Subject: random posts
User: ix
Message:
pretty good drummer
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ghIHVqsPfrw
or this
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uN3ks4gN65c
(ah, dropping down a line after the link makes it clickable)
User: outskirts
Message:
Prince covered Ain't No Sunshine so awesomely 😎
https://youtu.be/z0-Y-hyL9jI?si=x--kjOnEzOqzZgwy
User: outskirts
Message:
Sometimes my links would go hyper, sometimes not. I figured it must have been that my crappy woods hotspot connection was just being slow. (It's really very good). But since ix's hint to drop down a line, it has worked every time. Thanks so much darlin
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Please don't take this wrong, but this is *very* ironic. Back when Denny first made possible hyperlinks, there was a lot of confusion about how to make them work - as he didn't detail the process. So there was a period of time (many days or a small number of weeks?) in which it was hit or miss, with some posters catching on to the trick earlier than others. I'm virtually certain it was you who clued me in to the "hit the 'enter' key, and then backspace" to make them work. So all this time since then, when well more than half your intended links didn't hyperlink, I've laboriously copy-and-pasted, or otherwise made yours work, *without* complaining to you to do it right. 'Cause I knew you knew how, so I assumed you were just saving time - so I wasn't gonna irk you by requesting you do them as hyperlinks. I probably don't wanna take the time to go find all that, as it was in quite a few different threads - but I'm 95+% sure it was you. So this is in NO way any sort of complaint, or snark, or anything of the sort. Just pointing out the long-standing irony just discovered. And so yeah, thanks, ix, for the helpful hint, and thus solving a mystery.
User: outskirts
Message:
Yup I remember. Not the same solution there. I specifically said to make a space after the link, not to drop down a line.
User: outskirts
Message:
No they don't both work. Get over urself and just stop 🛑
User: outskirts
Message:
Now please mansplain to me why women are actually the superior gender.
User: TNmountainman
Message:
They both work on my devices. Maybe they don't on yours, as yours are quite different from mine. No mansplainin' needed on the superior gender thing. It's obvious. Congratulations on the genetic win!
User: outskirts
Message:
I know that speil doesn't work for U irl. Now please mansplain to me how LMTFA translates to "Rag on me for eternity".
User: BuzzClik
Message:
@TN: No problem here on my iPhone. Automatic hot link. My PC is a bit odd — I have to put a space after the URL, but that lights up the link every time.
@TN: “ Please don't take this wrong” 😜
User: FilthyMcNasty
Message:
The behavior of this persona was inspired by the odd behavior of my grandmother as she grew old. She was constantly bragging about the size of her “chests” and was making endless sexual innuendos. As her 14-year-old grandson, I really did not want to hear any of that. My dad was going crazy trying to keep her within acceptable boundaries. The last straw was when she told us the tale of answering the door for a repairman, and surprised him by being totally nude.
firenze’s mother reminds me so much of her.
It is interesting that we are watching the slow evolution of yet another such character right here on this discussion board.
User: outskirts
Message:
Men: next time you "disagree" with your woman over something, please reassure her that you understand. Maybe she'll buy that!
User: outskirts
Message:
Dept of juicy old gossip
Ted Danson and Whoopi were a hot heavy item and big time tabloid fodder for a long time ...
User: outskirts
Message:
It also went on to say that they remained friends. But Whoopi said her big regret was losing Ted's friendship after that.
ai didn't say that last part I knew it.
User: outskirts
Message:
Re making a link go hyper
Finally figured out how it works on my phone and tablet, now. If I jump directly from the link to the next line, it works. If I first press the space bar (like used to be the way) it doesn't work.
Things don't always stay the same y'know. In fact almost never do things stay the same.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
Boy-oh-boy! The Panera bakery people know what they're doing.
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Today is the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Apple. As a non-user, inconsequential personally, but from a cultural and financial viewpoint............it very much is. Titrate your psychedelics before entering:
User: outskirts
Message:
There is a popular American saying. "No sh!t, Sherlock" often shortened to just "no sh!t". Idk where the saying came from or who Sherlock could possibly be. Maybe one of our geniuses could google it for me and please mansplain it?
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
Many men are attracted to simple females, while many females strive to play such knowing so.
User: nug
Message:
If you use that phrase at someone, you are probably suggesting a bit satirically that they have over-explained something you already knew (and so they're not the Sherlock Holmes they thought they were).
You could very likely regard my explanation as a case in point and use the phrase at me.
User: outskirts
Message:
"I find your powers of deductive reasoning fall somewhat short of the genius level you thought you had achieved."
Outskirts
User: outskirts
Message:
This Scotland humor is so funny and doesn't get old. I am half Scottish Canadian myself.
https://youtu.be/NBGOryiqZZI?si=n-V62tBekG9iXG-N
User: joeygray
Message:
As for my list, I was kind of hoping to inspire others to post their own lists. We could see if anything appears on every list. Lord knows there are plenty more things that can go on such a list. (In fact, undoubtedly a very viable 20 item list that doesn't intersect mine at all is doable.) I know that mine can't help being biased, though I did try.
User: outskirts
Message:
Posted that⬆️ a year ago on fb and so it came up today in a memory. I had said in 2025 that this Sherlock had started up 15 years prior. They were reshowing it on PBS Masterpiece and I had forgotten how good it was. Cumberbatch and Freeman, Holmes and Watson. Maybe it should be in the best tv and movies thread.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
I see Paul Ruebens whenever I see narrator dude...figured maybe brothers.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
And I do also love the crime-solving abilities of bunny rabbit Miss Scarlett.
User: firenze
Message:
you must have had to plan ahead to use the restroom in those dresses.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
Yeah, the perversions were publicly exposed.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
Recalling that funny show reminds me of Pee-wee's nemesis: dude portraying Francis, BUT dude then portraying *Gacy* later in his career...creepy.
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I know we've discussed the overcrowding on Everest this time of year before, but I can't find it, so I'm putting this here. (AND....................I'll note that I did *not* resurrect the thread likely most appropriate for this, because there was extraneous stuff too dilutive.) In any event, this is astounding:
New record set as 274 climbers scale Everest’s south side in single day | CNN
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
Men in uniform? Some women like them smartly clad.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
I can't really consider age as I age, difficulty doing so.
User: firenze
Message:
Where I live, we have four people over 100 and close to 40 over 90.
Don't feel old at all.
User: TNmountainman
Message:
OK - somebody humo(u)r me. Is this spate of deletions the work of Laura? Or each poster doing their own?
(Just a random post/question within a "random" thread.)
User: BuzzClik
Message:
I may be mistaken, but my understanding is that when a moderator deletes a post, the entire post disappears, not just the text. There would be no trace, no residuals.
User: TNmountainman
Message:
That's what I had always thought, too. But there certainly have been a lot of "disappearances" lately. Maybe something "catching" coming thru "the internets".
User: BuzzClik
Message:
I believe that I have had just one blank post recently. I made an offer to post on a thread, the was ignored, and the thread was deleted. So, I removed the text from the irrelevant post.
Brewski sometimes has empty posts. Maybe he could share his perspective.
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
Message:
I occasionally like dropping something with a quick deletion...see who's peeking and peeping around electronically...(scattering cockroaches (potato bugs, maybe) after rock upturned).
But the boomer one I deleted since it was put in the wrong thread.