Quiz you CAN'T Google! Page 27

Quote: Griff @ August 28 2008, 4:54 PM BST

I've only just seen this.

I need to point out that the exact sequence would have been

Seefacts: If you discover you're funny then crack on and get submitting - if you discover you're not, give up.

Griff: This manages the remarkable feat of being both trite and untrue.

I feel much misrepresented here.

I would never have misused an apostrophe in that way. ("Seefact's").

I must get on with writing that Python script to go through and delete my old posts.

But much kudos for persevering with Aaron's knackered Search functionality.

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I had to correct the misspelling of 'your'. It could well've been the other way around, it wasn't clear from the post. Anyway, the point was it was easy to guess because it was a Seefacts arguement. Plus I couldn't find any gaps before question marks or affectionately caustic remarks in the your first few posts, that may or may not even have been your first few posts...

Griff! You shouldn't do that.

Correction:

6/ This manages the remarkable feat of being both trite and untrue.

Seefacts' reply: You don't need a teacher to learn.

A point for who guesses this reworked question correctly.

I don't think anyone minded. No wonder you were the hardest to search for and I gave up. Why do you delete them? Except to stop them being used in random quizzes.

Oh. Well, I can understand that!

But in general, I think once you've had a conversation on a forum, it sort of becomes the property of everyone. If that makes sense...

Hmm. Well I don't really approve. But each to their own!

Quote: Griff @ August 28 2008, 7:08 PM BST

That's one of the reasons I like BSG. It's not a permanent record of your gripes and squabbles until time immemorial. Particularly since, unlike many, I've come on here using my real name. I recently had the horrific realisation that if one BBC producer I've got vaguely good relations with were to go looking me up on here, he'd find out I'd been slagging off one of his old shows. (I didn't realise he produced it until recently). Appropriate action has been taken already.

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Ah, ok. I've had the same fears, would change my name to a pseudonym but there'd probably be a fuss made about me being pretentious or somesuch.

To be fair, you could probably claim it was another 'Griff'.

Quote: Griff @ August 28 2008, 7:16 PM BST

It doesn't really screw up the conversations that much anyway - the replies to me often show my original text quoted, and I can't delete those.

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No - it was Seefacts who scrambled the quote making it hard to tell who was who. The original was missing, so I couldn't confirm.

Ffirg.

No one could ever break that code!

To be honest, after seeing some of the people who view this site, I think it's actually a sensible idea. The thread idea is good and zooo's already given you your new name.

Quote: zooo @ August 28 2008, 7:18 PM BST

Ffirg.

No one could ever break that code!

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LOL. I like you.

And thanks Griff. You've given me an idea for some new site functionality.

An archive for old posts?

Quote: zooo @ August 28 2008, 5:46 PM BST

Chapman!!!

Oh no, that's mine. (Oh, and a deader.)

I bet it's Cleese.

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Thank you zooo.

Why I oughta!

Quote: Griff @ August 28 2008, 7:13 PM BST

I'm very chatty on here, and I often talk about real-life stuff. I don't want this place to be a permanent record of everything about me. I don't delete stuff (except once or twice) while the threads are still "active". I just find stuff from six months back (using the magic of web programming) and delete things nobody is looking at anymore anyway.

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What if you've been quoted though? You can't do anything about that.

Quote: Griff @ August 28 2008, 9:31 PM BST

I love kittens.

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Griff, not this again...