ADMIN: New Posting Rules (yay, March is *over*!!)

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 94865

Well, it's not my day to post (1+0+3+1+1+9+6+8 = 29 = 2+9 = 11 = 1+1 
+ 2 which would give me Tuesday), so I'll be expecting an owl with a 
red envelope in its beak any moment now...

Darrell:
> > Simplify two-digit numbers thus: 2+9 = 7

> silly me I spent all those years thinking it was 11

Lol, nice catch! ;-D

The Geistly One wrote: 
> Check out message #15691 from April 1, 2001. 
> Then-Moderator John Walton caught more than a few of us with that 
> (present company included--although I didn't go so far as to send 
> panicked emails to the Mods or nasty emails to Yahoo). >>>

Ha!  He got me completely with that one, and I *did* write to the 
mods.  (I'm the third message in 15743). ;-P

In 15704 I had my "duh" moment; check out this comment from Susan in 
15705:
"a media campaign....can you imagine what 1100 irate HP grownups could
do?"

1100.  No, a zero wasn't left off; we really only had 1100 people as 
of this day three years ago.  ~Wow~.  Weren't we just so wee and cute 
back then?  :-D

> Alas, the poll I set up for people to vote on the best punishment 
for John is long gone--but I think we selected something suitably 
vile. I mean, he even gloated about it (#15743). >>>

No, the poll's still around (I delete *nothing* if I can avoid it 
<g>) -- it's on OTC:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/surveys?id=623002

"What should we do to John?"
 
Choices     Votes     %     325 replies  
Club him with a modem  --  18  5.54%    
Put him in leather pants, pour water on him, and watch them shrink as 
they dry  --  46  14.15%    
Tie him to a fire-ant hill and pour honey on him  --  24  7.38%    
Put him in a vat of Malmsey  --  16  4.92%    
Make him eat five British pizzas  --  30  9.23%    
Demand an elaborately calligraphed, individual apology, with 
chocolate included, for each of us  --  37  11.38%    
Make him take care of Amanda's kids, unaided, for a month  --  22  
6.77%    
Sneak into his house and program Draco to have Moaning Myrtle's 
personality  --  27  8.31%    
Force him to eat all our spare earwax, booger,horseradish, and 
sardine flavored Any-Flavour Beans  --  34  10.46%    
Make him send an adoring, sincere fan letter to Jo Rowling 
asking, "How did you get the idea for Harry Potter?"  --  28  
8.62%    
Legally change his name to Mundungus Fletcher  --  43  13.23%    

(Some notes:  "Draco" was the name of John's computer.  The "leather 
pants" was a nod to the fic thing of "Draco in leather"; started 
in "Draco Dormiens", iirc.  We'd recently had a discussion about 
Malmsey/vegemite/etc., either on OTC, or maybe still on main back 
then, so that's where that came from.  Ditto British pizzas.)

I wasn't caught by John with a Rock #47 on April 1, 2002, though; I 
knew he was up to *something* (he'd phoned me for the password to get 
into the management id as he'd left that info behind in NYC, so I 
knew he had something up his sleeve).  However, lots of list members 
were gobsmacked to see the homepages of the main list and OTC 
graffitied in big red letters that HP was "Teh EVIL" and our very 
mortal souls were in grave danger.  Too good.

I don't suppose anyone got screen grabs of those?  (Heidi?)  I'd so 
love to stick them in the files...posterity and all that... <g>

Happy 1st, everyone!

--Kelley