BS: My ampersand is missing.

Subject: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:00 PM

I hope this doesn't become a cheap, lewd thread to do with a poor guy's missing ampersand, and gee where could he have left it; I hope it doesn't degenerate into a crude series of deviant barbs of sexual connotativeness. (We could start another thread for that.)


I can't find the ampersand on my computer keyboard. Where the heck IS it? Does anybody know? I'm serious, here. I can't find the thing. RSVP, ASAP.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:03 PM

What's above your 7? I can hit [shift] 7 and instantly find my own ampersand. Of course, you may have one in a different location.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:16 PM

Standard location is [shift]-7.

A

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:24 PM

let us know when you've found it Brucie so that we can degenerate into a crude series of deviant barbs of sexual connotativeness.


ALT-038 (on the keypad) should also give you &

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:25 PM

Jeri & Amos, voila. Thank you both so much. Sorry to waste the 'cat space with this. Honest, I looked at EVERY key on the whole thang and I could not see it. I have to leave now (due in court as a witness at an accident scene). Thanks again. Bruce M.

&&&&7777&&&&

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:27 PM

GUEST MMARIO, we posted at the same time so I was unable to include you in the thanks to Jeri & Amos. Thanks, buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:34 PM

NOW can this degenerate into a crude series of deviant barbs of sexual connotativeness?

Wee Brucie's lost his amper
(sand)
Wee Brucie's lost his amper
(sand)

etc.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:39 PM

That would mean he was severely ampered.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:40 PM

This thread reminds me of a rather strange sogn which our Oz alternative popular music station used to play. The band name is King Missile and the song is called:

Detachable Penis

    I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
    And my penis was missing again.
    This happens all the time.
    It's detachable.

    This comes in handy a lot of the time.
    I can leave it home, when I think it's gonna get me in trouble,
    or I can rent it out, when I don't need it.
    But now and then I go to a party, get drunk,
    and the next morning I can't for the life of me
    remember what I did with it.

    First I looked around my apartment, and I couldn't find it.
    So I called up the place where the party was,
    they hadn't seen it either.
    I asked them to check the medicine cabinet
    'cause for some reason I leave it there sometimes
    But not this time.

    So I told them if it pops up to let me know.
    I called a few people who were at the party,
    but they were no help either.

    I was starting to get desperate.

    I really don't like being without my penis for too long.
    It makes me feel like less of a man,
    and I really hate having to sit down every time I take a leak.

    After a few hours of searching the house,
    and calling everyone I could think of,
    I was starting to get very depressed,
    so I went to the Kiev, and ate breakfast.
    Then, as I walked down Second Avenue towards St. Mark's Place,
    where all those people sell used books and other junk on the street,
    I saw my penis lying on a blanket
    next to a broken toaster oven.
    Some guy was selling it.
    I had to buy it off him.
    He wanted twenty-two bucks, but I talked him down to seventeen.
    I took it home, washed it off,
    and put it back on. I was happy again. Complete.
    People sometimes tell me I should get it permanently attached,
    but I don't know.
    Even though sometimes it's a pain in the ass,
    I like having a detachable penis.

The singer, well narrator really, says it all in a totally dead-pan voice, like it is all an absolutely normal occurrence to lose one's penis at a party, and then be able to wash it off and put it back on again.

Sorry for the thread creep, but you knew this would happen, didn't you brucie?!

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:45 PM

Wee Brucie's lost his amper
(sand)
Wee Brucie's lost his amper
(sand)
don the dooble knock!

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:50 PM

Okay. Now that you have the straight answer...


Consider the ampersand:    &

Now, imagine that the ampersand is a human being.

Exactly what kind of contorted perversion is going on here?

The prefix "auto" followed by any of a number of words meaning various sexual practices comes to mind.

And you do realize that if an ampersand and a treble clef were ever to hook up you'd probably never be able to get 'em apart, don't you?


(Yep, the thread has degenerated, but that's what happens when degenerates get hold of 'em.)

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:50 PM

OH, Yeah! There is just no mercy here. Gawd, I love it.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:51 PM

How do you make it so big? HA HA.

Seriously, how do you do that?

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 04:00 PM

Try font size=12 yourtext here /font size =12 enclosing the font commands withing angle brackets

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 04:07 PM

I can picture it:

Poor ol' Brucie gets up, does the morning things, sits down at the computer and finds his ampersand is missing.

Frantic, he searches everwhere: over the one, the two, the eight, the four -- no luck. He finds his ~, his |, his [, even the }, but no ampersand.

He's getting desperate...and there's a certain pressure building he needs his ampersand to relieve. He checks his manual.

There's data on splats, on bangs, on pound signs, on tildes, on carats. And then -- the ASCII code for the ampersand will be found on page 124!

Eureka! He turns to page 124 -- and it's missing, because someone tore it out.

Naturally, he turns to Mudcat.

Mudcat turns it into a crude series of deviant barbs of sexual connotativeness...but Catters first tell Brucie that his ampersand is over the seven (7)!

Now having achieved Completeness, Brucie lies back content. But MC continues to debate and comment on such questions as the quality of ampersandiness, or is it ampersandich? WHY does the ampersand look so much like treble clef? Could you write out treble clef music by hand if you used the ampersand?

Fertile groups for discussion, all of them. And all because Brucie lost his ampersand.

Now that he's found it I hope that no one did anything disgusting with it while it was missing.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 04:10 PM

well - the average ampersand is over 7 - but some guys claim their ampersand is over 9.

I don't believe them though.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 05:51 PM

Damn, that must be painful....

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 05:53 PM

Disgusting, all of you. (However, a true gentleman would fold it to the size the lady requests.)

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Bardford
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 05:57 PM

"I recently had my semicolon removed. Now I have to punctuate into a bag."

I can't remember the comedian whose line that is...

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:03 PM

Hey, guys, keep it quiet, OK. I've been telling my wife that this ____________ is six inches. So far, it's working. Ssh.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: michaelr
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:38 PM

Let's hope nobody involved in the accident case that brucie is a witness to finds out about this!

BTW, one of my favorite movies is "The Magnificent Ampersands".

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:40 PM

Oh, no . . . .

Revenge of the Ampersand
Son of Ampersand
Return of the Am.......

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Micca
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:42 PM

while on the punctuation kick
" little anne took her skates upon the ice to frisk
her friends thought she was slightly nuts
her little * "

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:48 PM

bill where henry had had had had had had had had had had had the teachers approval

Gotta punctuate it so it makes sense. It's been around for a while, but maybe some of y'all haven't seen it.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:51 PM

ROF here!

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 06:56 PM

another punctuation story (true)--i was contacting a check printing
company and ;quoting to them how to spell the info on teh checks.
I wanted to include my e-mail address as well as phone number, etc,
so explained to the representative that I wanted the @ sign
printed there. I said, "you know, the one above the "2"
The checks came back with the 1 above the 2: 1/2
as in "me 1/2 my ISP dot com" geesh....
had to send back to printer for correction....duh
i don't suppose that telephone clerk is emplyed there still??!!

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Micca
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 07:01 PM

how about punctuating to make sense of this one "Caeser entered on his head a helmet on each foot a sandal in his hand he had his trusty sword to boot"

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 07:22 PM

&

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 07:23 PM

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 07:24 PM

Tried that twice and

1) it either didn't work or

2) all ya can see is the hole in the ampersand.

Back to the drawing board.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: MMario
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 07:31 PM

me bad. you put the angle brackets around EACH of the font commands. the stuff you want big goes between the middle brackets.

bracket font size=12 closebracket yourstuff here bracket /font size=12 closebracket

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 07:39 PM

As in:

Caeser entered--on his head, a helmet, on each foot, a sandal. In his hand he had his trusty sword, to boot

Now that we have turned off "big" we are back to normal.

A

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:02 PM

Caeser entered: on his head a helmet, on each foot a sandal. In his hand he had his trusty sword to boot.

Was his trusty sword ever rusty? Was Natty Bumpo's trusty rifle ever a trifle rusty?

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:06 PM

I think of it as 'Brucie lost his ampers and ... what??

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: khandu
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:10 PM

First, brucie's ampersand was missing. . . now he says all he can see is his a-hole.
I ain't gonna look!

k

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:15 PM

I belong to another forum that is made up of heavy-duty political discussion primarily, and it gets very nasty. I enjoy dropping in on Mudcat for just this kind of thread -- clever, funny, friendly, witty -- all the good things! Thanks for being who you are, you terrific 24-"caret" people.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:33 PM

I found my ampersand with lots of help. And a fine lookin' one it is, too. In fact, it just might be the best darn ampersand around these parts (or those parts), if ya know what I mean. Don't wanna be makin' anyone jealous or anything. And, although I won't start another thread for this, I haven't EVER had my period. Just thought I'd let y'all in on this. That's why I wonder about these hot flashes.

Great crew here, and I want to echo GUEST,pdc.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 12:00 AM

Bill, where Henry had had 'had had', had had 'had'. 'Had had' had had the teacher's approval. (I didn't get it right the first 731 times, either.)

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: freda underhill
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 01:37 AM

As I went out one June morning
Past catters sleeping and others fighting
I saw two mudcatters standing by
And one of them was deeply sighing

Oh dear oh
Oh dear oh
Our brucie's got no ampersand in 'im
Oh dear oh

All sorts of links I did provide
Including some to Paris Hilton
All smutty threads and innuendo
And still he had no ampersand in im

Oh dear oh
Oh dear oh
Our brucie's got no ampersand in 'im
Oh dear oh

We gave him a look at the mudcat calendar
But when he looked he did a double take
And went to have a little spew
Because that calendar was a ruddy fake

Oh dear oh
Oh dear oh
Our brucie's got no ampersand in 'im
Oh dear oh

Now brucie sat down to a hearty meal
Of tender tripe, he ate the lot of it
Some scones and short bread and haggis too
And Johnny Walker to wash it down a bit

Next brucie got up in a little kilt
And where he went the ladies peeked a bit
He stood above a windy vent
Although his armpits reeked a little bit

Oh dear oh
Oh dear oh
Our brucie's armpits reeked a little bit
Oh dear oh

Now brucie swelled his mighty chest
And took his pipes, and played a tune a bit
The ladies thought those bags were swell
The pipe was manful, long and full of it

Oh dear oh
Oh dear oh
The pipe was manful, long and full of it
Oh dear oh

Now Brucie's admired where ere he goes
And ladies stalk him by train and bus
With his flaring nostrils and tartan hose
His ampersand's a big fat plus…

Oh dear oh
Oh dear oh
His ampersand's a big fat bloody plus…
Oh dear oh

freda

(to the tune of my usbands got no courage in im)

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 01:40 AM

LMAO. Freda, you are a marvel. I'm still chuckling. Many thanks. True, too.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 09:37 AM

Are ampers like Pampers, the disposable diapers?

If so, then brucie lost his ampers and it was getting really messy around his place.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:20 AM

Well now you've found that, can you tell me where my cordless mice are?

Both the little buggers have gone AWOL and I'm bereft!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: MMario
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:48 AM

which is why I use mice with cords. the leashes keep them in place!

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 11:02 AM

and?

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 11:04 AM

I'll try this again--Mudcat slipped away from me yesterday before this would post:

Here we are bemoaning the loss of a character that never went away, when how many of you can remember where we used to find the ¢ key? Was it over where we now find the "control" symbol of ^ ?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 03:02 PM

I miss the ¢ key too. I usually have a couple of occasions a week to use it. It's a pain to have to go through extra steps to get it when it should just be on the keyboard. Same for the ° (as in 98.6°).

You'd think that with all the "alt", "shift", "ctrl" etc. keys on a keyboard they could come up with a way to have another row of characters. For US users I would vote for ¢ ° ™ £ © ® ± ¶ ¼ ½ ¾ ñ.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: open mike
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 03:14 PM

[big] still tr5ying to figure out where and how to change font size and color?

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 03:22 PM

Liz,

You'll find them in the last place you look. They're under a coat or a sweater. Good luck.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 03:31 PM

Amos, what is "Standard"?
On a standard German keyboard layout, the & is NOT at shift-7 (there's a /), it is at shift-6

open mike, to change font size, use <span style="font-size:300%">big text</span> which looks like big text
Vary the percentage number to your needs.

Liz, if you don't find your cordless mice near the (equally cordless) cheese, buy yourself a cordless cat to hunt your cordless mice ;-) See you soon, Liz!

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 03:53 PM

I'd love to know how Mudguard tricked the computer into displaying that html tag instead of executing it.

But if it requires more than a slightly-above-idiot-level of computer literacy, don't bother.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 03:56 PM

You have to "escape" the < and > - i.e. you have to type &lt; and &gt; instead of < and >

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 04:27 PM

To see how people did their code, simply go to the View Source setting in your browser. In IE a Notepad window pops up with the entire page. Scroll down (and realize that there is a lot of extraneous stuff with page formatting) and you'll see exactly what they did.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 04:42 PM

<b>Thank you very much!</b>

Thank you very much!

That'll make explaining stuff to other idiots a lot less confusing.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 06:44 PM

Ah, so -- right -- I meant the standard in popu;ar use in the American typewriter industry in the 50's and 60's (Smith Corona, Royal, and IBM for example) all of which were keyed the same in their office models. I realize however this is no real standard at all.

I believe the cents sign which I cannot find at the moment used to be shift 6 as suggested.

A

A

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 07:09 PM

Yeah, but ya used to be able to actually BUY something for a cent. A honeymoon, double bubble, FOUR jujubes count them. Today, kids don't bother pickin' 'em up. Can't say's I blame 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 07:51 PM

My tow-headed barefoot-boyo summer days were FULL of Fleer's at a penny a wad!!

Love those innocent memories before I learned how to mess with folks!! LOL!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 08:05 PM

Liz, your mice have cut the cord and are now out on their own. They can't stay children forever, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:02 PM

At least you Yanks HAVE a once cent coin (and a two cent coin, and a one and two dollar note!) - here they "round off" - that's what the Govt decreed when they withdrew the coins to the nearest 5 cents.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:08 PM

Now, your government has no cents at all.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:11 PM

Oh, if only we used it.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:20 PM

Yeah. Our thoughts and wishes are worth one cent, our opinions are worth two cents, and gas is going at $.79 a liter. Go figger.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: open mike
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 12:52 AM

we don't have a 2 cent coin, but we do have a 2 dollar bill
big textat least we used to
i am not sure if they are going to make new ones ( i mean twos)
like they have re-designed the other denominations of bills
maybe they will just make ones twice as big

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 01:11 AM

They still print $2 bills. Some places use them more than others. You see them a lot in the Pacific Northwest, but I never see them down here in Texas.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 01:11 AM

bee-dubya-ell...."I'd love to know how Mudguard tricked the computer into displaying that html tag instead of executing it. "

I do it, as I do most things, with a crutch...lookie here!

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 01:33 AM

you guys are twisted. An ampersand looks like someone chewing their toenails, to me.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:27 PM

BillD:
"bee-dubya-ell...."I'd love to know how Mudguard tricked the computer into displaying that html tag instead of executing it. "
"
BW did that by inputting the format commands for his "open angled brackets" & "Close angled brackets" rather than just selecting the symbols from his keyboard

Nigel (at least, I think that's what he done!)

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:54 PM

No brucie,
the Government has all the cents - they took them back,

but as for the people, they obviously have none, as they keep voting the mongrels back in.... :-)

Johnny took all our guns away, and our cents as well...

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:59 PM

Bill - That sHTMLc thing looks cool. I'll probably download it later this evening. Thanks.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 03:49 AM

Why, with all these different keys, are there no fractions? My old 'sit up and beg' typewriter, and even the electric tripewriter both had fractions on them... why not these keyboards?

Still can't find the mice. And of course they will be in the last place I look - do you think I'd carry on looking after I've found them?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 07:57 AM

I do believe that some keyboards used to be able to be programmed to insert whatever you wanted into the Funtion keys, also alt & Ctrl function keys. Of course that was in DOS days... so no idea if there are utilities out there for that now. There may well be, so I suppose of of the next thru the door will tell us... :-)

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 09:43 AM

I think you can still customize your character set if you need to, but since most word processing programs have some way to get to a "special characters keyboard" option with lots of wonderful characters on it (like ÷×·©®™õäöüæ¼½¾¿¡¢£) it's probably not an option most people need.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 10:55 AM

Liz, you sound pi55ed. I don't suppose this is a good time to recite "Hickory Dickory Dock", huh? Didn't think so. I will skulk away. Hope you find 'em soon.

BM

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 11:16 AM

Brucie:

Do you know why lost things are always in the last place you look?

Because you don't look any more after you find them!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 12:23 PM

I learned something new today. I'll have to stop doing that. lol

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 01:12 AM

I always keep looking for a while after I find something I'm looking for, just so that I don't get frustrated that it was in the last place I looked...

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 07:07 PM

I'm pissed off not pissed. Still haven't found the little buggers.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Amos
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 07:22 PM

€€€

¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢!!!!!

UNICODE 00A2!!!

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 07:37 PM

Liz: In this part of Canada, pissed and pissed off both mean really angry. Flies can get both. However, the words have other meanings, too. Flies, for example, can get pissed by drinking beer and pissed off by landing on the lids of toilets. Are you smiling yet, or should I skulk away again?

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Amos
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 07:40 PM

'Tis better by far to be a toff
And live your life throughly pissed off
Then it would be to be a Don
And live your life always pissed on.


Cameron O' Flax Duiden
Dublin Sreet Sayings
1908

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: MudGuard
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 05:25 AM

Liz, if you have not found them by then, in 15 days I can join the search (and rescue) team... ;-)

Have you checked whether they have limpit off? ;-) ;-) ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 10:52 AM

Liz has limpit mines on her mice.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:24 PM

I suspect with 3 cats around, they've gone into hiding and are even now stocking up with tinned goods and bottled water... several pounds of chocolate have also gone missing.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 02:56 AM

Maybe you should look for the mice in the same place as for the chocolate. Inside you! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: GUEST,JOHN OF ELSIE`S BAND
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 06:07 AM

My ampersand is missing,
My commas`done a bunk,
My full stop has been stolen,
My colons` on the run.

I think my hyphens` hiding,
My brackets` flown away,
My semi-colon went on strike,
My hash checked out today.

My question mark has straightened,
My pound signs` on the blink,
Stuff this damned computer,
I`ll go back to pen and ink.

Copyright 2004
johnh.hills @virgin net

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 10:45 AM

That's wonderful!

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: GUEST,JOHN FROM ELSIE`S BAND
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 11:56 AM

Stilly River Sage,
                  Thank you kindly for your appreciation.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 06:57 PM

I'd know if I'd eaten the mice - the tails get stuck in your teeth.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 09:02 PM

Old condoms never die. They just get pissed off.

Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing.
From: MudGuard
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 06:14 AM

But, Liz, I thought the mice we are speaking about here are cordtail-less... ;-)