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Old 08-10-2004, 05:33 PM   #1
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what IS a slurp spider exactly?
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Old 08-11-2004, 12:04 AM   #2
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A spider is the program search engines use to update their database of pages. Or maybe it's the program they send out when someone's using their seach engine to access the page. I'm not sure.

A slurp spider is a spider found at your local 7-11.
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Old 08-11-2004, 02:17 AM   #3
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A spider is the program search engines use to update their database of pages. Or maybe it's the program they send out when someone's using their seach engine to access the page. I'm not sure.

A slurp spider is a spider found at your local 7-11.
YUM!

Thanks for that info -- now all I have to do is figure out which one is which...

And I think I'll get some of that slurp spiders
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Old 08-27-2004, 03:38 PM   #4
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The spiders have returned in even greater numbers! Where is Sam Gamgee when we need him? But , then, why should I be surprised? This is a Tolkien site!

As of 4:30 pm there were 185 Inktomi Slurp spiders swarming over the Barrowdowns. When I checked, they seemed particularly interested in the Shire discussion threads, for what reason I can not possibly imagine.....
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Old 08-27-2004, 04:36 PM   #5
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Perhaps there were Inktomi Slurp Spider's that escaped the fate of their brethern? Maybe they weren't all deleted, and they ran for cover here in the downs! We're being invaded! Spiders! They're everywhere! There's only one thing to do: "Aiya Earendil Elendion Anacalima!"
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Old 08-28-2004, 08:39 AM   #6
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Hmm, I could foresee a very silly RPG involving chasing strange slurping spiders out of said Shire....
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Old 08-29-2004, 02:44 PM   #7
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*slurp* indeed -- that reminds me of those chocolate spiders in Dreyers ice-cream...that was a few years ago. uuuugggghhhhh.

Now I know what those spider things are I should have paid more attention to that 'What's Going On' link. heh.
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