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Very good - have a cookie.
Yeah, that was it - I'd tweaked the date range a couple days ago searching for something and had forgotten to change it back.
Thanks...
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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so where is "gone south" applicable? which places on earth know what you mean by it, and which don't? It doesn't have any significance on the south pole; does it in South-America? in Australia? What, if any, would be the line south of which the expression isn't reflecting what you meant?
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Luc Pattyn wrote: which places on earth know what you mean by it
Anywhere that speaks idiomatic American English.
Luc Pattyn wrote: and which don't
Apparently where you live for starters. 
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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well, I'm sure the tribes living south of us might understand but won't appreciate your idiom.
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Reminds me of a problem description added to our database by one of our customer service reps which stated "Customer just phoned to say his server has crashed and burned.". Strangely, my reply of "Tell customer to call the fire service" was not appreciated.
It's time for a new signature.
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You're thinking way, way too much about this, Luc.
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is that American English idiom for "I don't know beans about it"?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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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