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Firstly the 'missing emails' when registering has been fixed. This was only affecting certain domans so not everyone was missing their emails... making it one of those wonderfully obscure problems to fix 
If you attempted to register but didn't get the verification email please try again now... you should get the email through. I've cleared a whole LOAD (er... just under 13,000 ooops) unverified accounts so your username should be available again unless you tried to register it within the last week.
Secondly, the elusive problem with the CDC project pages pulling a disappearing act has been fixed. Rejoice!
Well this was a 'I messed up, my bad' post and a half eh?  |
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  Posted 13th Mar 2006 4:48am |  |
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Cool no more having to verify members myself. Verifying them was not that hard part. Getting them to email from the account that they created the account was.  Unless they had email me from the account that they used to open an account I didn't verify them. In case you are wondering, they all did as they were told...eventually.  |
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| Hapa Hanu |
Posted 13th Mar 2006 10:08am |
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Garner I think we all appreciate the herculean effort that you put yourself through to keep levels4you rolling! 
Kudos and salutations! 
(Just under 13,000 unverified accounts? That is a pile!)  |
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Posted 13th Mar 2006 10:55am | |
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I know... in 3 months  !
I mean... wowsa... oh well... this new server was a steep learning curve for me back in January... theres a few little things like this that are cropping up because I've never encountered these problems before. |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 13th Mar 2006 10:14pm | |
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Hapa Hanu would you like some tissue for your nose. |
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| Hapa Hanu |
Posted 14th Mar 2006 12:08am |
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| Quoting NoClanFrank | | Hapa Hanu would you like some tissue for your nose. |
 grrrrr
Art thou implying a physiological condition of brown nose? 
I am compelled to emotionally validate the efforts of folks to insure the delivery of a quality product!
No tissue is required - I will use your shirt sleeve, Frank!
In your family - is there someone with a vowel in their first name? -  |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 14th Mar 2006 4:33am | |
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Hmm, so we are a history buff. Here is a little history that I bet you didn't know:
The History of Middle Finger
Well, now...... here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified. Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future.
This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew").
Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew!
Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one finger salute!?
It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."
AND IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TODAY!
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| Ugly Donkey |
Posted 14th Mar 2006 4:37am |
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LMFAO thats hilarious frank.
o and thnx for ur work garner |
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| Molodiets |
Posted 14th Mar 2006 7:01am |
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Pluck yew! |
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| Hapa Hanu |
Posted 14th Mar 2006 8:01am |
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Dang Frank!
I learned so much today in history class... I yield to your superfluous superior wisdoms.  |
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| Morgoth |
Posted 14th Mar 2006 3:12pm |
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Thx Garner to fix CDC, i dosen't test it hard, but everything looks ok 
Sorry, to spam this in all your account, but i want to be sure you receice it. Too many Garner account
Thank you,
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| Garner |
Posted 14th Mar 2006 6:43pm | |
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Here comes Garner (Englishman) to correct the history story
The middle finger 'salute' is the American version. The English version is the middle finger and index finger to make the V salute. This has the same meaning as the middle finger, we use both here.
You use those TWO fingers to draw back the long bow... the middle alone isn't enough.
There are actually two possible reasons put forward by history as to why... note that whilst both are equally plausible, neither has ever been proven to be the definite reason why the double finger salute exists... these stories are over 500 years old!
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The French archer story as told by Frank is true, but with two fingers not the one...
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At the same time battles with arrows tended to be the archers firing arrows at the enemy until they ran out of their own arrows at which point they started to fire the arrows that the enemy had fired at them. Kinda like medieval recycling
Now the Welsh had a stronger twine for their bows which meant their longbows had narrower threads... therefore they cut the V shaped notches at the rear end of their arrows to fit their drawstring.
The French archers therefore were unable to fire back the arrows because their thicker twine meant they couldn't notch the arrow into the string to fire it. On the otherside of the battlefield the narrower twine fitted perfectly into the wider French arrows.
After the battle it was realised it was probably won by this fact and therefore the V salute with the double fingers was used to signify the V notch on the back of the arrows.
Side Note
The 'pluck yew' is also a myth, that came about purely because it happens to rhyme with a 'popular' saying |
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Posted 14th Mar 2006 7:04pm | |
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So basically what you are saying that "might" be correct in what I typed.
That means I get a score of 50/50...I mean 50/100. Now if only my school grades were that good. |
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Posted 14th Mar 2006 11:48pm |
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The word F*^* is a naval expression that derives from flogging on the decks...dunno how I know this just read it somewhere as a child. |
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