Loony Loopy Long Post

[quigonginger]

The party was in full swing at Boyd's.  Drinks (thanks to Boyd) and 
food (thanks to Potioncat) were handed amongst friends and Disco 
blared in the background.

The party was disrupted by a knock on the door- immediatly followed 
by a thud.  Opening the door, Boyd saw the bedraggled form of Ginger 
lying on his doorstep, her eyes as glazed as Potioncat's doughnuts.  
Ever the gentleman, he helped her to her feet.  

Once inside, she gasped, and yelled, "Werewolf in the hole!" and 
dived behind the couch.  "Incoming!  Incoming!  Wolfsbane at 3:00!"  
With agility that middle-aged arthritic rotund women find only on the 
printed page, she rolled under the coffee table. 

Potioncat set down her tray and helped Ginger to her feet.

"Here, dear," she said kindly.  "It's for your own good."  and 
proceded to Hermione-slap Ginger.  "Done with Lupin, then?  she asked.

"No, not quite," said Ginger, returning to her senses.  "Let me tell 
you about it."  Digging in her handbag, she pulled out a notebook.

"OK, I started out with 937 posts.  That was after I put the 
Good/Evil into the Lupin heading for easier coding.  

"Then I scanned and got it down to 884, then divided up the posts, 
rejected or uncoded the obvious, and got it down to 567.

"I now have read and kept, rejected or uncoded everything but Good! 
and ESE!  Those will be uncoded from the main heading, which will 
give us a grand total of:

222 posts under the main head of Lupin
86 ESE! (actually some of these may be rejected.  I haven't checked 
for repitition on these yet.)
4 LYCANTHROPE
5 GOOD! (ditto the ESE comment)
1 BLAMELESS
0 GORE
1 LIDS
1 MARATHON SWIMMER
1 MARATHON SWIMMER'S EYELIDS
2 ROTWEILER OF SWITCH
3 SLURP
2 WHAT THE HELL
5 PERSIL AUTOMATIC
2 WHILST

"See my published works about the acronyms."

Ginger paused to catch her breath.

"Wait a minute," said someone with a lampshade on his/her head, "You 
got the main heading down from 937 to 222?  Even uncoding 91 for 
Good/ESE, that's still a huge reject rate.  Are you sure you didn't 
overdo it?"

"Lupin means wolf," replied Ginger, "and it's more that he exists."  

Eyeing Potioncat's raising hand, Ginger hastened to elaborate.  "What 
I mean is, there's a lot of repetition, and not just with the name 
thing.  Plus, Lupin was there for the prank, the SS/PoA and was a 
member of MWPP.  So he got a lot of codes for just being there, even 
if the only mention of him was that he was, in fact, there.  

"For instance, people go back and forth on whether Sirius or Snape 
had greater culpability on the prank.  Lupin was there, so he gets 
coded, but all he did was be a werewolf, for which we don't exactly 
need a post, much less a dozen posts in the Lupin category.  Get it?"

"But you kept the ones that were actually *about* Lupin, didn't you?" 
asked Potioncat.

"Of course," replied Ginger.  "I didn't actually lose my marbles 
until I got to Good!ESE.  

"What happened then?" asked Boyd.

"Well, I have 3 options," Ginger replied.  

"(1) We can combine them, (2) we can thread them (which Miss didn't 
seem to care for) or (3) I can read through every blessed one again 
and figure out if the coder was coding with the impression that Good 
was for Good threads and ESE was for ESE threads, OR if they had 
coded each to what was being discussed in that particular post. Both 
have been occuring frequently.  

"I do need to reread them if we are setting Pippin's aside.  Miss 
will have to let me know on that."

Ginger gasped.  "Miss!  Where is Miss?"  She turned on Boyd.  "You 
didn't leave her in the office, out cold and without doughnuts, did 
you?  You is a bad, bad boy!"

Boyd took Ginger by the shoulders.  "She needed the rest, and there's 
a bottle of Ogden's in reach.  She's fine.  Now have some doughnuts."

"But," said Ginger, allowing herself to be sat down, "I have news for 
her.  In my review, I noticed that posts 42221-42300 didn't seem to 
be coded yet.  I didn't check them all, but a random search seemed to 
indicate it."  

Ginger stood up.  "No, thank you for the doughnuts, but I've got to 
find Miss!"

Ginger headed for the door, paused, grabbed a chocolate-covered cream 
filled for Miss, and with a final wave to her friends, left.