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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 04/11/2006 : 18:27:00
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Benj - I love ya, baby,  BUT ...
Okay, so I know how overworked you are sifting though all our zillions of reviews. But how come from my big fat pend list you're suddenly zipping up recent posts over some that have been languishing since end of March? I mean how am I going to overtake that Foxperson at this rate
Humble, so humble is my plea 
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RockGolf 
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 18:34:58
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The ways of the Benj are wise, mysterious and deep, my friend.
Benj doesn't approve all reviews. There are people known as MERP's who assist in this task. Generally speaking, all reviews from a single film are processed together, and concentration is often on new releases.
Benj does however, add new films to the list, so if you have reviews for an unadded film, you may have to wait until Benj gets around to it. I've had reviews posted 5 minutes after I submitted them and others that had the gestation period of an elephant. Be patient. Their time will come. |
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benj clews 
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 18:39:41
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Yup- what he said  |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 18:51:55
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Far far away, some say near the North Pole, others say deep deep beneath the Sea, live the MERPS. They are small cute people, rather like a cross between Smurfs and Santa's little helpers. And they wear pointy hats. And they're very ticklish.
Its their job to write all the reviews onto scraps of paper and then to argue amongst themselves about which pile the review should go into - like PASSED, GENERIC, DON'T UNDERSTAND, SIMILAR TO ANOTHER REVIEW, FACTUALLY INACCURATE or just REJECT. If they can make up their sweet little minds this process takes between 3 parsecs and about 3 weeks.
However, sometimes they just can't decide, bless them, and then they run upstairs with the review under their pointy hats and, with a little bow, push it through a big letterbox marked "BENJ".
Benj is a busy guy, and he will, sooner or later, decide on your review. They are not dealt with in a strict first-come first served order, so some are quicker than others. And some are even slower.
Don't forget he also has to deal with loads of appeals when members think those little MERPS got it wrong by not understanding their oh-so-witty review. And he is constantly updating the software and a thousand other things.
During this process steam has not infrequently be seen coming out of members' ears. Like mine, for example.
Suffice it to say my oldest review pending is dated 16SEP05.
So, get used to it, Babe. |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 18:56:08
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Benj - I love ya, baby, BUT ...
Okay, so I know how overworked you are sifting though all our zillions of reviews. But how come from my big fat pend list you're suddenly zipping up recent posts over some that have been languishing since end of March? I mean how am I going to overtake that Foxperson at this rate
Humble, so humble is my plea
As you demonstrate, asking nice is important.
I've been here two years and I still don't know exactly how the order of review processing works. It's deep in benj's programming code somewhere. All I can tell ya is, you should have been around when poor benj was trying to approve every review personally and the site was growing by leaps and bounds. A wait time measured in months was normal. We would have laughed at your waiting "...since end of March"! Trust me, it's much better now. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 19:04:41
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Originally posted by benj clews
Yup- what he said
You're real! You really exist! Oh, my ... Toto, did you see that? He answered my post. He did. 
And thanks to all you guys [Rockgolf, Whipper, and Randall]... I'll take my patience pills and sit in the corner and shut up. [Only kidding about the last bit]
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 19:07:53
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Far far away, some say near the North Pole, others say deep deep beneath the Sea, live the MERPS. They are small cute people, rather like a cross between Smurfs and Santa's little helpers. And they wear pointy hats. And they're very ticklish.
If they can make up their sweet little minds this process takes between 3 parsecs and about 3 weeks.
Ah, another victim of George Lucas! Since this is a film site, I'll elucidate.
Among the many whoppers in STAR WARS is Han Solo's boast that the Millennium Falcon is so fast, "it made the Kessel Run in under twelve parsecs." But a parsec is actually a unit of distance, not time, and everybody who knew, hooted knowingly. Harrison Ford's line is why so many non-astronomers get it wrong to this day.
When it came time for Kevin J. Anderson to write a STAR WARS novel, he decided, for fun, to make George's line accurate somehow. And here's his solution. Give it up for science fiction writers.
Cute post, though, Whippy. |
Edited by - randall on 04/11/2006 19:09:26 |
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RockGolf
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 19:15:12
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| I always thought that it meant that it was an intentional malapropism, indicating Han Solo wasn't as bright as he'd like us to think. |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 19:25:26
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Originally posted by R o � k G o 1 f
I always thought that it meant that it was an intentional malapropism, indicating Han Solo wasn't as bright as he'd like us to think.
That's another good explanation, but if so it was still clumsy on Lucas's part, because it went over the heads of the vast majority of viewers. |
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silly
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 19:49:41
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I once won a trivia contest on the radio with that line! (the question was: "how fast could the Falcon make the Kessel run?" I think it was just about the time of the re-released "greedo shot first" edition of the flick, and I used my very first cell phone to call the radio station and win exciting prizes and endless glory).
When I was a lad, long before George and his idea of Cowboys in Space became canon (heh), we used to argue long and hard about how fast a "warp factor" was, how they convinced the unlimited supply of Red Shirts to go down with the landing party, and whether or not the Space Family Robinson would finally give Dr. Smith a proper wedgie and just why, exactly, were the Moonbase girls so freakin' hot.
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 04/11/2006 : 22:53:58
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Originally posted by R o � k G o 1 f
I always thought that it meant that it was an intentional malapropism, indicating Han Solo wasn't as bright as he'd like us to think.
And mine proved it.  |
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SoS 
"Englishman in Qatar!"
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Posted - 04/12/2006 : 00:00:12
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Originally posted by Randall
When it came time for Kevin J. Anderson to write a STAR WARS novel, he decided, for fun, to make George's line accurate somehow. And here's his solution. Give it up for science fiction writers.
Randall, I love that I knew that, and I love even more that you had the balls to post it. Star Wars geekery at its finest. May the force be with you! |
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silly
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 04/13/2006 : 16:19:43
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I love that the Wiki entry begins: "In the fictional Star Wars Expanded universe,..."
As opposed to the actual Star Wars universe, I suppose. |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 04/13/2006 : 17:32:24
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Originally posted by R o � k G o 1 f
There are people known as MERP's who assist in this task.
Baftababe, if you're curious about MERPs, here are some more theories about them: What do MERPs look like? |
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The General
"Forty? What? Me? How?."
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Posted - 04/13/2006 : 18:03:30
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Originally posted by R o � k G o 1 f
I always thought that it meant that it was an intentional malapropism, indicating Han Solo wasn't as bright as he'd like us to think.
I think Intentional Malapropism was the ship Solo had before the Falcon.
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Montgomery 
"F**k!"
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Posted - 04/13/2006 : 18:37:03
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Voted for some of your reviews, BaftaBabe, since ya hafta-wait.
EM :) |
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