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Has any body else noticed this - if you don't post for a very long period of time you fall back to being a stranger? I saw a post from one of the old timers (Rubrick) who hasn't posted for a very long time. And in his recent post he is labeled stranger, despite over 100 posts in his profile. Is this the way it is? 
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Does Rubrick have any comment? I've had long periods off the board, but don't seem to have 'slipped back' in any way so far.
Curiouser and curiouser...
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Maybe if you don't post for a really long period of time your profile gets deleted and then you have to start up again. But then your new profile wouldn't show a hundred posts, would it? Hmmm... [will-we-ever-crack-the-code e] 
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Was it really a recent post or just one that says March 2000?
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Dear Avy: maybe the webmaster suspected you were going to upload a Bangalore torpedo.
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if you don't post for a very long period of time you fall back to being a stranger?
You are scaring me!
Would a note to webmaster@wordsmith.org be in order?
Great Poo-Bahs Tsuwm and Jackie... has this happened before?
What to do? What to do?
{Wringing hands and re-thinking vacation plans.}
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Seems like "stranger" is the one stage that most of us (at least those of us who regret having to leave a stage) regret having to leave.
It would certainly be odd if kicking the habit led us back to being an addict again.
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Jazz, I think you have the solution. Down in miscellany, I posted on a thread which has a post from Rubrick from May 2000. At that point, he probably was a stranger.
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Ahh, how prosaic. I had been guessing Tsumanu's next title would be Goldfish 
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Dearest Avy, lovely one, calm yourself. He is listed as a
stranger in that post, but if you go to his bio, you'll see that he is a member, with 155 posts. (Incidentally, he told me that he may be coming back here before long. I hope so. He is right up there with the most knowledgeable and funny people we are privileged to have here, and they are a highly elevated bunch to keep up with.)
This brings up the closest thing I have to a complaint about this board. I really wish there was a list of the names of every person who has posted; clickable, of course.
That would make things so much easier, for me, anyway. For ex., I saw this question several hours ago, but did not have time to search the board till I found his name somewhere, so I could click on it. Oh, well, if that's the worst thing, then I'm fortunate.
"Tsumanu"?!?! Yagottabekiddin'me. Sheesh! Aunt mav, maybe you'd better get out of the ocean, now--I think you must have swallowed a hallucinatory jellyfish.
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I think you must have swallowed a hallucinatory jellyfish.YART fight! that's an hallucinatory jellyfish, if you please.
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an or a, did you swallow or not?
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Dear Max: do you drop your haitches? I have a home, not an 'ome!
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This brings up the closest thing I have to a complaint about this board. I really wish there was a list of the names of every person who has posted; clickable, of course.
actually (i'd include the TM sign here if i were clever enough to do so), there is indeed a way to perform such a search. Within the regular 'search' menu, type the user's name (in this case, Rubrick) then in the 'search by' area simply select 'search by username'. i did this, and found that his last post was sometime in august.
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Dear Max: do you drop your haitches?No indeed, but the "a" "an" thing with "h" seems to come down to euphony, and, to my ears, "an hallucination" sounds better than "a hallucination", just like "an historian" sounds better than "a historian", hOK?
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AN hallucination = an abomination!
Tag, you're it!
P.S.--Thanks, Bridget96--it never occurred to me that one could search by username. The old dog ain't quite done yet.
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Good man, Max. I would not love you half so well if you would weasel on a question of taste.I blow the house down with some "h's" and for no good reason I know of softpedal others. I will defend to the death your right to pronounce as you please, particularly when I differ.
Vive la difference!
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>Was it really a recent post or just one that says March 2000?
It was a very recent post Jazz.
I just tried to LIU - and you know what -[biting her nails] - I COULD NOT FIND IT!
I have a slightly overactive imagination - but, but, but - I could NOT have imagined this. I know there is a recent post by Rubrick labelled stranger.
It doesn't show up in his profile's latest posts - but it is there!
(Why do I feel like that fellow from X-files)
Please give me time y'all. I will to look for it and bring it out from where it is hiding.
Watch this space
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I believe you Avy.
If something strange is going to happen ... where else ...?
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It doesn't show up in his profile's latest posts - but it is there!
Avy, I was just thinking: what if he deleted the post after
you saw it?
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> Avy, I was just thinking: what if he deleted the post after you saw it?
No, No Jackie! Wouldn't that show up? Even if there is a sneaky way of deleting posts - I don't think that is it. It doesn't explain the stranger bit.
If Rubrick was a stranger last March - I think gremlin in the software is the answer. By some mistake a post was picked up from last March and put into a current thread. The thread was very current of that I am sure - I can't swear the post was current.
As far as the context - it was one line post with a very general remark - so it didn't look out of context. When I read it I thought why isn't anybody responding to him. Why isn't anybody welcoming him back.
I know I must sound really strange (Also I'm begining to hate this word).
If it makes me look any better - I have never made claims to being abducted by aliens. And having said this she packs her bags to go on a long holiday.
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You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight
Zone!
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Avy, dear, take a deep breath and relax. Now, look at this post and the thread it is in. http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=1140Does it look familiar? See the dates on the posts? Rubrick posted in May 2000, and it remained buried in the archives until I resurrected it with a responsive post a couple of days ago. I am the culprit in this confusion.
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i'd include the TM sign here...I was going to PM but then thought, well, it may be of use to someone else who hasn't read about this issue before, so here goes. To insert a special character, use the numeric keypad like so: Hold down the <Alt> key Press the <Insert> key underneath the <1> on the right hand side of keyboard Then press the 3-digit code for the character you want Then release the <Alt> key So for ™ you would go ALT + sequence of Ins, 1,5,3 then release ALT Other codes include: 188 = ¼ 189 = ½ 190 = ¾ 169 = © 174 = ® 232 = è 233 = é 234 = ê 223 = ß (useful for swearing in German!) 254 = þ (useful for swearing in Old English!) Hope this helps. If you want a full list of all the weird’n’wonderful characters available, go here: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/charset/iso)64-095.gif(and its associated pages) If this is all sounding immensely complicated, told I am the Apple system is nearly twice as easy which, since their latest 'fast' processors are over twice as slow as our current PCs', is probably just as well! 
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> http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=1140 Oh! Okay - now I get it.  Sorry to you all for wasting your time, but maybe it was entertaining?
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If this is all sounding immensely complicated, told I am the Apple system is nearly twice as easy which, since their latest 'fast' processors are over twice as slow as our current PCs', is probably just as well! Unnoticed that did not go.
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Hey, Mav, don't knock Macs. They have this lovely Boooonnnng! sound when they start up. And it's tuneable using one of those little doohickies accessible from the Command button, which was cleverly copied from the Commodore 64 , the performance of which Macs still aspire to. Anyhow, if you have two Macs, and you tune that ear-friendly Boooonnnng! just right you have one very useful doorbell.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Oh, Mav, thank you for that. I've had the list of alt+### commands, but could never get them to work. Nobody ever actuallyÖ mentioned the insert part to me!
[Now, why doesn't alt+153 make a TM instead of an Ö? emoticon]
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Now why doesn't alt+153 make a TM instead of an Ö?
Try using the zero key instead of insert. In other words, alt+0153.
I didn't know that the insert key could be used for those commands--there must be another whole list of symbols to be made with insert. Hmmm...
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Yes, the <0> key on my right hand keypad is named 'Ins' as well as zero - I did not mean the <Insert> key up by <Home> and <Delete>, which is why I said down underneath the <1> key
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I just use the alt key and the number keypad-- Not the numbers above the letters on the keyboard!
no insert-- (they look good on my screen)--but incase they don't for every one...
Alt 167=º (degree symbol)
Alt 175=» (double arrow head)
Alt 172=¼ (1/4)
Alt 171=½ (1/2)
Alt 162=ó (accented o)
Alt 164=ñ (n accected with ~)
Alt 165=Ñ (capital N with ~)
Alt 155=¢ (cents size)
Alt 156=£ (English Pound)
Alt 157=¥ (Yen symbol)
Alt 145=æ (a e ligiture)
Alt 146=Æ (capital A E ligiture)
Part of the problem/solution is how your email system handles character sets-- the answer is buried in the HELP-- for your email system..
One of my "tasks" was publishing a list of common symbols-- but for work, these included degree symbol, lots of arrows, lots of spanish (alt 168=¿)-- but trade mark, copyright, and Registered are not much in demand...
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