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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Putting Foot Down

    I have never seen a moderator take this kind of position.

    See post #23 here http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...s-between-0-50.

    There have been plenty of hijacked threads over the years, but so long as everyone was playing nice, and something was being learned it was overlooked. Maybe there is a new, stricter policy.
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    Re: Putting Foot Down

    It's not the most egregious hijacking I have seen (outside of CC, that is, because inside of CC that would barely count as a detour, let alone hijacking), but I have seen some threads closed due to wandering off track. It was certainly programming related.

    What bothered me most about that thread was that, after JMC, everybody else just handed the OP an answer to what was clearly homework. I prefer the approach that JMC took.
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    Re: Putting Foot Down

    I want to talk about cats.
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    Re: Putting Foot Down

    Quote Originally Posted by FunkyDexter View Post
    I want to talk about cats.
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    Re: Putting Foot Down

    Really? Mine was Thundercats!

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    Re: Putting Foot Down

    Well don't forget Josie And The *****cats.

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    Re: Putting Foot Down

    Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
    Well don't forget Josie And The *****cats.
    You can't say *****cats? Isn't that kind of ******? Pretty soon we are going to have a language where every word is now a composite of words which someone, somewhere, finds offensive.

    Which reminds me of...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga3I5DTIA-E.

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    Re: Putting Foot Down

    I hate to think of the programs full of variable names that might offend an Elbonian speaker too.

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    Really? Mine was Thundercats!
    If I can just... reach... the... post... button!
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Putting Foot Down

    I used to like agricultural vehicles...

    Hmmm.
    I don't live here any more.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] Putting Foot Down

    AHHHH!!! Funky said he wanted to talk about cats, and look who showed up!!!


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    Re: [RESOLVED] Putting Foot Down

    Are the zombies wandering the Canadian tar sand pits out of bounds as well?
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Putting Foot Down

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    Re: [RESOLVED] Putting Foot Down

    I used to like agricultural vehicles...
    Soooo... you're an extra-curicular flan?
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Putting Foot Down

    Close enough
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