A Conversation for The Opti Interview: dmitrigheorgheni

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Tonsil Revenge (PG)

Hehe.
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Back in the bad old days we'd just use the random search feature until something interesting came up.
There used to be something called a 'sin bin' around here. I forget what the PTB called it. It was an archive where the rubbish entries used to be tossed. The AWW was originally supposed to be a place where people who wrote things that were too silly or weird for the WW would stick their stuff if they weren't happy just leaving it on their space.

When I was slapping together issues of AGG/GAG and the CAC continuum many years ago, I would sometimes just do a theme issue off the top of my head. I'd use the site search feature and enter a word like "marbles". The group had a page called "waiters" where they had a list of the entries we'd all agreed weren't too bad. If something was salvageable but unintelligible to the general public (such as if they hadn't formatted it... at all) then we were willing to give a few hours to making an entry presentable.

The AWW as a pile of unsorted and unremoved items is a fascinating place. Cleaning it up might be a waste of time as you could spend such an interval just sitting down and letting your fingers do the talking and create an unsorted and unremovable entry of your own.

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Post 22

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - laugh Thanks for THOSE interesting insights...

Maybe you should help with this ongoing story business using the Improbability Drive (too lazy to go look for it, but it's in this issue of the Post).


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