A Conversation for h2g2 Smileys
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Peregrin Started conversation Jun 14, 2001
The editors might like to go to
[URL removed by moderator]
(if that's removed, it's the Wisecat website. It's a dot com company) and take a look at the smileys in the navigation bar at the top. The fish isn't ours (although it looks suspiciously like the altavista babel fish) but the cat and grin smileys *are* h2g2 ones.
Thieves! (I don't normally mind pirating pictures on the internet but Wisecat is a commercial site, so it's a bit cheap of them - and they don't even list h2g2 in their online community section!!)
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 14, 2001
He's right, you know. Scandalous!!!!
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h2g2Support Posted Jun 14, 2001
Gawd, you're right! I'll get the lawyers onto it - thanks for letting us know...
Mark
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 14, 2001
*offers a spare deckchair and some 
to Peregrin and settles down to watch the fight*
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Peregrin Posted Jun 14, 2001
*sits down with Amy the Ant, munches , and watches the 
fight* 
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 14, 2001
The bbc lawyers have specially sharpened teeth, you know.
Help yourself to 
s BTW.
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Peregrin Posted Jun 15, 2001
Thanks. *munch munch*
In BBC News Online - Talking Point today: 'Has the UK gone litigation crazy?'
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shrinkwrapped Posted Jun 18, 2001
The cheek! You're blummin' well right Peregrin, good work. Why I auta... they're not going to get away with this!
Now, where did I put my Bat With Nail In...
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 18, 2001
? Don't you mean "club" as in "it's still got a nail in it at night"?
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shrinkwrapped Posted Jun 18, 2001
I could be talking about a mammal that's eaten a fingernail, or a baseball bat... you decide!
I've just been checking out that '[Removed by moderator]' site - very strange. I don't think it's a commercial site in the "dot com company" sense - for instnance, its 'websearch' is the Instant Directory, which can be added to any site for free. And aren't the little Babel fish from Altavista? *checks* it is! It's the one next to "translate" on the front page!
Ahahaha... they don't want to be messing with the BBC AND Altavista!
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 18, 2001
I get the impression that Altavista got caught out using Babelfish without DNA's permission at some time in the past. Do they still have the link to h2g2 just underneath it?
The s are all on our side. 
<-- Picture of BBC lawyer.
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shrinkwrapped Posted Jun 18, 2001
*laughs at BBC vampire lawyer*
Further investigation has shown that wisecat's newsfeeds are from Moreover, its mailing list is just powered by listbot, and its "top 100" doesn't appear to work. All very dubious and ameteurish - quite a good idea, though - using all the free stuff from the web to make a pseudo-professional site. But NO-ONE steals h2g2 smilies and doesn't even link to the site! If you look at the names of the gifs, they're still the same.
*calms down and wanders off to have breakfast*
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 18, 2001
webreference gives a registered address in King's Lynn.
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 18, 2001
Oh poo! Perhaps they objected you you taking such a late breakfast 
.
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shrinkwrapped Posted Jun 18, 2001
Yes, I see where I went wrong now.
I'm sorry Moderators, I meant Brunch, I really did! 
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Aug 5, 2001
The smileys are still there. The reason I ask is that someone else is asking if it's ok to use the smileys on home pages. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F20473?thread=132378&latest=1
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Oct 15, 2001
Hmmm. More thieves! http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F58630?thread=146102&post=1397735#p1397735
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Peregrin Posted Nov 12, 2001
And still absolutely nothing done about it. The BBC are being unusually lenient
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Nov 13, 2001
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