21 more. His ability to kill threads is not a direct outcome of the evidence (number of last posts). You have to at least factor in the total number of posts by each person (posts in GD) to get a more accurate representation of the killer instinct. Franz and Moonie have so many posts here, they are more likely to be the winning killers. You have to divide the number of kills by the total number of posts during the same period to get a corrected distribution.
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Danger said:
I'm getting confused again. I responded to this about 10 minutes ago, and now it's not there. That's what happened to the response to yommama's question before, and I found it posted in the McDonalds thread. I wonder if this one went somewhere else too. :confused:

Weird. :confused: This thread is periodically possessed. It's the immortal, demon thread. :devil: (:rolleyes: Is Integral around?)
 
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  • #4,622
Moonbear said:
(:rolleyes: Is Integral around?)
That would explain a lot. Maybe I should stop referring to him as 'the old fart' and see if things clear up.
 
  • #4,623
Danger said:
That would explain a lot. Maybe I should stop referring to him as 'the old fart' and see if things clear up.

That, or you're just forgetting what thread you're in when posting replies again.

As for me, it's bedtime. I'm very slowly overcoming the insomnia. I seem to have found a dose of melatonin that makes me sleepy a little earlier each night, but without leaving me sleeping for 12 hours.
 
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Moonbear said:
That, or you're just forgetting what thread you're in when posting replies again.
I actually considered that for a second until I remembered that a quote response always goes back to the same thread that you're in when you quote it.

Moonbear said:
As for me, it's bedtime.
Okay, good-night. I'll probably pack it in right soon too.
 
  • #4,625
Danger said:
I actually considered that for a second until I remembered that a quote response always goes back to the same thread that you're in when you quote it.

As long as you were using the quote button and not copy/paste methods, then yeah, you had to have been in the right thread when you posted.

I saw that post show up in the McDonald's thread after seeing the question show up here first, and was rather confused about it. I think someone else wound up with a case of double posts last night too (where the same reply shows up two or three times in a row with the same time stamp). The system should block that if it was the result of a twitchy finger pressing the "send" button. Must've been a server hiccup.
 
  • #4,626
Moonbear said:
I think someone else wound up with a case of double posts last night too
Good. At least now I don't feel picked-on. :rolleyes:
 
  • #4,627
Danger said:
Good. At least now I don't feel picked-on. :rolleyes:

Don't get too comfortable. We'll still pick on you, it just didn't have anything to do with your posts jumping threads (or at least I don't think it did). :biggrin:
 
  • #4,628
Moonbear said:
Don't get too comfortable. We'll still pick on you
I consider what you guys do as 'sparring', not 'picking on'. The latter kind of infers that I'm defenseless, which I am in web matters. The coolest thing about the sparring is that people switch from ally to foe at random, depending upon the particular post that they respond to. You can't turn your back on anybody, but there's always somebody watching it for you. :biggrin: :rolleyes:
 
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watching.. stalking.. breathing heavily in the background of your telephone conversations..

yes.. yes indeed
 
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cronxeh said:
watching.. stalking.. breathing heavily in the background of your telephone conversations..

yes.. yes indeed

So, you're a stalker, huh?
 
  • #4,631
well actually that was in reference to Danger's "there's always somebody watching it for you" and the big brother
 
  • #4,632
cronxeh said:
well actually that was in reference to Danger's "there's always somebody watching it for you" and the big brother

*cues music* "It always feels like, somebody's watching you, oh oh oh..." :biggrin:
 
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The coolest thing about the sparring is that people switch from ally to foe at random, depending upon the particular post that they respond to. You can't turn your back on anybody, but there's always somebody watching it for you.
This is awesome.
I recognize that it feels good when someone agrees with a post I've made, and it feels bad when someone argues with a post I've made. Then it goes to a whole other level. If the argument is personal then I'm very upset and I learn little. If the argument is fair and in the spirit of understanding then it feels even better than if they agreed with me.
 
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Huckleberry said:
This is awesome.
I recognize that it feels good when someone agrees with a post I've made, and it feels bad when someone argues with a post I've made. Then it goes to a whole other level. If the argument is personal then I'm very upset and I learn little. If the argument is fair and in the spirit of understanding then it feels even better than if they agreed with me.

Agree? Disagree? I didn't think he was talking about the usual discussions, but the elbow jabbing we do in this thread. :biggrin:
 
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Moonbear said:
Agree? Disagree? I didn't think he was talking about the usual discussions, but the elbow jabbing we do in this thread. :biggrin:
Correct, but Huck has a good point too. I love a good opposing viewpoint as long as it's a reasoning exchange about a subject that I know something about. Personal attacks are pointless and generally a sign that the wielder is getting desperate.
 
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Danger said:
Correct, but Huck has a good point too. I love a good opposing viewpoint as long as it's a reasoning exchange about a subject that I know something about. Personal attacks are pointless and generally a sign that the wielder is getting desperate.

Well, sure, but if I just left him to make his good point, then I wouldn't have had anything to say. But I'm seriously craving pie now that I've read MIH's thread! I'd go out and get some if the thunderstorm passing through right now didn't have hail with it.
 
  • #4,637
Moonbear said:
But I'm seriously craving pie now that I've read MIH's thread!
Yeah, a nice pork pie with gravy would be excellent right now! Unfortunately, I just finished a couple of KFC Big Crunches, so I won't be hungry again for at least 3 hours.
 
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Moonbear said:
Well, sure, but if I just left him to make his good point, then I wouldn't have had anything to say. But I'm seriously craving pie now that I've read MIH's thread! I'd go out and get some if the thunderstorm passing through right now didn't have hail with it.
I splurged for my birthday and bought a fresh strawberry pie from the best pie place here. Mmmmm.
 
  • #4,639
Evo said:
I splurged for my birthday and bought a fresh strawberry pie from the best pie place here. Mmmmm.
Oooh, that sounds good. Do you use light or dark gravy? :-p
 
  • #4,640
Danger said:
Yeah, a nice pork pie with gravy would be excellent right now! Unfortunately, I just finished a couple of KFC Big Crunches, so I won't be hungry again for at least 3 hours.

You're just as bad as those UKish folks! I've never had a pork pie, but I do enjoy a good beef or chicken pot pie. I haven't had one of those in ages! That's something I don't know how to make myself, especially with that thick, rich brown gravy! Mmmm. Yes, I actually really like British pub food. Though, I haven't figured out why they call them mushy peas. :confused: They aren't mushy at all! They were quite tasty.

But, that's not the kind of pie I was craving...I was thinking dessert. A nice mixed berry pie would be just the thing! But, thanks, now you have me craving a second dinner AND dessert. I'm sitting here with a tub of vegetable cheese spread and crackers trying to stop my tummy from growling.
 
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This is funny. :biggrin: (MIH, this is for you)

Help Desk Log

---------------------------

Monday

------

8:05am

User called to say they forgot password. Told them to use password

retrieval utility called FDISK. Blissfully ignorant, they thank me

and hang up. God, we let the people vote and drive, too?


8:12am

Accounting called to say they couldn't access expense reports

database. Gave them Standard Sys Admin Answer #112, "Well, it

works for me." Let them rant and rave while I unplugged my coffeemaker

from the UPS and plugged their server back in. Suggested they try it

again. One more happy customer...


8:14 am

User from 8:05 call said they received error message "Error

accessing Drive 0." Told them it was an OS problem. Transferred them to

microsupport.

continued... http://www.jurai.org/~funaho/humor/tech.support.diary
 
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I've always wanted to try a "pasty". I think it's a New England thing - sort of like a mini-deep-fried meat pie? I've heard it's pronounced to rhyme with "nasty" rather than "hasty". Have you guys ever tried those?
 
  • #4,643
Moonbear said:
You're just as bad as those UKish folks!
Common elements. Remember that we're part of the Commonwealth.

Moonbear said:
I'm sitting here with a tub of vegetable cheese spread and crackers trying to stop my tummy from growling.
So get some exercise... of your dialing finger. Order a pizza. :-p
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I've always wanted to try a "pasty". I think it's a New England thing - sort of like a mini-deep-fried meat pie? I've heard it's pronounced to rhyme with "nasty" rather than "hasty". Have you guys ever tried those?

It's a British thing (Welsh or Scottish I think). They're good! When I lived in MI, they had a Highland's Festival served them there...yummy! They weren't deep fried though. It's shaped like a half pie. I guess the idea was that the miners could take them to work with them, and at lunchtime, when their hands were filthy, they could hold them by the crust, eat the rest of the pasty and throw away the crust. What a shame, since the crust is the tastiest part!
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I've always wanted to try a "pasty". I think it's a New England thing - sort of like a mini-deep-fried meat pie? I've heard it's pronounced to rhyme with "nasty" rather than "hasty". Have you guys ever tried those?
I have always referred to pasties as Cornish, but they probably have similar fare in Wales and Scotland.

My mother and her mom made them quite often.

My mom's recipe and instructions for Cornish Pasty
 
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Ah, Cornish sounds right. I was trying to remember. And, duh, it wasn't a "Highland" festival, but a "Celtic" festival (it's been a while since I was there). Quite fun to watch things like caber tossing. Though, the competitors cheated and wore spandex shorts under their kilts! Then there was a sheep dog demonstration, and a bunch of sheep escaped into the woods, at which time the demo had to be postponed while the shepherder went and found his sheep (I was there with a Welsh guy who was a fellow post-doc at the time, and we contemplated if we should offer to help him find his sheep, then decided they really wouldn't get that far and we didn't really want to go running around in the woods...he found them and was able to get them back as soon as the crowd dispersed a bit).

But, yeah, that's why I wasn't sure exactly which part of the highlands pasties are from. (I did have fun for a while pronouncing the word to rhyme with hasty. :smile:) My Welsh friend is easily embarrassed by such things. :devil:
 
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Moonbear said:
(I was there with a Welsh guy who was a fellow post-doc at the time, and we contemplated if we should offer to help him find his sheep
Have you forgotten that entire conversation with Brewnog? No shepherd in his right mind would let a Welshman anywhere near his sheep! :eek:
 
  • #4,648
Moonbear said:
Quite fun to watch things like caber tossing. Though, the competitors cheated and wore spandex shorts under their kilts!
I guess that's better than having their cabers hanging out! :biggrin:
 
  • #4,649
Ever just had one of those days?

Today has been one. Started out this morning when my co-worker, male, aged 32, seemed in perfect health, keeled over and died. :frown: Makes you realize that you never know.

My work laptop is dead, and the replacement they gave me doesn't work.

Driving home in the pouring rain, it appears my brakes are almost gone

I got home and had a letter from AARP letting me know that I now qualify for membership.

I knocked over my bedside lamp three times tonight, breaking the bulb each time and now I am out of bulbs. (I wonder if AARP membership gives discounts on lightbulbs)

I broke my full length mirror.

All the recipes everyone posted in the recipe thread made me really hungry and all I have to eat is a can of tuna.

I just realized that I have no clean underwear for work tomorrow.

I forgot the dog was in my bedroom and he peed on my favorite goosedown pillow. :cry: There is no saving it.

How was your day?
 
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Damn, Evo! I'm sorry! That sucks! :frown:
*stuffs Haagen-Daaz and fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies into Evo's computer*
oh, almost forgot.. hang on...
*stuffs clean pair of underwear into Evo's computer via UTP (underwear transfer protocol)*
 
  • #4,651
emptiness.. its not just a word that describes a lack of anything.. its a state of mind :frown:
 
  • #4,652
Danger said:
Have you forgotten that entire conversation with Brewnog? No shepherd in his right mind would let a Welshman anywhere near his sheep! :eek:
Come to think of it, maybe that's why the sheep ran! :smile:

Math Is Hard said:
I guess that's better than having their cabers hanging out!
Says who?! :smile:
 
  • #4,653
Math Is Hard said:
Damn, Evo! I'm sorry! That sucks!
*stuffs Haagen-Daaz and fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies into Evo's computer*
Mmmm, ooh the cookies are warm and chewy. :approve:

oh, almost forgot.. hang on...
*stuffs clean pair of underwear into Evo's computer via UTP (underwear transfer protocol)*
Bless you my child. o:) (no Danger, they're not Candy Pants)

MIH, did you see your tech support post I made for you. I was hoping you'd get a chuckle out of it.
 
  • #4,654
Evo said:
How was your day?
Better than that. Sorry to hear about yours. I'm not sure that I'm going to express this properly, but I hope you weren't really close to the guy.
 
  • #4,655
Evo said:
Ever just had one of those days?

Today has been one. Started out this morning when my co-worker, male, aged 32, seemed in perfect health, keeled over and died. :frown: Makes you realize that you never know.
OMG.. how'd he die?
My work laptop is dead, and the replacement they gave me doesn't work.
what a depressing day...
Driving home in the pouring rain, it appears my brakes are almost gone
even worse...
I got home and had a letter from AARP letting me know that I now qualify for membership.

I knocked over my bedside lamp three times tonight, breaking the bulb each time and now I am out of bulbs. (I wonder if AARP membership gives discounts on lightbulbs)
Should you buy the bulbs or get your breaks fixed?
I broke my full length mirror.
I've had bad days, but are you all right?
All the recipes everyone posted in the recipe thread made me really hungry and all I have to eat is a can of tuna.
groceries, bulbs, or brakes?
I just realized that I have no clean underwear for work tomorrow.

I forgot the dog was in my bedroom and he peed on my favorite goosedown pillow. :cry: There is no saving it.
pillow, groceries, bulbs, or brakes?
How was your day?
Great!

I think all this happened because you're deressed about your co-worker.(except the brakes)
 

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