Comments on: Skepticalness abounds

By: Ronn! Blankenship

Ronn! Blankenship — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:45:15 +0000

# Ted Says:
July 18th, 2008 at 12:51 am

Hi Phil,
Would you mind posting basic html tips people can us to separate their comments from others. Italics, blockquotes, or whatever would be fine. I have a hard time following these threads when people use nothing or just quotes. Yes, that would be a good idea. Don’t think anyone would read the tips though.

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I for one would.

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# Jose Says:
July 18th, 2008 at 2:00 am

Yes, that would be a good idea. Don’t think anyone would read the tips though.

Well how about having a paper clip pop up every time someone clicks sumbit that says “Would you like to use italics?”

People would love that.

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I’d love it so much that you could expect to get the paper clip back bent into some new shape . . .

(That was sarcasm if anyone missed it . . .)

By: madge

madge — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51:08 +0000

Michael. We had a dippy egg ritual too! Once the egg was finished I would turn it upside down in the egg cup and hand it to my Dad saying “I don’t want my egg” He would then solemnly tap away at the top until his spoon broke through to the empty egg. The look of surprise and disappointment on his face will stay with me forever. At Easter he would draw cartoon characters on our eggs ( including a lot of funny aliens )We were simple folk

By: CanadianLeigh

CanadianLeigh — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:21 +0000

Madge & Michael L.
I tried that British thing this morning. I didn’t really like it too much. The egg wouldn’t stick to the peanut butter.

By: Michael L

Michael L — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:09:19 +0000

Madge, when I was a kid, my mom would put the boiled eggs in an egg cup, I’d crack the eggs, dip my toast soldiers in, and scoop out the rest. Then I’d take the shell, and pretend they were domes on the Moon. My spoon was some kind of alien space ship that would smack the “domes” and crush them to pieces!

Hard to believe that was the imagination of a 6 year old kid hyped up by the real moon landings! (And lots and lots of sugar!)

By: Sam Wise

Sam Wise — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:12:08 +0000

Thanks for the link, Phil (ooooh, and for the good posts to feature in the circle, too)!

By: Jewel

Jewel — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:39:15 +0000

Now I'm hungry and thoroughly amused. Jose, you just cracked me up.

By: madge

madge — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:36:21 +0000

@ Michael L
Dippy egg and toast soldiers! Now I’m hungry. (dippy dippy dippy)

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:20:14 +0000

“Are you sure you want to post your comment and risk looking like an idiot?”

click yes

“OK. Last chance to back out. Are you absolutely positive you want to submit?”

click yes

“Please answer one more question before your comment is submitted. Have you found me helpful, or would you like to disable me for future comments?”

click disable

“Oh, look at you all high and mighty. You don’t think you need help from Clippy? I’m just doing my job, Captain Moron. I’ve got a family to feed. F you. Just for that, I’m deleting your comment”

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:03:59 +0000

oooh, and then the paper clip could ask “Are you a troll, or are you just feeding a troll. If you are a troll it automatically sets your font to green.

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:14 +0000

Yes, that would be a good idea. Don’t think anyone would read the tips though.

Well how about having a paper clip pop up every time someone clicks sumbit that says “Would you like to use italics?”

People would love that.

By: Michael L

Michael L — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:03:21 +0000

That’s ok Madge, just toast up some Soldiers, dip them in you eggs, and relax! LOL

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:51:18 +0000

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:22:22 +0000

Also, I remember seeing complaints about font sizes and styles right after you sold out to the man. In case people don’t know, they easily change font sizes by holding down Ctrl and turning their mouse wheel.

In both IE and Firefox, you can force any web pages to display whatever font or size you want in tools–>options.

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:19:50 +0000

By: madge

madge — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:10:54 +0000

It’s gonna be one of those days when there is so much cool stuff to look at on the web that I get no work done at all. SIGH