Is there a way to flag incorrect "Quotes of the Moment"?
Tom Send a noteboard - 10/11/2009 08:35:47 PM
It's really starting to frustrate me. A few days ago I saw something attributed to "Mazrim Tam" (sic) and now today someone called Blaine submitted "Elementary, my dear Watson" and attributed it to "Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle".
As anyone who has read the various Sherlock Holmes books should know, he never said that. Ever.
I went to trouble of looking it up on the Internet and Snopes.com has a great debunking of the popular myth, explaining that it comes from a derivative film from the 1920s.
There are a few other quotes of the moment that sounded wrong but I didn't have the time to check them. We really should have a way to flag quotes that are in some way wrong or incorrectly formatted.
As anyone who has read the various Sherlock Holmes books should know, he never said that. Ever.
I went to trouble of looking it up on the Internet and Snopes.com has a great debunking of the popular myth, explaining that it comes from a derivative film from the 1920s.
There are a few other quotes of the moment that sounded wrong but I didn't have the time to check them. We really should have a way to flag quotes that are in some way wrong or incorrectly formatted.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Is there a way to flag incorrect "Quotes of the Moment"?
- 10/11/2009 08:35:47 PM
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I think Snoop immediately commented on that line never having been said in SH
- 10/11/2009 08:39:12 PM
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I guess I should have mentioned that I saw it today, not that it was submitted today.
- 10/11/2009 08:45:57 PM
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Where does that come from then?
- 11/11/2009 02:12:04 AM
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What, you mean Ben shouldn't just know all content from all media off by heart? *NM*
- 11/11/2009 07:22:27 AM
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That's what I assumed.
- 11/11/2009 08:49:04 AM
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Simples, he should appoint a champion to do trivia combat for him
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- 11/11/2009 10:47:57 AM
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- 11/11/2009 10:47:57 AM
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There needs to be.
- 11/11/2009 10:50:13 AM
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I doubt one Quote Admin, no matter how versed, could check all the quotes.
- 11/11/2009 08:16:15 PM
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Yeah but they could do a quick google search to weed out the worst miss quotes
- 12/11/2009 11:03:20 AM
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You could just NB Ben and/or an Admin with access to the database.
- 12/11/2009 01:38:18 PM
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