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This drives me nuts. If you have found something new---Let us know! I hate going to a new thread and seeing: Look at this!!! Hot link. I hate it! If it is so good, tell us why and then show the link. If what I ask is too much, do the word association game. I hate getting the hot link--- load it up for 10 minutes and finding out it it CRAP! Spare me the time. Say what it is and I will make the choice from your buzz.
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It's part of the rules anyway.
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Gee, when I encounter a thread titled, "A Question" or "I can't believe it" I just pass on by. I like to see a topic.
When the topic name gets me in, and all there is is a link with nothing else, I leave the thread and move on. I never open them just to see what they are.
It is as easy as that.
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I agree Snowcelt. Where did you see this? I always like to snip a part of the link article or content or include it in a sentence describing it, rather than just saying LOOK! Too, I like to know that links are "safe" to some degree--like my PC won't blow up or there won't be some disgusting or pornographic picture that I'll open up at work when Boss is standing behind me. That's why it's good to sort of know someone's posting style...to know they won't be posting compromising sites.
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I agree with the comments here - and in some major companies you are instantly sacked if caught accessing pornography at work.
What can be amusing is when people do nonmalicious "misleading" links. Shortly after the Titan landing, a colleague sent me a link called something like "Latest Titan News". I clicked on it and it took me straight to www.badgerbadgerbadger.com
(I saw someone play a similar trick on this BB a little while ago.)
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Oh no the badgers! Your link isn't working, but I know it. Addictive. You should reattach the good link for new people who haven't been exposed to the incessant badgering.Originally Posted by Paul Beardsley
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Mushroom mushroom!!
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Working Link:
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
I haven't seen it before now.
Man, it was down right hilarious!
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I've removed the exclamation mark from the address so it works now - or people can use Joe the Dude's one instead.
Why is it so insanely popular? And why do I keep accessing it late in the evenings when I can't be bothered to get on with the work I'm supposed to be doing?
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A snake a snake! Ooh, it's a sna-ake!
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The other one, the soccer one, always comes to mind whenever someone says "England." I saw that one right after I had asked a Brit on a board what haggis was. But it's not as good as the mushroom one, for sure.
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Oops, I think that's my fault!
To be fair, snowcelt made a point, and because everyone agreed, there was nothing else to be said.
I think there ought to be an entire forum for Badger. Have you noticed one badger sometimes appears in the top right corner, and sometimes doesn't?
I'll shut up now...
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I think there already is!
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What is better? is two alright? or is it best to add a comment- like in 3?
1.
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/050628titanlake.html
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2.
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/050628titanlake.htmlScientists are fascinated by a dark, lake-like feature recently observed
on Saturn's moon Titan. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a series of
images showing a marking, darker than anything else around it. It is
remarkably lake-like, with smooth, shore-like boundaries unlike any seen
previously on Titan.
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3. (2 subject)
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/050628titanlake.htmlScientists are fascinated by a dark, lake-like feature recently observed
on Saturn's moon Titan. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a series of
images showing a marking, darker than anything else around it. It is
remarkably lake-like, with smooth, shore-like boundaries unlike any seen
previously on Titan.
Wow- I wounder what type of liquid this would contain, would it behave like water or would is slosh differently?
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I do 2 a lot, so it must be okay.
Seriously, if you're just posting a relevant news item you think might be of interest, I don't see how making a comment is a requirement (though I will do so if I have one).
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
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Joking aside...
2. sounds perfectly adequate; nothing wrong with 3. but no pressing need for the extra comment.
Alternatively, something along the lines of, "If you're interested in new treatments for diseased cacti, this link might surprise you."
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Yeah, when linking, ToSeek style #2 is enough and necessary.
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Badgers? I'd rather get a banana phone
Later
Pete
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