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A simple test to ensure that new bakers have some familiarity of the Halfbakery before they enter the bakery.
Who created the bakery?
Can I post that cool thing I saw in a movie?
How many matches for custard come up in a search?
Where should you post a link?
Crossroads Fan Club
http://www.thecrossroadsfanclub.com/
[DrBob, Oct 04 2004]
Internet Troll
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/Internet_troll
For [Mungo] [Worldgineer, Oct 04 2004]
[link]
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What about who created the Hullaballoon? |
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Although I am relatively new I find that people come in with little knowledge of the halfbakery and then post a bunch of ideas that get canned or shouldn't be here for various reasons. |
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Are you going to bring back your ideas bristolz? |
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Also, I doubt that an entrance exam would have much effect and it's an idea that has been proposed here before and more than once. |
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Bristolz, what happened to your
ideas? Why are you getting rid of
them and is this related to
Unabubba leaving too? |
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Brriiiiiiiiisssss :) hallo. |
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From Google, some of bristolz's great work - and the self control to delete ideas that were fishboned (almost all had croissants) or just had good ideas. |
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Assaultines, Butt flicking clay, Cream Cheese Rings, Democratic HB TiVo Programming, Electric Skis/Snowboards, Feed Speed, GargantuFan, Hullaballoon, Ice Rod, Label-O-Box, Marasquitos, Parking Swivel, Rapid Goober Detector, Sweating Propellors, Textured Tines, Vehicle Symptom Generator |
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UB, I hear you. I love this place but I am finding I just can't drop in as often as I'd like. There's a big cruel world out there and sometimes it's nice to have place to vent (many thanks, jutta), even if the venting is done with one's tongue firmly planted in one's cheek. Maybe we are suffering from overpopularity? So many bakers, with so many ideas, and only so many hours in the day... |
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[bris] *sniff* Aw, man, some of those were really good! |
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[UB] Does that mean you'll be gone tomorrow? I hope not. |
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Baked. Did you manage to log in? Congratulations! You passed the test. |
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Why is everyone leaving? I don't get it. At least [bristolz] is back. But why the Bubba? |
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I'm not going anywhere (as if anyone would notice *sigh*). |
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It feels like everyone's at a party I wasn't invited to. |
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grab your coat, you pulled - lets party <g> |
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Wohoo!!! See you suckers later. But wait, is there an exit test I have to pass first? |
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Yes, the exit question is: |
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Who is the halfbakery's turtle expert? |
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[Worldgineer] do you know the definitive difference between a turtle & a tortoise? <serious question> |
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<serious answer>Tortoises can't swim.</serious answer> |
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You are the official tortoise expert - with a sideline in turtles! |
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Not strictly true, and dependent upon where you live in the world. Some tortoises are incorrectly called turtles, though strictly speaking a tortoise is terrestrial, and a turtle is aquatic. We shouldn't forget the terrapins, which are reasonably happy in either environment, though technically are confined to brackish waters. |
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Turtles, most of them anyway, can swim, though many live in sufficiently arid conditions that it's rare that they have to do so. |
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I think that Amy Turtle was secretly in love with Shuey MacPhee. |
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Ok, what's the difference between a buffalo and a bison? |
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The Anatolian buffalo is found in northwestern Turkey. They are a dairy and draft breed which is usually dark gray to black. They often have white markings on the head and tail. The Anatolian buffalo has sickle or cresent shaped horns. |
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Buffalo were introduced into Australia from the eastern Indonesian islands in the early 1800’s. They have begun to develop into a recognisable sub-species. |
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The Egyptian buffalo is kept as a draft animal and for milk production. They are grey-black with short curved horns. The varieties include Baladi in lower Egypt and Saidi in upper Egypt. |
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The Kundi breed is of the milk type. It is found in Dadu, Hyderabad, Karachi, Larkana, Nawabshah, Sanghar and Thatta districts in Sind Province. The color is solid black. The average weight at maturity for the male is 600 kg and 375 kg for the female. They are massive animals. The horns are small and spirally twisted and hence the name "Kundi". |
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The Malaysian buffalo is a swamp type buffalo found in western Malaysia. Used primarily as a draft animal, they are usually dark grey and occasionally white. They have crescent horns. They originated from and are similar to Bubalus arnee. |
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The Nili-Ravi buffalo is a milk type of buffalo breed. They are found mainly in Lahore, Sheikhupura, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Multan and Bahawal Nagar districts in Punjab Province. Their color is black and their average weight at maturity is 800 kg for the male and 525 kg for the female. They have a wedge shape, massive frame, small curly horns, and wall eyes. They often have white markings on the forehead, face, muzzle and legs and white switch of tail hair. |
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The Pandharpuri is from the town Pandharpur in Solapur district which is the home range of these buffalo. They are found in Solapur, Kolhapur and Sangli districts of Maharashtra state of India. The breed can be easily identified by its long, sword shaped, sometimes twisted horns, which measure from 45-50 cm upto 1-1.5 m of length. The majority of the breed are black with white markings found on the forehead , legs and switch of tail. The Pandharpuri are medium sized with average body weight of 450-470 kg. |
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Anoa are the smallest of the wild cattle species. Both species are stocky, short-limbed and thick-necked. Adults are predominantly dark brown to black; the lowland anoa has white or yellowish stockings and a white throat crescent. While the lowland anoa has sparse, straight hair, the coat of the mountain anoa remains thick and somewhat wooly. Lowland anoa weigh up to 675 pounds; mountain anoa up to 340 pounds. |
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Known also as the wild forest ox of Indochina, the enormous kouprey is the least known species of wild cattle alive today. No scientist has observed a kouprey at close range since 1957, when zoologist Charles Wharton studied and even filmed the animal in the wild. This study remains as the sole source of ecological and natural history information on the kouprey. Grey to dark brown or black, kouprey’s bodies are massive but narrow, their legs long, their backs humped. Males may stand two meters at the shoulder and weigh up to 2,000 pounds. |
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Once thought of as a subspecies of the Asian water buffalo, the tamaraw, like the anoa, developed as an independent island form. Recently discovered museum and subfossil remains suggest this species may be the last survivor of several species of dwarf buffaloes to have become extinct in the Philippines since human colonization of the islands. |
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Previously, there were thought to be three subspecies of gaur: the Indian gaur (Bos gaurus gaurus), the Indochinese gaur (Bos gaurus readei), and the Malayan gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki). The 1995 Asian Wild Cattle Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) recognized three subspecies of wild gaur: Bos gaurus laosiensis (Myanmar to China), Bos gaurus hubbacki (Thailand, Malaysia), and Bos gaurus gaurus (India, Nepal). |
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According to the taxonomy adopted by the IUCN/SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group, there are three subspecies of wild banteng: the Burma banteng (Bos javanicus birmanicus), the Javan banteng (Bos javanicus javanicus), and the Borneo banteng (Bos javanicus lowii). The question of how many (if any) subspecies should be recognized and/or included in captive breeding programs is still unresolved. |
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Wild yak are massively built animals with high-humped shoulders, short legs and broad hooves. They have thick, shaggy dark brown coats with white markings around the muzzle. There is considerable sexual dimorphism found in wild yaks with the cows being much smaller than the bulls. Males can weigh up to 1800 pounds, females only about 700 pounds. |
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The European wisent is the heaviest terrestrial mammal in Europe. They are smaller and more long-legged than the American bison. Like the American bison, the wisent is dark brown, with a massive head, a high hump on its large shoulders, and long shaggy hair on its shoulders and front legs. The short horns curve inward on the males, but are straight on the females. Males are much larger than the females and can weigh up to 1,800 pounds. Bison are long-lived animals, living up to 40 years. |
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There are four recognized subspecies of African buffalo according to the 1998 African Antelope Database of the IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group. The three forms of the African savannah buffalo are: West African savanna buffalo (Syncerus caffer brachyceros), Central African savanna buffalo (Syncerus c. aequinoctialis), and the southern savanna buffalo (Syncerus c. caffer). Of these, the southern savanna buffalo, often referred to as the Cape buffalo, is the most numerous and the form typically displayed in zoological collections. The fourth subspecies is the forest or dwarf buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus), sometimes referred to as the Congo buffalo. The savanna and forest buffalo will freely hybridize when their ranges overlap. |
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There are two subspecies of American bison, the plains bison (Bison bison bison) and the wood bison (Bison bison athabascae). The bison is the largest of the terrestrial North American mammals. It is dark brown, with a massive head, a high hump on its large shoulders, and long shaggy hair on its shoulders and front legs. The bison’s short legs end in rounded hooves. The short horns curve inward on the males, but are straight on the females. Males are much larger than the females and can weigh up to 2,200 pounds. The wood bison is generally taller and less stocky than the plains bison. Bison are long-lived animals, living up to 40 years. |
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There's a fair bit of difference, considering it's been questioned whether the bison is related very closely to the Bos species at all. It may be closer to the antelopes. |
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This may all be dependent upon your definition of 'buffalo'. |
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whats the difference between an amy turtle and a shuey macphee |
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Surely the exit test "question" is: |
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Complete the following phrase: "You can check out any time you like..." |
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[piled] Although I may be the resident expert on tortoise shell mods, I'm not sure I know much about other types of turtles. |
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[DrBob] What's a Shuey MacPhee? |
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[po] Amy's still around (and probably will be longer than me). If you mean bring back the tortoise ideas, it's as simple as adding a comment. If you mean that I should post another, well... I'll add one of the ones in the queue as soon as I have some time. |
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I meant the amy turtle that I thought you had named yours after, if you follow me. BTW we were leaving or had you forgotten? |
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It's a spelling mistake. After further research (link), I've discovered that it's spelt 'Shughie McFee'. |
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Never heard of the show referenced, but find it quite entertaining that there was a character named Amy Turtle and that everyone's heard of it but me.
(wanders off toward party noises) |
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That's our UnaBubba! A walking, talking lexicon of facts both educational and trivial. I admire him for his simple charm and his razor wit, and one day I want to grow up to be just like his brother, OthaBubba. Glad you decided to hang around, bro! |
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To get back to the original premise here, I think the entry exam should be just one question: why? Of course, one word answers are not allowed.
<notices tiny turtle struggling to reach the ocean, picks it up and absent-mindedly skips it across the water> |
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There already is an entrance test. Just think how many AOL users have been put off by the challenge of typing in a user name, password, and clicking 'Create an account'. |
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Me and po hardly qualifies as 'everyone'. 'Everyone who matters' perhaps. |
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Golly [UB] - and I thought the answer was that you couldn't wash your hands in a buffalo. |
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[PS], only in the dialect spoken in the western suburbs of Sydney. The rest of us manage to avoid the "Meryl Streep accent" thingy. |
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My father has been doing some research recently on the viability of tropical bovine breeds for the beef industry. |
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<summary>
[bz] It's been posted here before
(everyone) Since it'll be MFD'd soon, let's chat
(no one) MFD
</summary> |
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I don't see it anywhere else. Why not implement it? It avoids forcing e-mail collection or a fancy e-mail checking system. Just make people answer simple questions that can be found by searching before the post an idea. At least we will know they can use the search feature. |
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Thanks for surfacing that thread, that was amusing. |
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It sounds like a good idea, but without knowing the specifics of Jutta's discontent, I suspect it may only be part of the problem. Cross my fingers ....[has anybody posted a device to hold your fingers in that position ?] |
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Cutting out people without credit cards is hardly fair. |
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Besides, would you have joined if you had to pay back then? |
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Giant flaming fishbone. What is this, a country club? Do I need to drive a Bently too?! |
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Use PayPal - they take credit cards and checks. Proposed costs: $0.01 to join. $1 to regain posting privalages each time you get an idea MFD'd. $100 to create a new account after yours has been deleted for trolling. |
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What is trolling, anyway? |
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See my link for the cheat sheet. |
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Maybe some sort of general exam? |
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I was actually thinking about something kinda like this.
Have new users complete a 10-15 question test about the
help section. So there will be less stupid ideas, more
dedicated users, and probably fewer fish stinkin up the
place. |
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I was thinking of posting something similiar... perhaps requiring users to vote on 20 ideas before posting one of their own as well, too. |
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I know the reaction to this was kinda "bleh" back in 2003, but maybe it could gain more steam today? |
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Though this might be taken by many as an argument in favor of this idea, I would never have made it in. |
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(I didn't even notice that there was a help file until long after posting my first idea.) |
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//(I didn't even notice that there was a help file until long after posting my first idea.)// hah ... and deleting half your name... |
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According to [Una] knowledge of Buffalo might help. |
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[po], it was those big kids that made me do it. |
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The big "bully" tried to talk me in to it. But, when the hot blonde half-double dared me --- well, what guy could resist a force of nature like her under any circumstances? ;-) |
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I didn't know the background - poor you! |
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just an innocent bystander... |
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Getting back to the topic: every time this kind of thing comes up, someone points out that some extremely good ideas, including some of the best, were created by people on the same day as their accounts. Panic PIN, e.g. (there used to be more in the Top 10, prior to the great Vote Shredding incident of '04.) |
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The whole joy of the halfbakery is that it is so accessible. Filter out the one (annoying idiots), you filter out the other (the truly gifted). |
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And let's not forget the truly annoying gifted idiots. |
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I don't like parties with bouncers on the door, I prefer parties where everyone's invited and people tell you if you're out of line. |
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Excellent anno [wagster]. Myself, still a new~B, stumbled around a bit and got some help from all of you. Even though I did read the help file, some of my ideas were not inventions and got [mfd]ed.
ps~ I like when these old ones get drawn up, so I see stuff that I missed before I found the halfbakery.
Thanks to all halfbakers. |
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Don't beat yourself up, [xandram], some of the best learning is done by making mistakes. How do you think I became such a successful nuclear engineer? |
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It rhymes with Tree Smile Xyland. |
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[xandram], have you found the "random" link yet? |
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[swimr] said "Have new users complete a 10-15 question test about the help section" |
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Multiple choice? True/False? |
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Can I do an essay question? Please? Can I? Can I? What about a photo essay? |
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yes [half] I have tried the "random" link, but it doesn't always satisfy a halfbakery craving for something delicious! thank you though, I still need all the help I can get. |
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