Changing title of follow-up replies - Page 2

timbp · 28th-June-2007, 01:15 PM

A major feature of this forum is off-topic replies.

If people start changing the reply heading, then anyone considering replying will have to check the forum area, and the thread title and the post title before being able to post something completely off-topic.

That's 50% more effort to be off-topic. And modern western society is trying to reduce effort (very, very approximate equivalent of 'increase productivity').

happygoldfish · 28th-June-2007, 01:56 PM

Avast behind!

Cap'n, there be boarders on the title bar!

Arrrr, they be heartless villains who have sworn to ignore everything we stand for!

Stand firm, mateys! 'Twill be a dark and stormy night!

Ay, for we fight for the mariners' right to talk of Chile and goldfish!

Women and goldfish first!

**ducasi** · 28th-June-2007, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by happygoldfish

Why? That'll stop me changing the title bar, won't it?

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it …"

I'm more highly evolved than you are!

Preserve the bowliverse!

If by "more highly evolved" you mean using an operating system and browser that haven't been updated in 6 or 7 years, compared with my browser and OS of choice that were last updated earlier this month, then you've got me!

happygoldfish · 28th-June-2007, 02:54 PM

I've got you!

(Official!)

(Did you want me to get you? Is this a Freudian thing?)

(Ah, but have I got you where I want you?

)

My highly evolved fins enable me to change title bars at will!

And my highly evolved visual ability enables me to recognise hyphens where yours doesn't!

I've got you … under my skin!

**ducasi** · 28th-June-2007, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by happygoldfish

My highly evolved fins enable me to change title bars at will!

I can do that too...

Quote:

Originally Posted by happygoldfish

And my highly evolved visual ability enables me to recognise hyphens where yours doesn't!

My highly evolved abilities let me know the difference between a hyphen and a dash, and use the correct one.

happygoldfish · 28th-June-2007, 06:18 PM

My even more highly evolved abilities enable me to save time by using an ellipsis (…), instead of your three full stops (...)!

Any note you can sing, I can sing higher!

**David Bailey** · 28th-June-2007, 08:36 PM

You people need serious help.

**ducasi** · 28th-June-2007, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidJames

You people need serious help.

And some people want entirely frivolous help. What are you meant to do?

happygoldfish · 28th-June-2007, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John McEnroe

You cannot be serious!

Feel the lure!

Clueless · 28th-June-2007, 10:01 PM

ok this started on moving topics and now its gone off at some random tangent...I'm totally lost here.

I am feeling the lure but not for McEnroe! More the amazing ability of Andy Roddik. He's got an amazing serve!

happygoldfish · 7th-July-2007, 05:52 PM

There was a small earthquake in Chile last Friday when Wimbledon 5th seed and world number 6, the Chilean Fernando Gonzales, was defeated 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 8-6 by the relatively unknown Serbian, Janko Tipsarevic.

(See http://sport.guardian.co.uk/wimbledo...115201,00.html)

Not many goldfish commented.

Feel the lure of the bounce!

JCB · 11th-July-2007, 03:53 PM

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<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;"> Originally Posted by happygoldfish

My highly evolved fins enable me to change title bars at will!
</td> </tr> </tbody></table>

Quote:

Originally Posted by ducasi

I can do that too...

Quote:
<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;"> Originally Posted by happygoldfish

And my highly evolved visual ability enables me to recognise hyphens where yours doesn't!
</td> </tr> </tbody></table>

Quote:

Originally Posted by ducasi

My highly evolved abilities let me know the difference between a hyphen and a dash, and use the correct one.

Quote:

Originally Posted by happygoldfish

My even more highly evolved abilities enable me to save time by using an ellipsis (…), instead of your three full stops (...)!

... and my entirely unevolved abilities mean I have only just finished editing this scathingly witty reply, limited as I am to manually punching the papertape, with a wee guillotine attached to the hole template. Darn, dropped the pin again.

Lord, those icons are a pain! Now, if the magic tape doesn't gum up the reader again, we should

happygoldfish · 11th-July-2007, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JCB

... and my entirely unevolved abilities mean I have only just finished editing this scathingly witty reply, limited as I am to manually punching the papertape, with a wee guillotine attached to the hole template. Darn, dropped the pin again.

Lord, those icons are a pain! Now, if the magic tape doesn't gum up the reader again, we should

JCB, ducasi and I are mortified at the way your stone-age technology has nevertheless enabled you to produce such a brilliantly-conceived riposte!

We can only be relieved that our embarrassment would doubtedless be even greater had you not run out of woad!

… keep right on to the end of the woad …

!

**ducasi** · 11th-July-2007, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JCB

... and my entirely unevolved abilities mean I have only just finished editing this scathingly witty reply, limited as I am to manually punching the papertape, with a wee guillotine attached to the hole template. Darn, dropped the pin again.

Lord, those icons are a pain! Now, if the magic tape doesn't gum up the reader again, we should

Hmm... An interesting mix of real quotes and "copy and pasted" HTML things that look like quotes. How bizarre!

David Franklin · 11th-July-2007, 10:42 PM

<dd>Quote:
<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;"> Originally Posted by

Hmm... An interesting mix of real quotes and "copy and pasted" HTML things that look like quotes. How bizarre!
</td> </tr> </tbody></table></dd>

I didn't realise you could embed HTML into vBulletin - that allows all kinds of amusing possibilities... (a couple of which I've just experimented with...)

happygoldfish · 11th-July-2007, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ducasi

Hmm... An interesting mix of real quotes and "copy and pasted" HTML things that look like quotes. How bizarre!

These "things that look like quotes" are actually higher organisms (than quotes) called tables, but of the single-cell variety.

They have a surrounding membrane which makes them superficially appear to be mere quotes, but I expect they will soon evolve by dividing into the more usual multi-cellular tables.

The HTML molecule, in its characteristic double-pretzel shape, is not bizarre, but is actually evolutionarily superior to the "real" things that you and I are used to.

No doubt fish looked bizarre when they first developed fingers!

Do not mock what you do not understand!

I suspect we are at the M-J boundary, witnessing the start of a pre-Janglian explosion!

Nice evolving, JCB!

**DavidY** · 28th-July-2007, 11:11 AM

Is there a reality beyond the bowliverse?

happygoldfish · 29th-July-2007, 11:02 PM

What a perceptive question, DavidY!

You are clearly a scientist and philosopher, like myself!

There is a multitude of bowliverses, which I have deduced to be connected by some vast unimaginable "hyperbowl".

I have examined the so-called "beyond", and have found it to be nothing more than a "virtual universe" projected in different ways onto the boundary of each bowliverse.

I hope this helps.

Prepare for the Great Drought!

**whitetiger1518** · 6th-August-2007, 03:04 PM

The BBC has just proved to us (again) that the UK is full of pet mad people hasn't it? (or is that too much hyperbole? )

OK ok I'll get my breathing apparatus and go for a swim.

Whitetiger

Mezzosoprano · 6th-August-2007, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidJames

You people need serious help.

Wot he said!!

28th-June-2007, 01:15 PM	#21 (permalink)
timbp Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 511 Status: No Status Rep Power: 2 Rep.: 324	Re: I enjoyed Pirates III A major feature of this forum is off-topic replies. If people start changing the reply heading, then anyone considering replying will have to check the forum area, and the thread title and the post title before being able to post something completely off-topic. That's 50% more effort to be off-topic. And modern western society is trying to reduce effort (very, very approximate equivalent of 'increase productivity').

28th-June-2007, 01:56 PM	#22 (permalink)
happygoldfish Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: on the window-sill again Posts: 189 Status: No Status Rep Power: 1 Rep.: 83	Re: small earthquake in Chile ------- not many goldfish Avast behind! Cap'n, there be boarders on the title bar! Arrrr, they be heartless villains who have sworn to ignore everything we stand for! Stand firm, mateys! 'Twill be a dark and stormy night! Ay, for we fight for the mariners' right to talk of Chile and goldfish! Women and goldfish first!

28th-June-2007, 02:54 PM	#24 (permalink)
happygoldfish Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: on the window-sill again Posts: 189 Status: No Status Rep Power: 1 Rep.: 83	Re: small earthquake in Chile -------- not many goldfish I've got you! (Official!) (Did you want me to get you? Is this a Freudian thing?) (Ah, but have I got you where I want you? ) My highly evolved fins enable me to change title bars at will! And my highly evolved visual ability enables me to recognise hyphens where yours doesn't! I've got you … under my skin!

28th-June-2007, 06:18 PM	#26 (permalink)
happygoldfish Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: on the window-sill again Posts: 189 Status: No Status Rep Power: 1 Rep.: 83	Re: small earthquake in Chile --------- not many goldfish My even more highly evolved abilities enable me to save time by using an ellipsis (…), instead of your three full stops (...)! Any note you can sing, I can sing higher!

28th-June-2007, 08:36 PM	#27 (permalink)
David Bailey Formerly known as DavidJames Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Norf Lundin Posts: 14,246 Status: Yes Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 8 Rep.: 3828	Re: Changing title of follow-up replies You people need serious help. __________________ Jivetango Godfather Inventor of the Masterclass Baboon-worrier extraordinaire

28th-June-2007, 10:01 PM	#30 (permalink)
Clueless Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: out of my mind back in 5 minutes Posts: 1,193 Status: Vacant Rep Power: 2 Rep.: 142	Re: Changing title of follow-up replies ok this started on moving topics and now its gone off at some random tangent...I'm totally lost here. I am feeling the lure but not for McEnroe! More the amazing ability of Andy Roddik. He's got an amazing serve!

7th-July-2007, 05:52 PM	#31 (permalink)
happygoldfish Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: on the window-sill again Posts: 189 Status: No Status Rep Power: 1 Rep.: 83	Re: small earthquake in Chile ---------- not many goldfish There was a small earthquake in Chile last Friday when Wimbledon 5th seed and world number 6, the Chilean Fernando Gonzales, was defeated 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 8-6 by the relatively unknown Serbian, Janko Tipsarevic. (See http://sport.guardian.co.uk/wimbledo...115201,00.html) Not many goldfish commented. Feel the lure of the bounce!

11th-July-2007, 10:42 PM	#35 (permalink)
David Franklin Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: London Posts: 2,847 Status: No Status Rep Power: 5 Rep.: 2460	Re: small earthquake in Chile --------- not many goldfish <dd>Quote: <table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;"> Originally Posted by Hmm... An interesting mix of real quotes and "copy and pasted" HTML things that look like quotes. How bizarre! </td> </tr> </tbody></table></dd> I didn't realise you could embed HTML into vBulletin - that allows all kinds of amusing possibilities... (a couple of which I've just experimented with...)

28th-July-2007, 11:11 AM	#37 (permalink)
DavidY Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Midlands Posts: 2,155 Status: No Status Rep Power: 3 Rep.: 705	Goldfish bid for freedom in floods Is there a reality beyond the bowliverse? __________________ Love dance, will travel

29th-July-2007, 11:02 PM	#38 (permalink)
happygoldfish Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: on the window-sill again Posts: 189 Status: No Status Rep Power: 1 Rep.: 83	Re: small earthquake in Chile ------------ not many goldfish What a perceptive question, DavidY! You are clearly a scientist and philosopher, like myself! There is a multitude of bowliverses, which I have deduced to be connected by some vast unimaginable "hyperbowl". I have examined the so-called "beyond", and have found it to be nothing more than a "virtual universe" projected in different ways onto the boundary of each bowliverse. I hope this helps. Prepare for the Great Drought!

6th-August-2007, 03:04 PM	#39 (permalink)
whitetiger1518 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Glasgow Posts: 1,091 Status: No Status Rep Power: 2 Rep.: 138	Re: small earthquake in Chile ------------ not many goldfish The BBC has just proved to us (again) that the UK is full of pet mad people hasn't it? (or is that too much hyperbole? ) OK ok I'll get my breathing apparatus and go for a swim. Whitetiger __________________ Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. ~W.H. Auden

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