5/8/2002: Bomb robot drags dead suicide bomber - Page 3

Nic Name · 05-10-2002, 09:42 AM

Pick on someone your own caliber

a good sig for MaggieL :p

Tobiasly · 05-10-2002, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Torrere
Non. En Français, c'est "en anglais, s'il vous plaît?".

Yeesh, I knew someone was gonna jump all over that, but I didn't wanna make a huge deal of it, but what fun is not making a huge deal of things?

I said "I think the first half of Joe's post was supposed to be French". Supposed to meaning, yes, I realized French for English is anglais, not englais, but it's still closer than inglés.

My take was that since he didn't understand what language Maggie was speaking, he figured he'd try a few and hopefully hit on one.

"En anglais, por favor". Make sense now?

Joe · 05-10-2002, 11:24 AM

I meant it to be Spanish.

I didn't mean for it to be rigorously correct, right down to the upside-down question marks that make me cut and paste from an ASCII editor.

The point was "what the heck did the person mean with all the gun jargon" not "check out my mastery of Spanish".

Yeesh.

05-10-2002, 11:39 AM

Actually, if you hold ALT and type

168

on the right numeric keypad and then let up ALT, the ¿ shall appear. I actually learned it from making faces back in the day, like this

º¿º

which is 167 168 167

Play around with it a little and you'll get it. I have all the important ones memorized.

Tobiasly · 05-10-2002, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Joe
I meant it to be Spanish.

I've already made up my mind; don't confuse me with facts.

Quote:

Originally posted by dhamsaic
Play around with it a little and you'll get it. I have all the important ones memorized.

Hahaha... reminds me of back in the day of Word 2.0, before it automatically did things like curly quotes and em dashes. Plus, being a chem major, I used lots of ° and ± and stuff like that.

P.S. How do you figure out your codes dhamsaic? I memorized the ASCII codes, in which you have to use 4 digits (w/ leading zeros if necessary). So ¿ is ALT+0191, instead of ALT+168. Windows Character Map shows you the ASCII version in the bottom-right corner.

Torrere · 05-10-2002, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tobiasly

I've already made up my mind; don't confuse me with facts.

Welcome to my quotes.txt file, Tobiasly.

Nic Name · 05-10-2002, 07:13 PM

WORDS OF WISDOM FOR WISE GUYS

Nic Name · 05-15-2002, 05:24 PM

Joe · 05-15-2002, 06:19 PM

He's looking around going "Where are my 40 virgins! I didn't know heaven used robots to greet newcomers! This looks just like Earth! WTF!!!"

05-10-2002, 11:24 AM	#33
Joe Master of the Domain Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: AZ Posts: 221	Joe wades into a language debate I meant it to be Spanish. I didn't mean for it to be rigorously correct, right down to the upside-down question marks that make me cut and paste from an ASCII editor. The point was "what the heck did the person mean with all the gun jargon" not "check out my mastery of Spanish". Yeesh. __________________ One planet, many worlds.

05-15-2002, 05:24 PM	#38
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	That's no dead suicide bomber

05-15-2002, 06:19 PM	#39
Joe Master of the Domain Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: AZ Posts: 221	That guy's seriously dissapointed He's looking around going "Where are my 40 virgins! I didn't know heaven used robots to greet newcomers! This looks just like Earth! WTF!!!" __________________ One planet, many worlds.

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05-10-2002, 09:42 AM	#31
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	Pick on someone your own caliber a good sig for MaggieL :p

05-10-2002, 11:39 AM	#34
dave Guest Posts: n/a	Actually, if you hold ALT and type 168 on the right numeric keypad and then let up ALT, the ¿ shall appear. I actually learned it from making faces back in the day, like this º¿º which is 167 168 167 Play around with it a little and you'll get it. I have all the important ones memorized.

05-10-2002, 07:13 PM	#37
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	WORDS OF WISDOM FOR WISE GUYS

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