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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing. From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Jan 04 - 10:45 AM That's wonderful! |
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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 |
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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! ;-) |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing. From: Peace Date: 14 Jan 04 - 10:52 AM Liz has limpit mines on her mice. |
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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? ;-) ;-) ;-) |
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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 |
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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? |
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Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing. From: Amos Date: 13 Jan 04 - 07:22 PM €€€ ¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢!!!!! UNICODE 00A2!!! |
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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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!) |
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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. |
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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! |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing. From: Ebbie Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:11 PM Oh, if only we used it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing. From: Peace Date: 10 Jan 04 - 10:08 PM Now, your government has no cents at all. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 < and > instead of < and > |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: My ampersand is missing. From: John MacKenzie Date: 10 Jan 04 - 11:02 AM and? |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
