The Off Topic Thread

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:33 pm

Julian Mayo wrote:HEY ED ! HOW COME I GET 5 EMAIL ALERTS FOR THIS THREAD

Even the email system can't handle the kind of stuff posted here

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:36 pm

gkaytaz wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:HEY ED ! HOW COME I GET 5 EMAIL ALERTS FOR THIS THREAD
Even the email system can't handle the kind of stuff posted here

Yes all that talk about cessnas!!!

Ed · Post by Ed » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:42 pm

Julian Mayo wrote:HEY ED ! HOW COME I GET 5 EMAIL ALERTS FOR THIS THREAD

Perhaps you have stumbled on a bug!

As this thread is a collection of posts that belong in nowhere then we cannot predict their behaviour.

But you can try to untick the notify box and see what happens.

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:44 pm

Ed wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:HEY ED ! HOW COME I GET 5 EMAIL ALERTS FOR THIS THREAD
Perhaps you have stumbled on a bug!

As this thread is a collection of posts that belong in nowhere then we cannot predict their behaviour.

Try to untick the notify box and see what happens.

This thread is the thread that could spell the end of the world as we know it

First thing I did when I joined was to turn off the notification...

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:51 pm

Ed wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:HEY ED ! HOW COME I GET 5 EMAIL ALERTS FOR THIS THREAD
Perhaps you have stumbled on a bug!

As this thread is a collection of posts that belong in nowhere then we cannot predict their behaviour.

But you can try to untick the notify box and see what happens.

6 that time

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:52 pm

gkaytaz wrote:
Ed wrote:
Julian Mayo wrote:HEY ED ! HOW COME I GET 5 EMAIL ALERTS FOR THIS THREAD
Perhaps you have stumbled on a bug!

As this thread is a collection of posts that belong in nowhere then we cannot predict their behaviour.

Try to untick the notify box and see what happens.
This thread is the thread that could spell the end of the world as we know it First thing I did when I joined was to turn off the notification...

The world, as we know, it has long gone. Sato saw to that

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:26 am

Julian Mayo wrote: The world, as we know, it has long gone. Sato saw to that

Aww, poor us

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:41 am

I am pretty sure I saw the tail of the Alonso thread somewhere around here... Some posts have been moved?

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:47 am

gkaytaz wrote:I am pretty sure I saw the tail of the Alonso thread somewhere around here... Some posts have been moved?

Yikes! Ed has had a tidy up and everything I've said for the past eight days has ended up on this thread!

gkaytaz · Post by **gkaytaz** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:55 am

Snowy wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:I am pretty sure I saw the tail of the Alonso thread somewhere around here... Some posts have been moved?
Yikes! Ed has had a tidy up and everything I've said for the past eight days has ended up on this thread!

Hmm, is it at all possible to say anything

in this thread?

If so, where would that post go?

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:12 am

gkaytaz wrote:
Snowy wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:I am pretty sure I saw the tail of the Alonso thread somewhere around here... Some posts have been moved?
Yikes! Ed has had a tidy up and everything I've said for the past eight days has ended up on this thread!
Hmm, is it at all possible to say anything in this thread? If so, where would that post go?

An interesting philosophical question. Were I to mention Formula One it would definately be off topic of me however I suspect that it would meet the criteria of being off topic. If you were to reply and maintain a discource with the F1 aspect of the previous post it would indeed contravene the premise or tenet of the thread and thus constitute being off topic. I sense a profound paradox of "chicken and egg" proportions. Life is profoudly paradoxical and thus this thread probably constitutes the closest this forum has come to producing life!

May it's heart beat forever, however long that is.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:48 am

Snowy wrote:
gkaytaz wrote:
Snowy wrote:
Yikes! Ed has had a tidy up and everything I've said for the past eight days has ended up on this thread!
Hmm, is it at all possible to say anything in this thread? If so, where would that post go?
An interesting philosophical question. Were I to mention Formula One it would definately be off topic of me however I suspect that it would meet the criteria of being off topic. If you were to reply and maintain a discource with the F1 aspect of the previous post it would indeed contravene the premise or tenet of the thread and thus constitute being off topic. I sense a profound paradox of "chicken and egg" proportions. Life is profoudly paradoxical and thus this thread probably constitutes the closest this forum has come to producing life!

May it's heart beat forever, however long that is.

For as long as F1, in any form, continues.........thank gawd the V8Supercars are on this weekend

....................

Yikes....I better get busy

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:16 am

Snowy wrote:An interesting philosophical question. Were I to mention Formula One it would definately be off topic of me however I suspect that it would meet the criteria of being off topic. If you were to reply and maintain a discource with the F1 aspect of the previous post it would indeed contravene the premise or tenet of the thread and thus constitute being off topic. I sense a profound paradox of "chicken and egg" proportions. Life is profoudly paradoxical and thus this thread probably constitutes the closest this forum has come to producing life!

May it's heart beat forever, however long that is.

Very interesting Snowy!

Perhaps we should have a special thread for this philosophical question

Not always does a topic stray into all sorts of directions, sometimes (and amazingly so) a clear topic emerges from a number of irrelevant posts, at that stage we would move this newly evolved topic to its own thread

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:40 am

Ed wrote:
Snowy wrote:An interesting philosophical question. Were I to mention Formula One it would definately be off topic of me however I suspect that it would meet the criteria of being off topic. If you were to reply and maintain a discource with the F1 aspect of the previous post it would indeed contravene the premise or tenet of the thread and thus constitute being off topic. I sense a profound paradox of "chicken and egg" proportions. Life is profoudly paradoxical and thus this thread probably constitutes the closest this forum has come to producing life!

May it's heart beat forever, however long that is.
Very interesting Snowy!

Perhaps we should have a special thread for this philosophical question

Not always does a topic stray into all sorts of directions, sometimes (and amazingly so) a clear topic emerges from a number of irrelevant posts, at that stage we would move this newly evolved topic to its own thread

We have one.its called Snowys thread, and we are not allowed to post in it.......which poses an interesting philosophical question

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:41 pm

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icons put your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

You can't say this?
What a shame sir.
We'll find you another game sir!

If the label on your cable on the gable at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the s@&*^'s gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary RISC,
The you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM,
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!

By a Dr. Seuss emulator