Typophile - Best of Type-ID (Pssst, Yves) - Comments

I’ll nominate Yves’

smarks — Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:24:56 -0700

I’ll nominate Yves’ 5000th post. The visual humor in this forum is just great. The Mondrian in the gilded frame is another one of my favorites, from the infamous Flairs thread, already mentioned above.

s’marks

Back on track — looks like

Bald Condensed — Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:20:56 -0700

Back on track — looks like the Cereal Box Incident might make it in the list. :-)

And what do you people think of the Alien Porn Occurence?

You’ll have to excuse me for remembering mine more easily. Anyone else feels like adding to the list? I feel like the first guy on the dancefloor, nervously checking the onlookers and hoping somebody would join in so I’d feel less naked and silly

Actually, he didn’t skip a

hrant — Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:13:57 -0700

Actually, he didn’t skip a beat.
Which isn’t to say his mind wasn’t racing with the possibilities.

hhp

It must’ve been super

karenhuang — Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:22:13 -0700

It must’ve been super surreal. Armin must have been wondering, “What the hell am I supposed to do with this?”

You’re kidding, right? It

Mark Simonson — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:52:32 -0700

You’re kidding, right?

It happened on stage during one of the presentations. There were several hundred witnesses. I was there. It got a big laugh, but I’m sure some people didn’t know what the joke was about.

Nope. I did rinse it though.

hrant — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:01:49 -0700

Nope. I did rinse it though. BTW, shortly afterwards Bryony
grinned to me ominously and said: “Oh, this can’t stop here.”
Which is, of course, why I’ll be skipping TypeCon this year.

hhp

You’re kidding, right?

karenhuang — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:38:29 -0700

You’re kidding, right?

Let it now be duly recorded

hrant — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:39:21 -0700

Let it now be duly recorded that the plunger in question (my actual personal plunger until that point in time) was gifted to Armin onstage at TypeCon 2004.

hhp

Oops, those were from the

karenhuang — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:15:19 -0700

Oops, those were from the General Discussions though.

Definitely the one where

karenhuang — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:14:41 -0700

Definitely the one where everyone started posting type jokes! That should definitely be a one of the “best of”.

And remember the one where Armin had a funny freudian dream about Hrant?

Only the Step Hen,

Grant Hutchinson — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:58:48 -0700

Only the Step Hen, apparently?

Like, is there anyone at all

Bald Condensed — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:42:53 -0700

Like, is there anyone at all left at Punchcut after all this sacking!? :-D

Hrant (Yves already knows

Joe Pemberton — Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:29:44 -0700

Hrant (Yves already knows this) as a moderator Yves can promote a thread to the home page to appear in the “Handpicked” column. That would be a great way to push the good ones to the surface.

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Stephen, the moderator posts were not properly batch processed along with all the rest of the users’ info and posts. The same thing happened to Tiffany. (The people responsible have been sacked and those responsible for sacking them have also been sacked.) We’re assured that Step Hen is not forever lost...

Whatever it is, I sure do

Bald Condensed — Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:12:10 -0700

Whatever it is, I sure do miss Stewf’s zany comments and barely controlled insanity intermixed with erudite knowledge and zen-like sensei advice. :-/

(This can’t be proper English, but what the heck!)

> the first mention of the

hrant — Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:24:48 -0700

> the first mention of the infamous Step Hen

That was me. But I think I intercapped it -“StepHen”- and that makes it harder to find? So maybe try searching on “stephen” + “hhp” from around 2.5 years ago. Or maybe it was “Step-Hen”, since I love hyphens to much.

Missing stuff: my guess is the system processed mine, then it needed a vacation. Seriously, I’ve noticed that posts from anonymous users for one seem to be missing; but that doesn’t explain Stephen’s missing stuff. Maybe it has to do with having multiple login accounts? I’ve always had this one, but I remember early on (like maybe 3.5 years ago) there was some sort of purge and most people created new accounts (thereby exagerating my [relative] post-count even more...) and maybe the system only revives posts of currently registered users?

hhp

Best of Type-ID (Pssst, Yves)

hrant — Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:35:32 -0700

For a while now I haven’t followed the Type-ID section at all. One reason is that helps me spend less time on Typophile, but another is that I feel inadequate in the company of the planet’s best font hounds! But I have noticed (through the [old] search facility) that some ID threads evolve into quite interesting discussions, ones I’d love to be exposed to. And I suspect a few others are in my position, so I have a suggestion:

Could we have a Best of Type-ID compilation? It would include threads with juicy discussion but also exceptional cases of font sleuthing, and maybe great humor, etc. Assuming Yves is willing to spend any time on something like this, what would reduce his load a lot would be if people (especially the pack of alpha hounds*) nominated memorable threads, or even divvied up chronological chunks** of all the ID threads and went through them. It could be a long-term thing, as people have the time.

* In fact one of the alphas could be the project kahuna instead of Yves.

** You could give me a chunk too.

hhp