Too bad the Thanks didn't migrate.

[moss elk]

Too bad the old Thanked posts didn't migrate to be calculated with the Likes.

I mean, after all, we are all here for the grand prize, right?

(It's a dirigible airship, isn't it?!
Oh I want one so bad.)

 

[Trojina]

The wiki contributions didn't migrate either. How does anyone keep any credit around here ? It now says I have 0 wiki entries. I had 150 at least huh

I don't understand the bit about the dirigible airship ?

However with the old thanks system you never knew who thanked you because if the threads were old you never saw them. It's weird now if someone thanks a post from a decade ago you get notified of it

 

[moss elk]

I don't understand the bit about the dirigible airship ?

Twas whimsy,
dear swimmer.

 

[Trojina]

I don't understand what your post had to do with a dirigible airship in any sense. I do not know how it is connected to anything. It must have been connected to something about the thanks button ? Why do you want a dirigible airship ? Even if it's whimsy there must be a why ? I had no idea what a dirigible airship was so googled but still no idea what you meant

 

[Liselle]

I think he meant that the prize we're all here for is a dirigible airship. M.E., if I should ever win such a thing, I will give it to you because I don't want one.

 

[Liselle]

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[moss elk]

I don't understand what your post had to do with a dirigible airship in any sense.

I was joking that we do the work of helping people here as if it were a contest.
(the Likes being the score keeping)
And, if it were a contest, surely there should be a prize? And surely, I would cause quite a majestic impression if I showed up anywhere in a blimp!


Now, I'll get two demerits on my clown-club membership card for explaining the joke.
See what I go through for you!?
At least the fools guild will still let me in,
they gave me an irrevocable embossed Pyrite membership card.

 

[Liselle]

At least the fools guild will still let me in,
they gave me an irrevocable embossed Pyrite membership card.

(although I had to look suspiciously at that several times before getting it. You are on a way higher joke level than the rest of us. Aren't you a Gemini? << explanation)

 

[moss elk]

Shhhh! Don't compliment me!
My fleas will get jealouse.

My sun, venus, and saturn are all in gemini.
(daughter has been explaining these things to me.)

 

[Liselle]

My fleas will get jealouse.

I'm not willing to work for that one. You'll have to just tell me.

(Making jokes about fleas. Cover your eyes, cats.)

 

[moss elk]

In direct contradiction to hex 16, Lao Tse said not to praise merit because it invokes jealousy in others. (context is important for such statements)

I played with the word jealous, spelling it as if it included a louse.
I am easily amused.

 

[Liselle]

*groan* (but amused as well)

I would not have gotten that. You're in rarified air, joke-wise. 🏔

 

[moss elk]

Wouldn't it be awful to have jealous fleas?
Every time they bit you, you'd know it was out of anger instead of hunger.

 

[Trojina]

Not sure why you deleted that Liselle it seemed a useful thing to remind me of. Yes there's a lot of stuff in wiki that can only be fixed when Ted returns from his operation.

The reason I didn't get the airship thing is I was failing to make the connection between that and the 'grand prize' but that's because I didn't know what a dirigible airship was and when I did couldn't see why anyone would want one. I didn't even know what you meant by the 'grand prize' to be honest or why we all here for the 'grand prize'.

I was joking that we do the work of helping people here as if it were a contest.
(the Likes being the score keeping)

I don't think so, I don't see it as a contest. Who is the 'we' or am I reading too much into what was meant as a light hearted joke....which was totally lost on me partly because I don't recognise it as a contest from anyone. I don't see anyone helping others here as if it were a contest, I think that's demeaning what 'we' do if it could be demeaned any further that is.

You have failed to elicit mirth (in me) in any of these jokes Elfie

 

[Liselle]

Since M.E. is the one who, entirely unbidden and unrelated to anyone else, started this thread about missing counts of things, I'm more seeing it as he was poking a little fun at his own self, if anything.

Mostly I think it's just upsetting to lose anything, period. Several of us have mourned the lost smilies. (*tiny sniffle escapes*)

Anyway, you were right all along, Trojina, all the wildebeests didn't make it across the river. But it's a glorious land for those who did...

 

[Trojina]

yes I know he was kidding and I don't care much about the lost wiki count I was half kidding about that. I mean what is the point, if you think about it, of counting wiki entries ? Nonetheless they have been lost.

 

[moss elk]

I'm more seeing it as he was poking a little fun at his own self, if anything.

bingo!

You have failed to elicit mirth (in me) in any of these jokes Elfie

How about this one?

 

[Trojina]

heh

 

[Liselle]

How about some household "hilarity"?

"I won't. eat. that,"
sayeth the cat.
~Tibbles


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[moss elk]

Ok, now the life-purpose of the internet must manifest: a Cat video!

For those who don't know ozzy man,
he swears quite a bit, but it's all in good fun.