Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
  • #3,721
Evo said:
Congrats Moonbear! I didn't even notice it was so close to 5,000.
See, Moonie? I ain't the only one who doesn't look. :-p
 
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  • #3,722
Moonbear said:
Woo hoo...and the thread hits 5000 replies! :biggrin:

Heh heh, it's indisputable who takes the prize this time! I got both the 5000th post and the 5000th reply! The rest of you must be sleeping on the job...oh, speaking of jobs, I better get back to mine now. :smile:


Nice job Moonbear. We all pitched in and your singing Turtle-gram should be arriving at your lab within the next few hours...enjoy :-p .
 
  • #3,723
I think Moonbear deserves a turtleneck 'sweater' for all her efforts
 
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cronxeh said:
I think Moonbear deserves a turtleneck 'sweater' for all her efforts
The thought of Moonbear with a turtleneck makes me sweatier. :-p
 
  • #3,725
Congratulations, moonbear! Following in my footsteps! :smile:
 
  • #3,726
I was browsing opera's forums and I saw a thread called: "Game: Last Post." This is very similar to this thread, except here it is not a game but serious business. Check the thread out. It has 36,000 posts on 1400 pages. http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=23427

The number of pages almost covers up the entire screen :smile:
 
  • #3,727
Yeah, but you have to weigh that against the fact that most of the posts THERE consist of a single smiley, sometimes accompanied by a sentence fragment.
 
  • #3,728
:smile: glad we're not like that
 
  • #3,729
That is true. The posts in this thread are thought out and well written :smile:

I was trying to show our competition. This thread was going strong when it was competeting against the stupid answer thread.
 
  • #3,730
Evo said:
I have gone way too long without a turtle. I can barely remember what it was like. I had decided I was better off alone, I am really picky and not willing to take in just any turtle, but all this turtle talk has made me realize how much I miss them.

Unfortunately all the good turtles are either unavailable, are too young and/or are not geographically accessible. :frown:
The free beer ad brought in undesirables. I have another idea. Why not offer to sponsor men from overseas? If "mail-order brides" can work for guys, why not for us? The interviewing, maybe even testing could be worthwhile in itself? :-p
 
  • #3,731
DocToxyn said:
Nice job Moonbear. We all pitched in and your singing Turtle-gram should be arriving at your lab within the next few hours...enjoy :-p .
:smile: Dang! If I had known that was the prize I would have stayed up all night! :biggrin:
 
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  • #3,733
mattmns said:
That is true. The posts in this thread are thought out and well written :smile:

I was trying to show our competition. This thread was going strong when it was competeting against the stupid answer thread.
And we thought you were busy studying... :bugeye:

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That's pretty cool! (And I thought I had too much time on my hands.) :-p
 
  • #3,734
DocToxyn said:
Nice job Moonbear. We all pitched in and your singing Turtle-gram should be arriving at your lab within the next few hours...enjoy :-p .


Woo hoo! Now that should get some attention! :biggrin: :-p
 
  • #3,735
(And I thought I had too much time on my hands.)
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  • #3,736
BicycleTree said:
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The eye was better (I thought the eye was pretty cool...you could make a large poster size print of that and display it). This one was just silly. :-p
 
  • #3,737
Well if I remember right it took like an hour to make the eye.
 
  • #3,738
BicycleTree said:
Well if I remember right it took like an hour to make the eye.


SOS is right, you DO have too much free time on your hands! :smile:
 
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SOS is right, you DO have too much free time on your hands!
Anything in the pursuit of art.
 
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BicycleTree said:
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Anything in the pursuit of art.

And :-p right back at you! :biggrin: How do you make the bars?
 
  • #3,741
In Windows: Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> Character Map and then select the bar and do copy

One thing that's annoying on my computer is that often I want to "select all text until the end of the document." Especially with the blocks, because for some reason my computer gets really slow when I'm scrolling past them so I don't want to mouse-select and wait for the scroll bar to go all the way to the bottom. Now, "go to end of document" is cntrl-end. "select" is shift. My computer is a laptop. Cntrl-end-shift is SYSTEM STANDBY.
 
  • #3,742
SOS2008 said:
The free beer ad brought in undesirables. I have another idea. Why not offer to sponsor men from overseas? If "mail-order brides" can work for guys, why not for us? The interviewing, maybe even testing could be worthwhile in itself? :-p
Actually I do have a "best friend in Italy". :-p Of course he's absolutely brilliant to the point of being borderline insane, (concert pianist/composer turned architect, turned media mogul and he just turned 32) but that's probably why he's still able to tolerate me after 7 years. But being an Italian, he still lives at home with his mother since he's single.

This is him. He recently escaped being held hostage on a remote island by Romanian bikini models. :devil:
 

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  • #3,743
BicycleTree said:
In Windows: Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> Character Map and then select the bar and do copy

Oh, guess I don't get to play with bars, since I have a Mac. Oh well, I have more fun playing in bars anyway. :biggrin:

One thing that's annoying on my computer is that often I want to "select all text until the end of the document." Especially with the blocks, because for some reason my computer gets really slow when I'm scrolling past them so I don't want to mouse-select and wait for the scroll bar to go all the way to the bottom. Now, "go to end of document" is cntrl-end. "select" is shift. My computer is a laptop. Cntrl-end-shift is SYSTEM STANDBY.

Heh heh, I can gloat on that one! Cmd-A is "select all" on my Mac. :biggrin:
 
  • #3,744
Moonbear said:
Oh, guess I don't get to play with bars, since I have a Mac. Oh well, I have more fun playing in bars anyway. :biggrin:



Heh heh, I can gloat on that one! Cmd-A is "select all" on my Mac. :biggrin:
I second those, but I usually use 'EDIT' 'SELECT ALL' because my memory doesn't work so well on keyboard shortcuts. What's this about bars, though? Does your display show something other than a bunch of coloured ?'s?

I'm going to ignore them other silly womens, them talkin' 'bout importing dudes from way somewheres else. Too many dudes here already for to give decent market shares.
 
  • #3,745
"Select all" is cntrl-A in Windows. But I mean selecting until the end, and excluding the stuff above. Say I have made a text picture in wordpad, and copy-pasted it into my message, and then posted the message. Now I discover there's a problem with the picture, so I fix it in wordpad.

Now I copy the new picture and edit my post. But what now? Somehow I have to select the part of my post that has the flawed picture, and _not_ select the part of my post that has anything else I've typed, in order to paste the new picture over the old. Selecting everything would erase what I've already typed. Hence the horrible mistake, shift-cntrl-end, sending my computer into standby (preserving programs but mostly turning the computer off) and breaking my internet connection.

I think you can still work with the bars by selecting a bar in one of my pictures and clicking copy. Probably there's a built-in way to make bars on a mac too but I don't use macs much.
 
  • #3,746
BicycleTree said:
"Select all" is cntrl-A in Windows. But I mean selecting until the end, and excluding the stuff above.

I never knew that was even an option on a Mac or a PC.

I think you can still work with the bars by selecting a bar in one of my pictures and clicking copy. Probably there's a built-in way to make bars on a mac too but I don't use macs much.

Nope...see how it all changed to question marks when I quoted you? It looks right in my reply window, but the codes are somehow different when I reply with a Mac. Oh well, not like I have the hours you seem to have to create forum art. :-p
 
  • #3,747
Danger said:
What's this about bars, though? Does your display show something other than a bunch of coloured ?'s?

In post 5023, BT's smiley face is made with colored bars, not question marks, but it converts to question marks when I quoted it.
 
  • #3,748
Well, question marks are fine also, just not as dark. Or W's. It doesn't take a really long time unless it's difficult, like the eye. I whipped up the tongue smiley in about 15 minutes because I had a template (the tongue smiley here, blown up in Paint), and it would have been shorter except I had to fine-tune some things.

Of course, there are techniques to use to speed the process up. :wink:
 
  • #3,749
Evo said:
This is him. He recently escaped being held hostage on a remote island by Romanian bikini models. :devil:
So I'm reading your post, getting into the story, and then... you zing me! :smile:
 
  • #3,750
SOS2008 said:
So I'm reading your post, getting into the story, and then... you zing me! :smile:
Not deliberately. She just popped a strap thinking about him. :-p