Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --

'Serenity'


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§ ita § - Dec 08, 2002 5:30:35 pm PST #1966 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Quote updated.

John -- forgot to give you this for your coding:

class Quote {
var $id;
var $char; // character saying the quotation
var $quote; // quotation text
var $season; // quotation season
var $episode; // episode number
var $title; //episode title
}


John H - Dec 08, 2002 5:47:54 pm PST #1967 of 10000

Thanks, for both of those things.

Hey, in the table you showed me yesterday, the

show_name

thing, is that just a y/n which determines whether the character's names come up, to solve that blank-character-name, tautologous-character-name thing, or am I missing something?


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2002 5:51:52 pm PST #1968 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ah, yes. Show name is part of the join between episode and quotes -- A for Angel and B for Buffy.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 08, 2002 5:53:38 pm PST #1969 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

tag closage.


Cindy - Dec 10, 2002 6:50:52 am PST #1970 of 10000
Nobody

the shooting script is often wrong

The transcripts are wrong/different sometimes, too - even from the less cutesy transcribers. For what it's worth, I've watched the episode a bajillion times and it's not sir, it's jokes are and given Nick's delivery, the jokes're contraction is probably the most accurate way in which to transcribe it.


DXMachina - Dec 10, 2002 2:12:30 pm PST #1971 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

We dropped a post in Natter today. The post immediately following this one:

msbelle "Natter V. Natter" Dec 10, 2002 3:47:26 pm EST

appears to have been eaten. There was an outage at buffistas.org at about the same time.


Java cat - Dec 10, 2002 7:48:37 pm PST #1972 of 10000
Not javachik

Hullo, I have a Q: I just spent a bit of time writing a longish thing about 3 books in Literary and when I went to post it, it vanished at the same time that it told me I'd flipped into guest mode. It's not the first time it's happened, and it's really frustrating. What's happening? Do I have only a certain amount of time in a message block before it self-destructs?


Cindy - Dec 11, 2002 4:37:55 am PST #1973 of 10000
Nobody

Java cat - I have no technical information for you about this problem, but have had similar problems at other boards.

For the meantime, as a work-around, you might want to consider either composing your posts in a word processing program or on your PC's notepad. If you can't be bothered or forget in the heat of the posting fugue state, try to make it a habit to copy your message before you post it. If something goes wonky in the posting process - you'll still have it. Good luck. That's a really frustrating thing to have happen. It hasn't happened to me here, but it used to happen to me at other boards and made me completely nuts.


DXMachina - Dec 11, 2002 5:55:32 am PST #1974 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Java, a lot of us have had similar problems, but ita has so far been unable to duplicate it so that she can work on a fix. Cindy's advice is good, or else make a habit of copying the text of your post to the clipboard becore hitting the Post button..


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 11, 2002 11:00:56 am PST #1975 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

I just got this quote:

Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!'
Oz, ''

Fun punctuation.