Remembering 'Gotcha Ya'

[Joey_P]

Put down the chocolate-covered banana and step away from the European currency systems.

I think about this thread every time someone asks me for (usually computer related) help with something but keeps talking over me or asking questions/making suggestions that are entirely unrelated. I usually find myself saying either ‘don’t just ahead of me’ or ‘just answer the questions I’m asking you’ but I suppose “Put down the chocolate-covered banana and step away from the European currency systems” works as well. In any case, I think a lot of us have been in that situation and most of us were thinking ‘you asked me for help, let me help’.

One of my favorites was back in high school/college. Back when saving things on 3.5" floppies was the norm, this was a very regular conversation I had.
Them: I keep getting an error when I try to save this.
Me: What does the error say?
Them: I don’t know, I just hit okay.
Me: Alright, um, hit save.
[they hit save, then clear the error before it pops up]
Me: Try that again, but don’t clear the error so we can see what it’s saying.
[they hit save]
Me: STOP, don’t touch anything.
[me, reading error]
Me: It says there’s no disk in the disk drive.
Them: oh, ok thanks.
Then I have to find a way to very politely explain that a lot of the errors will tell them what the problem is and how to fix it.

[Paintcharge]

What was that thread about clueless people…Rondas maybe?

[Senegoid]

@Shalmanese

\color{Purple}{\text {this post has been Graped by the Grapist!}}

Whoa! Waitaminnit! Stop the presses! When did Discourse allow colored text? Aha – I see, it seems to come with the Math stuff. Kewl!

[Princhester]

@Gyrate

Also, I can’t remember where we ended up on the whole “Wally” thing - entertaining board member, or annoying jerk? Or a bit of Column A, bit of Column B?

IMHO these boards need to remember the extent to which “bit of Column A, bit of Column B” can be entertaining and worthwhile.

@Senegoid

Whoa! Waitaminnit! Stop the presses! When did Discourse allow colored text? Aha – I see, it seems to come with the Math stuff. Kewl!

Bear in mind that just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

[Gyrate]

@Princhester

Bear in mind that just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should .

As the Grapist soon learned.

[Princhester]

Did they?

I thought their “Grapings” were sufficiently rare and random that they were regarded as harmless and never sanctioned?

[Gyrate]

ISTR the opposite, but it was a long time ago.

[Frodo]

The grapist was banned pretty quickly IIRC.

[Joey_P]

@Princhester

I thought their “Grapings” were sufficiently rare and random that they were regarded as harmless and never sanctioned?

IIRC, their name was actually “the grapist” and I think they did it to every post.
Many years later we had someone that used green for all their posts. I remember defending them as they were facing ban (which happened anyway) because I didn’t think they should get banned for simply using a font color that made it harder for some people to read.

I like when grapist posts pop up because it reminds me to go spend an hour watching Whitest Kids You Know videos, like, The Grapist.

[gregorio]

The Ron thread:

The Ron Thread

Okay - this is for the people from this thread that read this snippet: The first time I met Ron was at a holiday party I was hosting at my house. My sister and Ron showed up 2 hours late - because they were shopping for toilet paper. yes you read that right. I was the older sister (by 2 years and 363 days but who’s counting?) and so therefore you would assume a certain desire to make a good impression. What I got was my sister and Ron doing the human hand-holding contortion: His arm aroun…

And there was this:

The Ron Thread II: Rise of the Ron-D'OHs

For those who may need a refresher course on Rononyms (Ron-style synonyms): **Ron: **a man who tends to believe their own hype and not understand why their logic doesn’t compute with everyone. Usually identified with the addition of Ron to their first name. (Steve-Ron, Jay-Ron, etc.)*See The Ron Thread for examples. * **Ronette: **a female Ron. Ron-duh: Someone who dates or puts up with a Ron. **Ronulian: **not Ron, but possessing Ron-like connections or qualities. **A ‘stache of Rons:…

And how about that Shredder Guy? Has anyone seen the forks?

[Joey_P]

FWIW, the person that posted in green was Miss_Spaulding. I don’t know if she was banned or not (it just says guest) and her post are all the ‘correct’ color now.
I also found a pit thread about her as well as my thread defending her and a thread a few months later by Dseid appearing to be somewhat similar to mine. However, the threads are long(ish) and all the links are broken so I haven’t picked through them yet.
It seems like, at least in part, she was noted for breaking a non-existent rule but then kept doing it and got in trouble for not following mod directions. Like getting arrested for resisting arrest when the initial arrest was for something you did that was entirely legal, it just annoyed the officer.
It’s interesting that all the way back then (2015) people were still complaining that one of the reasons we don’t get a lot of new members is because we chase them off, like we did with her.

[Senegoid]

@Princhester

@Senegoid

Whoa! Waitaminnit! Stop the presses! When did Discourse allow colored text? Aha – I see, it seems to come with the Math stuff. Kewl!

Bear in mind that just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

@Gyrate

As the Grapist soon learned.

\color{Orange}\text{Y}\color{Green}\text{'}\color{Brown}\text{a}\color{Blue}\text{l}\color{Red}\text{l}\color{Purple}\text{ g}\color{Orange}\text{o}\color{Green}\text{t}\color{Brown}\text{t}\color{Blue}\text{a}\color{Red}\text{ p}\color{Purple}\text{r}\color{Orange}\text{o}\color{Green}\text{b}\color{Brown}\text{l}\color{Blue}\text{e}\color{Red}\text{m}\color{Purple}\text{ w}\color{Orange}\text{i}\color{Green}\text{d}\color{Brown}\text{d}\color{Blue}\text{a}\color{Red}\text{t}\color{Purple}\text{?}

[Senegoid]

There was also that post, something along these lines:

____ __ ____ ____ ____ _______ ___ ___ __ _________, _____ ____ ___ ______ .

Your post has been ironed by the ironist.

[superwombat]

One of the greatest stumpers ever:

14 k of g in a f p d

What is the answer to this? It is one of those questions along the same lines of: 7 D in a W = 7 days in a week. but I can’t figure it out, any ideas?

[Joey_P]

You’ve got to be effin kidding me. I just spent the last 10 minutes trying to come up with that acronym and finally found it to see that it was just posted.

[Gyrate]

Clearly it’s “14 karats of gold in a Franklin Peale dollar”.

No, it almost certainly isn’t that. But at least it kind of works.

[Joey_P]

Except, as noted in many threads across the internet, no one says ‘karats of gold’.

[Gyrate]

No one says “Franklin Peale dollar” either. But I’m not letting that stop me!

[janis_and_c0]

@Pork_Rind

For close to 20 years now, I’ve wondered just how good Mayfield Turtle Tracks ice cream must be. I wonder if they still even make it?

They do, indeed. Because of this thread, I just ordered some… I’ll let you know how it is… FOR SCIENCE!

That said, One of my favorite board things is remembering when Beta Chan was born, the baby pool, and all the “sticky” wishes. I still appreciate @TokyoBayer for that thread (s).

[janis_and_c0]

Sadly, they were out of Turtle Tracks. I’m so irritated oh, I got moose tracks instead. But it’s not the same. I’ll try again.