#94062
02/22/2003 5:07 PM
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Dear ol' Aenigma....God bless her and all who sail in her!
(sorry, can't seem to make the a-e thingy - how does one do this on the keyboard?! tried alt-a but got this instead: å - and alt-shift-a got Å - what the hell does that mean?!)
I'm guessing....Bunnahavahn. (just based on how Siobhan is pronounced, mind you)
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#94063
02/24/2003 3:41 AM
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It means alt gives you the small letter and alt-shift gives you the big letter.
Bingley
Bingley
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#94064
02/24/2003 12:56 PM
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alt gives you the small letter and alt-shift gives you the big letter.
Really? I didn't know that. Kewl.
On my computer, mg, I can press Alt then 145 on the keypad over to the right, and get æ. Alt 146 gives Æ. Alt 142 gives Ä, and Alt 132 gives ä.
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#94065
02/24/2003 2:02 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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å - and alt-shift-a got Å - what the hell does that mean?!
It's used in Scandinavian languages, m-g, - and is pronounced as a long-drawn-out "O" sound - more like "oawww". In Copenhagen the sound is fairly clipped (although all Copenhagen Danish is pretty clipped, come to think of it) but on the mainland, in Jutland, it is really long-drawn; most of the very little Danish that I can pronounce was learned in Århus, in Jutland and my Copenhagen friends laughed fit to bust when I used the words over there - they immediately recognised it as Jutland pronunciation! (Apparently this has comic overtones, there.)
And if you want to know the key-strokes for all the strange symbols, go to "Character Map" (somewhere in "Accesories" usually, on M$ run PCs), which gives you the whole riange in all the fonts. Click on any of them, and a "key-stroke guide" appears down in the bottom right-hand corner.
E.g., Alt 0197 gives you Å in Times New Roman (and most other fonts!)
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#94066
02/25/2003 2:12 AM
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Thanks everyone, but I think I need help from Faldage....I'm on a Mac, and I refuse to allow Microsoft any disk space. So if I hold down the alt key and type 145, all I get is...145.  Damn and blast. I figgered out most of the accents I need for le français, but many others elude me (unless I stumble upon them by åccident....!).
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#94067
02/25/2003 3:15 AM
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modgod, are you running OS9 or OSX? if you're still on 9, go to http://www.versiontracker.com and search for "Font Explorer". it's a great little free program that will show you where all the keys are. if you're using OSX, you've got the character palette which will show you more than you ever wanted to know!! oh, and try putting a &# before the number and a ; after, and see what happens... &#<some number here>;
formerly known as etaoin...
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#94068
02/25/2003 11:15 AM
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Option a = å
Option A = Å
Option ' = æ
Option " = Æ
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#94069
02/25/2003 4:23 PM
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I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that cannot be repeated . . . but this one can:
My mother is a travel agent for guilt trips.
Probably the funniest I ever saw was on a pick-up truck driven by two men wearing cowboy hats (I live in rural Oregon) -- and the bumper sticker said:
If you ain't a Cowboy, you ain't sh*t!
I pointed it out to my husband and asked, "Doesn't that mean that if I remove the double negative a cowboy is a piece of sh*t?" We laughed for days.
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#94070
02/26/2003 10:19 AM
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My favorite T-shirt saying is
"I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on"
I like wearing it when I go someplace where "the guys" don't think I know what's going on, but I know I do.
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#94071
02/26/2003 11:58 AM
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"SUPPORT BACTERIA! It's the only culture most people have."
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#94072
02/26/2003 2:21 PM
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Over here, a popular bumper sticker of some years ago was, "Don't follow me - I'm lost, too."
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#94073
02/26/2003 4:03 PM
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A friend of mine had a similar one on his car - "If I follow you home will you keep me?".
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#94074
02/26/2003 4:07 PM
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Okay, not really a bumper sticker or a t-shirt but here's another I heard today....
Whispering is not aloud...
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#94075
02/27/2003 2:26 AM
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thanks etaoin, thanks Faldage! (eta, I'm running OS 8.6)
lookit dis: æ and Æ
Hurrah!
Now I can talk about Ænigma with y'all! and about anything else that has an æ in it....Kewl.
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#94076
02/27/2003 2:39 AM
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Harumph to all you Brit-speakers: it's Enigma. Plain old E. No leaning A. <eg>
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#94077
02/27/2003 11:18 AM
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But, Jackie. Ænigma is just so much more je ne sais quoi! It fits her better.
Besides, if you feed Ænigma Enigma she buys it; if you feed her Ænigma she spits back [nihilism].
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#94078
02/27/2003 11:32 AM
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S'il vous plait, Qu'est-ce que c'est le Francais pour "je ne sais quoi"?
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#94079
02/27/2003 11:40 AM
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le Francais pour "je ne sais quoi"
Non scio quem
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#94080
02/27/2003 11:40 AM
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Qu'est-ce que c'est le Francais pour "je ne sais quoi"?
I don't know, what?
formerly known as etaoin...
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#94081
02/27/2003 11:42 AM
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We'd a done that better the other way round, Cyg. Gotta work on the timing.
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#94082
02/27/2003 11:45 AM
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yeah, 14 seconds. I'm only half-way through my first cup o' coffee.
I'll do better next time.
formerly known as etaoin...
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#94083
03/02/2003 8:36 AM
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T-shirt seen on a member of a Bomb Squad:
IF YOU SEE ME
RUNNING,
TRY TO KEEP UP
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#94084
03/02/2003 5:12 PM
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S'il vous plait, Qu'est-ce que c'est le Francais pour "je ne sais quoi"?
Reminds me of a very funny exchange in Marianne Ackerman's play, L'Affaire Tartuffe, or The Garrison Officers Rehearse Moliere. There the garrison officers are, rehearsing Moliere, and I believe they had to have a soldier stand in for one of the officers who couldn't be there (not positive that was the situation, it's been awhile since I saw the play!).
One officer reads his line and the soldier reads his response:
Soldier: Qwoy?
Officer: (correcting the soldier) Qwoh.
Soldier: What?!
Hm. Maybe it's funnier live....I still love it - an exchange that consists of the same word repeated three times with different nuances and in two different languages...!
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#94085
03/03/2003 2:39 PM
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IF YOU SEE ME
RUNNING,
TRY TO KEEP UP
Sounds sound advice to me, Ruby - and welcome aBoard and welcome to the trio of Rhubarb, Rubrick and Ruby.This is goin' to get confoosin', I can see - Rube Ruby and Rhuby 
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#94086
03/03/2003 4:06 PM
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formerly known as etaoin...
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#94087
03/04/2003 6:37 AM
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LOL, etaion! One can never resist a good pun, eh?
Oh, dear, Rhuby......I would have never registered as
Ruby, had I known there were two others! I am actually
known as JFN on another site I frequent, so I could
re-register as that. I was just getting kind of tired of it,
and chose RubyRed for this site, because Rubye is
my grandmother's name, and rubies are my birthstone.
I guess I could become RR......but then that makes me
sound like a Railroad, or like Rest and Relaxation, or like
Ronald Reagan..........hmmmm, such a conundrum!
Thanks for the welcome, btw! :)
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#94088
03/04/2003 1:46 PM
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Don't worry about it, Ruby. Rubrick doesn't take kindly to being shortened (!), in my opinion, and as to Rhuby--well, I started that as a play on gender, so I suppose he could be switched to Barbie, and that would accomplish the same purpose. <Evil Grin> And no, don't become RR, for the reasons you stated. I suppose you could be called Grapefruit... 
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#94089
03/04/2003 2:08 PM
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Or we could call her "Slippers"...("there's no place like home, there's no place like home...") Or Dorothy. Welcome, RubyRed
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#94090
03/04/2003 9:17 PM
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"What if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?"
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#94091
03/04/2003 10:01 PM
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A humorous bumpersticker/tee shirt slogan seen:
Princess, having had sufficient experience with princes, seeks frog.
sounds like something translated from Latin, eh?
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#94092
03/05/2003 10:02 AM
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"I suppose you could be called Grapefruit..."
"Or we could call her "Slippers"...Or Dorothy."
LOL! Well (it has to be said) I've been called worse!
Thanks for the welcome, Jackie and Whitman! :)
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#94093
03/05/2003 10:08 AM
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I LOVE this one, consuelo! I saw it a couple of years ago, in a souvenier shop, and I wanted to buy it soooo bad....but they only had it in size Cute (teen size)
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#94094
03/05/2003 10:21 AM
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Well...the ruby gemstone is a corundum. So Cora would be possible or, if you want to keep a hint of red, Coral.
But why bother!? "We ken fine who you are," Tom said knowingly .
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#94095
03/05/2003 12:26 PM
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"Ken we?", she said, begging the question.
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#94096
03/05/2003 12:46 PM
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"Aye, wee lassie, ye're richt, we ken verra leetle when a's sayed'n done," he said Pictishly.
I must stop this before I grow a pibroch on my sporran.
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#94097
03/05/2003 1:24 PM
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Good Gracious! There is no end to the magic of the English language!
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#94098
03/05/2003 1:54 PM
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no end to the magic of the English language
that was English?
formerly known as etaoin...
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#94099
03/05/2003 2:00 PM
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LOL, etaoin....I was actually referring to dxb's Cora/Coral/corundum post, but I forgot to c&p. :)
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#94100
03/07/2003 2:24 PM
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This was a controversial T-shirt which appeared in our boardwalk T-shirt shops a few years back. many folks thought it was over the line of decency, but a lot of others thought it was just clever and cute. But next to some of the tees they have hanging on the front of those shops this seemed pretty tame to me. Anyway, after a couple of years of bantering back and forth in the local press the shop owners pulled it by choice. It's a take-off of the Trix cereal ad with the picture of the rabbit holding a carrot:
Silly Rabbit!
Dix are for Chix!
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#94101
03/12/2003 3:41 PM
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Here's another tee shirt slogan:
"If we are what we eat, I'm fast, cheap and easy."
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