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Nabuquduriuzhur
Wonder if Sousa would have gotten a kick out of Monty Python using his Liberty Bell March as their theme music?
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jpsomebody
@PopeyesforearmFrom yesterday.
By changing the language of my keyboard to spanish and then hold the ctrl key while pressing the symbol
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Hugh B. Hayve
Where can I download the “16 Ton Weight” app? If I get attacked by someone with a bunch of loganberries I want to be prepared.
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SusanSunshine GC Insider
ananomoose and Popeye —
Very enterprising…. but…. um….. you might find it faster to just use alt codes.
Hold down the alt key and type 168 on the numeric keypad only , not the numbers above the letters, release the alt key, and you get ¿
Alt and 173 is ¡.
¿¿¿¡¡¡!!!
I happen to have those and a dozen or so more memorized from years of use — ♪ ♥ £ etc — but there are tons of online charts you can bookmark if you google “alt characters”.
You can also use Character Map in Accessories on a Windows computer to copy and paste - but be aware that not every character will work here -- websites vary.
And some alt codes do tricks — alt 14 should make a barred music note but instead it loses your comment. After a while you learn some of that.
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pschearer GC Insider
I once attended an outdoor Fourth of July concert in which the Philadelphia Orchestra played Sousa’s Liberty Bell March. At the appropriate moment, several hundred audience members made that rude noise I’m never sure how to spell. Stupid programming on someone’s part, but hey, there’s a lot of ways to celebrate freedom.
(Hi, SSS! You get more interesting all the time.)
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orinoco womble
That goat has ceased to be! It has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the choir invisible! It is an EX-GOAT!!!
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SusanSunshine GC Insider
Hi Schearer! (If you ever get back here to see this…) Been wondering where you went.
And here I thought I was boring everybody silly :)
(If you can’t be silly ONE way, try another, I always say.)
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SusanSunshine GC Insider
As to the alt characters — Harry, anonamoose et all -
The VERY fastest and easiest way, if you only need a few, is still the keyboard. Alt 130 - boom! -- é, and there you go.
But sure, once you go beyond characters you know by heart, there are tons of ways and places to get them for pasting.
I have several charts bookmarked, both HTML AND alt chars, and can get some rather quickly from character map cos now I know where to look.
Mostly, in fact, I started a blank Word document called Symbols.doc and pasted in the ones I need most often.
I have quick access to it because I use Windows 7, with Word pinned to the taskbar and “Symbols” pinned to the right-click menu.
If I really need a ☠ or a ♕ I just open that.
Even faster is my unicode text version, but I can’t keep the font of an individual wordpad file (.txt) large enough for my eyesight.
Everybody will find the most comfortable way for himself.
(yeah yeah or “herself”. Grammar is grammar, folks.)
Just didn’t go into all that cos I figured I already posted too much………
…..sigh…. and this doesn’t counter that feeling……
And Night-Gaunt — funny, I’ve always liked that word too.
And “nevertheless”, which I use more often….
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x_Tech GC Insider
C: Well, I was, uh, sitting quietly, reading all these comments, and I suddenly came over all peckish.
O: Peckish, sir?
C: Esuriant.
O: Eh?
C: ’Ee I were all ’ungry-like!
O: Ah, hungry!
C: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, ‘a little fermented curd will do the trick’, so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!
O: Come again?
C: I want to buy some cheese.
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JoeStrike
Okay if we can put the MP quotes aside for a second…
I don’t know if Pastis or any of you folks are aware of this, but there is a kink out there for something called “crush videos” that are exactly what it sounds like – close-ups of a shoe (I think a woman’s shoe, never seen one of these myself – honest!) squishing a small animal. If you’re really curious Wikipedia can enlighten you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_videos
I’m sure (I hope) this strip isn’t a subterranean reference to that sort of stuff!
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killacowinWA
Based on the number of comments, ‘Pearls’ and Monty Python must have very similar appeals.
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!