Comments on: Dear Internets

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:14:56 +0000

@ Sam. Complete genius. I can just see Frank Muir sitting there with a smug grin on his face and Robert Robinson with his outstanding comb over.

Ping!

By: A Geek

A Geek — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:02:04 +0000

Fortunately the HYS pages don’t get indexed by search engines on account of the robots.txt file here : http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/robots.txt

Thank you for your attention. We now return you to your scheduled abusing of HYSers

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:16:50 +0000

Is Mr W. trying to start a game of Call My Bluff?

“Cover Song”. Is it:

(a) Pronounced “koh-va SONG”, a type of antelope from the Okavango Delta;
(b) A French castrato famous for regrowing his testicles and fathering 16 girls, or
(c) An incidence where a music group has run out of new ideas so completely that they are forced to resort to copying someone else?

By: C4RO

C4RO — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:19:43 +0000

Googling gets a funny one:-
First it asks “Did you mean “are you sick of nu-LINE-bore?”

Better though, only two links come up, both to the Sun Online Discussions, one on Dave resigns and one on Racism cuts both ways…

Google must have billions of links to HYS that it has just filled under unusable junk if it can’t find that overused phrase except twice.

By: Rich(MMath)(Oxon)

Rich(MMath)(Oxon) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:30:37 +0000

I think Simon’s on to something.

I’ve now got a horrific image of someone typing a question onto AskJeeves and the results that come back are responses from a HYS on the topic.

A quick question to Jeeves has allayed those fears.

http://uk.ask.com/web?qsrc=167&o=41627708&l=dis&siteid=41627708&q=Are+you+sick+to+death+of+nu-liar-bore%3F&dm=all

By: Rotwatcher

Rotwatcher — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:17:59 +0000

What I want to know is why so many Americans post on HYS? Don’t they have websites in America? Or is it just the clueless ones? That question was rhetorical, by the way.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:53:18 +0000

even if someone takes pity on him and anwsers, it is going to take a long time. maybe he thinks HYS is the internet.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:53:13 +0000

I* think you will find the correct term is zaNu Liar-Bore

By: Rich(MMath)(Oxon)

Rich(MMath)(Oxon) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:29:05 +0000

A lot of people seemed to think that a cover song is the picture on the front of a record. An easy mistake to make, if you’re the sort of person who doesn’t read an article before commenting on it.

Also, someone wrote “Things can only get better” by NuLabour. I’m still splitting my sides.

By: burnel

burnel — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:16:00 +0000

I do know that Topsy fucking Turvy has got some new cover versions, and they are equally as puerile as the original.

If he and his 63 alter ego’s were guilliotined the crowd would get their moneys worth.