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Erin
Meaner than Godzilla
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Have at it.

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Commandment number one: shut the hell up.

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jlg

What is this place?
Why am I here?
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Oh my heavens, it's all clean and shiny and, and, and ... empty!
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Erin
Meaner than Godzilla
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Well, I'm cooking, so I have nothing else to do except tidy things up. [Smile]

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Commandment number one: shut the hell up.

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Pants

Emergency underwear
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And the old one is gone!! Any chance we could have the nice links to funky pages like BB's and stuff? I often refer back to them.

Thanking you very much nicely. [Smile]

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♣ Hm ♣
I use £6m of military hardware to find hidden Tupperware in the woods.

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mdijon
Shipmate
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A minor change. Time to capitalise and punctuate the signature.

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Kucha Mungu si kilemba cheupe.
Tr: Wearing a white turban is not the same as the coming of God.
(E. African Proverb)

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mdijon
Shipmate
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Ugh.

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Kucha Mungu si kilemba cheupe.
Tr: Wearing a white turban is not the same as the coming of God.
(E. African Proverb)

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Pants

Emergency underwear
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[Frown]

Christmas

[ 28. December 2005, 20:03: Message edited by: Pânts ]

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♣ Hm ♣
I use £6m of military hardware to find hidden Tupperware in the woods.

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Pants

Emergency underwear
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? [Mad]

[ 28. December 2005, 20:05: Message edited by: Pânts ]

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♣ Hm ♣
I use £6m of military hardware to find hidden Tupperware in the woods.

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Pants

Emergency underwear
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[Roll Eyes]

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♣ Hm ♣
I use £6m of military hardware to find hidden Tupperware in the woods.

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Lyda*Rose

Ship's broken porthole
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"location" test

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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams

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Lyda*Rose

Ship's broken porthole
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and again

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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams

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dolphy

Lady of Perpetual Responsiblity
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well let's see if I can really do this.

  • 1. Testing
  • 2. Testing again
  • 3. final test


[Yipee] It worked!

<after all these years you would have thought I would have learnt this sooner [Roll Eyes] >

[ 29. December 2005, 13:55: Message edited by: dolphy ]

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Looking forward to my rock moving closer again.

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Autenrieth Road

Shipmate
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Trying out how to display "&sigma;" instead of "& sigma ; (without the spaces)".

Trying out how to display what must be typed to display the above:
Type these characters:
'Trying out how to display "&amp;sigma;" instead of "& sigma ; (without the spaces)".

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Personally, I'd just go with an ichthus:
Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.
--St Deird

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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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*tap dances across the first page*

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As your Senior Warden, all I ask is unswerving loyalty and blind obedience.
--Me, to the vestry at my parish.
And then they laughed for some reason.
Shavin' my head, curin' cancer.

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The Om
Shipmate
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Internationalisation test from Firefox/Windows:

ς Terminal sigma with HTML named entity
ς Pasted terminal sigma from Character Map (Unicode)
ς Pasted terminal sigma from Character Map (Windows: Greek (Windows-1253))
ς Terminal sigma typed using Modern Greek keyboard driver
ς Terminal sigma by Unicode numeric entity
É Pasted E-acute from Firefox
É Pasted E-acute from Character Map
É E-acute by ISO-8859-1/Unicode numeric entity
ᄤ Hangul symbol paste from Firefox
ᄤ Hangul symbol by Unicode numeric entity
ᄤ Hangul symbol paste from Character Map with Arial Unicode MS

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Trudy Scrumptious

BBE Shieldmaiden
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la dee dee dee da deedee...sig test

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On Wednesdays I video-blog about writing.

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Trudy Scrumptious

BBE Shieldmaiden
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And again, fixing my broken link.

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On Wednesdays I video-blog about writing.

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Wolfgang
Shipmate
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Prologue

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"The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist" - Dostoevksy

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RainbowKate
Shipmate
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testing sig

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Coffee is the answer

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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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Did it work?

We ain't dead, are we?

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As your Senior Warden, all I ask is unswerving loyalty and blind obedience.
--Me, to the vestry at my parish.
And then they laughed for some reason.
Shavin' my head, curin' cancer.

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Trudy Scrumptious

BBE Shieldmaiden
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More of same

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On Wednesdays I video-blog about writing.

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Autenrieth Road

Shipmate
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Testing my Hebrew characters

א

&1488;

1488&;

א
~ ~ ~
d

&100;

100&;

d
~ ~ ~

ב

ב

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Personally, I'd just go with an ichthus:
Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.
--St Deird

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Late Paul
Shipmate
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sig test

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Mostly Book Reviews

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Late Paul
Shipmate
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and another

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Mostly Book Reviews

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Jason™

Host emeritus
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I wonder how long it takes to get your new avatar registered... (check)
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Jason™

Host emeritus
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How 'bout now? [Biased]
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Bishop of Stortford
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checking what my new sig looks like
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Jason™

Host emeritus
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Perhaps now?
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Ian Climacus

Liturgical Slattern
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Theophany sig.

[and again...]

[ 06. January 2006, 06:35: Message edited by: Ian Climacus ]

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Seth
Shipmate
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sig test
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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sig test

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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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sig test again

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- insert randomly chosen song lyrics with potentially Deep and Meaningful™ lyrics here -

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Chesterbelloc

Tremendous trifler
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This

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Fool in the panting heart of Rome.

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Ags

Knocked up
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sig test

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I think that we are most ourselves at our best, because that is what God intended us to be. The us we really like, the us that others love to be with. Moth

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Eutychus
From the edge
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ditto

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home...

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Eutychus
From the edge
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one more time

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home...

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Max.
Shipmate
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New sig! ds

[ 07. January 2006, 19:08: Message edited by: 103 (One-O-Three) ]

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For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

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luvanddaisies

the'fun'in'fundie'™
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sig test

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain)

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luvanddaisies

the'fun'in'fundie'™
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sig test II

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain)

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Autenrieth Road

Shipmate
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This is using the QB tag.

This is using the QB tag nested: this was nested.

This is using the B tag.

This is using the B tag nested: this was nested.

quote:
This is using the QB tag.
quote:
This is using the QB tag with a nested B tag: this was nested.


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Personally, I'd just go with an ichthus:
Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.
--St Deird

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Autenrieth Road

Shipmate
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I give up: what is the QB tag for as opposed to the B tag?

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Personally, I'd just go with an ichthus:
Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.
--St Deird

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Scot
Deck hand
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The QB tag is automatically inserted when using the quote post function. The B tag is automatically inserted when using the bold function. As far as I know, they are completely interchangable in practice.

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“Here, we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” - Thomas Jefferson

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Autenrieth Road

Shipmate
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Thanks, Scot.

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Personally, I'd just go with an ichthus:
Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.
--St Deird

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Lyda*Rose

Ship's broken porthole
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So- did the URL in the sig work?

ETA: Hope this is within bounds for a sig... [Confused] Scot?

[ 09. January 2006, 08:10: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]

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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams

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Tortuf
Ship's fisherman
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New sig.
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Loquacious beachcomber
Shipmate
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Kinder, gentler sig.

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TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop)

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Alan Cresswell

Mad Scientist
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quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
New sig.

I see you've been drinking the good stuff
quote:
whisky bottles
... none of this whiskey stuff.

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I'm not mad. Just slightly annoyed.

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Scot
Deck hand
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quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Hope this is within bounds for a sig... [Confused] Scot?

Yup, it's fine.

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“Here, we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” - Thomas Jefferson

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Lyda*Rose

Ship's broken porthole
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Thanks. Have a good one, Scot. [Smile]

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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams

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Duck
Shipmate
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test

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'Truth is my authority, not authority my truth' - Mary Dyer, Quaker martyr.

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