Results of an Idle Search

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Results of an Idle Search

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I did a search on some character names and concepts in the NEQ in the episode bodies:

Fred 12851 (a little over half the episodes)
Astra 6508
Dragon 5229
Josh 2403
Velus 1764
Scott 1469
Belboz 1174
Synizn 607
Exotica 575
Minestus 573
Jarlath 496
Checkers 323
Lava 239
Reaibn 168
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Post by JH »

Fascinating. "Josh" has an unfair advantage in that there are two separate characters with that name. I was going to suiggest trying "Lots", but of course that might throw up many matches for "lots" as a word as opposed to "Lots" as a name.
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Post by Won-Tolla »

You would get Lots of hits on that one...

(much more than 42)
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Anableps wrote:I did a search on some character names and concepts in the NEQ in the episode bodies:

Reaibn 168
Yeah! :D
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Beer - 209
Cheese - 208
Coffee - 160
Chicken - 159
Bread - 146
Potato - 67
Pizza - 63
Beef - 57
Jelly - 46
Doughnut (correct spelling) - 43
Carrot - 42
Chocolate - 41
Lemon - 34
Turkey - 25
Donut (ahem) - 17
Prawn - 2
Yoghurt - 1
Aubergine - 0
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Post by Won-Tolla »

Talking of spelling...

Guard - 1302
Gaurd - 163
Chief - 215
Cheif - 13
Dragon - 5315
Dargon - 41

(One of my episodes appears in four of the searches)

And as Cicero showed, we clearly need more episodes about prawn yoghurt. :twisted:
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lordreaibn wrote:
Anableps wrote:I did a search on some character names and concepts in the NEQ in the episode bodies:

Reaibn 168
Yeah! :D
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Post by Ben McClellan II »

I just searched the name Krissy, who I made up a few years ago to give Scott a female companion.

As of a few moments ago, she came up 69 times.

HEE! :lol:
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Really?

What a coinky dink.
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Post by Anableps »

Here another list, from the seedy side of the NEQ

naked 988
murder 467
explode 324
wine 286
beer 209
coward 128
thief 95
theif 12
cigar/cigarette 79
whiskey/whisky 46
blackmail 33
disembowel 23
prostitute/prostitution 21
flatulence 11
fraud 11
arson 7
jaywalk 1

And a few other odd ones

Wankel 0
rotary 2
engine 276
algebra 5
thermodynamics 3
philosopher/philosophy 116
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One jaywalker? String'im up!
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Post by JH »

I thought I ought to check on bacon, since Lots seems to be onsessed with it. It appears in 77 episodes.
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Post by Ben McClellan II »

I also looked up George Carlin's seven words you can never say on television a few days ago.

I will just say that two of them, and I'll let you guess which ones, don't make a single appearance in any of the episodes.
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Post by JH »

I've no idea what the two words are, but it's probably just as well that they don't appear, given that Sir Toby in the Guidelines for Episode Creation says the stories are "Rated "E" for Everyone ".

I thought I'd better mention that in case anyone viewed the non-appearance of those two words as a challenge. :)
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Post by Won-Tolla »

Concerning what was said about prawn yoghurt earlier, I happened to mention yoghurt in a recent episode (83932) without thinking about this thread, so now there's two of them. It's still editable, so I went back and changed the flavor to prawn.
And I got an idea for adding to another old branch. So try a search in a while and see for yourself.
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