Originally posted today by Donna on the Testing board as Re: Old and New Smileys--


"I wil have to agree ........I like this icon the best ....reminds me of the fraustration I feel sometimes towards this piece of junk of computer of mine ........LOL

Now, concerning todays 2nd episode.  I missed the last five minutes or so.  The last scene I remember seeing is the one where Ang was standing looking out the window, and Barnabas had walked out the front door.  
Inquiring minds want to know
This will be a spoiler question ...........



When does Ang cast her spell onto Barnabas? When does Victoria return to the present?  Questions, questions.... ?!? "

Our WidowsHill (hi, sweetie!), who used to announce birthdays on VNet, had a baby boy.

I miss Henry too.  


[Bob, your new avatar is hysterical!]

From Patti:

"THANKS YOU GUYS!!!!
VAM...your's was WAAAAYYY cool.
Ringo, n'est pas...."Tommy can you hear me?" (been singing it for 6
months, along with, "It's a boy, Mrs. Walker it's a booooyyy".
RaineyPark....my boss once said to me:
I told him the next day was my oldest's 9th b-day.
He said, "And 9 + 9 will get you 18".
BAM!!!
Aint it the truth.
Isn't he lovely....aaahhh...but, he'll be 4 someday. :-/
I too thought you were Mark Rainey...and Mark...I'm glad to hear you're
not wanted for past-due tax evasion, either in the real world or on TV

QUESTION....for all the regulars/long running posters
(VAM, Vlad, Ringo, HENRY (where is he?), Anne, Birdie, RobinV, Midnite,
Sheilmarch, Kuaynin, etc, etc, etc....is
Tommy the first POSTER CHILD (ha ha)?
If he is, will that promote me from forum newbie to the next level?
Has anyone else, since posting, had a child?

P.S....regarding a week old post...the hospital did NOT have Sci-Fi


Patti
(loving Tommy, he doesn't talk yet!)"

I just got back from a great weekend Beatle-ing AND TWO LURKERS came up and said High!  I knew there were some cross-over fans!  [How about a post or two, ya'll?]

I second that, Ringo!  The forums' stats have been amazing... the readers are numbering many more times the nearly 100 registered members.  Even if we assumed that all users (registered and unregistered) access the board using 2 different computers, these forums are still bringing in as many as a few hundred unique visitors in a single day. I sure do wish we could hear from more of the lurkers!

Raineypark's

Okay MB...and maybe I should get my IT hubby (or my teenaged daughter, better yet)  to teach me how to use the smileys.....or hadn't you noticed that I never use them myself?

When you reach a spot in your message in which you'd like to add a smiley, if it's one of the ones above the message window just click on it and the symbol will appear automatically.  For the first (happy) face, you're going to see a : followed by ).  When the message is posted, it'll be converted to the smiley.  If it's one of the others listed in the posting section of the Help files, just duplicate the code exactly as you see it listed in the column next to it, being sure to include the [ and ].  It might help you to recognize what you're seeing in the codes if you know that b stands for blue, y = yellow and g = green.  Please feel free to experiment here as much as you'd like, and if you use the "preview" feature no one will see your test until you're ready to unveil it. You can also modify your own messages after you've posted them.

Raineypark's

But at least you're trying....so far, all I can do is read, reply, and get outta town!  It's living with a pair of computer wizards...they make me crazy with their convoluted technical answers to the simplest questions. They can't just tell me what to do...they have to EXPLAIN everything to me...like I give a hoot!  Just tell me what keys to hit and when....then leave me alone!!

That's where I come in, hee hee.  The computer wizard in my house isn't me-- it's my 12 year old son-- but if I can learn this stuff then I know that anybody else can too.

The light colored tags above the smileys are the next thing I'd love to see you try.  Again, click on them to make them appear in the message window, and the text you insert between them is what is affected...

To emphasize certain words in your message:
The B makes the text between them bold, like this.  The I italicizes, like this.  And the U underlines.  Just make sure that for every tag at the start of your text, there's a corresponding tag with / at the other end.

To change the color of your text, open the pulldown menu under "Black", click on the color you want, and the tags will appear wherever your cursor is in your message.  Only the text that you insert between the two tags will change colors.

The square with the black A and arrow will bring up tags containing size =2.  Increasing the number increases the size of your letters.

To quote-- the easiest way to make a phrase appear in a shaded box is to surround the phrase with "quote" and "/quote", but substitute [ or ] for the quotation marks.

Now go for it, girlfriend.

Josette, you made 2 replies in the "Picky complaints" thread both dated March 12 and time stamped 8 and 11 minutes after the hour, and then you started 2 new topics at 21 and 28 minutes after the hour called "Just what IS Nathan" and "Angelique's Witchcraft" respectively.  So in other words, they're there on the board. But don't forget that the boards bump every thread that contains any new post to the top (case in point:  the Robservations board-- the topics aren't in the same order as when Robin created them because if someone posts a reply, it's going to pull that summary to the top), and with all the boards as busy as they've been lately, I'm not surprised that by the time you finished you weren't seeing all the threads you'd contributed to listed in the top 10 anymore, (nor should they have been marked as "new" anymore on your screen unless someone had added a response since you last accessed them).

Or, maybe I'm misunderstanding your question?

I apologize, Josette, since I transferred that thread.  My only defense is that I was really, really tired, and to also move the posts that I authored meant I had to go back and forth between browsers (since I had to be logged on as myself in order to get a post onto the board under the username Midnite, but not logged on as myself to transfer for all other posters).  Though I skipped that message, I believe I was consistent in getting the rest of my threads transferred.  Anyway, thanks for pointing it out.