Ban No titles in replies!

You mean I'm not supposed to be hitting the keyboard with my nose? WOW! That will save me a lot of edits until your boys arrive!!

I think I dated Gino once. He's the one with the pizza stains on his shirt, right?

And Luigi...isn't he the one who used to lithp until he learned to say "Dat's right, Boss"?

But the toes? Oh my! Oh! my! I'm a Pisces who loves her Pinkies! It's they who keep me barefoot and know what "Live free or die!" really means.

Stay tuned, Folks, for the next episode of the End User's Dilemna! Will Oaw go Ow! Will Gino settle for a plate of pasta and a warm smile? Will Luigi even find his way here?

Just in case, does anyone wanna lend me some points?

by deepsand Apr 28, 2006

Just wait 'till the book comes out!

That's assuming that the author ever completes it. He's been working on it for over 6 years, and is still stuck on chapter 14 of what now looks like a 16 chapter work.

by deepsand Apr 28, 2006

Just focus on the smoke and mirrors.

You are getting sleepy, so very sleepy, go to sleeee...

that you don't have Hal 9000 as a contact, I've had my posts from my contacts, the view all posts screen, completely filled with his posts.. to the TQ&A section.

edited just cause I wanted to make oaw feel better. ;)

[ specially after I poked her for this discussion ]

]:)

for this one, Jaqui? I actually posted an answer at Q&A a few days ago. That's when I found out that they don't include "edit" on those posts, and when I wanted to return and check on it, I couldn't find my way back! ROFL

to find your way back...

right across the top right you will see:
My Workspace My Newsletters My Discussions My Tech Q&A My Blog

click on the My Tech Q&A link, there will be a nice page of just TQ&A postings.

I just clicked on posts from my contacts and of course, got the OFF LIMITS page! ROFL. I dare not make a post that says Ban Oneamazingwriter...and her complaint about post tittle...
but "youse" guys are doing a great job of filling up "dat" screen! ('Just practicin' my Italian for when Guido arrives.)

here, the starting post of that discussion. :p

Oneamazingwriter...and her complaint about post tittle... (1 of 7)

Posts showing up in her posts from my contacts...

just to bug her royally, putting her nick in the discussion title and posting in *******. ]:)
so she can't read it.
so she will have something else to complain about.. a discussion blatantly about her that she can't read. ]:)

by stargazerr Apr 28, 2006

is a royal pain in the ..... :D

But this is a lot of fun ... Its good to be evil sometimes ... :^0

]:)

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=96&threadID=193847&messageID=2001258

If you won't let me follow you to discussions, I'll keep starting my own! Has a member ever been banned for stupidity?

Sometimes I feel as if the walls are closing in on me. I can't use the My History feature. I can't use the My Q&A feature and I keep hitting Off Limts and Pro Guild Only.

"They" want me to stay in My Workspace, huh? So far I'm allowed to go to my own blog. :D

Now Hal is sending the "boys", so I don't DARE drink iced tea and read at this site ever again.

This all started when I was a kid and was sent to my room so often that I pulled out a pencil and began writing stories! ROFL. Deja vu!!

by jardinier Apr 28, 2006

What everyone has so far been too polite to tell you is that you have accidentally stumbled into the section which should only be accessed by "TR Insiders" -- a relatively small number of peers who have been selected by management to offer advice from time to time on proposed changes to the website.

You have snuck in on the back of a post from a TR Insider which is a neat way to access this area without all the jiggery-pokery which is normally required when you reach the "Off Limits" page.

It's not for me to say whether you should be playing around in here, but I deemed it a great honour when I was first invited to be a TR Insider DESPITE having relatively little technical knowledge, but based on my posts in Miscellaneous Discussions.

Apparently someone from the inner sanctum who had been following my posts decided that my opinions were worthwhile.

by oz_media Apr 28, 2006

Yous guys? Could be Newfoundland, no doot aboot it!

Maritimers, by far the nicest, warmest and kindest people I have EVER met anywhere in the world. But dey sher do talk funny!

by rob mekel Apr 28, 2006

With the right pleas :D ;) it will all be okay.

Rob

Have a nice weekend all. :)

But what the heck would you guys do with Bambi in your midst? :p You are all eagles, lions, tigers and bears. I just wander around at the edge of the meadow sniffing wild flowers and playing with skunks and rabbits. On a good day I can out run an occasional dog or wolf, but that's about it! :D

Oh! there goes a butterfly.......

It was the way I figured I would be able to get back to the discussion, but this is what I get:

The page you've requested cannot be found.

So I laughed and thought, "OK. 'Must have given one lousy answer and they don't want me in that section either!"

I don't get an error using that.
next time you get the error, note the exact time and post it in a discussion in the site ideas / feedback section.

that gives the staff a time to look for in the logs, so they can trace where the server hiccuped to cause the error.

that I'm surprised the server doesn't get acid reflux, never mind just hiccups!

Thanks, Jaqui.

You are using an operating system designed for playing video games.

go get yourself a copy of linux, 90% of your internet problems will evaporate, and 90% of your computer problems as well. :P

I have considered it, but since this is the only computer I own and I can't afford to mess up, I've been waiting to gain a lot more knowledge and courage. A friend of mine in OZ installed Linux and made some errors that took him time to figure out, and he's far more knowledgable than I am, so I've been waiting. It's only a matter of time before I try it, Jaqui.
If I have learned ANYTHING at all, it is to go more slowly in all areas of life. "Too much too soon, too little too late, has been a major cause of my blunders. Pacing is necessary for the long distance run in life.

by rob mekel Apr 28, 2006

that is a nice start to work off. :)

Do take your time. :) You have all weekend to send in some nice pleas :)

Rob

Have a nice weekend :)

Isn't that one of those "Be careful what you ask for?" kinda things? I'm still recuperating from that top 100 active posters page!
An end user as a consultant to TR IT's about a site? That would be like the time the priest opened up and confessed to me! Or my buddy the shrink who used to IM me between clients to save his sanity!

I had to have been a breech birth! I do everything a** backward!

Consdier this: If I can navigate this site and I can totally enjoy it, perhaps you are all doing just fine without me! All you have to do is to follow me around and ask yourself, "What wall did Beth just hit?" and fix it...or enforce it, as the case might be!

I'm better off to let one of you say, "Hey! She followed me home and she's cute! Can I keep her?"
I'm not even paper trained...I don't think it's possible to paper train a Bambi. With my luck by the time I'm mature enough for mating season some moose from Canada will decide he'd rather switch than fight! Then what would y'all do!! Can't you just see that big critter in a rut knocking down the inner door with his antlers.

I could go on.

Oh! A grass hopper..........

You have to be very careful of what you ask for as you just might get it and then realise that you don't really want it. :^0

Of course by that time it will be way too late as we will have sold you into the [b]Slave Trade[/b] long before you realise what's happened. :D

Col ]:)

by sleepin'dawg Apr 28, 2006

in another life. ;)

Col the answer is still 42 and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The mouse queen has so stated and she is still PO'd at you.

BTW, how are the dogs???

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

is my way of life! It's that or don't walk at all! ROFL

I believe "Oops!" was my first word as a child!

:x

by mickster269 Apr 28, 2006

Now that he has released this information, jardinier will mysteriously dissapear, the secretary will deny any knowledge of him, and this thread will self distruct in 30 seconds.

I suggest everyone leave the Discussion Center for the next 5 minutes, and no one will be harmed.

I must be suicidal. I'm hanging around here still! ROFL.

You should have posted something there. If they let you in you must be wanted in there so make the most of it. :^0

Jump all over Jacqui he deserves it and it might help me with [b]My Cure[/b] of answering questions that Jacqui's complaining about so much as you guys don't say anything worth reading and I'm still trying again to escape from the TQ&A Section as that nasty piece of work [b]The Chas[/b] dragged me kicking and screaming back into. ;)

If nothing else it would have [b]Scared the Living Daylights[/b] out of Jaqui not knowing if anything that he posted was safe from you. :D

Col ]:)

from teaching a couple about their computer, and I showed the man this site, and shared a part of this post with him. But I didn't have time to read all of the new stuff or to reply.
Hal, I don't believe I went in anywher other than to go in circles on this thread. But it sure would be fun to see what Jaqui is like when he's paranoid. :D I can't picture him paranoid. Is that double annoyed?

some Italians landed there and taught them the language? WOW! That's a bit of a trip for pizza delivery!

by jaqui Apr 29, 2006

that pizza is american not italian?
Piazza, is Italian, and only brears a slight resemblance to what is called pizza.

by oneamazingwriter Apr 29, 2006

and his brother run a pizza shop, if fact all of the kids in his family have shops. His nickname is Mafia!
His brother Frank replies "No Speaka da English" to anyone he doesn't like, and most of the time I don't understand a word he is saying. :D I do believe you, but I refuse to tell Tony and his family! I don't want to know what Sicilians do to people who disillusion them!

by oz_media May 1, 2006

While pizza's origins (not actual pizza as we commonly know it) are Greek, the word PIAZZA is not Italian for pizza. Greek izza is the thick crust, pan style pizza, doughy and quite greasy.
Italian Pizza is actually the less popular, think crust style, so technically, pizza as WE knoe it is generally Greek.

Piazza is a square, as in Time's 'Square', an open public area in a city.
Pizza is still pronounced pizza in Italian.

PIAZZA has actually been adopted by the USA as well to describe the columns on a front porch. The tall white columns outside the LIncoln Memorial are an American Piazza.

by oz_media May 1, 2006

despite what many think, pizza is Greek, not Italian.

Most Newfies are transplanted French, they used to speak 'Newfoundland French' but those few of said dialect are less and less all the time.

Maritimer's have very broad Canadian accents, almost as broad as southern US for many words, mainly vowels.

by jamesrl May 2, 2006

Your Newfoundland history is pretty suspect.

It is true there are French communities within Newfoundland. But the vast majority of Newfoundlanders do not trace their roots to France but to either the fishing and seaports of England or to Ireland. Many families came from Bristol, Blackpool, the west country and southeast Ireland. Many of the first settlements were by fishermen who transitioned from visiting by ship to bringing back their families and settling.

There were two major colonies in the 1600s, one English at St. John's, and a French one at Placentia Bay. England formally gained the whole Island in 1713 and most of the immigration happened after that point when England imported workers for the fishing industry.

You can tell by the surnames that the number of French settlers in Newfoundland were fairly small as a percentage basis. From answers.com:
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=12g6bp28522ov?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Newfoundland+French&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc01b&linktext=Newfoundland%20French

There are about 15,000 people in Newfoundland who trace their ancestry to French. Thats out of oevr 500,000 people who live in Newfoundland.

There are also some French communities in PEI and Nova Scotia. The Acadians, kicked out of these areas if they refused to swear loyalty to the British after Britain gained Quebec, were shipped down to the nearest French colony which happened to be Louisiana, and became the Cajuns. Not all of them left though, apparently some snuck back too.

Just as Southerners from the US have regional variations, so do Maritimers. Nova Scotia, as the name suggests, mostly Scots, some Irish. Scots Gaelic is still spoken in Cape Breton, more remote part of Nova Scotia. And that colours their accent. I don't have any problem picking out a Newfie accent from a Caper. PEI is more homogenized - mix of Scots and Irish.

I have French speakers in my call centre from PEI and New Brunswick. Its a tough accent compared to urban Montreal.

James

by oneamazingwriter May 1, 2006

There are also tomato pies, which are made with crust like pizza, but have chunks of tomatoes on them. I learned early on NOT to refer to them as pizza!

Are they just a variation, or did they originate somewhere else? Anyone know? I DID ask Tony, but I didn't have the heart to tell him that he was serving Greek food. He said where he comes from the pizza is made the way a tomato pie is made here.

by deadly ernest May 2, 2006

Trencher - can't say without looking at it though.

In medieval times one of the most common ways of serving food in eateries (hotesl, etc) was a trencher - a small flattish loaf of bread was baked, top cut off, the centre removed and food (usually a stew like mix) was placed in the centre. The removed bread was served with the meal. Once you had eaten your stew you then ate the 'plate' - you could do that as you walked away if you were in a hurry.

The end result was something like a meat pie, but a bit bigger, with a normal bread base and sides instead of pastry sides.

by oneamazingwriter May 2, 2006

the history lessons. I feel as if I have tutors. There's a thread out about US education that I read, but don't enter, because I was educated in the US, so I only know what I learned in the US. What I love about the Internet is that I can learn from people all over the world.

"Auntie Em! Auntie Em!"

Edit: Hold it! I left Toto at another discussion!

You forgot that I'm still selling White Women to the Slave Trade I need money to keep [b]She Who Must Be Obeyed[/b] happy. ;\

The dogs are all gone now and been replaced with [b]Demanding Goldfish[/b] who ring the RSPCA if they are not feed on time or otherwise upset like when the power goes out It's my fault and I should prevent it from happening. By installing one of my UPS onto the tank to keep tyhe lights and filters running after as far as the fish are concerned they are more important that the computers that the UPS's are protecting. They have a little phone in the tank and a Translator so that the RSPCA can understand their numerous complaints. I keep hoping that it will short out and fry them but it hasn't happened yet. :_|

Currently they are complaining that their tank is too small it's only 6 foot long 2 foot deep and 2 foot wide and takes 3 people to carry it empty of everything but air. At least I know that when it's full it's not going to [b]Float Away.[/b] I refuse to put any plants in it as the fish just tear them to shreds and block up the intakes for the filters and burn them out and [b]SHMBO[/b] refuses to allow me to stick some plastic plants to the bottom of the tank with Silastic so they go without. :D

Currently I'm trying to kill them off so I can move my collection of [b]White Mice[/b] inside and use the fish's tank as a display piece but fish keep arriving so I'm fighting a loosing battle. But on the up side I do know that the answer is [b]42[/b] there is no question of that but I'm still trying to work out [b]what the Question is.[/b] :^0

Col ]:)