saintbletch

I suspect many posters, pap included, are looking for a correlation between Barry Sanchez and dune, but I haven't seen a strong one. You'll see that WOULD is the predominant verb/tense across the majority of posters. Scroll through the images and you'll see. You'll also note that LIKE generally appears frequently too. It sort of shows an aspirational or at least conditional/future-looking theme to most people's posts. There are one or two posters that buck that trend; which tends to show that they, how shall I put this, look to get something different from the forum than most.

Interestingly enough papster, post 248 was dune. It got me thinking about different posters having a different style/lexicon for different forums. So here's dune in different forums: dune in the main board: dune in The Lounge: dune in TMS: dune across all forums:

Spot on Toke. You spend too much time on here.

You are looking at post 228, aren't you 3B? Top right hand corner, orange colour. Running from 11 o'clock to 5 o'clock.

Nope, but skintsaint is sort of on the right lines. Also, it would help if you could either quote the image or mention the post number. Jeez, you'd think you could help with the admin a little here, you're all behaving like Muppets.

Look again, 3B.

Nope, we've had trousers - as it were.

Ahhm, right, err, OK.

He's literally on fire! 4-1 Toke. Ok, this is a real toughie I feel. Pretty left field.

He shoots, he scores. 3-1 Toke. Has Bear done a Puncheon? One obvious clue in here. Unlucky, tpbury. Was the spelling OK in the word cloud?

That was only the half-time whistle, Toke. Your wife said you lacked スタミナ. This is a toughy I think. But there is a 10.67pt clue in there somewhere. Well, actually there are quite a few clues to be honest.

2-1 to Toke.

So who is post 210?

Ding. The Bear equalises.

That's a secret Bear. I can't tell you because national security depends on it. Let's just say it's how I knew that Dibden Peadophile Saint had become Unbelievable Sarb. Just wait until I start to share sentiment analysis, and subjectivity statistics. That will once and for all answer the question as to who are the happy clappies, and who are the manic depressives. And it will also drive Toke to another breakdown and force him to admit to cheating in the 2013 awards' voting, but this time without the safety net of a question mark!? Also note, this is only a selection of the text from the last 500 posts, and common (stop) words have been removed. And, you'll probably also see that I've got a slight problem with contractions at the moment. Who's this then?

Spot on Toke. Once again, I think this is quite easy too. It's surprising how the common view of posters' style is borne out by the frequency distribution of 'words' in their posting corpora. Don't you think, Toke? Toke? Toke? Toke? Stay with me Toke. Toke's a ****.

Exactly so, papster. I knew I could rely on the poster that came second in the MNVP 2013 contest. Again, an easy one I think. Any ideas?

I think I can categorically say that this is not the correct poster, 3B. Sorry.

OK, that's enough Countryfile angrams for now. Thanks for all your suggestions. Here's a new game, guess which poster is represented by the word cloud below. I'll start you off with an easy one... For the uninitiated, a word cloud (Wordle) represents the most commonly used words in the largest font. The larger the font, the more frequently that words is used.

You got me Toke. Back to the word games everyone.

OK team, stand down everyone. Good work. We've got the confession we were looking for. Bear, strip Toke of the title please and please turn TMS back into the cess-filled cunny lozenge of a place it should be. Sorry about the word games everyone, it was the only way we could get Toke to confess. Toke, give me the definition of outwit, would you?

Favourite Countryfile anagram? You know the drill, BTT.

It's like the when David Copperfield made the Status of Liberty disappear, Toke. Just because I can't say exactly how it was done, doesn't mean I'm not certain that he cheated. I have a good working knowledge of the laws of physics and yet the statue disappeared. Did this trash my inner-certainty in the physical world? No, it simply made me think that by and large Americans are more gullible than Brits. So, the only proof that I can offer that you cheated is that a) I've read your posts and b) you won MVP 2013.

Toke's had a breakdown, Toke's had a breakdown, Toke's had a breakdown. Word-whores of the world, untie! Word. I didn't know you got the gig to do the next Southern Comfort advert Toke. Dumb Bear. How is it brave or foolish if he's just going to cheat his way to MVP like he did in 2013? By the way, I resent the fact that everyone is assuming that it's a two horse race between Bear and Toke. As everyone knows, I won Most Normal Valued Poster 2013, and whilst I do acknowledge that pap coming second in the MNVP award does undermine its credibility a little, but once the word-whores have toned this place down to The Lounge MkII; a sort of Lounge with a PG warning, then I'm home and hosed. The only thing that can stop me is if Dubai Philip turns it into a MKII General Sports forum, with a BOREDOM warning first.

I'll be honest with you, that's the first TMS-induced stiffy I've had since the Bear reviewed 50 Shades of Grey. I'd always thought of pleonasm as being used consciously to convey specific, sometimes over-the-top meaning. Having Google'd it, I think your brother has a point, but the consensus seemed to be that pleonasm is itself tautology. I'd love to meet your brother, he sounds like me type of pedant. Talking of pedants... Ah tpbury my attendant pedant, you appear to have discounted the possibility that I was using the word phile in the context of someone who likes something; francophile - likes France, bastard-file - likes Toke, peadophile - spreads the Catholic gospel, etc. Therefore a phile of amyl nitrate, would be...oh whatever. Yep, you got me. Again. And yes, again, I did copy the 'mental sex with Tokyo' skit from the Sunderland football forum. They've got a couple of posters on there called mackembletch and Tokyo-mackem. The former looks and sounds like the actor who plays Carson in Downtown(sic) Abbey, and the latter is married to a reet pretty lass from Japan. I lifted the text verbatim - I didn't even need to change the names. Well spotted. Again. tpbury, I love that you are my personal stalking spellchecker, my little forum F7, my very own '2 day later spell-check service'. I love it, love it, love it. I really do. But, I'm a little concerned for everyone else. You see, I fear that your (very kind) "48 hour post-post, spell checking service" may be getting in the way of others' enjoyment of the forum. So I'd like to share something with you, but in the words of Stephen Morrissey, stop me if you think you've heard this one before. I have posted this already, but I like to share it with those who think that spelling, punctuation and grammar should get in the way of communication. I found it an important life-lesson about spell-checkery, grammar-bigotry and syntactic-psychosis. And as you're running this spell-checking service from the antipodes, it seemed almost poetic to bring to your attention a poem by Henry Lawson. He struggled to gain credibility with the critics of the day (that's you, that is.), because, like me, he lacked a formal education. I've underlined the passages of 'interest' Yours valedictorily, saintbeltch...go on. I dare you. MNVP 2013 - TMS Poster of the year awards. x P.S. If you could arrange to have this spell-checked within the usual 48 hours, I'd be grateful. That way I might be able to edit it without anyone noticing. P.P.S. If you still feel the need to tell people how to spell, can I suggest you try pub, tpbury. P.P.P.S I'm only yanking your tail. As you were. Toke's a ****. Golf's ****.