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The nickb comment in question shows up under pg's posts.

• sabat 19y ago
  What makes it a joke, exactly? nickb shows up under pg's posts. OK. So he has a sock puppet. That's an April Fool's joke?
  • xlnt 19y ago
    he faked it, to trick us. that's the joke. nickb isn't really a sock puppet.
    • sabat 19y ago
      ... or so the Germans would have us believe. Applying Occam's Razor, the simpler explanation is that PG actually does use nickb as a sock puppet, made a mistake, and then attempted to cover it up using April Fool's Day as a convenient excuse.
      • mariorz 19y ago
        The chance that the mistake would happen today in particular is what makes it not the simplest explanation. That also wouldn't explain why the comment would appear on pg's comments thread.
        • TrevorJ 19y ago
          Clearly the simplest explanation is that nickb is PG, but an earlier version of himself that had traveled back in time to kill his own grandfather.
        • sabat 19y ago
          Dude, I was just joking. :-)
      • pg 19y ago
        Damn. Forgot that. Yes, sorry, it's not an April Fools' joke. I am actually nickb.
        • as 19y ago
          Or maybe this 'pg' character is an elaborate front for nickb. The pipe organ fugue should be right about here.
        • mrtron 19y ago
          That's just the sort of joke you would make if you really were nickb!
        • ovi256 19y ago
          You can not fool me. This is what really is happening: pg IS nickb's SOCKPUPPET! Even in IRL! I figured it out! OMG! Wake up shee... Ok, enough, I'm loling too hard.
        • lg 19y ago
          it must be a joke. i looked back at nickb's posts and he mentioned depending on textmate?! no way a vi user would betray the brotherhood, even in puppet form.
      • danohuiginn 19y ago
        Occam's razor? You mean "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity"? So <i>every</i> account here is pg?