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Old 24th-November-2005, 07:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
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War stories: where were you when the Forum went down?
From a Really Official Press Release:

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Economists* across the nation were baffled yesterday as industry leaders reported a massive rise in productivity throughout the UK, from lunchtime onwards. They could find no visible cause, and only a few muttered hints of "Forum down" gave them any clues. Bosses noticed a slight change in empoyee attitudes, and a different coloured "screensaver" used by staff, but could make no sense of it.

Tracking down references and unearthing evidence, investigators finally managed to interview a mysterious figure, who asked to be known only as "DJ, OK?". This figure rambled incoherently for several minutes, becoming more and more emotional, before he finally raisied his eyes to the heavens, crying out "WHY? WHY, FRANCK WHY?", then covered his head in his hands and sobbed inconsolably.

The mystery deepens and the investigation continues...
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* I know, it's usually "scientists are baffled", but that'd be, well, silly.
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Old 24th-November-2005, 07:55 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: War stories: where were you when the Forum went down?
I don't think it would have been so bad but the forum page would open and showed there was a PRIVATE MESSAGE unread.

Who was it from ?

What little gem of goss was enclosed in the unread unreadable PM?

Took so so long to find out.. but now ahhh its back.



Thanks Franck

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It did mean a forumite telephoned me though.......soon fall back on old habits eh when you can't get your fix...
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Old 24th-November-2005, 08:07 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Economists* across the nation were baffled yesterday as industry leaders reported a massive rise in productivity throughout the UK
I actually did some work yesterday, it's too ghastly to contemplate. i shan't be doing it again any time soon thankfully now that the forum is back Thanks Franck
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Re: War stories: where were you when the Forum went down?
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This figure rambled incoherently for several minutes, becoming more and more emotional…
The temptation to comment is almost irresistable...

Where was I when the Forum went down? I was at home and I actually managed to finish my stack of ironing, tidy my office, file my paperwork and catch up on my emails to non forumites.

Then I wondered about what would happen when it came back up.
What if all the figures had returned to zero!
No reputation points, no number of posts, no power!
What! Start all over again.

While I’m proud of my 70 posts, I’m new so wouldn’t be affected. What about the Super Posters, how would the Forum World cope if they had to start again?

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I met a forumite last night at Surbiton and we both found ourselves declaring that we are not addicted to the Forum, the fact that it was down was not a problem, we could cope. Isn’t that one of the signs of an addiction, denial?
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Old 24th-November-2005, 08:22 AM   #5 (permalink)
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It did mean a forumite telephoned me though.......soon fall back on old habits eh when you can't get your fix...
It's OK UP,i don't mind if you name and shame me It was quite nice chatting instead of PMing. But ok i admit it my name is Di and i'm an addict.
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Old 24th-November-2005, 10:03 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: War stories: where were you when the Forum went down?
I didn't notice too much as I am trying to get other things done, have to admit though that I did attempt to get on here last night and couldn't. I did think 'what if it was down for weeks'? There is text and email I suppose...

Anyway, I have a question and this is as good as place as any to ask it (OK, I should really track down the rep thread). I can't rep anyone - when I try to the screen just jumps to the top of the page. Anyone else find this? (DJ you needn't answer this as I can't rep you for being helpful. )
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I can't rep anyone at the moment either - tried logging out and in again to clear cookies, but nope, still not working...

I'm using the Basic Blue skin if that makes any difference?
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Nah............me either!!!

I actually got on with some paperwork at my office though I was checking every 10 minutes to see if the forum was up again!!
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Anyway, I have a question and this is as good as place as any to ask it (OK, I should really track down the rep thread). I can't rep anyone - when I try to the screen just jumps to the top of the page. Anyone else find this? (DJ you needn't answer this as I can't rep you for being helpful. )

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I can't rep anyone at the moment either - tried logging out and in again to clear cookies, but nope, still not working...

I'm using the Basic Blue skin if that makes any difference?
When I repped in basic blue a pop up window appeared but it was behind the screen of the forum.

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I can't rep anyone at the moment either - tried logging out and in again to clear cookies, but nope, still not working...
Is that a hint to get others to test their repping ability on you? That has shades of DJ you know!
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Nope, no pop up screen for me

UP, you silly man - woulda repped you for making me smirk, but can't!

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I've lost my repping ability
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Is that a hint to get others to test their repping ability on you? That has shades of DJ you know!
No! I honestly didn't even think of that!

I just noticed that I can't rep people, noticed last night too.
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Re: War stories: where were you when the Forum went down?
Heh! I'm no forum junky either, so when the forum went down from 2:39pm until 8:50pm, and continued to be unavailable when I tried every 15 mins in between, I just got on with other things. I've now caught up on all the other forums I use
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Duh reading this too quickly, thought you were quoting me! But if anyone needs to test whether they can rep or not...
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I had unread private messages, and was completely traumatised as I couldn't read them!

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