Astericks Poll
Posted: 15 Jan 2004, 22:57
I think Planet Catfish should stop automatically putting astericks in the word Pleco? Anyone else? 
Barbie
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Posted: 15 Jan 2004, 23:23
I think they are a piece of history, and represent the understated and always present humor I love about this place. I personally think they should stay and we can work on world peace, rather than whether or not there are *'s in the word for our favorite sucker fish.
Barbie
Barbie
Posted: 15 Jan 2004, 23:55
I say keep it ;) its a funny quirk about the site
Posted: 15 Jan 2004, 23:56
My vote is for Cl*****1 
Posted: 16 Jan 2004, 00:42
Keep it, I agree it is good history.
Posted: 16 Jan 2004, 08:47
Keep the ****!!! I had a good laugh the first time, and it is still funny! A smile for free!!! This makes us different; it makes us catfish geeks! 
Cichlids, cichlids, cichlids, cichlids, pleco, cichlids, cichlids, cichlids, cichlids, cichlid, Malawi cichlid, cichlidae, You see?!
Cichlids, cichlids, cichlids, cichlids, pleco, cichlids, cichlids, cichlids, cichlids, cichlid, Malawi cichlid, cichlidae,
You see?!Posted: 16 Jan 2004, 09:00
LOL! Dave I read that three times before it dawned on me what it meant! Sheesh, I must be tired!
Sorry Clay
Barbie
Sorry Clay
Barbie
Posted: 16 Jan 2004, 15:47
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D$ny*r
D$ny*r
Posted: 16 Jan 2004, 15:59
Asterisks are also the spammer's friend (for that matter, so are tildes, ampersands, and other non-alphabet characters):
"Cheap Vi*gr*"
"G*t out of d*bt"
"Online c*sino: free $100"
"Hot teen ch*cks"
And so on...
"Cheap Vi*gr*"
"G*t out of d*bt"
"Online c*sino: free $100"
"Hot teen ch*cks"
And so on...
Posted: 16 Jan 2004, 17:31
Wow, looks like I was wrong. I hate them.
Pl e co
Pl e co
Posted: 16 Jan 2004, 18:10
Yes, asterisks are a spammers friend for sneaking past email filters, however these small quirks hark back to the original usenet forums on the internet. The origins are that there was a thread specifically that if you typed the word "pleco" on the internet, one of your fish would die!
This is before there even WAS a World Wide Web. Actually, I think the WWW. was just in it's infancy at the time...
The original thread was utterly entertaining, and obviously very endearing in that this tradition survives today on PC.
I vote it stays.
This is before there even WAS a World Wide Web. Actually, I think the WWW. was just in it's infancy at the time...
The original thread was utterly entertaining, and obviously very endearing in that this tradition survives today on PC.
I vote it stays.
Posted: 16 Jan 2004, 21:17
To ignore history is to be blind to the future! Or some such nonsense. It's a rare piece of internet history that should stay.
Jools
Jools