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# With the mendels
Not quite the image challenge. First post after 15 years of lurking.



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(mycrobe, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 1:13, archived)
# Hello! Have you really lurked here for 15 years?
I looked up some of the words in your picture.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 2:18, archived)
# since 2002 or 2003, I'd say
The oldest b3ta email I still have is [b3ta] Issue 75: "All toad. No hole." from 7th Feb 2003.

The first entry in that mail was: 

: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MINERAL QUIZ
  What the fuck is it?
  
  Artamnesia writes:
  
  "In the game Twenty Questions, it's the first
  thing you ask. But can you tell from the 16
  images which is animal, vegetable or mineral?"
  
  And what a selection of objects! Tricky? Very.


I just clicked the link to play the game and got forwarded through a bunch of highly reputable looking URLs, and finally ended up with a Flash Upgrade for my system! Handy!
(mycrobe, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 22:27, archived)
# :) I stopped updating Flash last year, I think I've only seen the placeholder appear twice since that time.
Firefox got a bit heavy-handed with it too, forcing updates in order to view content. At a certain point I just decided it wasn't worth bothering with any more. I believe it was installed on something like 95% of systems at one point. I wonder what the numbers are now.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 7 Feb 2019, 1:06, archived)
# Very good.
*clicks*
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 5:53, archived)
# Help, I need somebody
To explain this to me
(dirk speedrift Sit doon, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 7:49, archived)
# I looked up some of the words in the picture.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 12:03, archived)
# so did i
still don’t get it, i’m afraid
(ozof, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 19:09, archived)
# I have a nasty suspicion it requires some intelligence, which seems unfair on most of us to be honest
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 20:44, archived)
#
There was a guy named Mendel who liked mating pea plants together.

Some peas plants were short and some were tall. He noticed that if you bred a short plant with a tall one, all the offspring were tall.

But then when he bred those tall offspring with each other, you'd get a 3 tall plants for every Ringo.


                    all
    T                T           T   T   T   
    A                A           A   A   A
    L        -sex->  L   -sex->  L   L   L     
    L  x             L           L   L   L
    L     X          L           L   L   L   X
    L     S          L           L   L   L   S


Everyone thought he was a loony.
(mycrobe, Wed 6 Feb 2019, 21:49, archived)
# Welcome to the Ringo patch :)
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 7 Feb 2019, 1:09, archived)