User talk:Anyeverybody/Archives/2008/February

Image Request

Six months ago I created an article about the crash of Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, which crashed in Corsica on December 1, 1981. I happened to see your images of other crashed aircraft and wondered if you would be interested in creating a picture for the article I created. And003 22:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm happy to help, it looks like there is plenty of reference info about the aircraft and best of all a picture so I don't think it'll be a problem :) Anynobody 04:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

There's a minor kink I think I should bring to your attention. In 1981 the MD-80 was actually called DC-9-80, and MD-80 wasn't used till 1983. So while the sources call it a MD-80 series, the truth is that it didn't survive to have its designation changed. Proof can be seen in the image, the engines identify YU-ANA as a DC-9.

It's not really a big deal, but just wanted to explain why my image is going to say "DC-9" on the engines in case you had expected "MD-81". Anynobody 00:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I got a look at the image ... it's great! I also appreciate you explaining the DC-9 on the engine. At its current size, I could use this picture as a desktop on my computer. And003 17:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem :) The first version I uploaded had a minor error which has been corrected, (the static pitots were way to shiny) Anynobody 23:26, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Anynobody. I am really enjoying my vacation from Project Scientology. Cheers. :-) Steve Dufour (talk) 20:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply, I must've forgotten about this message :( Happy to hear things are well :) Anynobody 23:22, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Spawn of Elron

Katie Holmes was pregnant with Elron's frozen sperms (it says here).--Major Bonkers (talk) 14:05, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Ah - someone's got there before me; see: TomKat#Controversy over existence and paternity.--Major Bonkers (talk) 14:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the tip :) No problem on Hubbard's Boys From Brazil maneuver with the Cruiser's slag*. This article is useful for several other topics I've been working on. For example their Fair game which they claim to no longer play looks to have been prepared for use on the author. I laughed out loud reading about their screw up in sending intel about the "target" to it. Then begging said target, a journalist, "not" to print it.

*Did I ever mention The Skinhead Hamlet to you? (There's actually an article here about it Skinhead Hamlet) Anynobody 23:16, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

My favourite Hamlet is the one with the Gubernator: 'Claudius, you killed my fardah... big mistake!' . 'The Skinhead Hamlet' doesn't seem that different to WP:AN/I:

“ Oi! This bloke's a wanker! Tell him to Fuck Off! Git 1 23 February 2008

Don't call me a wanker, you poof! Fuck Off yourself! Git 2 23 February 2008
Fuck Off both of you! Guy 23 February 2008

”

--Major Bonkers (talk) 11:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

(Who said I'm fair? the *intentionally* absurd Shakespeare is the best in my humble opinion.)

Oi! What the fuck? Fuckin an/i's gone round the fucking twist, yer? Anynobody 00:29, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid that that's as realistic as Dick Van Dyke's infamous cockney accent in Mary Poppins! There's a good short story of James Thurber, 'The Macbeth Murder Mystery', in which a bored American lady, a fan of detective stories, picks up a copy of Macbeth and 'solves' it (the Porter was the murderer, if I remember rightly, having framed the Macbeths). As for myself, I think the moral of Macbeth is that he over-extended himself in his property dealings and it's a warning about negative equity.--Major Bonkers (talk) 12:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Honestly Macbeth and Hamlet kinda merged to form Hambeth in my memory, I remember something about about a stain giving a woman a problem and trees marching.

What's wrong with Mary Poppins? Are you saying that Walt Disney's movies are inaccurate? How can you say such a thing given the faithful, albeit animated, depiction of Pocahontas which employed the vocal talents of one of your favorite actors? Next you'll tell me Disney didn't write 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Anynobody 01:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Signature

I can't help but notice that you are still signing your posts as Anynobody. That is not your username anymore but that account is still apparently available, so you should definitely not be signing your posts this way. Mangojuice^talk 06:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd be more than happy to go back to that username, however I also don't feel it's worth repeatedly requesting it be unlocked to a guy who's probably got bigger things to do anyway. Unless it gets fixed this arrangement seems to be working just fine. (Granted should I want to apply for admin or find myself in a situation where my history needs to be evaluated it's just common courtesy to explain the difference.) Anynobody 06:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

No, no, don't get me wrong, I see no problem with you using this account as long as you're only using one. Just, if you are using this account, could you change your signature to reflect that you are using this account and not the old one? It's confusing. Mangojuice^talk 06:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

It's cool :) I didn't think you were trying to say I shouldn't use the account, figured your question was more about the why rather than a "you know you ought not do that, right?"

Here's where it gets a tad awkward, I did start out with this as my signature Anynobody figuring it was the perfect solution. (My sig stays the same while going to a different page.) Well not exactly, some editors seemed to think this was nefarious in way I can't imagine anyone legitimately believing. To make a long story short, an admin asked me to do this. (I was gonna leave the original message, "you may have been redirected from Anynobody" even after it was guaranteed that "you" were redirected either by taking a link from an old post OR a new post. However it occurred to me that this could have been interpreted as an attack on the people who "forced" the change on me. So while I agree that a direct link to me here would be better, I'm kinda stuck in a Wiki-absurdity. Anynobody 06:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, it's patently preposterous to say that you shouldn't be linking to your own user talk page in your signature. In fact, it's in the guideline that you must link to either your user page or your user talk page. So I'd say the other admin was wrong. The guideline does also say that your signature should not match the username of another user, or link to their pages, but I don't think that implies in this case, because Anynobody is just your old username, not another user. All things considered, from reading WP:SIG, I think Anyeverybody would be most appropriate, but Anynobody would be okay, while Anynobody is actually explicitly discouraged. But I don't think this is a big deal anyway, so do whatever you feel is best. Mangojuice^talk 20:04, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Nah, I'll take this opportunity to reintroduce logic and go back to Anynobody. I keep the name because it's what I use on the commons. (The admin in question gave me the impression they were operating on autopilot so to speak, based on this resolution and a couple of others.) Anynobody 00:13, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Bashkirian Airlines 2937

I'm mainly interested in an image of them as they are about to crash. It was night but the visibility was normal for a night flight, I think. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:22, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

According to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department

The following information is provided for Germany (longitude E9.2, latitude N47.8):
Phase of the Moon on 1 July, waning gibbous with 62% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated. Last quarter Moon on 2 July 2002 at 18:20.

I'll give it a shot with 6/10th moonlight and see what happens. :) Anynobody 05:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

No, not exactly

Posting to talk. Cool Hand Luke 06:35, 28 February 2008 (UTC)