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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Feb 25, 2003
What is this bus you talk of? Has the Grim Reaper been replaced by a bus service?
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sprout Posted Feb 25, 2003
It's a complement to the GR - A938225
Sprout
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 3, 2003
Is there not supposed to be an announcement when an entry is moved?
This entry has been removed from Peer Review because:
a) It does not match the Guidelines for writing Edited Entries.
b) Nobody has the faintest notion what it is about.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Mar 3, 2003
perhaps writing an announcement in a language that the author would have understood was too much of a tall order, so they didn't bother 
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 3, 2003
We could write the announcement and then use machine translation into German and back to English. That should do it! 
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Whisky Posted Mar 3, 2003
The Executive Board determines: This free time by ' the system of
evaluation Equalness ' were moved ' A976638 - - to HOLLY to
SEARCH - '.
Translation of...
Editorial Note: This conversation has been moved from 'Peer Review' to 'A976638 - -H-O-L-L-Y--E-X-A-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N-'.
(English to Dutch to French to German to French to Dutch to English)
Guess who's bored
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Mar 3, 2003
Makes about as much sense as the original article!
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mikeypie Posted Mar 25, 2003
If you liked this posting, you may also enjoy A1007100
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Ellen Posted Mar 25, 2003
Glad you are all having so much fun laughing at someone that is obviously psychotic! 
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 25, 2003
We tried to be polite, but he never came back to talk to us.
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Ellen Posted Mar 25, 2003
There is a clinical term for this: hypergraphia.
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Ellen Posted Mar 25, 2003
Hi Gnomen, sorry, simulpost there.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 25, 2003
Actually looking back on this thread, we didn't try to be polite. There were a number of other similar entries and we tried politeness there. By the time this one came along, we'd got fed up. But I don't know whether the others were by the same researcher. The one I remember in particular was "The problem is religious".
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Ellen Posted Mar 25, 2003
Actually there's no really great response you can make. The only one that is appropriate is "please seek help", but if a person is already psychotic, there's very little chance of them understanding or heeding you. I guess I mainly take exception to the suggestions that the writer was on drugs. That may not be the case at all, the person may simply be mentally ill. Such people deserve compassion, not ridicule. I guess I feel strongly about this because I am bipolar myself.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Mar 25, 2003
Call it 'offloading'. We have had *reams* of this stuff sent to PR recently, and we're only trying to preserve what's left of our own sanity by using an adult approach: humour. He has ignored all polite injunctions to modify his approach. The other options are (a) screaming at this individual in the hope that he'll stop, (b) getting the Italics to ban him totally, (c) trying to ignore him while still having to wade knee-deep through this garbage or (d) persistently yikesing his stuff. All of which are particularly dispiriting.
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Tango Posted Mar 25, 2003
It looks to me like entries like these were written on computers suffering from a PEBCAK error...
Tango
PS Whoever works out what pebcak stands for first wins a mystery prize.
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mikeypie Posted Mar 25, 2003
I prefer PEBSAK (seat) . Do I get to ask the next question?
Oh. I must be on the wrong board. *goes back to h2iq* 
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mikeypie Posted Mar 25, 2003
JEllenJ42, it might be constructive to do an entry on hypergraphia and similar psychosis and then we could use these entries as constructive examples of the condition. (win-win?)
I am not medically trained and don't feel qualified to write such an article or provide diagnosis myself, but if you have access to proper texts or have the training, you might be able to do this.
Hmm?
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Stuart Posted Mar 26, 2003
Would somebody please explain what hypergraphia is. I'm having difficulty following this thread without knowing what everyone is talking about.
I could possibly work out hypographia but hypergraphia has me stumped.
Stuart
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