I get it but I suppose I will let other figure it out
Jokes Only a Zoochatter Would Understand
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I don't think many zoochatters would understand the joke or even know what it was
What's the definition of a real zoochatter?
Presumably, by definition, someone who gets this date reference.By this definition, I wasn’t, but now I am! There is a clue at the beginning of my previous post for those who need a sign (language)....
Ok, but has the joke got anything to do with Zoochat?
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Using the "ok, ok" and "sign (language)" clues of Tetzoo Quizzer, I figured out that it is a reference to Koko the gorilla who died on 19 June 2018 (the news articles about it all date from 21 June 2018). Very few people would know those dates by heart, so I guess a "real Zoochatter" is just someone with Google. But now anyone who reads this post can be a real Zoochatter.
I was too busy thinking that the Great Purge can't possibly have been as recent as that...
Ah that sounds like about right. Thanks @Chlidonias.
But I still don't understand how Koko's death is a joke?
That would have been so much better!
"07 October 2010 was the worst day of our lives..."
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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What is "the great purge"?
I think it is supposed to be that the joke is that "only a Zoochatter will know this date by heart" not that the actual death is the joke.Ah that sounds like about right. Thanks @Chlidonias.
But I still don't understand how Koko's death is a joke?
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Oh right, I thought it was something that happened in the Ukraine of the 1930's.
Basically, the database holding the data for the site (including, pivotally, the gallery) was at capacity, so @Simon Hampel was forced to delete a sizeable chunk of the gallery (selecting those items which had the least views or comments), with the intention of reinstating the deleted items from a backup once more database space was available.
Then his backups failed
the net result being the loss of a LOT of photographs uploaded by members who are no longer present on the site, some of which (showing seldom-visited zoos, former exhibits or species no longer kept in captivity) were irreplaceable. My "Species We Have Lost" and Photographic Guide threads are all intended, in some small way, to encourage anyone who can fill gaps created by the Great Purge to do so.
Oh right! So the only person who would actually get the joke would be Jake himself
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Basically, the database holding the data for the site (including, pivotally, the gallery) was at capacity, so @Simon Hampel was forced to delete a sizeable chunk of the gallery (selecting those items which had the least views or comments), with the intention of reinstating the deleted items from a backup once more database space was available.
Then his backups failed
I see, I never knew that this had happened, so I guess it was an accidental purge.
Read the thread for which I posted the link.
