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  The Chuntey gets mentioned in The Grauniad Matt Rudge <mrudge@gmail.removeme.com> - 2019-08-27 22:03 +0100
    Re: The Chuntey gets mentioned in The Grauniad Phil Reynolds <phil-news@tinsleyviaduct.com> - 2019-08-29 10:00 +0100
    Re: The Chuntey gets mentioned in The Grauniad Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2019-08-29 16:28 +0100
      Re: The Chuntey gets mentioned in The Grauniad Matt Rudge <mrudge@gmail.removeme.com> - 2019-08-29 16:56 +0100

#4767 — The Chuntey gets mentioned in The Grauniad

Anyone else see this reference to the mystical chuntey in The Guardian 
online:

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/aug/27/click-whir-ping-lost-sounds-of-loading-video-games

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#4768

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:03:44 +0100
Matt Rudge <mrudge@gmail.removeme.com> wrote:

> Anyone else see this reference to the mystical chuntey in The
> Guardian online:
> 
> https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/aug/27/click-whir-ping-lost-sounds-of-loading-video-games

I wonder how many people think it's a typical Grauniad error...

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#4769

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:03:44 +0100
Matt Rudge <mrudge@gmail.removeme.com> wrote:

> Anyone else see this reference to the mystical chuntey in The
> Guardian online:
> 
> https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/aug/27/click-whir-ping-lost-sounds-of-loading-video-games

Can anyone find the original thread? Google only seems to go back to
February 2001 on a simple search for "chuntey", and that ain't it.
There's a mention of it being added to the Folklore FAQ (remember
that?) a few days later than the oldest thread I can find though, so it
must have been pretty new then. Which sounds about right.

I can never remember whether Alan Maxwell made the original typo or
came up with the "definition". Pretty sure it was the latter (it sounds
like him), but it'd be fun to see it again.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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#4770

On 29/08/2019 16:28, Duncan Snowden wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:03:44 +0100
> Matt Rudge <mrudge@gmail.removeme.com> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone else see this reference to the mystical chuntey in The
>> Guardian online:
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/aug/27/click-whir-ping-lost-sounds-of-loading-video-games
> 
> Can anyone find the original thread? Google only seems to go back to
> February 2001 on a simple search for "chuntey", and that ain't it.
> There's a mention of it being added to the Folklore FAQ (remember
> that?) a few days later than the oldest thread I can find though, so it
> must have been pretty new then. Which sounds about right.
> 
> I can never remember whether Alan Maxwell made the original typo or
> came up with the "definition". Pretty sure it was the latter (it sounds
> like him), but it'd be fun to see it again.
> 

According to the WoS version of the Folklore FAQ, it was Paul Haine who 
accidentally misspelled "chutney", and Alan Maxwell who came up with the 
definition, to wit:

In the words of the Llama-Waxer himself,
"Spectrums have the one true chuntey, the uber-chuntey if you will.

Other 8-bit machines had similar problems, but paled in comparison to 
the Speccy chuntey. Machines such as the CBM64 and the CPC had what 
scientists refer to as pseudo-chuntey.

PCs have chuntey-related issues that have descended from these but are 
not quite the same - in essence, PCs are affected by neo-chuntey."

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