Inktomi Slurp Spider? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

InklingElf · 08-11-2004, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Nilpaurion Felagund

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

Child of the 7th Age · 08-27-2004, 03:38 PM

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.....

The Perky Ent · 08-27-2004, 04:36 PM

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!"

Kuruharan · 08-28-2004, 08:39 AM

Hmm, I could foresee a very silly RPG involving chasing strange slurping spiders out of said Shire....

InklingElf · 08-29-2004, 02:44 PM

*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.

**The Saucepan Man** · 09-23-2004, 08:47 AM

I was just checking Whose Online (me, stalking? never) and noticed that the action given for one of those Inktomi Slurp Spiders was:

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Sending Thread to a Friend

Spiders have friends? They send Chapter-by Chapter discussion threads to them? Who are these friends? Where are they? Why are they doing it? I think that we should be told.

Fordim Hedgethistle · 09-23-2004, 09:41 AM

I'm afraid that the invasion of the Downs by a swarm of spiders might be my fault. . .

They've come in search of their friends!

(Shameless self-promotion? Me? ME? Not possible, not possible. . .

. . .well. . .

. . .maybe a little possible.)

08-27-2004, 03:38 PM	#2
Child of the 7th Age Spirit of the Lonely Star Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5,133	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..... __________________ Multitasking women are never too busy to vote. Last edited by Child of the 7th Age; 08-27-2004 at 03:41 PM.

08-27-2004, 04:36 PM	#3
The Perky Ent Maniacal Mage Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Setting sail for Umbar, with Firefoot at my side! Posts: 3,297	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!" __________________ 'But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.'

08-28-2004, 08:39 AM	#4
Kuruharan Regal Dwarven Shade Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold Posts: 3,593	*slurp* Hmm, I could foresee a very silly RPG involving chasing strange slurping spiders out of said Shire.... __________________ ...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...

09-23-2004, 09:41 AM	#7
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	I'm afraid that the invasion of the Downs by a swarm of spiders might be my fault. . . They've come in search of their friends! (Shameless self-promotion? Me? ME? Not possible, not possible. . . . . .well. . . . . .maybe a little possible.) __________________ Scribbling scrabbling.

08-29-2004, 02:44 PM	#5
InklingElf Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 402	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.