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azahar Posted Mar 22, 2007
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Ha! You only *think* you know me ...
az
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Aximili Posted Mar 23, 2007
I'd like to put my name forward, if I may.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 23, 2007
Derek, hello, we've not met before I don't think. Is the quote of the day on the FP meant to go to post 1 of this thread, or to the exact post with the quote in it? It's a bit of an ask for researchers to read 170 odd posts to find az's brilliance 
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Mar 23, 2007
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Ha! You only *think* you know me ... >>
Ha! I have spies everywhere! 
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 23, 2007
Traveller in Time 
reading frontpage quotes
"It is intentional, the idea is to point interesting conversations, reading just 160 postings does only get readers involved before they reply.
There have been threads far longer then that promoted. Where the quote was somewhere in the middle 
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Geggs Posted Mar 23, 2007
Surely the alert hootooer would jump to the end and work backward, as the quote is presumably from the day before it appears on the Front Page?
Geggs
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 23, 2007
Yeah but a newbie, or a non-alert hootooer might not think to do that. I only jumped to the end because I wanted to see what was still being talked about (I was already subbed but had stopped reading a while back).
Traveller, there's no way I would have read 170 posts to find the source of that quote 
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 23, 2007
Traveller in Time on top
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one was from 'cancel' something like 'i want 2 cancel this account what 2 do'
Actually I have never found who was quoted but I have a suspicion 
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Geggs Posted Mar 23, 2007
Now, I believe you would be able to find that quote in the first post of the relevent thread. So there wuld be no problem in searching for that one.
Not that I'm saying who said it. Dear me, no. I'm just not going there.
Geggs
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 23, 2007
They linked to *that thread off the FP? 
So, this new Derek bloke, he's not raking up the place is he? 
(I've not been around much recently)
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 23, 2007
Traveller in Time read it all
"There are numerous repeats of the sacred words, so we will never know for sure where the quote was from. "
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Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Mar 23, 2007
This Derek bloke is tickling the dark underbelly of hootoo and slapping it on the front page.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 23, 2007
Where has the smiley gone ?
Traveller in Time quoting todays quote
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>Trust me honey, compared to me you are young. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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>az
There was definitely a significant smiley on that line .
Our Dear Hunney is getting old indeed "
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Derek Posted Mar 23, 2007
Yesh. The namesh Hunny. Derek Hunny. Pleashed to meet you.
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Researcher 815350 Posted Mar 23, 2007
Derek is a slapper?
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Derek Posted Mar 23, 2007
On a more serious note we're presently looking into why we're not linking directly to posts. There's a reason for it - technically speaking - but we can't remember what it was. We'll get back to you asap. 
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Derek Posted Mar 23, 2007
Right. The Quote Of The Day will now link directly to the quote. The technical reason for us not previously doing this is that we, er, forgot how.
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Icy North Posted Mar 23, 2007
Can you please make *that* Quote of the Day, Derek!
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 23, 2007
< F19585?thread=3951593&skip=160&show=20#p46876206 >
<LINK H2G2="F19585?thread=3951593&skip=160#p46876206"> 
Quote of the day
F19585?thread=3951593&skip=160&show=20#pi167
<LINK H2G2="F19585?thread=3951593&skip=160#pi167"> Quote of the day
Traveller in Time looking up
"Well, I can imagine it takes a meeting to form a subcommitee and another meeting, a business trip to the nearby pub and a business diner to decide what kind of link to use "
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 23, 2007
"Derek Hunny" sounds more like from WInnie the Pooh I'm afraid
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Did you lot decide anything interesting in the last 190 posts?
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- 181: azahar (Mar 22, 2007)
- 182: Aximili (Mar 23, 2007)
- 183: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 23, 2007)
- 184: Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... (Mar 23, 2007)
- 185: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 23, 2007)
- 186: Geggs (Mar 23, 2007)
- 187: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 23, 2007)
- 188: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 23, 2007)
- 189: Geggs (Mar 23, 2007)
- 190: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 23, 2007)
- 191: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 23, 2007)
- 192: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Mar 23, 2007)
- 193: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 23, 2007)
- 194: Derek (Mar 23, 2007)
- 195: Researcher 815350 (Mar 23, 2007)
- 196: Derek (Mar 23, 2007)
- 197: Derek (Mar 23, 2007)
- 198: Icy North (Mar 23, 2007)
- 199: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 23, 2007)
- 200: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 23, 2007)
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