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Pham

18:01

Low Quality A (19.4%): Chuck D Loves the D, adores the D., by user4363467, on stackoverflow.com.

Infinite Recursion

@Cerbrus <---- me too

ɥʇǝS

I don't have any votes left :(

bummi

How to handle such a "spam" link farm ? stackoverflow.com/q/9728279/1699210

ɥʇǝS

I still need two vote specific hats D:

Cerbrus

@ɥʇǝS find something salvageable you downvoted.

ɥʇǝS

18:04

hmm, good idea.

Someone should edit the description of the room to "MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF HATS!".

Unihedro

whaaaaaat

@Cerbrus I got crab!

Cerbrus

Uni: Downvote>edit>upvote

Martijn Pieters

@Cerbrus: I have made an educated guess about the HairBoat hat.

We'll see if it pans out..

Cerbrus

Something to do with a stylist and a boat?

Martijn Pieters

@Cerbrus If I am correct, it may be I can't share the solution, as it means someone is going to get a lot of email.

Unihedro

18:17

Wow clever

Cerbrus

Not even with the current Mr. Hat? :P

Martijn Pieters

@Cerbrus I was wrong, but Abby is going to remove the suggestion to email him what you had for lunch now..

ah, no, he didn't remove it, just qualified it:

> If you'd like to tell me what you had for lunch, you can email me at [email protected]. (Note that doing so will not earn you a hat.)

Cerbrus

Hahaha

Nice try, though xD

> hair-boating - a potentially dangerous syndrome characterized by an irresistable urge to paddle in conditions that challenge the limits of sanity.

> (kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Hair-Boating)

Unihedro

Challenging sanity..

Meta participation maybe?

Jan Dvorak

40 reviews in the CVQ?

Cerbrus

18:22

Tried something...

Hm, I doubt editing a massively downvoted answer is the solution

Martijn Pieters

@JanDvorak Oded earned it on Meta.SE, not SO.

Unihedro

Meta detectives at work

Cerbrus

Yea, that's not it

Sterling Archer

@bluefeet mandatory booby i.imgur.com/7ql3IJP.png

4

Spoiler alert: it's not funny

bluefeet

@SterlingArcher boobies are always funny

8

:D

Anna Lear

18:33

@SterlingArcher hey, no need to be a tit about it.

Sterling Archer

@AnnaLear I'm only responding in shame because I don't know any other pun birds to respond to you :(

Anna Lear

@SterlingArcher it's okay, don't be all emu about it.

Sterling Archer

... DAMMIT T_T

Anna Lear

#winning

:)

Sterling Archer

Why are you ostrichizing me?

WHYHYHY

Bart

18:36

Something something rough-faced shag

Anna Lear

I'm owl about bird puns

Infinite Recursion

:D

Sterling Archer

tucan stop now D:

(I know, that one was pushing it)

jadarnel27

You all are a lot of fun.

Sam

Oh goodness, these puns.

Martijn Pieters

18:38

@AnnaLear You could sparrow him a moment to teach him some.

Bart

@jadarnel27 let us know wren you get sick of it.

Infinite Recursion

ducks

Sterling Archer

I knew it was Bart's tern.

jadarnel27

I got a penguin @Bart replied to my message, and I knew it would be funny.

Sterling Archer

This is a very pheasant conversation.

Bart

18:42

I'm pretty sure we could carrion forever.

Infinite Recursion

^ needs a hat

Anna Lear

We may be too eagle to keep it going, though. The cardinal rule of puns is that they have to sound natural.

bluefeet

this conversation is no longer punny

Sterling Archer

Oh man, Anna just doubled up. #won

Bart

@AnnaLear indeed. You wouldn't want for it to get hawkward.

Anna Lear

18:47

@Bart /highfive

Martijn Pieters

@Bart We must all carry the birden, lest we egret it later.

I should stop now, before I ruffle too many feathers.

jadarnel27

Bird bird bird bird bird.

Martijn Pieters

I should stick to Twitter instead.

Bart

That's fowl play @jadarnel27

Anna Lear

@Bart Seriously, right? The gull.

jadarnel27

18:49

It was only logical.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: OPAMP SATURATION PROBLEM by berker on electronics.stackexchange.com

Sterling Archer

Let osprey for the souls of this conversation.

Bart

And remind ourselves of the fact that no matter how good we are, we'll never beat paraskeet

jadarnel27

I think this is my queue to get back to work.

Sterling Archer

Likewise, my boss is crowing at me.

Bye! Thanks for the puns guys!

rene

19:03

@Sam it got migrated to meta

Sam

Thx. And from there... DV to oblivion.

jadarnel27

I should have said "this is my cue" up there. You can tell I'm a programmer and not an actor (or whoever else commonly uses the word "cue").

Bart

Snooker players ...

jadarnel27

I'm afraid to Google what that is.

nneonneo

Yes, but "this is my cue" has a very different meaning in the context of snooker.

And, judging by the fact that a cue is a long stick used to hit balls, I might say it would be mildly inappropriate.

Hobo Sapiens

19:15

cv-pls Rec request: stackoverflow.com/q/27481380/1864610

TGMCians

status-closed

Hobo Sapiens

@TGMCians Ever so ta!

TGMCians

yay

Pham

Low Quality A (35.2%): INTRODUCTION TO MANY BODY PHYSICS BY PIERS COLEMAN, by , on physics.stackexchange.com.

jadarnel27

So wait...is snooker the same thing as billiards ("pool")?

nneonneo

19:23

@jadarnel27: in principle

user259867

@jadarnel27 A member of a family of games involving a table, balls, and a stick.

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 54.3196: Outlook express recovery on superuser.com

Shokhet

@Behaviour Ah, thanks. Where do I post the guess to get the hat?

jadarnel27

Thanks @nneonneo and @Behaviour.

Shokhet

@jadarnel27 I like your shirt!

jadarnel27

19:32

@Shokhet Likewise =P

Shokhet

:)

user259867

@hichris123 I don't know how SE team handles it this year. I got Eureka after discussing Chameleon in Math chat. But now there is a thread on Meta about secret hats, which is a confusing factor.

Shokhet

@Behaviour Ah. Chameleon is the one I think I figured out...

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Q: Spoiler alert: I think I guessed what Chameleon is for

I think I guessed what the Chameleon hat is for. I guessed this when I noticed that My suspicion was confirmed when I did the same thing, and promptly received the hat. Am I right?

^^^^ Spoiler tags in oneboxed questions are awkward.

Mysticial

19:51

Question, how did my parent user on chat.SO get changed to MSO?

Shokhet

20:15

@gnat Thanks for the bounty! :)

I'd have thought that I would be notified automatically when a bounty is offered on my own question, but apparently not.......

rene

Is someone here who is active on SF? Can you have a look at this should it go on SU instead? It is not for SO for sure.

ɥʇǝS

> (Re-Posting from Serverfault as they don't seem to like the question over there and don't bother to explain why.)

definitely not SF.

Shokhet

@rene Did you mean "SU"?

SF = Scifi; SU = Superuser

rene

serverfault?

ɥʇǝS

@Shokhet SF = Server Fault usually.

Shokhet

20:20

@ɥʇǝS Oh; got it.

rene

@ɥʇǝS but SU would fit?

Shokhet

@ɥʇǝS I saw that quote and figured if so, then probably not....SU was the only other thing that came to mind

rene

@ɥʇǝS And what is the rationale behind doesn't belong on SF

Shokhet

To clarify: I'm not sure that it belongs on SU.....that's just the only other site that I could think of

ɥʇǝS

@rene SF rejected it, SF doesn't want it.

Hobo Sapiens

20:21

@rene Server Fault is for 'professional' questions. This looks like a home setup

rene

Ah, that make sense

ɥʇǝS

I would never send someone to SF, if I could help it.

Rarely anything good comes of it.

rene

lol

Shokhet

@ɥʇǝS Although.....the question hasn't been closed over there (SF), just has one DV

And SF does have a racoon tag....

Hobo Sapiens

I'm all out of closevotes, too :(

Shokhet

20:23

Though someone should tell this user something about cross-posting.

rene

@Shokhet He better asked on meta-SF or MSO where his post should go

Shokhet

@rene That's a fair point.

Pham

20:46

Low Quality A (19.4%): Try using a ByteArrayInputStream., by Vineet Manohar, on stackoverflow.com.

ɥʇǝS

NNAA

Not not an answer.

Mooseman is eating pizza

VLQ

ɥʇǝS

No, not that either.

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 51.0905: recover deleted file from network share on superuser.com

^ Spam seed.

rene

Can we flag already @hichris123 ?

bjb568

21:01

I just flagged for closure.

hichris123

del-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1491450/…

@rene maybe?

I dunno.

ɥʇǝS

@hichris123 how do you know?

Sam

@ɥʇǝS Hat power.

hichris123

@ɥʇǝS It just looks like a filerepairforum question. May not be, but...

ɥʇǝS

lol

Sam

21:06

Well, it's been 10 mins without any spam answers (so far)...

rene

@vba4all If you're around can you have a look here if there is something I missed in explaining/asking?

Shokhet

Is there a way to wear multiple hats, or is it one at a time?

gunr2171

one at a time

13 hours ago, by DroidDev

feature-request We should be able to wear multiple hats.

Shokhet

aaaaaw.....I think Spock would look cool with the werewolf hunter crossbow....oh well

gunr2171

yeah, i agree that we should have at least one "hat" and one "shirt" on at a time

Shokhet

21:21

I think three is a nice number -- hat, hair, and shirt....I would probably only use two, though.

bjb568

cv stackoverflow.com/questions/27493162/…

3 iz bad. 2 and 4 r bettah.

Hobo Sapiens

cv-pls Super User question: stackoverflow.com/q/27493516/1864610

Oded

Hats!

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Shokhet

@Oded Which one are you wearing? ....I can't tell

Oded

Boats!

'tis the HairBoat

Shokhet

21:34

@Oded Cute! What's it for.....or is it a secret?

Oded

Secret boat is secret

Shokhet

Ah.

Apparently, no one's figured it out yet:

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A: Winter Bash 2014 Secret Hats

This guy has a HairBoat! How?... No idea... (By being an uber-mod?) If we can believe the rumors that there are 8 secret hats, then maybe this is the last one not mentioned yet? (I for one don't believe in such rumors.)

gunr2171

maybe it's answer a question in row?

Shokhet

Apparently, you, @Oded, are the "this guy" in that answer ;-)

3ventic

I lost interest when people spoiled the secrets.

gunr2171

21:36

row, row, row your boat

Oded

@Shokhet yep, I noticed that ;)

Shokhet

status-not-telling — Oded ♦ 2 hours ago

Cute :)

Oded

I've seen at least two others with it so far

GreenAsJade

Is there something wrong with my question here stackoverflow.com/q/27474351/554807 or did a couple of folk just loose their keys?

ɥʇǝS

Hairboat is the last secret!

Oded

21:37

Sooo happy I came up with it :)

Shokhet

That's not fair! ......you probably got it on purpose! :P

gunr2171

@GreenAsJade 0/-2, no close votes. only thing I can say is, other than the title, there is no question mark

ɥʇǝS

I'm still sad there wasn't a mad hatter hat :(

gunr2171

though I wouldn't agree to -2

Shokhet

@ɥʇǝS Maybe as a secret hat?

GreenAsJade

21:39

heh - thx OK. shrug ... 'people' Maybe they were going for the crab ...

ɥʇǝS

pretty sure all of those have been found :(

gunr2171

@GreenAsJade maybe, hats make people do strange things

Lynn Crumbling

o/

Optimizer

story so far

More - As far as I can see, only Oded has this hat. Looking at his activity, it can be one of these three things : comments, added tags, answers. Its not the added tags, as all of them are mod specific tags. It cannot be comments as many other people here are doing similar comments. Looking at his answers, he has 3 accepted answers, on a negative voted question, duplicated question, highly voted question. With both high votes answer and low votes answer. After searching for a while, I found many users falling into all such scenarios without the hat. So I am at dead end now. — Optimizer 4 mins ago

although , it seems that i am wrong at the "only oded has this hat" part

Shokhet

@Optimizer Hm.....good luck!

@Optimizer Where's your hat? I don't see you wearing any!

Optimizer

21:42

dunno why its not shown here

Lynn Crumbling

cv-pls ot stackoverflow.com/q/27475938/656243

Shokhet

Unfortunately, there aren't many hats that work well with a knife gravatar.....Spock is okay, but I might have to pick a picture with a head for the next two weeks......

Optimizer

so anyone trying to figure out hairboat ?

Oded

@Shokhet - is that your profession? With that avatar and user name...

ɥʇǝS

@Shokhet Ctrl+Shift+Reload.

Shokhet

21:50

@Oded No....I'm learning, though.

Oded

Good luck with that then

Shokhet

@ɥʇǝS Now I see it; thanks! :)

@Oded Thanks :)

Pham

22:08

Low Quality A (47.2%): did you manage to solve your problem?, by dereu, on apple.stackexchange.com.

Sam

naa superuser.com/a/853005/220787

Jan Dvorak

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27494255/…

hichris123

22:23

@JanDvorak Last downvote of the day.

Jan Dvorak

should I stop already? math.stackexchange.com/questions/1069772/…

hichris123

@JanDvorak Yeah, probably.

When someone admits they didn't think... then it's time to stop the conversation. ;P

Jan Dvorak

I wanted to suggest not to ask without thinking the next time :-)

reposted now: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/153499/…

Shog9

I observed a hairboat hat floating along on Lifehacks

bjb568

I observe a huge chameleon on my head.

hichris123

22:33

@Shog9 Hmm, interesting -- lifehacks.stackexchange.com/help/badges/31/…

Jan Dvorak

Oh. I was wondering what it was

hichris123

btw @Shog9 I totally guessed a secret hat's trigger. May I have a hat now? And a meta hat for guessing the trigger for that hat? ;)

bjb568

@hichris123 noh

hichris123

@bjb568 Oh, now you're Shog, eh? ;P

Shog9

@hichris123 what, you think there's a hat that gets awarded for guessing that hats can be manually awarded?

That'd be a bit... silly, wouldn't it?

Especially since that's been documented for like 2 years now.

hichris123

22:36

@Shog9 Well, I guessed the trigger for a secret hat... right?

bjb568

@hichris123 Uh… yeah! Totally!

Lynn Crumbling

@JanDvorak I didn't think anything... — yaou 12 mins ago

Shog9

@hichris123 If I confirmed or denied that, it wouldn't be much of a secret.

Tim Stone

@Shog9 You're a talking head wearing a hat and somehow holding a crossbow. I think we've crossed that line. :P

Shog9

No, not yet

Lynn Crumbling

22:37

Nail -> Head -> "Correct; you didn't think before posting.. did you?"

hichris123

@Shog9 Confirming could be in the form of ahem a hat ahem.

Shog9

but what would that confirm, exactly?

- That there's a hat that can be awarded on a whim?

- That you correctly guessed something?

- That you incorrectly guessed something but I like to mess with people?

hichris123

E) All of the above

bjb568

D) All of the above

Tim Stone

You should give someone else the hat just to mess with @hichris123.

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hichris123

22:39

@TimStone Thanks. You're really helping my case here. ;)

Tim Stone

I try

hichris123

I can't imagine you as a defense attorney. "My client is not guil... sorry, he actually stole the hats. Give him life in prison!"

Mysticial

@hichris123 I don't think it's that simple. I figured out Timelord (and pinged Shog) before it got posted on meta. But I didn't get Eureka. That said, I didn't get the requirements for Timelord exactly correct, I said "retag" instead of "edit".

Martijn Pieters

@Oded: just a yes or no will do; has the last hat anything to do with Bosun? On the podcast I heard that there was a another choice for the name that didn't make it..

hichris123

@Mysticial Hmm well the other option is @Shog9 is just trolling us all. Which is always a possibility. I mean, he's a floating head!

3

bjb568

22:52

NSFW: amazon.com/review/RFWM0CFO0UMWY

2

Mooseman is eating pizza

23:05

naa stackoverflow.com/a/2833079/1234256

The Guy with The Elf Hat

@bjb568 I don't get it...

Although that's probably a good thing if it's NSFW.

:P

Sam

Night all!

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 83.4777: i am building a website that needs this equation to be solved. on math.stackexchange.com

jadarnel27

I got a second secret hat for reasons unknown to me and that's exciting for some reason.

bummi

night all

user259867

23:11

@hichris123 So not buying it.

Lynn Crumbling

@bummi Still on?

@bummi Got your message the other day re: the declined flag. Don't worry about it. I should have looked closed before flagging it.

cv-pls dup stackoverflow.com/q/27494521/656243

Martijn Pieters

23:24

@jadarnel27 You welcomed a new user.

Optimizer

@Shokhet Any luck ?

nicael

Hey, I've dressed :)

Changed avatar also, will take a while for it to be changed in chat.

The Guy with The Elf Hat

23:41

@nicael No Chameleon hat on top of the chameleon on her shoulder?

nicael

Can't wear all hats at once :(

Hobo Sapiens

cv-pls Opinion-based: stackoverflow.com/q/27495229/1864610

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