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HUNTERF Sun 24-Mar-13 01:01:34

Somebody has just telephoned and asked me if he was speaking to the lunatic asylum.
Surely all lunatics should have been locked up hours ago.

Frank

Elegran Sun 24-Mar-13 16:12:45

They might if you could construct your own characters - put in personality quirks, past life experiences, family and friends, obsessions, prejudices, location of residence, value of house and history of occupation/ownership, financial status, past and present occupations (and pensions from past ones) blah blah blah.

Then at a press of a "create" button, it whirrs for a minute or two, and a plot (of sorts) and suitable interaction and dialogue for the main character and his acquaintances emerges at the other end. Then the author gets it publishes as "My crazy life" or "Oddly enough . . ."

The list of free books that is emailed daily from eqreader has a lot that must have been created that way.

absent Sun 24-Mar-13 15:47:33

Elegran I don't think many novelists would buy such a app as the plot is so repetitive and boring, repetitive and boring, repetitive and boring, repetitive and…

annodomini Sun 24-Mar-13 15:35:46

I agree, Elegran. I have often had the thought that Frank is a carefully constructed and scripted character and we are the supporting cast.

Elegran Sun 24-Mar-13 14:45:21

It takes a very organised mind to compose the posts that FH sends. Whoever is writing them has to compute all that has gone before. If it is not a real or a virtual Frank writing them, then it is a master scriptwriter. If it is a computer app, a lot of novelists would buy it.

Nonu Sun 24-Mar-13 13:48:51

Ginny YES.

ginny Sun 24-Mar-13 13:45:53

I agree with Nonu. I really don't think any of us should take him seriously. I suspect he / she doesn't expect us to either.

Nonu Sun 24-Mar-13 13:38:37

Ana , YES

Ana Sun 24-Mar-13 13:37:09

Me too, Nonu! The only time I didn't like Frank was when he was 'celebrating' the death of someone.

Nonu Sun 24-Mar-13 13:35:31

I do not think there is ill feeling towards Hunter .
Think most people just take his posts with a pinch of salt, and have a good laugh .

I know I do !!

smile

shysal Sun 24-Mar-13 13:31:15

Can't we make a pact not to reply to any of Frank's OPs? Can't he see that it is his attitude which attracts all the ill feeling against him? It has gone way beyond a joke! I feel my blood start to boil as soon as I see his name, and I am normally a very placid person. My sympathy goes out to all who have come across him in their home or working lives. A life full of so much bitterness must be a very sad one. sad

annodomini Sun 24-Mar-13 13:01:41

Perhaps not who is Frank? but rather what is Frank?

absent Sun 24-Mar-13 12:42:47

Flowerofthewest He is probably what Donald Rumsfeld meant by a "known unknown" but it is possible that he is an "unknown unknown". Your question is one of the great imponderables of the twenty-first century.

Butty Sun 24-Mar-13 12:42:07

I'm not entertained.

ginny Sun 24-Mar-13 12:38:37

Frank is someone who keeps us all entertained and occasionaly uses bad language.

Flowerofthewest Sun 24-Mar-13 12:26:35

Who is Frank?

Orca Sun 24-Mar-13 11:43:00

Beware Frank look what's currently happening to Wynne Evans wink

harrigran Sun 24-Mar-13 11:36:07

grin

gracesmum Sun 24-Mar-13 11:24:11

I suspect someone on GN has found out his phone number smile Form an orderly queue to own up! grin

janeainsworth Sun 24-Mar-13 11:22:48

Frank!
You didn't!
shockshock
grin

gracesmum Sun 24-Mar-13 11:21:34

"Phone has just rung not "rang", Frank [sigh] emoticon.

HUNTERF Sun 24-Mar-13 11:20:15

ginny

I replied

f__k O__.

nanaej Sun 24-Mar-13 10:46:18

absent grin

absent Sun 24-Mar-13 10:36:36

Better to have some fool/drunk ring at one o'clock in the morning asking for the lunatic asylum than wanting to know what colour knickers one is wearing.

Ella46 Sun 24-Mar-13 10:34:00

They weren't far off, were they?

absent Sun 24-Mar-13 10:32:35

Waxing gibberish more like nanaej