They should film that story and show it every Christmas.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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§ ita § - Nov 20, 2007 12:12:13 pm PST #3498 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Coming up tomorrow: “What if Microsoft had designed Windows Vista.” Stay tuned!


tommyrot - Nov 20, 2007 12:41:42 pm PST #3499 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

My fave was this:

I’m also putting less emphasis on search, moving the box to the bottom right and replacing it with a dog:


§ ita § - Nov 20, 2007 12:45:37 pm PST #3500 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think, for true fairness's sake, one should have a "What if GMail were designed by Apple" and "What if GMail were designed by those geeks that brought you Linux."


tommyrot - Nov 20, 2007 12:47:22 pm PST #3501 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"What if GMail were designed by those geeks that brought you Linux."

Well that would just be a collection of ten different command-line programs.


§ ita § - Nov 20, 2007 12:51:46 pm PST #3502 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

With contradictory command line switches.

But very flexible!


Sophia Brooks - Nov 20, 2007 1:07:30 pm PST #3503 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have 10,000 emails in my gmail box. I want to delete everything except a) starred messages, and b) messages from certain people. Is there a way to do that that is less manual that going through each page?


amych - Nov 20, 2007 1:19:59 pm PST #3504 of 25497
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Sophia, you can search something like:

-is:starred -from:Buffy -from:Xander -from:Willow

You'll still get the search results 20 to a page, which is craptastic, but you should be able to delete everything on those pages without as much close attention.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 20, 2007 1:22:03 pm PST #3505 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thanks, I didn't know I could use the seach function like that. It is helpful. WHY can't I just delete things!?!?


§ ita § - Nov 20, 2007 1:36:16 pm PST #3506 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, that's almost like linux geeks wrote it...


le nubian - Nov 20, 2007 1:59:06 pm PST #3507 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Sophia,

in some ways, I'd advise you to make a category for all that you do not want to delete and then delete everything else.