Millionaire - Phone a friend

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ROSSKEEN
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Millionaire - Phone a friend

Post by ROSSKEEN »

Today's gem of a lifeline:

"I'm not too sure but it could be D. I'm 20% sure".

Wow, considering you've got a 1 in 4 (25%) chance of getting it right if you have a total stab in the dark, you've only served to hinder me my pretend chef friend.
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Post by Nil Satis »

They can indeed be a waste of time.

There's something very odd, by the way, about this thread - in the first hour since its creation it has allegedly been viewed circa 350 times without anyone replying (until now). This is as many views as recorded by threads that last a week or more with 10+ replies. A case for Mulder and Scully perhaps or maybe there is something up with the site...
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Nil Satis wrote:They can indeed be a waste of time.

There's something very odd, by the way, about this thread - in the first hour since its creation it has allegedly been viewed circa 350 times without anyone replying (until now). This is as many views as recorded by threads that last a week or more with 10+ replies. A case for Mulder and Scully perhaps or maybe there is something up with the site...
Well noticed - it's increasing at the rate of 2 or 3 a second. I suspect it could be the auto-bots used by the likes of Google to trawl the web for pages. I've been told before that the "most users online at once" records for most forums occur when a crowd of auto-bots descend upon the side and all start trawling pages. But all that said, this forum is password-protected isn't it, so I'm not sure what's going on.
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Post by explayer »

well over 1,000 views !
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Post by rogerthymes »

A similar thing has been happening today with myspace as they were launching their new player. However I can't see how the two could be linked. Must be a bizarre coincidence.
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Post by Properpro »

Could reach more views than WU thread - Surely not!! :D
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Properpro wrote:Could reach more views than WU thread - Surely not!! :D
Heaven forfend.

sorry. i should have read that post and whimpered in a corner like a piqued lapdog. !!
nobody ever wins on those things.
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