A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
John, I didn't understand half the things you just said, but thanks (for the other half.)
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Wolfram, dude, you're writing your posts in some word-processing program that automatically replaces all the quotation marks or apostrophes you type (", ') with the special-character "smart quotes", which curl around the word instead of being straight. You can see it in the I've here:
I doubt I’ve
Thing is, these often translate very, very badly to the internet. Especially in plain-text email. If you don't know what they are, (forgive me for making the assumption) you probably will not miss them gone from your documents; go to your word-processing program's preferences (in Microsoft Word, it's under the Tools menu, in AutoCorrect, the AutoFormat As You Type tab) and turn them off and you'll never have to worry about your posts looking odd on the internet.
This has been a moment of internet-typography evangelism. We now return you to your normally-scheduled, unhijacked thread.
Wolfram, I think he's saying you're bent! Durned furriners.
Wish I could get bent. Damnit.
I said BENT, not another word that sounds similar but has an a instead of an e! No, wait! AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
What were we talking about?
Oh, well. My apologies to everyone I unintentionally offended. Everyone I meant to offend, piss off.
John is correct and funny. From now on I'm going to call Wolfram 'Tungsten'. Ah, periodic table humour - is there a better kind?
This content free post is brought to you by the letter
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Ah, periodic table humour - is there a better kind?
If there's a Joss, there is.
This content free post is brought to you by the letter W and the number 74 and a crippling lack of sleep.
Snerk!
Ah, periodic table humour - is there a better kind?
If there is, I've never seen it.
Ah, periodic table humour - is there a better kind?
Well, they do say timing is everything.
Timing... periodic... get it? You see, it's the
periodic
table and--
Um. Yeah. Shutting up now.
Sometimes periodic humor can be sodium, and make us all sulfur.
Wolfram, dude, you're writing your posts in some word-processing program that automatically replaces all the quotation marks or apostrophes you type (", ') with the special-character "smart quotes", which curl around the word instead of being straight.
Thanks for the explanation Rebecca. Unfortunately, I only compose in the handy box, or wordperfect and this time it's in the handy box. Let me know if I'm being curly.
On another matter, discussion on moratorium ends today, and did we decide whether that moves the next issue to discussion right away, or do we have to wait until after the vote?
