Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Grant Fritchey (8/13/2009)


    RBarryYoung (8/13/2009)


    Another real Gem...

    I went to respond to your interpretation of the SSMS shorthand and decided that it would look too much like picking on the guy who did it. BUT, here's my re-translation:

    pls tell how to c the o/p of the profiler =

    Please tell how to carry the original poster off the profiler

    Just a guess you understand.

    Heh. But this isn't that thread, it's a different one...

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  • A colleague of mine spotted SQLGURU-WP in my area as well took a picture and published it on the front page of our internal company newsletter (see attachment). Strangely the person seems to have downgraded from Audi to Opel (Astra I guess). Seems business isn't going that well... Or someone is driving around with a fake license plate. Gail, did you get to mention this to your colleague at TechEd? Just a guess, but his first name doesn't start with a C and is pretty Afrikaans, does it?

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  • pls tell how to c the o/p of the profiler

    j tk th sq o/t t2 n xrf th dmv frm thr 4 all sign f

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  • Bob Hovious (8/13/2009)


    pls tell how to c the o/p of the profiler

    j tk th sq o/t t2 n xrf th dmv frm thr 4 all sign f

    ... pork chops loaded ... target acquired ... ready to fire ...

    :w00t:



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  • Bob Hovious (8/13/2009)


    j tk th sq o/t t2 n xrf th dmv frm thr 4 all sign f

    Does one even dare ask for a translation? Or just hit the fire button the 105mm pork chop cannons?

    -- Kit

  • [font="Verdana"]honk forth love if. Had to be said.

    I think when someone posts a technical question in txt speak, then yes, the posted questions are certainly getting worse. Eeek!

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  • I think the worst questions are getting posted.

    Have to sign off now and ride 1.5 hours to have pizza with Alvin at MemPASS.

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  • Grant Fritchey (8/13/2009)


    This is going to become a new badge of honor for people going for jobs or qualifying for MVP:

    "And this article I wrote was plagiarized five times in the last year. This blog post got copied twice..."

    BWAA-HAAA!!!! I hadn't thought about it that way. I can just see during an interview when they ask how I spend my day... "I check for emails from my servers because they really know what's going on, I see if my boss is paniced about anything, I write some code for some projects, and I spend at least an hour a day chasing people who infringed on my copyrighted articles. Do I get the job?" 😛

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  • Jan Van der Eecken (8/13/2009)


    Strangely the person seems to have downgraded from Audi to Opel (Astra I guess). Seems business isn't going that well... Or someone is driving around with a fake license plate.

    Is that legal? I thought licence plates were tied to the cars, not to drivers....

    Gail, did you get to mention this to your colleague at TechEd? Just a guess, but his first name doesn't start with a C and is pretty Afrikaans, does it?

    I forgot to ask him. No, my colleague is very english (originally from the UK).

    In fact - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=C0BDA40A-2F18-4728-9EE4-212769AD7F50

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  • Kit G (8/13/2009)


    Bob Hovious (8/13/2009)


    j tk th sq o/t t2 n xrf th dmv frm thr 4 all sign f

    Does one even dare ask for a translation? Or just hit the fire button the 105mm pork chop cannons?

    FFE!

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  • Jeff Moden (8/13/2009)


    Grant Fritchey (8/13/2009)


    This is going to become a new badge of honor for people going for jobs or qualifying for MVP:

    "And this article I wrote was plagiarized five times in the last year. This blog post got copied twice..."

    BWAA-HAAA!!!! I hadn't thought about it that way. I can just see during an interview when they ask how I spend my day... "I check for emails from my servers because they really know what's going on, I see if my boss is paniced about anything, I write some code for some projects, and I spend at least an hour a day chasing people who infringed on my copyrighted articles. Do I get the job?" 😛

    Were you at my interview the other day?

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  • Check Bob out, I think he's un-posting now. Are you punishing the OPs by adding solutions and then deleting them, just for spite? 😛

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  • GilaMonster (8/14/2009)


    Is that legal? I thought licence plates were tied to the cars, not to drivers....

    Not in the case of personalised plates, after all you could have payed a small fortune for it. From the Western Cape Government web site:

    To keep or transfer a specialised licence number, you can send an application form to the licence number section.

    I forgot to ask him. No, my colleague is very english (originally from the UK).

    In fact - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=C0BDA40A-2F18-4728-9EE4-212769AD7F50

    OK, met him at more than one conference.

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  • Jan Van der Eecken (8/14/2009)


    GilaMonster (8/14/2009)


    Is that legal? I thought licence plates were tied to the cars, not to drivers....

    Not in the case of personalised plates, after all you could have payed a small fortune for it.

    Ok, but it can't be switched back and forward, audi this week, opel the next.

    I forgot to ask him. No, my colleague is very english (originally from the UK).

    In fact - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=C0BDA40A-2F18-4728-9EE4-212769AD7F50

    OK, met him at more than one conference.

    Not surprised. He speaks at just about every MS event in the country.

    It's very cool (and great marketing for us), the only two SQL MVPs in SA work for the same company. The MD loves mentioning that to prospective clients.

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  • In the Cape anything goes 😎

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