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Fizzle... or Flizzle?
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:00 am
by Lemon Demon
Don't you just love those fun little typos that you see in documents and web pages? Like Flizzle at the bottom of every page in Cantr. It used to be Fizzle, but which is meant to be? Fizz, or Flizz?
Hey, I just had an idea! Let's make a poll! Whee!
I wonder if Programming will have sorted this out before anybody sees?
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:05 am
by SekoETC
I tested it once and it was indeed flizzle (and still is). That sounds über stupid but maybe there wasn't any other short ones available. Besides fizzle means some sort of a screwup at least with spells so that would be even more stupid.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:14 am
by Lemon Demon
I feel good, I just made a completely pointless poll. Yay! Everyone, vote Fizzle! We'll fight them on the forums!
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:57 am
by SekoETC
Shame on you, don't we have better things to do?
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:01 am
by Lemon Demon
On the seventh hour, Cantr time? Of course not! Now it's a new day though...
*turns away, cape blowing in the breeze, and jumps from the cliff, to a cociphony of gasps from the onlookers*
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:31 pm
by Revanael
Flizzle, because that's the domain that Jos has registered.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:16 pm
by west
I would imagine Jos chose it because it sounded similar to Flump, our old hosting site.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:53 pm
by Nick
west wrote:I would imagine Jos chose it because it sounded similar to Flump, our old hosting site.
Was gonna say that...
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:25 pm
by Jos Elkink
I just thought it sounded funny and meaningless, that's why
... And yes, perhaps Flump triggered something
... But not consciously.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:33 pm
by Lemon Demon
Re: Fizzle... or Flizzle?
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:01 am
by Nick
Lemon Demon wrote: It used to be Fizzle
Don't think so...
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:40 pm
by west
...it used to be Flump. Then it was Flizzle. It has never been Fizzle.
(thus spake Zarathustra)
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:21 am
by Lemon Demon
Maybe not, but that's what the link said.
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:37 am
by Nick
No. It didn't.
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:30 am
by Jos Elkink
west wrote:...it used to be Flump. Then it was Flizzle. It has never been Fizzle.
It never really was Flump, though
... In terms of server providers we went from:
- hosting it on a comp in my own flat
- Flump
- ServerIntelligence (really bad!)
- JohnCompanies
- 1and1 (current)
For at least the latter two, and I think also Flump, we used 'Flizzle.net' as a name of Thomas and me, in between the server provider and Cantr. (That is, Flizzle.net is a client of the server provider, and Cantr a client of Flizzle.net, in a sense - the idea being that we could also host other sites, which, alas, never happened.)
So you can't really say we went from Flump to Flizzle
...