# A Giraffe speaks an unknown language
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 31, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359 "2020-12-31T16:18:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/1 "2020-12-31T16:18:31Z")
Eek!
Raffe is down.
May I post nonsense here? I have to post something silly.
Also, happy new year all!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/2 "2020-12-31T16:37:08Z")
Still down. Anybody know why? Did someone forget to pay the hosting bill?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/3 "2020-12-31T16:41:14Z")
> [@JimNightshade](#):
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> May I post nonsense here? I have to post something silly.
Funny you should ask, [a game of Mornington Crescent recently started.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/12)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/4 "2020-12-31T16:47:20Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Still down. Anybody know why? Did someone forget to pay the hosting bill?
They ran out of eucalyptus leaves.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/5 "2020-12-31T16:48:01Z")
It’s working for me.
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### Author:  [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/6 "2020-12-31T17:03:10Z")
I’ll add a data point that it is not yet working for me. Maybe it is one of those changes that needs to ‘propagate’ with different users seeing the change at different times.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/7 "2020-12-31T17:03:12Z")
Sorry the site’s having probs, but good to hear from you prehensile ungulates. Stop by any time your playground’s taped off due to… toxic waste spill? Hamsters on strike? Cheetahs staking out the water hole?
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### Author:  [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/8 "2020-12-31T17:13:06Z")
It’s down for me, too, since yesterday evening. I was trying to remember just who here was a two-board poster so I could check in with them and see if it was down for everyone. What’s up, **Giraffe**? Is it vBulletin being a dick?
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/9 "2020-12-31T17:26:47Z")
I get this error:
**Fatal error:** The requested language does not exist, reset via tools.php. in **[path]/includes/class\_core.php** on line **3061**
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### Author:  [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/10 "2020-12-31T17:35:09Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#):
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> I’ll add a data point that it is not yet working for me. Maybe it is one of those changes that needs to ‘propagate’ with different users seeing the change at different times.
Maybe they banned you. 😉
Happy New Year!
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/11 "2020-12-31T17:38:23Z")
Previous thread:
> [@Turnabout Is Fair Play](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turnabout-is-fair-play/929300):
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> Looks like the GiraffeBoards is down. Shall we welcome any refugees who need a place to hang out and post for the interim?
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/12 "2020-12-31T19:44:46Z")
Dang. I wanted to put my death pool picks there before the deadline.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-giraffe-speaks-an-unknown-language/929359/13 "2020-12-31T21:24:09Z")
The 'Raffe is back up, for me at least.