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Heyltslori

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 11:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
dixpert...ROFL

Halfunit

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 11:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Fanny - OMG - good one!

Weinermr

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 11:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Ariasmum

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 12:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks everyone for clearing that up. I was looking in the clipart but couldn't find a red-faced emoticon to show I was embarassed. (not to be confused with bare assed!)

Nightcrawler

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 08:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I used to have a lots of porn.
(then I marryed Bookie and it had to go?)

Halfunit your DH is right.

Lumbele

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 10:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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Ariasmum, I think I can help out (in both cases).embarrasedbare-a$$ed

Ariasmum

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 08:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Lumbele.

Whoami

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 12:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I can't let a page archive without me submitting a DQ, can I?

Today's DQ has to do with formatting on this site. I do okay with most of the things. But I have a particular problem with submitting links that have a comma in the link. The was formatting is set up here, you post the link, then a comma, and the name of the link. But, if the URL has a comma in it, then the site thinks the name of the link is everthing after the comma. Usually, I just past the link, and the preview shows it up as a link automatically (no name). But, I just posted a link over in the Taken folder, and it didn't come up as a clickable link. What am I doing wrong?

As long as I'm talking about formating here. How can someone type a visual instruction on what to type in order to format, without that typed instruction turning into a format command itself?

And, how can you use a {} as a hug, stacked on top of other formatting things like font size and color, without those brackets becoming formatting commands themselves?

Draheid

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami: If you will place a backslash (the same one you start the link with) directly before the comma within the link, everything should be fine.

For example: \newurl{http://www.testing.now/this\,or\,that.html,Do Not Click Here}

Will give you this: Do Not Click Here

If you point your mouse to 'Do Not Click Here' you should see the link in the status bar at the bottom of your browser and it should look like this: http://www.testing.now/this,or,that.html

For the rest of your question, the same thing applies. When you want to use a 'tag' character, simply place a backslash before it. For example \blue{\{\{\{Blue\}\}\}} Will look like this: {{{Blue}}}

Hope this helps! :)

Whoami

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 01:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Dra! I knew I could count on you!

Yes, it does help!

Twiggyish

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 02:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ohhhhhhhh!!! Sheesh, I've wondered the same thing about writing instructions. Thanks Ggrandson, as you know brains run in our family.

Draheid

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 03:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BTW: What's funny is there about twice as many characters in the instruction message then what you see because I used \b{} to highlight most of the illustrative code! :) I won't even begin to show you what it really looked like! lol But I'm happy that it's helpful and understandable.

Yes GGma, I knew I got it from you! {{{GreatGrandMa Twiggy}}}

Mygetaway

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 04:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's a kind of fun dumb question.....

Does anyone know twins who have two different b-days? I always thought that if you were going to have twins, it would be nice if one was born just before midnight, and then the other after midnight, so that they each had their own day. I wonder if people have ever scheduled their C-sections that way?
(The reason I ask is I saw a commercial on our local TV show looking for twins. Then that thought just bounced into my head..LOL)

Twiggyish

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 04:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
awwww Dra, I was thinking of your Aunties and Uncles. They're very smart people!

My, I never thought of that, but I bet it is possible.

Draheid

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 04:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mygetaway: Here's an even more curious thought along those lines. How about if twins were born across midnight on February 28th/29th of a leap year?

I have heard of what you are talking about, however, I don't know any personally.

Rig

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 04:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Who is Monica Bellucci?

Halfunit

Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 05:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mygetaway - In my graduation class of 310 students, we had 6 sets of twins (bizarre, eh?). One set did have seperate birthdays, though not by c-section.

We had a special two page spread in our yearbook for the twins.

Heyltslori

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 10:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Anybody have any ideas, tips, or tricks about how I can get a candle to burn completely away. It's irritating to me when a candle burns down but still leaves a lot of wax along the sides. I try pushing it down or scraping along the sides and adding it to the middle...but nothing really works.

C1mag

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 12:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't know if this is a dumb question but was wondering if anyone can remember the name of a reality show that ran last year where they had a bunch of families living in some home on a beach and each week one family was booted. The last family who remained would win the house. Although the contestants were American I think the house was in Japan or Figi or some place like that. The reason I want to know the name is because they took the show off before it finished and I want to know which family won the house but I need a name in order to look it up. I think it ran on the WB. I think it was called something like... Under One Roof or something like that. Thanks for the help!

Squaredsc

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 12:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
c1mag, its on the tip of my tongue, check out the other reality shows thread and scroll down, i may still be there.

Squaredsc

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 12:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
it was "Under One Roof" i found it in that thread i mentioned.

C1mag

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 01:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep I found it and it was "Under One Roof" Looks like UPN tried running it again in July of this last year but gave up on it for a second time after 3 episodes. So I kept searching after that and found the following...

I guess they ran the whole series in New Zealand and the folks there fell in love with it. I can't understand why UPN would dump this show after I read the recaps. Things got Very intersting. Check it out....

The winners ended up being the family with the bleach blonde father that picked on the other families. There names are the Skofields. The way they had this guy edited you immediately hated him for his pranks. His punk attitude was just enough disgust to pull me in and get my interests. However there was so much more to the story.

His kids end up revealing that their jerk of a dad is a bisexual. Now how could UPN trash this drama with all that juicy slop? Americans would have ate this stuff up! Whats even more interesting is that as the show goes on, the editing ends up favoring this creepy dad to win it all for his family. New Zealand ended up loving this guy. I guess the teenage girls went crazy over one of his sons as well. Not only was there the drama of this Skofield guy I guess there was some romance as well with some of the kids on the island.

Now how could UPN resist not running that? It was loaded with great P.R. just waiting to be sold to all of us who lap up reality shows. It had something for everyone. In the end the headlines could have been "Bleach blonde bisexual dad who picked on the other families ends up winning the house." Is that a producers dream? America would have been addicted!

UPN needs to get a clue. Anyway, I solved my own mystery and now I wish I could actually get some vid's of it. However, UPN has locked the vaults on vid's for this show in America.

Spygirl

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 02:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Does anyone know where I can find the christmas story that is read out loud with a lot of "right" and "left" words in it?....you apparently read the story and then pass the gift you have to either the right or left each time the word is read in the story so that you end up with a random gift at the end.

Any clues out there?

Mygetaway

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 02:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Lori!!
I hate that problem with candles too. I do the same thing. I push the sides down, etc. On the bottom of the candle it always says to leave a 1/4 inch unburned at the bottom, so I think they make them that way so they don't burn down. I've found that the "cheaper" candles like at Walmart etc, are the worst for leaving extra wax. I've found it helps to have a candle with a metal anchor in the bottom, because then the wick usually stays up.
I've switched to using renuzit pillars as I can usually burn them almost all the way down.
Another thing I've done is burn votives, but they don't last as long. DH always wants to save the wax to make our own candles, but we never have.

GRR, definitely a major problem!

Max

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 02:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy,
We do that every year at my Church's women's fellowship holiday get-together. They just take a story and modify it a little bit to have lots of "rights" and "lefts".

This year, we did it at our PT Cruiser Club party, too. In that case, one of our more talented members wrote a story that featured and Mr. & Mrs. Wright who left things behind on their way to and from Grandma Wright's home. It was cute.