Julia could buy Barnabas a "Do Not Disturb" sign to place atop his coffin so she wouldn't have to guard him during the day.

Now that made me giggle!

Barnabas could buy his little sister Sarah a new flute, she could still play it even if she is a ghost! 

Not if I buy up every one of them first.  

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out some of the controls here.  In my last post, I basically quoted myself.  I was trying to fix a problem I had with a previous post.  I clicked the "reply modify" button.

The Quote and Modify buttons are close in proximity but perform separate functions.

I wanted to make the word FANTASTIC bold and italicized.

That, btw, would look like this-- (ignore the word "code") [b][i][u]FANTASTIC[/u][/i][/b] or-- [i][b][u]FANTASTIC[/u][/b][/i] The text goes inside the opening and closing tags, the tag with the slash always comes at the end (never the beginning), and note that the order of the opening and closing tags is so that they are mirror images of each other.

In the previous post I tried to qote another poster, but did not get the quote box around it.

When you want someone else's quote to appear in your post, the simplest way is to click Quote, remove the parts of the post you are not responding to but leave all the info that appears inside the brackets, then add your response after the last quote tag (in brackets).

On another related topic, I've avoided posting about plot issues because I have not figrued out how to get that spoiler box around plot details.  Any help would be appreciated.

Again, ignore "code"-- [spoiler]spoiler-y text goes here[/spoiler]
The only codes I can think of that require any spacing at all are the smiley codes.

I apologize for any annoyance with regard to the duplicate posting.

It's no problem.  But no worries if that was a lot of info to throw at you at once!  The Help area, accessible via the horizontal menu at the top of all the Forum pages, also has a Posting section with explanations for all the SMF user codes.  But to find info on MB's spoiler code, just search the Testing board for "spoiler".  (Open the Testing board, then enter your search criteria to search the Testing 1, 2, 3 board.  The Search feature is our best kept secret, followed closely behind by the Help section and Testing board.   )

And in other news :

ATTN: Mods......everytime I click a Santa face it screws up my post!

Brandon,

The only smiley problem that I'm aware of followed installing IE7--

Whenever I click on one of the smiley faces above, it not only doesn't appear in my post, but I get the message ERROR ON PAGE and it kicks me back to the post I'm replying too.  What's up w/that?

Julia: Oh get over it, Willie! I'm sure Mary and Cindy will find jobs.

LOL!

I so missed your cappin', darlin'.  

Quentin:  Ow!  I think I found your missing hat pins, Beth.

Ha ha ha!

Added 12/04/2006--Hey-Why did the banner cut itself in half? It was fine the first day--is it the ghost of one of the Leviathans?
Later: Now it's working again...(begin the Dark Shadows Theme--ooooo-weeee-ooooo)

While it's been proven time and again that DSF is haunted, the problem was the way the code was written.  The original:[b][i][color=Orange][move]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. FRID! [cheer] [occasion13] [occasion15] [cheer][/move][/color][/i][/b]has been modified to:[move][b][i][color=Orange]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. FRID![/color][/i][/b] [cheer] [occasion13] [occasion15] [cheer][/move]
Other YaBB codes now follow the text closely, but to work correctly the move code must wrap around them.   If your banner doesn't work fine now, then you can blame the Forum ghost (s?).

There are some YaBB code topics on the Testing board that you should find helpful.

And speaking of premature diagnoses, what about that nurse who was [spoiler]watching maggie when she "died" and Barn kidnapped her from the hospital.[/spoiler] <waves to the medical people on here.> Was CPR used yet (somehow I don't think so), but even if not, didn't they try to bring a patient back with mouth to mouth?   Inquiring minds would like to know, cause that "diagnosis" seemed awful sketchy to me.

Hi, Pansity!  So glad you're on the mend, and best wishes for a full recovery.

Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation had been in use more than 200 years, and chest compressions since the turn of the century.  And yes, the use of CPR began in 1960.

I hate when TV makes nurses look stupid.