Pleco word

Marshel · Post by **Marshel** » 09 Mar 2004, 07:33

I noticed that the PLECO always is shown as "Pl*co"

Very strange.

I don't know anyone has the same problem.

Post by **Barbie** » 09 Mar 2004, 07:45

That is covered in the FAQ, and is a holdover from a time when most communication on the internet by catfish enthusiasts was done on the Catfish L mailing list.

Barbie

MC · Post by MC » 10 Mar 2004, 06:13

It's still silly

no matter what it's carried over from!

Post by **Barbie** » 10 Mar 2004, 07:17

That's the point, duh! And when you put the hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of work into building a site like Jools has, you get to decide to NOT use it on yours. Isn't that cool?

Barbie

MC · Post by MC » 10 Mar 2004, 12:27

Maybe it could be expanded to start a new trend "c*tfish" LOL

pturley · Post by **pturley** » 10 Mar 2004, 17:14

This isn't so much a trend as it is a part of internet history.

The use of an asterisk in the word harks back long before the Cat-L list to the early Usenet bullitin boards. (rec.aquaria I think it was at the time).

It started basically as this, an aquarist wrote a long drawn out and quite humorous post about how every time he type p-l-*-c-o (YES, I still believe)

, one of his fish dies...

After several dozen very funny posts back an forth, including if I remember correctly at least one "experimental" thread which supposively "confirmed" it to be true

, the consensus at the time was that the word was not to be typed in this form, lest one of your fish die.

So, techically speaking, you all owe Jools a debt of grattitude for writing this into the code of this board, thereby saving countless little lives in the process

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 12 Mar 2004, 10:14

Barbie wrote:And when you put the hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of work into building a site like Jools has<snip>

Actually I was pondering this recently, I average 1.5 hours a day working on the site. OK, I have holidays and such, but I also have 10 hour sessions at the weekend equally frequently. So,

1997-2004 = 7 * 365 * 1.5 = 3832.50 hours! Now, I currently (in my day job get charged out at Â£850 per day (8 hours). So, 3832.50/8 * Â£850 = around Â£400,000. So, development cost of planet catfish has to be close to $700,000 and that's not including all the help from the planet catfish irregulars. Gotta be over a million bucks if designed in the real world - just shows the REAL power of the internet / human nature.

Interesting isn't it!

Jools