What's the story behind the green onion man?
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well, that's my nickname for the CP mascot, whatever he really is. :laugh: Cool idea for a logo IMO, because it really caught my eye the first time logged in, over a year ago. Then when i decided to find this place again i Googled for the word "code" and the description of what led me here in the first place. Because all i remembered was the orange color scheme, the "onion man" and the world "code" up on the top, and when i clicked on the link for what i think was a java based IM client i saw it and knew i was in the right place. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
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well, that's my nickname for the CP mascot, whatever he really is. :laugh: Cool idea for a logo IMO, because it really caught my eye the first time logged in, over a year ago. Then when i decided to find this place again i Googled for the word "code" and the description of what led me here in the first place. Because all i remembered was the orange color scheme, the "onion man" and the world "code" up on the top, and when i clicked on the link for what i think was a java based IM client i saw it and knew i was in the right place. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CARoswellNX wrote:
green onion man
Bob's going to be pissed :~
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well, that's my nickname for the CP mascot, whatever he really is. :laugh: Cool idea for a logo IMO, because it really caught my eye the first time logged in, over a year ago. Then when i decided to find this place again i Googled for the word "code" and the description of what led me here in the first place. Because all i remembered was the orange color scheme, the "onion man" and the world "code" up on the top, and when i clicked on the link for what i think was a java based IM client i saw it and knew i was in the right place. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
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Douglas Troy wrote:
That's Bob.
cool :) *looks up at the green figure in the top lefthand corner* nice to meet ya Bob :) Roswell :-D
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAI've heard that he's from Microsoft Bob. http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html[^] The bad thing is that I can't find a picture of our current alien overlord so I can't prove it. But since he's the one that has access to a faster than light space ship and probably a probe that can conjure up images of a certain tracking device removal scene from Total Recall, I'll just say that he is one of the characters added into 1.0a and will hopefully replace that dog in the search bar. At least I kept the probe imagery kid sister safe. :laugh:
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well, that's my nickname for the CP mascot, whatever he really is. :laugh: Cool idea for a logo IMO, because it really caught my eye the first time logged in, over a year ago. Then when i decided to find this place again i Googled for the word "code" and the description of what led me here in the first place. Because all i remembered was the orange color scheme, the "onion man" and the world "code" up on the top, and when i clicked on the link for what i think was a java based IM client i saw it and knew i was in the right place. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
i second that... Though i think he looks like a little bit of both, so i had to decide on one, lol Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAGuys, please. How would you like to be told your head looks like an onion? No respect ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Guys, please. How would you like to be told your head looks like an onion? No respect ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Guys, please. How would you like to be told your head looks like an onion? No respect ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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hey my husband makes fun of my mis-shapen head. He's an artist and even drew a cartoon of me with forceps around my head. this happened over 10 years ago; I'm still bitter. So Bob, I love your mis-shapen head. Although I look better in hats.
leckey wrote:
He's an artist and even drew a cartoon of me with forceps around my head.
So draw a picture of him with forceps around his... *whistles innocently* ;)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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well, that's my nickname for the CP mascot, whatever he really is. :laugh: Cool idea for a logo IMO, because it really caught my eye the first time logged in, over a year ago. Then when i decided to find this place again i Googled for the word "code" and the description of what led me here in the first place. Because all i remembered was the orange color scheme, the "onion man" and the world "code" up on the top, and when i clicked on the link for what i think was a java based IM client i saw it and knew i was in the right place. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA*faint*
A mum and loving it!
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well, that's my nickname for the CP mascot, whatever he really is. :laugh: Cool idea for a logo IMO, because it really caught my eye the first time logged in, over a year ago. Then when i decided to find this place again i Googled for the word "code" and the description of what led me here in the first place. Because all i remembered was the orange color scheme, the "onion man" and the world "code" up on the top, and when i clicked on the link for what i think was a java based IM client i saw it and knew i was in the right place. Roswell :)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAIt would be nice to know if it was a "year-long" marketing master plan, or just a stroke of genius.:confused: Abhishek
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Guys, please. How would you like to be told your head looks like an onion? No respect ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
How would you like to be told your head looks like an onion?
Even if it actually did look an onion...? ;P
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Guys, please. How would you like to be told your head looks like an onion? No respect ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Dutch or russian onion?
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It would be nice to know if it was a "year-long" marketing master plan, or just a stroke of genius.:confused: Abhishek
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It would be nice to know if it was a "year-long" marketing master plan, or just a stroke of genius.:confused: Abhishek
I group of marketing wankers professionals got together in a room and brain stormed as to what programmers reminded them of. But we can't put that on a website said one of them. What if stylised it and made in green. Brillant said another. And so Bob was conceived ;)
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Douglas Troy wrote:
That's Bob.
cool :) *looks up at the green figure in the top lefthand corner* nice to meet ya Bob :) Roswell :-D
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CABob is a well traveled Bob. See Shog's CP blog for photos of blog all over the world. He gets around. :-D
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I group of marketing wankers professionals got together in a room and brain stormed as to what programmers reminded them of. But we can't put that on a website said one of them. What if stylised it and made in green. Brillant said another. And so Bob was conceived ;)
Brilliant......... 5 on 5 for that one! Abhishek
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Guys, please. How would you like to be told your head looks like an onion? No respect ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
That's cruel, without a doubt. But our rather exclusive club has grown tremendously in the past few years, and many of the newbies may not know about our mascot. Didn't David Wulff do a piece about Bob a few years ago? Perhaps it's time to replay it, or at least provide a narrative summary of Bob's significant role in the founding of our favorite site. I for one would love to hear again the touching tale about how Bob landed in your back yard (upside down, of course), found you drooling and finger-painting on the porch, and raised your IQ above the level of writing VBScript with a wave of his tricorder. The story about him teaching you the wonders of beer (after a nearly tragic evening he spent on his own in downtown Canberra in the red light district - most of it, that is), and trying in vain to wean you away from a steady diet of Vegemite and Melba Toast rounds, was particularly inspiring. And I'll never forget the exciting time in the server room involving the drunken, psychotic squirrels you accidentally released - causing a 4-day outage in the process - and Bob heroically cornering the little buggers with a butterfly net and a bamboo skewer! That was the night you decided to go public with CodeProject, if I recall correctly, though it really wasn't necessary or relevant to announce your coming out of the closet that day. Still, there's a lot of memories there, and our newer members could benefit from hearing the whole story, or at least the bits you and Bob remember. You were spending a lot of time out of your heads at the time, so it's understandable that there might be a few gaps. Please do tell - they won't be full members until they know the whole tale.:-D "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9