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Old 01-July-2007, 08:20 AM
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Who/what is HUb'?? I have tried to track him/her/it down all over the board, pre and post merger, to his/her/its own website/blog/forum. I am totally confused. Please, someone explain this to me. And NO LINKS, I beg you!! Just a couple of COHERENT sentences.
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Dark Comedy Theory. Where c is coffee, s is spew, v is velocity, and w is how much windex used to clean LCD monitor. When I put the sentence through the equation, it unified all 4 forces above. I'm hoping someone here can help me express the precise mathematics into an elegant, simple equation. My next step is to post it in ATM, and then hopefully submit if for refereeing.
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Old 01-July-2007, 08:24 AM
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Just another poster, like us
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Old 01-July-2007, 08:29 AM
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A human poster??
I only ask that since his posts are encrypted, to say the least.
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Dark Comedy Theory. Where c is coffee, s is spew, v is velocity, and w is how much windex used to clean LCD monitor. When I put the sentence through the equation, it unified all 4 forces above. I'm hoping someone here can help me express the precise mathematics into an elegant, simple equation. My next step is to post it in ATM, and then hopefully submit if for refereeing.
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Old 01-July-2007, 08:39 AM
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A human poster??
I only ask that since his posts are encrypted, to say the least.
I'm sure it was a human poster, and yes, his posts were very difficult to understand. Some seemed to have better luck than I did, but I couldn't make sense of them.
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Old 01-July-2007, 08:40 AM
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A human poster??
Yes, definitely.

Here's a little primer that some people have found useful.
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Old 01-July-2007, 08:50 AM
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IT? Why it? Why not "he" or "she"?

Anyway, this still does not solve my dilemma, but I do feel a bit better. Interesting fella' he must've been...
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Dark Comedy Theory. Where c is coffee, s is spew, v is velocity, and w is how much windex used to clean LCD monitor. When I put the sentence through the equation, it unified all 4 forces above. I'm hoping someone here can help me express the precise mathematics into an elegant, simple equation. My next step is to post it in ATM, and then hopefully submit if for refereeing.
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Old 01-July-2007, 08:56 AM
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IT? Why it? Why not "he" or "she"?
Because that was the word I picked dashing out a quick post while simultaneously watching TV.
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Yes, definitely.

Here's a little primer that some people have found useful.
Then there was the whole font, font size, and font color aspect, sometimes coincidental due to machine limitations, sometimes not, that gave a certain flavor to words, phrases, and sentences.

Like an old salt.
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Like an old salt.
And he was
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He was Candy's buddy, I think...

At first I thought he was a tremendously brilliant mathematics professor or something like that...so brilliant he no longer spoke English.
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He was Candy's buddy, I think...

At first I thought he was a tremendously brilliant mathematics professor or something like that...so brilliant he no longer spoke English.
Or this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transco..._motor_aphasia
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I used to be able to catch one or two phrases in Hubese. The posts were hard to understand, but they were cool.
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He was Candy's buddy,

Not particularly.
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Not particularly.
Not so sure about that. They hung out at other boards, and even met IRL, according to HUb' I think
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Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the (somewhat disappointing) correction.
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I never bothered reading any of his posts, as they were in a language I couldn't understand, and wasn't willing to put at effort into learning

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I never bothered reading any of his posts, as they were in a language I couldn't understand, and wasn't willing to put at effort into learning
The language was English, but it was difficult for me too.
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Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the (somewhat disappointing) correction.
Why disappointing?
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HUb' deserves better friends.
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ROFL!

HUB' has his own forum in the cobwebs of the intranet.
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