Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Colif]

I wasn't here prior to the new software, I came along after it was in place. I don't know what happened in the dark ages. I wonder when the renaissance will be.

the ice cream was fun... need more.

I was wondering how long people would take to notice.

 

[Pifanjr]

All that stuff, which I assume is accurate, is much more recent than my faulty memory allows. On the other hand, /jk isn't listed and I never see anyone else use it, and it isn't nearly as good as /j, so I probably invented it, and it's just as prestigious as inventing a a pasta pot with the colander holes conveniently located on the bottom so that it can't hold water.

I have seen "jk" being used without the forward slash quite often, maybe you just added the slash because it felt like a tone indicator to you.

Also, I was reminded of something else I was wrong about when I followed one of the article's references, which is that I always assumed that elevators were made unbalanced so that if the cable broke it would wedge itself in the shaft instead of falling. Nope, they just fall all the way to the ground, as has unfortunately been proven recently. No idea why I thought they were unbalanced. If I had known that, I would have demanded a ground floor office when I worked in a 29 story building, and it had the oldest, worst elevator I've ever seen. When you went down, it felt like you were on a rollercoaster with that odd feeling in your stomach, and when it went up, it took forever, and no matter which direction you went, it made godawful screeching sounds like you just disturbed a huge nest of harpies. I always pictured the hunchback of Notre-Dame standing at the top of the shaft struggling to turn a wheel and gear mechanism that hadn't been greased in 100 years.

I know there are safety clamps that are supposed to stop an elevator if the ropes break, but I can imagine that if something goes so wrong that all ropes break there's a good chance the clamps won't be enough to stop the elevator either.

 

[ZedClampet]

I have seen "jk" being used without the forward slash quite often, maybe you just added the slash because it felt like a tone indicator to you.

I don't think so, but I've been over 30 hours without sleep, so what do I know. It may have been around before I used it, but I hadn't seen it yet. I really think that with something like this, something that's just simple and obvious, that it could have originated with a bunch of different people once they became familiar with indicators. It's not so much that it was invented, It was always an available tool, people just hadn't picked it up yet.

 

[Colif]

sarcasm is harder to detect in text, as even if there is some way to show it, not everyone is aware of the way... so people may think you being serious when you really being silly. Sarcasm only really works among a small group who know its very rarely serious.

I doubt your line would have been misunderstood as anything other than a joke

Maybe we need a Zed timer so as to know when you reset your sleep time.

 

[Colif]

Speaking of silly.

If you don't laugh at this, I am sorry for you.