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You are, of course, correct Sir!
For non-crossword-haters, the clue was:
O'Brien's novel - The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien (originally published in Gaelic as "An Béal Bocht" under the name of Myles ngCopaleen) - one of the great man's more neglected works -
... omitting nothing to become PORMOUTH and getting put about a transsexual TS to give us PORTSMOUTH which is, of course, a city on the Hampshire coast famed for its connections with the Royal Navy and for being the hometown of a certain CP regular.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Not a crossword hater.
In fact it was me that came up with the WSO after Dalek left.
Just get annoyed that Griff hijacked it and came up with a set of rules, where it has to be done daily and people get nagged if they don't. Would have much preferred a rule free, easy-going thing.
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Pom Pey3 wrote: where it has to be done daily and people get nagged if they don't
I see where you're coming from - do you think we should drop the whole WSO concept and just have people put one up when they've got a good one?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I've seen worse where the content actually appears..
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Don't drag StackOverflow into this discussion, please!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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I wasn't going to start naming names
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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For me, all it says, is "Adobe Flash Player is blocked" - twice!
I've seen a whole load worse than that!
Try this: The World's Worst Website Ever![^] It's deliberate but gawd awful.
Or there is this abortion: Who is Penny Juice?[^]
Sunglasses recommended...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Sunglasses recommended...
Yep, the urge to poke out ones eyes came quite suddenly - as soon as the web page opened to be precise!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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i'm blind after trying to read who is Penny Juice?
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Remove the "home" bit of the url and go to the site root.
*pours bleach onto eyes*
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you also can't forget LingsCars[^].
and the ASCII art when you view the source code
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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That was SO COOL - But somebody has waaaay too much thyme on their hands!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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OriginalGriff wrote: For me, all it says, is "Adobe Flash Player is blocked" - twice!
That's more than I'm getting. OTOH I don't think flash is installed on my work laptop at all.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We laugh now, but that's how websites used to look. Ah geocities, gone but not forgotten.
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You throw "geocities", I'll raise with "Frontpage" !
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Worst or best website ever[^]?
In the 90's it would've been pretty average
At least you can trust the guy, he is Ling (bottom of the page)
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Here are my peeves.
1. A growing number of websites are now a small narrow column in the middle (1/3 of the width of the screen) with blank on the left and right. I have to resize the whole page to read the fine text that is compressed into the tiny column. WHY DO YOU DO THAT??????
2. Websites that put up a big banner that "this site uses cookies. You must click here to acknowledge some junk about stuff that is stupid and is used on every website on Earth".
3. Websites that think people are so stupid they don't realize that the website owner does not own all the content in the entire world. They put up messages that "you are leaving www.stupididiot.com and we are not responsible for whatever other websites you might look at."
DUH!!!!!
We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of William Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that this is not true.
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Basildane wrote: 2. Websites that put up a big banner that "this site uses cookies. You must click here to acknowledge some junk about stuff that is stupid and is used on every website on Earth".
You can thank the EU for that one - The Cookie Law Explained - everyone knows it's useless, but it's an EU directive so..
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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So there is something worse than stupidity.
Lawyers.
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To celebrate the Friday and start off the festivities, here's a small joke:
Q: What do you call a dog that does magic tricks?
A: A labracadabrador.
Sorry folks, but it's too early for my coat. I just have to sit here and work wait patiently until beer o'clock!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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