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BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!

14 Sep 02 - 02:20 AM (#783688)
Subject: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Liz the Squeak

Spaw is wonderful. He's fantastic, lovely, amazing, wonderful, gorgeous, talented, lovely, wonderful, skillful and wonderful.

After years of me trying and having dismal failures, despite therapy and training sessions, there's one thing I've not been able to do. I follow the wonderful mans' instructions and lo! I can do blickies, clickies, blue clicky things, hyperlinks, hypertext links, whatever the FAQ you want to call them! I CAN DO THEM!!!!

Best birthday present so far!

LTS


14 Sep 02 - 02:35 AM (#783693)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Little Hawk

Yes, but he looks like a wiener that's been inflated with a bicycle pump...

(Sorry. Couldn't resist.) :-)

- LH


14 Sep 02 - 02:48 AM (#783696)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Liz the Squeak

click here for how

Here's how he did it....

Thank you Spaw...

XX


14 Sep 02 - 03:22 AM (#783706)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: C-flat

Hey! congratulations Liz! You know, you'll always remember your first clickie.
Feels good, doesn't it!
C-flat


14 Sep 02 - 06:15 AM (#783725)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Banjer

I already have the technology to do clickies, but thanks to that thread I learned how to do a separate window clickie thanks to Peter-from-Essex! Thanks!!!


14 Sep 02 - 06:40 AM (#783733)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Liz the Squeak

I'd nominate it for this months' "Thread of the month" enabling Spaw the Sainted to wear a paper plate halo and a badge with a star on it.

LTS


14 Sep 02 - 07:37 AM (#783740)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Murray MacLeod

It has to be admitted that Spaw gave the best instructions I have ever read on how to do a blicky.

I have never wavered in my admiration for the man's intellectual abilities, which, I am only too keenly aware, outstrip mine by a considerable margin.

I can take consolation only in the fact that I am much better looking than he is .....

Murray


14 Sep 02 - 10:09 AM (#783775)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: mack/misophist

Actually making them has never been that hard for me. My problem has always been that - since I almost never NEED to make them, when I do need to, I've forgotten how. Next question: how do you remember how to do it?


14 Sep 02 - 10:37 AM (#783785)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Rick Fielding

Way to go, Liz!

For what it's worth folks...I actually COINED the term "Blue Clicky" (Joe Offer will confirm) but still couldn't do it for almost two years after. Great Mudcat minds tried to help me to no avail......until.....

PETER T

managed to explain it in language so basic that even a three year old could understand.

Errr...make that a three year old with a TERRIBLE memory. Within two days I'd forgotten the whole damn thing, so much to Heather's disgust, I've written (in black felt pen)

CLICK

on the front of our computer.

Sad, isn't it?

Cheers

Rick


14 Sep 02 - 10:39 AM (#783786)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Rick Fielding

Hmmmmmmm, so THAT'S what happens when you write the secret code down WITHOUT a destination! Sorry about that!

Rick


14 Sep 02 - 10:40 AM (#783787)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: C-flat

I have it written "Spaw-style" on a piece of paper. Despite being surrounded by technology I still have to resort to rummaging through my desk for pen and paper.
The words "Old dogs" and "New tricks" spring to mind.
C-flat.


14 Sep 02 - 11:54 AM (#783829)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: WyoWoman

I remember it by a fiendishly simple technique. I printed out the code string (a href=htt etc ...) in VERY LARGE BLUE LETTERS and pasted it all the way across the bottom of my desktop. This way if I wander in in the middle of the night without my specs on I can still see the big letters. And since I did that, I've maybe used it three times. BUT ... it's there when I need it.

And I love the term "blicky" or "blue clicky thing." For some reason, 'puter grates on my nerves. Maybe because it's too fond ...

xo/ww


14 Sep 02 - 12:24 PM (#783852)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: wysiwyg

I thought it was Blue Clickie Thingie?

~S~


14 Sep 02 - 02:55 PM (#783934)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Night Owl

THANKS from here as well Spaw!!! Ditto to everything Liz said in her first post.


14 Sep 02 - 04:06 PM (#783970)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: MMario

he da man. and it ain't just cuz can explain blickies.


14 Sep 02 - 04:32 PM (#783983)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Joe Offer

Gee, last month, Liz was calling me gorgeous. Now she's run off with Spaw.
I dunno. I just don't know...
-Joe Offer, jilted-


<a href="http://www.mudcat.org">Click here</a>



<a href="mailto:joe@mudcat.org">Click to e-mail</a>



14 Sep 02 - 04:42 PM (#783994)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: McGrath of Harlow

Well I learnt how to do them from Joe. And most of the time I get them right.


14 Sep 02 - 05:09 PM (#784016)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Barry Finn

Thanks ?


14 Sep 02 - 05:10 PM (#784017)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Barry Finn

Whoops, guess who's flunked.


14 Sep 02 - 05:11 PM (#784018)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Barry Finn

Aw. http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm


14 Sep 02 - 05:42 PM (#784039)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: catspaw49

I'm not worthy..
I'm not worthy..
I'm not worthy..


Thank you Liz for the praise. Didja' know I used to write tech tips for mechanics? I found out early on that the only way anyone could really get "it" was to break it down into the smallest possible bites....or in this case bytes.

Glad it helped.........and Murray---You may be right. Maybe......

Spaw


14 Sep 02 - 06:16 PM (#784058)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Liz the Squeak

Yeah, well Joe, you didn't come across after all the hints, so a girl has to get it where she can. I seem to have reached that stage in life where the only birthday kisses I get are from gay guys or girl friends. But if Spaw should find he can't make it, you're already at first base OK?

How to remember it? I pasted and copied it to a Word doc which now sits on my desktop. Maybe Spaw should publish.... Blickies for Thickies would be a good title....

LTS


14 Sep 02 - 06:33 PM (#784070)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: artbrooks

WRITE IT DOWN, BROOKS! Actually, I normally just open a second browser window, go to "Mudcat HTML Help", copy Joe's hint line, paste it into my outgoing message, go to the site I want to link to, copy the url, replace the Mudcat site in Joe's link with that, replace "click here" with something apropos, and hit SUBMIT NOW, hopeng I didn't screw something up. This only takes about ten times as long as just typing in the appropriate phrase in computerese...'course, I'm a slow typist...yeah, ok Liz, you're absolutely correct...Spaw's contribution is indeed a worthy one.


14 Sep 02 - 08:56 PM (#784137)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: SINSULL

Well, I still think Joe is gorgeous. But... how does Karen feel about Spaw spreading himself around so randomly? And when do I get my share?????


15 Sep 02 - 01:28 AM (#784224)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Barry Finn

Thanks everyone. After better than 5 yrs here I just did my first blicky. I know, so I'm computer challendged. I'm thanking you all anyway. Barry


15 Sep 02 - 03:56 AM (#784237)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Liz the Squeak

I still think Joe is gorgeous too, but as I said, he didn't come across with any goods, so Spaw beat him to the post.....

However, I have kissed Joe....

LTS

(And very nice it was too... I love the thing he does with that beard.....)


16 Sep 02 - 03:09 AM (#784885)
Subject: RE: BS: Unadulterated suckup hero worship!
From: Liz the Squeak

But he's gone awfully quiet now... have I upset him?

LTS