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A couple of weeks ago, the formatting menu in the 'Post' window stopped working. All the buttons are grayed out. I can't select fonts, sizes, colors, or even bold and italic. No way to center text or images, no way to insert a link, and even smilies are gone. It's like all the tools that allow for any kind of expressiveness are gone. When the 'Post' window first comes up, the formatting menu looks normal for about a half-second, and then all the tools become grayed out and unavailable. I Googled all the terms I can think of for Invision board formatting tools, and I can't find anyone who has had this problem. I don't recall changing any settings, and I checked all the settings I can think of to see if I screwed something up. But no luck. As a workaround, I've been trying to use HTML tags, but it's a whole lot harder than just clicking an icon in the formatting menu. I see others are managing to format their posts, and nobody's bitching, so it must be just me who's having these problems. So what am I missing? Is there just some box I forgot to check? Thanks in advance for any help.

Gosh, so how do we know these posts are really coming from Lucky? What if someone - or some thing - has commandeered his account over here too? I'm feeling Lucky today, Dave.

A very generous offer, and quite titillating too, even though 'probity' and 'penury' turned out to mean something other than what I first hoped they did.

I just gargled my first Bacon Scope, And then rinsed with a great deal of hope. Now my breath smells so clean, If a trifle porcine, That I've ordered some hog tallow soap.

Gosh! I didn't see that coming.

He says he's just here in town visiting someone. My, that's some mighty big hair. And the shoes! I sure hope my Bubba doesn't take a shine to him.

Please pass the mayo, I'm thinkin' Turkey sandwich!

Might I suggest one of unrestrained concupiscence?

I would say Step 1 is to stop refusing decent sums of money.

How delightful that you've returned! I'm a bit embarrassed to mention where I thought you'd gone.

No, like other online sites, Amazon didn't collect tax. So I just added up what I bought every year, calculated the tax, and paid it with my State income taxes. That's what California wants you to do, and they made noises about it, but most folks just ignored it. Now Amazon has started collecting state sales taxes, which helps level the playing field for retailers. My reasons for buying from Amazon were never to avoid paying sales tax. They're just really convenient for certain items, and sometimes their prices are better, tax or no.

Call me crazy, but I've been doing it for a few years now. Amazon's my most used site, and I run a report at the end of the year and figure the sales tax. California calls it a 'use tax' and I add it to my State income taxes in a box they thoughtfully provide for just that purpose. It never tops a couple hundred bucks. I figure as much as I bitch when local companies go under, or state services get cut, I'd feel kind of hypocritical not to kick in my share. This way, I can continue to kvetch freely and without a shred of guilt. After Amazon complained for years about the near-impossibility of doing the bookkeeping and collecting the tax, they started doing it this year with a minimum of fuss and bother. I'm sure the rest will too.

Y'know, something tells me you guys already are married! The gentle cooing sounds, the affectionate bickering, and no doubt separate bedrooms on either side of the nursery, why not just put your hair up in curlers and make it official?

I had the same issue some time back and decided to come at it from a different direction. Rather than constantly chivvying my private parts to keep up with my sex drive, I had a heart-to-heart with my libido and let it know that it was beginning to cause problems in the ranks. Over the years, it has fallen nicely into line and now waits patiently until I formally notify it that its services are required. Or someone else does.

In September, the National Security Agency's new Utah Data Center will come on line.

Oi! The issue for me is that the United States of America has people, not charged with any crime, under indefinite confinement and none of us ever got asked if we would like to become a country that does that. We fought two world wars to avoid being a country like that and, when we were done, we asked everybody else in the world to avoid being a country like that too. We helped form international organizations to advance our values, and we helped write international agreements and laws that we are now violating. Why is it unbalanced for prisoners under our direct and exclusive control to request a trial under the Geneva Conventions? Are we now against what we fought for? Who sez? If anybody's interested in discussing balance on that issue, please let me know.

Dare we hope?

First line, you say? Eluded me completely. Zut alors!!

Not me. I just know folks who can cook. I am, however, a fairly accomplished diner.

Sounds divine. Too bad you didn't invite Governor Jindal. Going around the Country doing shrimp boils would be a lot better use of his time than all the other nonsense he's working on. When my friend stays with me, what's left from the last meal is usually part of the next meal. And the final leftovers find themselves in a Po' Boy with lots of sauce. Remoulade sauce: 1/2 cup mayo 1 tablespoon horseradish 1 teaspoon pickle relish 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 tablespoons Kikkoman Ponzu Lime Fr'example.

Right you are! The recipe itself. I have a friend from New Orleans who's an excellent cook, with a sister who's even better. No one but the two of them can make a gumbo, or anything else with okra, that I can get down. Jambalaya, generally made sans okra, is a different story altogether. They, and their friends, also taught me the importance of cooking crawfish with their heads on. The crawfish heads, that is. The friends, not so much. Not sure if intelligent design would apply in all cases. Of course, some of them are not exactly poster children for evolution either.

Jambalaya, so I am told, and a crawfish.

Well, of course, if Governor Jindal starts installing high school concentration camps, it does become another kettle of fish entirely. I'm definitely not advocating all-creationism-all-the-time, just observing that a science-based company that pulls up roots from a place where students are exposed to something other than science may not be quite so rigorous itself. I think that's the point Hito was making. Parenthetically, so to speak, if I were a parent myself, I'm pretty sure that my young 'un would have heard about the various theories of how we got here directly from me, and well before (s)he got to school. Educating a child about something so fundamental (once again, so to speak) should not, in my opinion anyway, be left solely to the school system. As you say, though, Hitler's driving the nuclear scientists out of Germany was rather short-sighted of him. Imagine if he had got there first, instead of us.

Ditto x 4. There isn't a day goes by I don't look for his name among the latest posts. A very informed guy with a great sense of humor, and kind. Isn't that what they call a 'hat trick'?

I should have said some of the stuff. I actually had some pretty good science teachers, one of whom encouraged us to write papers on things that interested us. Looting the local library of everything on 'telephones' and writing an original report was a first for me. I liked doing it, and still enjoy finding out what makes things tick and trying to explain it. I owe that to a good science teacher. I might even have that report lying around somewhere.