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carded for drinking's been around for a long time. at least from the Great Plains to New England!


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from OneLook quick definition (now Macmillan dictionary):
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to ask someone to show a document that proves their age, especially in a bar

to achieve a particular score, especially in golf

to give a player a red card or yellow card in soccer, for bad behavior

to pull a tool like a comb through wool or cotton to make it ready for spinning

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You know? I'm impressed! The verb to card exists. In thruth. I'm also much impressed by those little arrows. I sometimes would like to use such an arrow. Is it hard to make?

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not if you use a character map..
←↑→↓↔

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All right [off-topic e](sorry) -- can anyone tell me why, when I try the Alt + numbers sequence, they kick me off this screen to my home page? And stranger still is that not all of them do it; just most. A few of them give me the characters I want.

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[this is a guess, only a guess]

there are priorities (d'oh!) for key sequences:
windows/OS → browser → app/edit

that may be what's going on...

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(just stealing also serves well) I've got them stored. Like all gentil thieves I say: "thank you".


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Originally Posted By: Jackie
All right [off-topic e](sorry) -- can anyone tell me why, when I try the Alt + numbers sequence, they kick me off this screen to my home page? And stranger still is that not all of them do it; just most. A few of them give me the characters I want.


OK, whatcha gotta do is make sure you're in NUM LOCK then hold down the ALT key during the entire procedure. Enter the sequence (with the ALT key held down), e.g., 0222. Don't forget the leading zero.

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YAY, it worked! Thank you thank you thank you!! [blowing kiss e]

P.S.--It took my eyes going two times around the keyboard to find the NUM LOCK button. I also saw some things I've never noticed before, such as that All, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Bold are on the fronts of my a, x, c, v, & b keys; also I have an F lock button...which might be the explanation for why my F keys don't work.

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....so you can never say the F word then, Jackie

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