The typical forum topic.
Here's the deal.
1. You sit down on your couch/spinny office chair/sack of potatoes and power on your laptop/pc/mac/portible media device.
2.Your desktop appears and you click the icon for your web browser, only to be release vain screams and violence towards your computer;It is still starting up and a click too soon triggers the release of the hourglass/spinning rainbow wheel of doom.
3. Eventually, you web browser pops up,showing your orange and white homepage riddled with pictures of other's contraptions and doodads
4. You sign into the web page and are greeted with a yellow-orange bot with a sideways grin and roller skates
5.You have a idea that is buring a hole in your skull, and your deepest desire at the moment is to share it with the people of the internet. You will create... A forum topic.
6.You give the topic a vauge and amiguous title in hopes readers won't understand what is meant and click out of curiosity.
7. You write a long and involved topic message intro,ranting about how some spice from a delicious italian food has destroyed your new shag carpet or perhaps how your dog has the strange habit of dancing to Micheal Jackson Thriller whenever he hears it
8. Your message body complete. You realize you have forgotten to upload pictures you wanted to post, so you copy what you've written to a text editor and begin again after they are uploaded; perhaps a cat covered in feathers with a caption that reads,Was tasty pillow!
9. After a few second of second guesses and spell checks, you click the button that reads "post topic."
10. You add the first post to the topic saying,"Just kick starting the posts" or "Got any ideas?" so it will end up in both "New Topics" and "New Posts."
11.You jump to "Recent Posts" and keep hitting the reload button until someone responds to your topic. You get up, do a little dance and read it.
12.This first post is almost always off topic, but you respond anyway, as you want yours to stay at the top of the posts list.
13.Your topic is not posted-to for a while, and you either wait or post another comment to keep it up top.
14.The top of the list is all of a sudden bombarded with a flodd of posts and topics that you believe have no meaning whatsoever, but this is not true for you are just frustrated.
15.Out of the blue, some body comments, any you find it to be a well written respose to your topic, and are overjoyyed. This joy lasts until the jokers arive and fill you topic with pictures of tomatoes that look like celebrities. Then the knex-artillery guys post a long conversation about trigger mechanisms. you try to regain control, but your posts are to small to be read and it snowballs into a huge stack of posts that is lost and forgotten.
16. You Say goodbye
Happy Hacking!
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