The SDMB Hamsters, or Thea finds an appropriate use for the 1920's style Death Ray

The BBQ Pit
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OK, look, I understand that this board is run by hamsters. I understand that the hamsters must be fed, but dammit…

I started the thread I was trying to post to. It took me ten minutes to type that post. OK, not a huge chunk of my life, but this was the final straw.

This was not the fist time the hamsters ate a post of mine. It has happened many, many times.

It wouldn’t bother me so much if the hamsters only nibbled the occasional short post. But those dratted hamsters have eaten posts that it took me up to an hour to compose, with quotes and links to citations and, and…

I can’t stand it anymore.

shoulders her 1920’s style Death Ray blaster

Here, hamster, hamster, hamster…

***spots one of the offending rodents and squeezes trigger. regards resultant puddle of smoking ooze with satisfaction"""

Gotcha, you little bastard…

goes off in search of next fuzzy little cybervictim

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Gosh, I thought my “this board is slow” thread was harsh!

Maybe we should go through the archive and see how many people have started a TBIS thread.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree that the slowness is a hassle. But isn’t it extreme to turn the death ray on the hamsters?

BTW, it took me 10 minutes to get the reply through. I try to always copy my text to the clipboard so if I need to retype it I can just paste it in.

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We need some of those extinct one-ton guinea pigs. I bet that’d get those servers processing faster than we can post.
On a side note, ctrl-c is your friend.

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Thea, please marry me.

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Well, until we can get one of those cloned, we could always use capybaras.

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i need one of those guinea pigs and it could be my best friend

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I believe the proper terminology for a hamster kill with a 1920s style death ray is, “gotcha ya.”

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Won’t death-raying them slow down the boards even more? The thought of that happening is very, very scary.

Put. The. DeathRay. Down.
Please!

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[unsolicited advice]
How about composing your lengthy posts off the board and then just cut and paste into the reply box. If the post gets 'et by them gol’darned varmints, you’ve still got the original doc to refer to.
[/unsolicited advice]

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Ruby nailed that one dead on. In fact, this post was composed in the reply window, copied, pasted into EditPad Classic, and then hoisted into the aether…

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…And the experiment proves yet again that the mere existence of the backup somehow prevents the post from shuffling the mortal coil.

In other words, redundancy is its own backup.

Or maybe it’s better to say, “tautology is self-rewarding.”

Or maybe I could say… No, I’ll save that for another post, just in case.

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AHHHHHHHHHHH

Bangs head on desk

WACK-WACK-WACK-WACK

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THEA, PLEASE MARRY ME!!

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Stalking through the terrain, attacking with a 1920’s Style Death Ray, cometh Thea Logica! And she gives a gutteral bellow:

“I’m going to forcibly reverse your gender!!!”

:smiley:

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Ah, it’s thea with a 1920’s style death ray.

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OK, but only if you’ll support me financially until I finish school, and afterward let me have my own little massage clinic in a spare room of the house.

Oh, yeah, and I want a separate room to house my ever-increasing stockpile, er, I mean collection of 1920’s style death rays.

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I have to echo what has been said:

Compose in notepad. Or at the very least, Ctrl+c your post into your clipboard buffer while you submit.

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Personally, I don’t worry about the hamsters, but the coding weasels are a pain in the ass.

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What I want to know is, why doesn’t the board upgrade to ferrets?

Okay, so they’re carnivores, but you could feed them banned Dopers. I hear fricasseed troll is mighty tasty to them little critters.

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I don’t think the board has ever lost one of my posts. I have, by doing dumb stuff, but the board is pretty good at catching posts.

It’s pretty fast, too. Occasionally it can be a bit slow, but I always have more than one tab open at a time, so it’s not even noticeable.