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#148547 10/01/05 12:21 AM
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No longer red Jackie, but a cartoon baloon of A exclaimed.



In this Safari browser she's red all right!

#148548 10/01/05 12:24 AM
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She's red here too, in Firefox.

#148549 10/01/05 01:25 AM
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She's red now, but weren't afore.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I was going to say that no, I'm not red, but after reading all the above, I am now!

I got foo and bar (naughty testuser! ), but what's baz?

#148551 10/01/05 01:59 AM
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Apropos of sweet fa, have you seen Wikipedia's front page today, Jackie?

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No, I hadn't, but cool! Thanks.

#148553 10/01/05 03:15 AM
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De nichts, mijn amica. I thought we had Unicode here, but it turned out we don't.

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what's baz?

The third canonical metasyntactic variable (identifier). More infos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html

I've always been partial to quux, but that's because I come from a LISP background.


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#148555 10/01/05 03:51 PM
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Ja, what gives? We want our Unicode ...


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#148556 10/01/05 05:13 PM
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"oogle, foogle, boogle; zork, gork, bork."

God bless Lewis Carroll!

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