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Agent Dink
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What's wrong with Red Oktober, why don't we want him back? Haha.

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Jeff Miller
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Flatlander also said he's an old coot old enough to be many members' grand-dad.
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Ed222
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 03:33 Edited at: 17th Jul 2008 06:32
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Quote: ""Shhhhh!!!

If you say his name 3 times he'll come back!""


your right I saw him look at the attachment

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Agent Dink
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You know you could have at least TRIED to make the font look like the one they use on the site...

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Venge
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Hey, why'd you circle my name?

I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order, like they should be.
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SunnyKatt
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The color is off, too.

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Ed222
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 04:17 Edited at: 17th Jul 2008 04:18
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Quote: "least TRIED"

I did but I focused on the color more
Quote: "The color is off, too"

yeah I couldn't get the excat match but i could if I used photoshop but I'm not(Yes i used to eyedropper tool to and it failed)

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No Photoshop cookie for you!


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 05:48
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I could easily have faked that picture better in paint admit it you were just lazy hehe!

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Ed222
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 06:20 Edited at: 17th Jul 2008 06:35
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Quote: "I could easily have faked that picture better in paint admit it you were just lazy hehe!"

lets just say i was in a bit of a hurry(Going to friends house)
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well what do you know you were actually right I did a better job in paint then in a high tech paint program.
picture below



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Van B
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 10:55
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Nope, still fake - you'd need to use the actual text already there to build the name letter by letter (like some horrific game of Scrabble), and even then there's only a slight chance that I'd believe you.


less is more, but if less is more how you keeping score?
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Dazzag
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Quote: "you'd need to use the actual text already there to build the name letter by letter"
That and position it in the correct place so it isn't several pixels too low...

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Quote: "well what do you know you were actually right I did a better job in paint then in a high tech paint program."


Not surprised. I use Paint all the time.

All that and we're no nearer an answer to the original question - even worse, Jeff Miller has thrown another dark horse into the arena.

Quote: "Flatlander also said he's an old coot old enough to be many members' grand-dad. "


Doesn't narrow it down much - even young Scraggle only misses that criterion by a couple of years or so, and not even then if many members are toddlers.
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CattleGeezer."

real cute there munchkin. I think Scraggle has me beat so
well, at least I hope he does

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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 18:17 Edited at: 17th Jul 2008 18:17
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Paint FTW


(Don't try telling me it's off, I measured the exact pixel heights, and found the font to be MS Sans Serif 8pt. Colour is identical too)

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Scraggle
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 18:44 Edited at: 17th Jul 2008 18:44
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Strange thing happens when I look at who's online





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Benjamin
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 18:48
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Must be broken, they seem to assume you are of any significance.

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henry ham
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lol you guys have way to much time on your hands .

right im going for a snooze in my chair ,tartan blanket & slippers are warmed up now

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 19:09
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Quote: "Must be broken, they seem to assume you are of any significance."


Rich wouldn't have overlooked a bug like that, what it must be saying is:

Everybody on this forum except scraggle is of some significance in the vast space of the universe...when you think of the size of the Universe it's quite an achievement.

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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Ed222
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Quote: "Don't try telling me it's off, I measured the exact pixel heights, and found the font to be MS Sans Serif 8pt. Colour is identical too"
Wow! that actually could fool someone

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Grandma
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OMGOSH!!1 it r red oktrobr not shopped its reel!


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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 19:21 Edited at: 17th Jul 2008 19:23
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Quote: "Must be broken, they seem to assume you are of any significance."


It is of no consequence, as it is the forums are probably refering to Scraggles being a black cat. In the cat world, a solid black cat is of quite some significance, and in the human world, a cat is also of more significance. Furthermore, a significantly black cat communicating in a significantly human dominated social order is indeed significant.

So in conclusion, it is refering to the fact that Scraggle, being a cat, is significantly different from us normal beings. Also, significance doesn't imply anything good, it's actually rather a nuetral term. "different" although can somtimes be implied as a bad thing... or a good thing, depending on the normal standard you apply the term to. And seeing as the term is being applied to us users, I would assume "different" to be a bad thing

So in my oppinion, the forums are silently mocking Scraggle... behind his back.. er, tail.

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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 19:27
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Quote: "Lee Bamber, Rick Vanner, or BatVink, one of them MUST be the oldest."


Oh no,no,no,no,no. I know 2 of the posters above are older than any of us. There are also others who I know are older, but haven't posted.

And Red Oktober won't be back, although he did tend to profess his age in many of his "heated debates".

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 19:34
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Quote: "And Red Oktober won't be back, although he did tend to profess his age in many of his "heated debates"."


Oh did he leave on a sour note again? I've seen him do that at many forums. He's VERY hard to get along with and he either wins an argument and his ego goes through the roof or he leaves the forum. Hhahahah.

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I was a teenager the day man first set foot on the moon, but there is at least one who is older than I. And now someone will ask.... "When did man set foot on the moon?" LOL

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@grandma - you made me giggle.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 20:42 Edited at: 17th Jul 2008 20:42
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Quote: "I was a teenager the day man first set foot on the moon, but there is at least one who is older than I. And now someone will ask.... "When did man set foot on the moon?" LOL"


Hehe, no point hinting, BDG tells us your age near your birthday and it seems your name is under their 'birthday' column...you're old enough to be my Dad.

Happy Birthday though.

Besides, once you're 18, you'll always be 18, 18 and 34 years experience as they say.

"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
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Quote: "Besides, once you're 18, you'll always be 18, 18 and 34 years experience as they say. "


My wife thinks I'm 8 and 44 years experience.

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In our last fight Red got oddly silent when I told him he was old and was going to die. Then he did, so that's that. I'm sure I said it tactfully, though.


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Grandma
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Posted: 17th Jul 2008 22:15
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Cool, it was all worth it then. It sucks making stupid jokes and get ignored. At least tell me how stupid they are.

In all seriousness(!) I'm 22. That would be the first time I disclosed my age here.....I think. That would be my physical age. My mental age is 45, at least that is what facebook told me and facebook tests deliver the most trustworthy personal information I have ever encountered throughout all of the multiverseseses. Second only to Myspace I think.

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Well, there's another saying to go with that:

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

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I thought there was a bloke called Old Wrinkly who was indeed old and wrinkly or maybe that was LLRGT. Also what about David Gervais, he was knocking on a bit wasn't he.

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Quote: "In the absence of more specific information I'd say it was 50:50 between Jeff Miller and me."


I guess GG hit the nail on the head. In another forum thread we were just outed as having started programming at the same age and in the same year, though on opposite sides of the Atlantic. And both starting in Fortran.
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Agent Dink
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Quote: "My mental age is 45, at least that is what facebook told me"


I'm 20 now. At the time I took the test on Facebook I was 19. It told me my mental age was, get this, 19.

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I'm 19, but according to the fitness test in Wii sports, I'm 25.

...but I am the ferret king!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! tremble before my ferret minions!

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@Biggadd:
We all know that that Photoshop cookie is laced with poison. Thats what the PS stands for. PoiSon.


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Quote: "Quote: "In the absence of more specific information I'd say it was 50:50 between Jeff Miller and me."

I guess GG hit the nail on the head. In another forum thread we were just outed as having started programming at the same age and in the same year, though on opposite sides of the Atlantic. And both starting in Fortran."


That other thread suggests cjb2006 could be in the frame too.
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Wait? guys?with this photoshop oktober thingy?
are you all using measuremnt log and a refrence at all???

it'll most certainly help you to measure the mistakes out creating a perfect piece of replicatory....

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Quote: "In our last fight Red got oddly silent when I told him he was old and was going to die. Then he did, so that's that. I'm sure I said it tactfully, though."


Dont you feel like a jerk.


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