Well eyepopslikeamosquito is our historian and statistician

Heck, he's even dropped his trademark “quotes” in favour of "these boring ones." ... while still preferring American quotation style to British style. Nowadays his typography focus has switched to annoying us by underlining random words that are not links.

Make American quotation style great again!

;P

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

Make American quotation style great again!

Ssshhh, don't tell SunnyD, but quoting style is often the quickest way to tell if an "anonymous" post is from SunnyD or not because he seems to be the only PM poster using "American quotation style."

Sadly though, it's just not the same without BrowserUk. From the archives, a selection of BuK-SunnyD theatre:

From BrowserUk to SunnyD:

• Re^4: Win32 limit to number of calls to system()?: "I've given up explaining to this guy, cos he never listens, never debates and never learns."
• Re^2: Tracing memory leak: "Care to explain by what magic of "old bullshitter" logic you arrived at the conclusion that the OP was constructing self-referential structures?"
• Re^3: Problem handling 2 simultaneous socket streams: "Thank you for explaining that to me. Except you're wrong! ... you aren't just slightly off, but absolutely diametrically wrong on all counts ... So why post? Why do you -- who evidently know little of the subject, and understand even less of the little you have some inkling of -- feel the need to demonstrate to me -- I think fair to say, one of the more knowledgeable monks with regard to threading -- just how useless your home-spun wisdom fairy stories on this subject, as with so many others, really are? ... What is the point of your posting this garbage?"
• Re^2: Compare 2 very large arrays of long strings as elements: "More utter bollocks! ... Once more you are sending OPs down blind alleys with your home-spun 'wisdoms'"
• Re^2: Fork Results in thousands of processes: "Why do you keep blurting out these pointless, useless, whole wrong replies to questions on subjects you obviously have no practical knowledge whatsoever?"
• Re^3: Optimise file line by line parsing, substitute SPLIT: "Prove it by posting the code. You won't (because you can't). Talk is cheap (and in your case invariably wrong!)."
• Re^2: Signal Capturing....: "You'll be familiar with the abbreviation GIGO; with you its more GOGOGOGOGOGO...."
• Re^2: Why Moose uses this syntax??!!: "Twat. You really have never bothered to learn Perl at all have you."
• Re^3: RAM: It isn't free . . . (Mike Robinson:Grabbing at straws!): "You puerile fool; grabbing at straws. I've never been an academic."
• Re^2: The Boy Scout Rule: "Downvoted! ... your inane, facile, puerile, snide, underhand and utterly deliberate practice of posting a reply to a particular node; as a response to {some other} randomly chosen node ... Why are you such a deliberate, willful moron?"
• Re^2: Design thoughts: iterator invalidation: "You sad ^&^%&*&*%^ ... I seriously doubt if you have ever written a single, complete, working program in Perl ... sticking your confused and muddled oar in all the time ... The rest is just regurgitated-out-of-context, meaningless garbage. Please stop posting. (In my threads at the very least!)"
• Re^8: PM Leveling Guide. (perception): "I'll return every downvote I ever took from him, from my own tally, on one condition: he posts a single, complete, non-trivial, working Perl(*) program that he has written"
• Re^10: [OT] The interesting problem of comparing bit-strings.: "You total, utter, complete and unbashed, ^%$$%$^ TWONK! Please stop talking bollocks, and STFU."
• Re^2: [OT] The interesting problem of comparing bit-strings.: "You haven't handed anyone here anything. Except, dubious council & mal-advice, technical buffoonery, the rare scrap of broken code, and eye-ache ... Your continued need to stick your oar in where its not wanted ... your attempts at technical contributions here are nothing more than a vacuous pretense of some kind of technical knowledge ... You neither disseminate learning; nor acquire any. Your 'contributions' here are all, entirely negative. And your persistence in vomiting them in our direction is far more offensive and "rude" than any "bad words" I might have used ... And your, entirely puerile, attempts to offend me by mentioning the British Royals is hilarious"
• Re^2: Can I please have multiple downvotes per (certain monk's) posts.: "He knows just enough to make his posts read as plausible if you are new to programming; which makes them not just technical nonsense and annoying, but have the potential to really waste the time of unwary newbies and drive-by viewers."
• Re^2: OT: Converting some js to Perl: "You're like a mosquito in the dark; an unswatable irritation."

From SunnyD to BrowserUk:

• Re^2: Overtime: the "Bad News" Warning Sign: "It is easy to know from hearing you "speak" that you have been around this block many times: yours is the voice of well-seasoned experience."
• Re: Psychic Disconnect and Object Systems: "what BrowserUK said here is, in my opinion, excellent wisdom, well thought-out and presented"
• Re^2: map2 {} grep2 {} ...: "An excellent suggestion. Fav'd."
• Re^2: Problem handling 2 simultaneous socket streams: "Good advice. (Fav'd.)"
• Re^2: Annoying 'Use of uninitialized value in concatenation' warning: "as BrowserUK wisely suggests"
• Re: Perl/Tk code structure: "Agreeing fully with BrowserUK's previous comments on this (I think...)"
• Re^6: "Automated" benchmarking: "++. Very true."
• Re: What's Wrong with program: "such ideas having already been given to you, and in great detail by experts such as BrowserUK"
• Re^4: Faster push and shift: "Quite obviously, BrowserUK very routinely processes gigantic datasets during the course of his work day. He is quite the expert on those (what are to many of us...) edge cases. Upvoted."
• Re^4: how did blocking IO become such a problem?: "(up-voted) ... whereas, if I may presume to impose upon your very apt analogy..."
• Re^2: About self-invoked threads into class: "Such a thorough and well-reasoned explanation certainly should convince anyone. Upvoted."
• Re: Temp variable performace vs Inline behavior: "Apart from the performance/capacity "edge cases" that I openly acknowledge BrowserUK (in particular) deals with every day"
• Re: Concurrent Cache Pattern: "I say this in all seriousness, BrowserUK could whip one up in about three minutes"
• Re: how apply large memory with perl?: "BrowserUK's algorithm is of course more efficient, and he has the RAM."
• Re^3: Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler: "BrowserUK, I specifically acknowledge that your work is an exception to that statement, and very impressive work it certainly is."
• Re^3: var comparison: "with the notable exception of the very valid edge-cases that my esteemed colleague, BrowserUK, routinely and legitimately encounters in his daily work"
• Re: module w/ object-oriented and functional interfaces: best practices?: "Echoing BrowserUK’s comments, and after up-voting his post, ..."
• Re^3: dynamic number of threads based on CPU utilization: "As you say in the (upvoted) earlier comment, this is a poorly thought-out program from the start."
• Re^3: Does IO::Select work? (Problem partially resolved): "If BrowserUK said it, yes, he is sure. And sure to be right. Seriously."
• Re: Evolving a faster filter?: "I am certain that this thread will attract the attention of BrowserUK, who is well-known about these parts to be especially expert in high-performance algorithms in high-volume situations. I especially look forward to his insights on this subject."
• Re: Problem with Threaded Socket Server: "Adding one more thought (in case I missed it) to BrowserUK’s excellent recommendations here ... (++)x2"
• Re^4: Fastest way to download many web pages in one go?: "An excellent and well-reasoned analysis ...   “++”"
• Re^3: Proper undefine queue with multithreads: "I simply suggest that you should follow BrowserUK’s sage advice exactly as given ... take BrowserUK’s excellent recommendations, and go"
• Re: RAM: It isn't free . . .: "Good sir, no matter how many times you throw garbage in my face, or throw gloves at my feet, I will (well, almost ...) never “downvote” any one of your posts, although I have up(!)voted quite a few"
• Re: Using threads to process multiple files: "Upvotes all around, sirs ... as BrowserUK excellently describes"
• Re^5: write hash to disk after memory limit: "I definitely want to suffix this post with all of the extremely-valid points that BrowserUK made ... As his Voice Of Experience™ says"
• Re^3: Can I/O operations on the same IO::Socket be executed in different threads?: "Yes, I did up-vote (yes, I said up...) BrowserUK’s comments to this thread and to the other thread that he referred-to ... while also (intending to be) speaking very favorably of it."
• Re: Can I please have multiple downvotes per (certain monk's) posts.: "I even had a London Barrister contact me, again, unsolicited, and specifically offer to track down BrowserUK all the way across The Pond and to haul him in front of Her Majesty’s Court on my behalf"
• Re^5: Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part VIII): Software Craftsmanship: "Chuckle ... you ... actually ... said that ... to BrowserUK?! Quite obviously you have no idea that he is one of the most highly-respected Monks here ... and quite-deservedly so."
• Re^3: The problem of documenting complex modules.: "Excellent thread, BrowserUK ... very thought-provoking throughout, and showered with up-votes."
• Re^3: validate variable-length lines in one regex?: "as BrowserUK originally suggests below ... (All now liberally sprinkled with up-vote pixie-dust...)"
• Re^6: Perl Hashes in C?: "Good sir, you responded quite brilliantly to this post, once again demonstrating your quick and well-seasoned technical skill. Every one of the posts in the thread promptly got up-votes from me as well as (I see) many others. Deservedly so."
• Re^3: Perl 6 on Windows 10: "I do, indeed, agree quite completely with BrowserUK’s voice of experience on this matter. (My laptop camera, if turned on, would right now confirm the presence of vigorous head-nodding on my part ...)"
• Re: ithreads memory leak: "Truer words have never been spoken than what BrowserUK just so-well said"