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If Boards was a novel...

P_1 · 2013-02-21 12:00:12

...what novel would it be and why? Personally I'd go with 'Animal Farm'. It started out as a casual idea but over time it got so big that commercial realities took over and it had to start playing the same rules as the other big commercial organisations. We have the founders who we don't really hear much from anymore We…

21-02-2013 12:00pm

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...what novel would it be and why?

Personally I'd go with 'Animal Farm'.

It started out as a casual idea but over time it got so big that commercial realities took over and it had to start playing the same rules as the other big commercial organisations.

We have the founders who we don't really hear much from anymore
We have the ambitious youngsters who now pretty much run things these days
We have had a version of the Napoleon/Snowball schism
We have a few old workhorses who just keep doing things for the benefit of the site
We have everyone else
And we have all users being equal but sometimes it seems that some users are more equal than others.

Anyway AH, if you were to compare Boards to a novel, what novel would it be, and why?

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#2 21-02-2013 12:04pm

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The Bible. Nothing makes any sense and people keep trying to blame everyone else. A good laugh though.

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#3 21-02-2013 12:05pm

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A Tale of Two Cities... "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."

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#4 21-02-2013 12:06pm

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#5 21-02-2013 12:06pm

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JohnFalstaff wrote: »

A Tale of Two Cities... "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."

Perfectly cromulent phraseology.

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#6 21-02-2013 12:07pm

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it would be a nuts magazine and you know it.

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After Hours is probably more akin to "Lord of the Flies" than anything.

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#8 21-02-2013 12:13pm

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After hours could be: How to win friends and slag off single mothers by Dale Carnegie

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#9 21-02-2013 12:23pm

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A novel that sums up Boards?

Something to do with hermits?

:pac:

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"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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#12 21-02-2013 1:02pm

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It would be "Animal Farm" ... The other one,,,, yeah you all know what version I'm talking about.... We are all sick sick people with no hope for us at all!!!!!

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#16 21-02-2013 1:11pm

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If Boards was a novel....I'd wait for the film.

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The House of Leaves tbh.

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the dictionary.just a big load of words.

Ps the zebra did it.

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Or Mullingar, Or Hackballscross.

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