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 Originally Posted By: Faldage
 Originally Posted By: The Pook
and you can blame microsoft for that spelling mistake as well...


Assuming you were referring to deriviatives, nope. Microsoft had nothing to do with it. It was done using Firefox on a Linux system.

I wasn't. I was referring to Olly's post. I could have sworn he said "there" instead of "their" - either he edited his post or (more likely) I'm just seeing things.

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 Originally Posted By: The Pook
 Originally Posted By: Faldage
 Originally Posted By: The Pook
and you can blame microsoft for that spelling mistake as well...


Assuming you were referring to deriviatives, nope. Microsoft had nothing to do with it. It was done using Firefox on a Linux system.

I wasn't. I was referring to Olly's post. I could have sworn he said "there" instead of "their" - either he edited his post or (more likely) I'm just seeing things.


if you had only quoted him, none of this would have happened.

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 Originally Posted By: The Pook

I wasn't. I was referring to Olly's post. I could have sworn he said "there" instead of "their" - either he edited his post or (more likely) I'm just seeing things.


He did write "there", and you could have made the point by quoting him.

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darn those Romulans (and their technology).

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I have considered, usually fleetingly, how much to use the reason for editing field as a confessional of compositional shortcomings, or any other failures or transgressions. There may be a character limit.

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 Originally Posted By: morphememedley
There may be a character limit.


not in this place.


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 Originally Posted By: etaoin
 Originally Posted By: morphememedley
There may be a character limit.


not in this place.

Quite. There are some real 'characters' around here. And some of them know no limits.

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 Originally Posted By: The Pook
 Originally Posted By: etaoin
 Originally Posted By: morphememedley
There may be a character limit.


not in this place.

Quite. There are some real 'characters' around here. And some of them know no limits.


now you want to be ron obvious too -- your ambition nose no bounds, do it?!

-ron o.

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I'm still trying to figure out what character-shaping influences the board architecture has on participants here. One architectural fact is that any post to a thread, post original thread post, is directed at someone else—unless directed at oneself, if one has posted to the thread. The unavoidable engagement could wither the psyche, or cultivate a marauding monster, or have any of a number of character-shaping effects. I'm not suggesting any such thing has happened to any thread-present company—or hasn't.

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