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From: Lew/Silat on 29 Apr 2010 15:12 "Gordon Darling" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:4bd9d5a1$0$277$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk... > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:13:46 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > >> Huck, I offered to help you by going as far as telephoning > > Using your MagicJack Batphone? > > > > > > -- > ox·y·mo·ron > n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons > A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are > combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works. Oh SNAP :) Lew
From: Dave on 29 Apr 2010 17:30 On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:15:09 -0700, Mike Easter wrote: > Lew/Silat wrote: >> "Mike Easter" > >> Prof Bear B Doll is an expert Mike. Just ask it. Making excuses for it >> is unseemly. :) > > Oh, it was not my intention to excuse BB. > > BB's posting style should not have been ambiguous about whose words were > whose. Or whom's if that sounds better. BB's posting style is easy to decipher: If it is intelligently written and makes sense--cut'n'paste job Grammatically challenged nonsense and gibberish---BB original thought Dave -- Registered Linux user # 444770
From: Franklin on 30 Apr 2010 09:35 Mike Easter wrote: > Lew/Silat wrote: >> "Bear Bottoms" > >>> So we created an application that does the above: it's called >>> ChromeMailer. > >> "WE"? >> You are taking credit for the app? >> WOW you have come a long way baby.. > > He is pasting from the link. > > I applaud accompanying a link with pasting info which tells what the > link is about -- but there isn't an ideal 'format' by which to do that. If someone quoting something, I believe the convention is to use quotation marks. Every schoolboy should know this. Mr Bottoms has been reminded of this before. He's just trying to attract attention. > I've experimented with keeping my words separate from the words which > I've pasted from a link -- and/or with pasting the link immediately > followed by the pasting -- and/or pasting the link with additional > punctuation in the form of quote marks or double slashes to frame the > pasting -- and/or designations such as <q> </q> to open and close the > quote. > > Personally I think it adds too many keystrokes to have to markup the > quote -- but I would like to hear the opinion of others. > > I definitely don't think much of the idea of people who paste a link > into a news message without telling enough 'story' of what it is about. > It seems that many people think that someone is going to click on a link > just because they pasted it somewhere. Personally I'm not going to be > clicking any links that doesn't have something about what is there to > pique my interest.
From: Dewey Edwards on 30 Apr 2010 13:21 On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:44:28 -0700, Mike Easter <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote: >Dewey Edwards wrote: >> Mike Easter > >>> I've pasted from a link -- and/or with pasting the link immediately >>> followed by the pasting -- and/or pasting the link with additional >>> punctuation in the form of quote marks or double slashes to frame the >>> pasting -- and/or designations such as <q> </q> to open and close the quote. >>> >>> Personally I think it adds too many keystrokes to have to markup the >>> quote -- but I would like to hear the opinion of others. >> >> >> Disagree. It takes TWO extra keystokes. > ><still debating> > >It seems that if I paste the link immediately followed - in the same par >without empty line - by the pasting from the link's page - that it >should be 'apparent' that the words which follow the URL belong to the >something I pasted from the URLs page, either copied from the source >Title line or copied from something on the link's page, even without the >keystrokes. Your choice and I believe that I would see that. >I'm not defending the way BB did it at the beginning of this thread, >which pasting wasn't apparent. There a lot of idiots in this group. Pushing sixty and disabled I occasionally fall into that category. >> One types a ", one then pastes, and one then closes the quote with >> another ". > >Yeah. but... > >Similarly, if I create an 'imaginary' conversation between two people, I >might be lazy and leave out the quote marks if their quotes seem >apparent by the structure and separation of the lines. Like a >screenwriter would, no quotes in screenwriting. I believe the director yells CUT a hell of a lot, <grin>
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