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If I had to guess, I'd say the expression probably dates from the time of the Civil War. Basically, it's used to denote something unreliable, with a tendency to fail (or betray) when needed. Of course, if my take on the historical semantics is correct, it probably originated in the North.
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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I understand that; we still have a bit of a North-South divide here (yes I'm North), that's why a "go South" expression never passes unnoticed... 
BTW: it also made me find an AE idiom web site, of which I'll read one page a day. Today's find involved some beans.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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Could you delete my account please. Thank you.
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Hi,
I spotted a minor (very minor) issue with your syntax highlighting for <pre> blocks:
var variable1=new string();
var variable2 = new string();
Notice that the first 'new' keyword is not the right colour, presumably because there is no space before the keyword.
As I said, a very fussy thing to point out, and definitly not very important...
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similar things happen with single quotes and double quotes. I suspect a Regex is used which ignores newlines.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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If we were ignoring newlines they wouldn't work at all. eg multiline comments.
We'll check.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I apologize, almost nothing wrong with syntax coloring and quotes any more; I remember it being much worse. Right now the one mistake I see is VB should not escape within string literals.
Here is a test without any lang="..":
this is a "string"
for a 'string' in some languages
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
for a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" here
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" going well
this could be a "string with an escaped double quote \" inside"
and now re repeat all the above once more:
this is a "string"
for a 'string' in some languages
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
for a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" here
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" going well
this could be a "string with an escaped double quote \" inside"
Here is a test using lang="cs":
this is a "string"
for a 'string' in some languages
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
for a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" here
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" going well
this could be a "string with an escaped double quote \" inside"
and now re repeat all the above once more:
this is a "string"
for a 'string' in some languages
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
for a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" here
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" going well
this could be a "string with an escaped double quote \" inside"
Here is a test using lang="vb":
this is a "string"
for a
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
for a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and // for more text
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" /* and for more text */ here
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" /* and for
this could be a "string with an escaped double quote \" inside"
wow */ going well
this could be a "string with an escaped double quote \" inside"
and now re repeat all the above once more:
this is a "string"
for a
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and for more text
for a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" and // for more text
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" /* and for more text */ here
this could be a "for now an ' embedded single quote in a string" /* and for
this could be a "string with an escaped double quote \" inside"
wow */ going well
this could be a "string with an escaped double quote \" inside" <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Is all of this handled by Regex? I would be anxious to see them and learn from it.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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Thanks Luc - I've added this to our todo.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's no biggy. Zero priority would be fine by me.
I'd rather see you fix the HTMLtag+newline issue in the message editor (newline getting eaten).
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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Fixed Size Formatter[^]
Edit - Comment has now been removed! (Issue fixed)
modified on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:14 PM
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6 votes of 5 plus good reviews.
How do you figure it's spam?
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Look at the comments! (The article is fine!!!)
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Ah, ok, I see what you mean. Thought you were talking about the article itself...
Sorry - must learn to engage brain before setting mouth in gear (though not likely to happen)
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[laugh]
Edit: How on earth did you get the smilies in the reply? - I don't have that option...
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They are on the right hand side of the text editor. Are they not for you?
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They are now, but I could have sworn that they weren't there 5 minutes ago.
But probably just my eyesight going the same way as my brain... 
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Obviously typing with your mouth impairs your vision! 
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A bunch of my answers in Q&A (most recent 5 PAGES worth) [except the 2 answers posted this evening], have been uni-voted.
This may be related to a recent event which you guys resolved with a revenge attack on my articles.
Can you investigate, it is clearly to the detriment of the site and the community, particularly when answers are accepted, and then subsequently downvoted......
Had this been one or two, fair enough, but not when there is clearly some one at it, and so many questions involved.
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I assume that with uni-voted you mean a vote of 1?
If so, I don't see it. I have no personal interest in neither down nor upvoting your articles, so please accept my opinion as that of a disengaged outsider.
If for instance I look at this answer:
http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/80037/IRC-or-chat-chanel.aspx[^]
Then I see that you have two votes, totalling 4.6, which means that it ought to be one vote of 4 and one of 5.
And most of the rest of your answers look similar...
I might be wrong, though...
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Johnny J. wrote: Then I see that you have two votes, totalling 4.6, which means that it ought to be one vote of 4 and one of 5.
It's not that simple. Votes of high-order members are weighted, so you can't just add 'em up and divide by 2. There's a FAQ around here someplace that spells out the details, but it's really not worth searching for; the voting system is an albatross and should be nuked. Uni-voters have been terrorizing CP for far too long, IMHO.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: It's not that simple. Votes of high-order members are weighted, so you can't just add 'em up and divide by 2. There's a FAQ around here someplace that spells out the details, but it's really not worth searching for; the voting system is an albatross and should be nuked. Uni-voters have been terrorizing CP for far too long, IMHO.
I partly agree Hans, but despite an univoter attack on his article the fact that it is still rated a high 4.6 is testimony to the effectiveness of Chris' status-graded voting system. 3 years ago, the rating would have been 3 (5 + 1 / 2).
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I think your choice of words gives away how you feel; you call it an "attack". It is an attack, and one that should be prevented, and not simply patched-up by people voting 5.
This has all been discussed before, ad nauseam, and there's no good reason to perpetuate this bogus down-voting.
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Johnny,
Since i posted the the original message, someone else had been and upvoted a couple of pages worth of the univoter answer, hence the 1 votes appearing to disappear, so whoever did that, thanks for the generosity! It looks like they got bored after a while and stopped after a couple of pages, if you look further back at my list of questions answered you will still see a couple of pages worth 1 votes. [or they were there when i looked earlier this morning at least, haven't looked since].
It not so much the fact that they were voted down, its more the fact that there is someone taking the pi$$, if all the votes that were applied as a 1 were by the same person, then to me that individual should be warned by the site admins, or if it is the same individual as the issue with the article voting, then as a second wrong doing, have their account suspended or binned.
There are places on the net were this behaviour may be deemed acceptable, but I don't think we want The Code Project turning into one of those.
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