♘ The Knights of WTF
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Arantor:
You don't vote for knights.Well how do you become one then?
- wining the genetic lottery
- gifting large sums of money to royalty
- being related to the royal mistresses
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.#3 that explains ho @arantor got in. ;-)
...DISCOURSE! i meant a literal #3!
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I suppose if one wanted to be pedantic about it (not that anyone here ever is, of course), 3 is just a subset of 1 that relies on certain of one's relatives being good at that thing with the floggers and the peanut butter as opposed to having parents with more grandparents in common than the average Appalachian hill town...
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.#3 that explains ho @arantor got in. ;-)
...DISCOURSE! i meant a literal #3!
Actually it's really, really simple.
As I am TRWTF in all situations, I am therefore the King of WTF - because you know, PHP programmer and therefore quite capable of knighting those special people.
I see I have knighthoods to confer and I will attend to this later tonight or tomorrow. I want to be in a good mood when I do this, not the mood I am currently in.
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aaaw and here I thought I had cheered you up earlier.
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aaaw and here I thought I had cheered you up earlier.
You did, dear, and then I started writing creative stuff, which has the opposite effect
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...DISCOURSE! i meant a literal #3!
I've taken to trying to escape that kind of nonsense with a , because Discurse so far honors it in a lot of cases, and it doesn't leave the wart behind.
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I've taken to trying to escape that kind of nonsense with a , because Discurse so far honors it in a lot of cases, and it doesn't leave the wart behind.
Except when you subsequently quote the post, whereupon escaped asterisks become literals again and then add italic formatting where none was originally added.
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Except when you subsequently quote the post
Oh yeah.
Let's try something: :\)reply to this, will ya? I know it looks bogus in my post, maybe it'll look teh way I intended in yours.
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Oh yeah.
Let's try something: :\)reply to this, will ya? I know it looks bogus in my post, maybe it'll look teh way I intended in yours.
Escaping an escape character is always voodoo But apt in a thread with WTF in the title.
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I hereby dub thee Lady @royal_poet, Marchioness of the Bohemian arts and Wielder of the Black Iron Clamps of Doom. May your WTFs be noteworthy but never fateful!
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Unfortunately I now cannot edit my own post. I will continue to formally dub the Knights and Knightesses of WTF but until I can edit the post again, the record will remain sadly unrecorded for all time
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I hereby dub thee Lord Knight @antiquarian of the Static Typing Brigade, may your Haskell never get rusty and your WTFs be strictly typed!
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I can edit the post again
AFAIK the onl;y way to make it editable is to ask @pjh nicely to make it a wiki post.
the edit windows is only 24 hours.
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I have already put in the request ;)
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Done.
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Listen, some PHP enthusiast on some backwater website distributin' s is no basis for a system of honours. Supreme honorific distinction derives from acknowledgement by the masses, not from some farcical digital ceremony.
BTW, can I be LurkerAbove Must be New Here Esquire?
I dub thee Lord Esquire @LurkerAbove of Must Be New Here. May your WTFs be marginal and your conscience ever clear.
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I see all the pending knighthoods have been given; go forth brave knights of WTF and make merry for tomorrow there will be WTF!
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@Arantor, I nominate blakey for a knighthood. Fun suggestions for his title are welcome.
I also nominate mikeTheLiar as
Lord Knight mikeTheLiar of the worst of the worst
.also Luhmann as
Lord B*****m Luhmann of that tiny place that makes nice beer
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Lord Commander @blakeyrat, of the Disgruntled Order of the Epic Rant
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Lord Architect codinghorror of the overly
abused mod hammer.
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I'm sorry, no, I can't possibly dub codinghorror a Knight of the WTF Realm. One does not knight enemies of the realm.
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How about dubbing him a Knave?
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Nominate Baroness @PaulaBean the Brillant?
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How about dubbing him a Knave?
A Knave and a Charlatan, sure. But he is not fit to be mentioned in the same breath as the luminaries of this community, the Knights of WTF.
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The Knights of WTF eh?
I just hope you don't get trolled by the Knights who say Nil, demanding a WTFery as tribute!
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The Knights of IHOC Who Cannot Say Null?
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Knights Of the International House of Cheese?
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The Knights of IHOP
mmmm...... pancakes......
oh, wait IHOC.... do you think they make pancakes too?
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The Knights of IHOC Who Cannot Say Null?
The Knights of IHOC Who Cannot Say
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
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(1) His Majesty in Council has power... to issue regulations for securing the public safety and the defence of the realm, and as to the powers and duties for that purpose of the Admiralty and Army Council and of the members of His Majesty's forces and other persons acting in his behalf; and may by such regulations authorise the trial by courts-martial, or in the case of minor offences by courts of summary jurisdiction, and punishment of persons committing offences against the regulations...
(shamelessly stolen from http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/defenceoftherealm.htm)
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I would like to request entry into the Order of the Knights of WTF. I humbly petition for the title Lord Knight @abarker, Master of the Shifting Avatar
Edit: My apologies to Lord Knight @Arantor of the PHP Hammer for failing to mention him in the initial draft of this petition. Also, should he find this title unacceptable, there is a proposed modification two posts down.
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Lord Knight @abarker, Master of the Shifting Avatar
That title looks odd in italics. And I don't think that type of avatar would be allowed on this forum.
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Well, I suppose it could be modified to:
Lord Knight @abarker, Master of the Frequently Changing Avatar
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Or give the Hulk brown pants.
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Give it time.
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I would petition Lord Knight @Arantor and the court of the Knights of WTF for the title
Lord Knight @Spencer of the Paradoxically Ahead in Time Yet Behind Current Events
.I would consider other title suggestions that follow a similar theme, or not if they are still pleasing.
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@Arantor of the PHP Hammer; Order of the Wooden Table said:
Nominations for membership to the Order of the Knights of WTF should be made in writing, preferably with a fun title, to @Arantor.
Dear Lord Knight,
I humbly request membership to you most WTFeriffic Order of the Knights of WTF.
I promise to uphold all values that are erm... valued by the Order.
I shall double-check the boundaries of my array indexes (which might be difficult given my chosen screenname, but I shall doeth my bestest).
I shall neither overengineer nor underengineer my software. I shall not think of my users as unpaid β-testers, but as α-people worthy of respect and dedication.
I will abstain from writing software for the next 10 years, but make things that work now instead.
If doing the right thing means Doing it Wrong™, I will Do it Wrong™ without hesitation.
I will stay away from meta.d, but spend my time in a more productive way by posting in the Almighty Likes thread, for 100k and higher glory of the almighty Order of the Knights of WTF.
My posts will be compiled with the-pendantic
flag and conform to the relevant ISO's, RFC's and WTFs.I will live by these rules without exception (unless properly wrapped in a
try/catch
block).
If I ever succumb to theCotCDCK, may I be punished in the ear with the Purple Dildo of Cleansing, applied by your most esteemed Lord Knight @algorythmics.I humbly salute you,
OffByOne
aspiring to be Lord Knight @OffByOne, Destroyer of Stackframes
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I would like to request entry into the Order of the Knights of WTF. I humbly petition for the title Lord Knight @abarker, Master of the Shifting Avatar
Edit: My apologies to Lord Knight @Arantor of the PHP Hammer for failing to mention him in the initial draft of this petition. Also, should he find this title unacceptable, there is a proposed modification two posts down.
Well, I suppose it could be modified to:
Lord Knight @abarker, Master of the Frequently Changing Avatar
To: Lord Knight @Arantor of the PHP Hammer
Re: Petition to join the Order of the Knights of WTFMy Lord, I am vexed and perplexed at the delay in thy response to mine petition to join the illustrious Order of the Knights of WTF. I beg thee to accept mine petition for entrance into the Order of the Knights WTF, that we may go forth in glory to defeat foes such as The Church of the Civilized Discourse Construction Kit.
Humbly awaiting thine response,
abarker
aspiring to be Lord Knight @abarker, Master of the Frequently Changing Avatar
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Were I to join this illustrious order, I would seek to humbly style myself as:
@dkf, Knight Pedant of the Order of Dickweeds
(Hey, I've even got the badge.)
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Were I to join this illustrious order, I would seek to humbly style myself as:
@dkf, Knight Pedant of the Order of Dickweeds
(Hey, I've even got the badge.)
As a fellow petitioner, I feel compelled to point out that having the badge should be insufficient evidence for gaining the title. Under your logic, there are five other's with the same qualifications. It would be problematic to have five knights with the same title.
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Frist come, frist titled.