bobistheowl
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This is from a message board on a fonts site. It's international, so English is not the first language of many of the members. There are separate threads in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian, now mixed all together. There were maybe five threads total in Italian and Portuguese combined, and maybe about 50 in Spanish, since forever, (10 plus years, maybe 15).
Almost everybody posts a new thread in English, even if they can hardly write in English. Most of the people who answer are mods there, (I'm one of about 45, but some come to the site infrequently, or not anymore, but they still have mod privileges if they do come back. The mods are all appointed, and unpaid).
I was appointed as a mod five days after this exchange, in 2010:
"Jason" <disses <bobistheowl>
<bobistheowl>: "You are what you eat, Jason, and you're a dick.".
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Reprinted Thread:
<bobistheowl>, (mod, Canada): "I always get the most downloads on Tuesdays. There's a mild decline on Wednesday and Thursday, and a sharper decline on Friday and the weekend. Monday numbers are usually comparable to Wednesdays.
Mine always follow this same pattern. I don't know why more people would download on a Tuesday than on any other day of the week. Perhaps, some years ago, huge batches of fonts were posted at XXXXXX on a Tuesday, every few weeks, and it's like why the buzzards keep coming to Hinckley, Ohio every year on March 15, because there was a fire at a stockyard there on March 15, around 1870, and all sorts of food animals were barbequed for them, so they keep coming back, hoping it will happen again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinckley_Township,_Medina_County,_Ohio
Rodolphe, (site owner, France): " Probably because Tuesday is the day with the most important number or visitors (at least at XXXXXX, since a while... and 3 or 4 years ago, it was wednesday)"
daams, (mod, France): "that's the same on many websites i manage".
lensicle, (member, UK): "I think its to do with working habits. Most people aren't working at the weekends hence the decline.".
<bobistheowl>, (mod, Canada): "I would have expected most people to download fonts when they aren't at work. If I was the boss in an office, or a restaurant, or a post office, and I saw one of my employees downloading fonts, I would assign him extra work duties, since he had so much free time on his hands.".
tophy52, (mod, France): "That sounds like something you had to do when your boss busted you downloading fonts on your work time !".
<bobistheowl>: (mod, Canada) Quotes tophy52, + "You're not even as funny as koeiekat. Stop listening to mimes.".
koeiekat, (mod, The Netherlands, but pretends to be from Spain):
That's December 10 - January 1 in one thread.
I don't think any of them picked up on the comedic irony of saying to a guy from France who's trying to be funny "Stop listening to mimes". He probably thought I was calling koeiekat a mime, or he thought I had misspelled meme.
I'll bet a lot of guys here thought that, too, and English is their first language.
I have some other reprints from this site, one in a very long post in Ask bobistheowl! sometime around November 15, and another one recently, that you could find by using koeiekat as the search term.
I'm koeiekat's nemesis, on that board, and a previous board. He likes to diss the people who post on this other board, and I like to diss him for that. He thinks he's funny. His English isn't as good as mine, but he is fluent in several languages, (He's posted in English, Spanish, and Dutch or Afrikaans, I'm not sure which).
koeiekat's an asshole, who's really good at font identification, but the fonts he makes are very ordinary, and not very popular. His only redeeming quality that I'm aware of is that he donates much of the income he makes from his fonts, (not very much), to animal shelters. We have a frosty detente relationship, where we each respect the other, for different reasons.
The one in Ask bobistheowl! had no spaces between paragraphs, and Art Mann commented on that, so it might be easier to find it by looking in his posting history. That one has a lot of my 'best of' posts on that other board. It might be easier to read, if you copy/ paste the text of the post to a text document.
Almost everybody posts a new thread in English, even if they can hardly write in English. Most of the people who answer are mods there, (I'm one of about 45, but some come to the site infrequently, or not anymore, but they still have mod privileges if they do come back. The mods are all appointed, and unpaid).
I was appointed as a mod five days after this exchange, in 2010:
"Jason" <disses <bobistheowl>
<bobistheowl>: "You are what you eat, Jason, and you're a dick.".
***************************************
Reprinted Thread:
<bobistheowl>, (mod, Canada): "I always get the most downloads on Tuesdays. There's a mild decline on Wednesday and Thursday, and a sharper decline on Friday and the weekend. Monday numbers are usually comparable to Wednesdays.
Mine always follow this same pattern. I don't know why more people would download on a Tuesday than on any other day of the week. Perhaps, some years ago, huge batches of fonts were posted at XXXXXX on a Tuesday, every few weeks, and it's like why the buzzards keep coming to Hinckley, Ohio every year on March 15, because there was a fire at a stockyard there on March 15, around 1870, and all sorts of food animals were barbequed for them, so they keep coming back, hoping it will happen again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinckley_Township,_Medina_County,_Ohio
Rodolphe, (site owner, France): " Probably because Tuesday is the day with the most important number or visitors (at least at XXXXXX, since a while... and 3 or 4 years ago, it was wednesday)"
daams, (mod, France): "that's the same on many websites i manage".
lensicle, (member, UK): "I think its to do with working habits. Most people aren't working at the weekends hence the decline.".
<bobistheowl>, (mod, Canada): "I would have expected most people to download fonts when they aren't at work. If I was the boss in an office, or a restaurant, or a post office, and I saw one of my employees downloading fonts, I would assign him extra work duties, since he had so much free time on his hands.".
tophy52, (mod, France): "That sounds like something you had to do when your boss busted you downloading fonts on your work time !".
<bobistheowl>: (mod, Canada) Quotes tophy52, + "You're not even as funny as koeiekat. Stop listening to mimes.".
koeiekat, (mod, The Netherlands, but pretends to be from Spain):
That's December 10 - January 1 in one thread.
I don't think any of them picked up on the comedic irony of saying to a guy from France who's trying to be funny "Stop listening to mimes". He probably thought I was calling koeiekat a mime, or he thought I had misspelled meme.
I'll bet a lot of guys here thought that, too, and English is their first language.
I have some other reprints from this site, one in a very long post in Ask bobistheowl! sometime around November 15, and another one recently, that you could find by using koeiekat as the search term.
I'm koeiekat's nemesis, on that board, and a previous board. He likes to diss the people who post on this other board, and I like to diss him for that. He thinks he's funny. His English isn't as good as mine, but he is fluent in several languages, (He's posted in English, Spanish, and Dutch or Afrikaans, I'm not sure which).
koeiekat's an asshole, who's really good at font identification, but the fonts he makes are very ordinary, and not very popular. His only redeeming quality that I'm aware of is that he donates much of the income he makes from his fonts, (not very much), to animal shelters. We have a frosty detente relationship, where we each respect the other, for different reasons.
The one in Ask bobistheowl! had no spaces between paragraphs, and Art Mann commented on that, so it might be easier to find it by looking in his posting history. That one has a lot of my 'best of' posts on that other board. It might be easier to read, if you copy/ paste the text of the post to a text document.
