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Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Lemon on December 13, 2015, 08:09:08 pm
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Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: DetectiveSlowpoke on December 13, 2015, 08:38:30 pm
I don't think I've ever been looking at a podcast feed and had it update as I was looking at it.  I'm at work but it's yahoo answers so I have to listen.

Edit: yahoo answers makes me feel better about myself. I know I'm not THAT dumb. This episode is proving that.

Also sad Boots.  No :(
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Sherman Tank on December 13, 2015, 08:56:43 pm
This should have a "how is babby deported?" tag.

Also "animated gifts".
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Achilles' Heelies on December 13, 2015, 11:01:09 pm
Great to hear the episode, I forgot how fun this was!
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: LINDA on December 13, 2015, 11:28:24 pm
You all really like saying "achillesheelies."
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on December 13, 2015, 11:38:16 pm
You all really like saying "achillesheelies."
eudo, December 13, 2015, 11:28:24 pm
Who in their right mind wouldn't
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Digital Walnut on December 14, 2015, 12:04:57 am
Oh dear, I had forgotten how stupid a lot of that was. That was a heroic attempt at reading the "penix" entry - nicely done, Frank West.

To answer Lemon's question: I wasn't searching for huge strings of question marks, but I was usually checking every search result that had inexplicable punctuation. For a while, I thought that Yahoo was automatically adding question marks to the ends of people's topics, since all the links I was getting back (questions, statements, single words, etc.) had them. After a bit, I started seeing a few that didn't, so I guess people just really like their question marks.
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Boots Raingear on December 14, 2015, 08:11:36 am
To answer Lemon's question: I wasn't searching for huge strings of question marks, but I was usually checking every search result that had inexplicable punctuation.
Digital Walnut, December 14, 2015, 12:04:57 am

Well that makes it even more puzzling. What is it about Yahoo! Answers that changes people's brains so that they specifically use 8 question marks and spell baby with an extra b?
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Mu. on December 14, 2015, 10:33:55 am
The first question has already slayed me.
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Yavuz on December 14, 2015, 10:56:29 am
From this moment on, I will be known as… the "Penix King"!
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: QueenSyreen on December 14, 2015, 11:34:20 am
aaaaand new personal text is go.
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Muffinator on December 14, 2015, 02:28:20 pm
Searching (https://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091203135216AAGNs2H) "Mussies" (https://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151209032451AA8xHQh) was (https://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081030082710AAKoUtZ) a (https://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150107054159AAuTgwl) bad (https://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060915131834AA8wa9v) idea (https://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151125132633AAAaeu6).
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: cube abuser on December 14, 2015, 07:18:22 pm
Just so you know, this episode isn't showing up on the main page of thefpl.us.
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Achilles' Heelies on December 14, 2015, 07:33:05 pm
For me, it didn't show up when I first loaded the page, but it did after I refreshed once.
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Lemon on December 14, 2015, 07:42:55 pm
Just so you know, this episode isn't showing up on the main page of thefpl.us.
cube abuser, December 14, 2015, 07:18:22 pm

We moved servers a couple of days ago, and I think I need to look into the client caching rules I set up on it. My suspicion is that the server is sending a signal to the client of "Oh, you don't need to check for a new index file, you probably have the current one", which is fine in a lot of cases, but doesn't work for the home page.
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Digital Walnut on December 14, 2015, 09:34:25 pm
To answer Lemon's question: I wasn't searching for huge strings of question marks, but I was usually checking every search result that had inexplicable punctuation.
Digital Walnut, December 14, 2015, 12:04:57 am

Well that makes it even more puzzling. What is it about Yahoo! Answers that changes people's brains so that they specifically use 8 question marks and spell baby with an extra b?
Boots Raingear, December 14, 2015, 08:11:36 am
I specifically searched for "babby" so I could find out how it's been doing since its run-in with instain mother some years back. Sorry about your deportation, babby.

I was thinking that maybe Yahoo! Answers had a filter that reduced enormous strings of question marks down to 8 so that people's posts didn't fill the screen with punctuation, but I just found one with 10 (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090813121237AAvyLM1). I'm stumped on that one.
Title: 197: Yahoo? Anwers!?!?
Post by: Sherman Tank on December 16, 2015, 08:48:37 pm
Wasn't Penix the brother of Odysseus? I think I remember his name from The Odyssey.