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Believe me, I have the patience of Job and I'm not getting sore or anything. I just figured this would be a convenient thread to list anything I notice that's possibly related to the recent manifestation of malware. It seems the centering button is grayed out on the Format palette. Nor will the HTML code for centering work. I think this corrected itself briefly over the past few days, as I was able to center a photo or two. So it seems intermittent. I guess as the programmers thrash the code over the next few weeks, such aberrations may come and go. I know I will. (Just discovered that the centering function availability may be limited by image type. It seems to be there for .jpg images, but not for .gif images. I think it used to be available for both.) The 'Array' poster is still with us in the View New Content screen. A poster's avatar will show up if s/he has one, but all posters now have the name 'Array'. An array of what is not made clear. When browsing posts in the Forums, user names show up correctly. It's just the New Content view that seems to be affected. This has made me wonder if I am the only one who uses the 'View New Content' button. I discovered it only recently and it's the quickest way for me to read the Board and make sure I'm not missing anything. Do others use it as well? Or plod through each Forum? Or perhaps read selected Forums? Or maybe just wait to read about it in the funny papers?

Perhaps your Hidden Immunity Idol kicked in.

Is that AdamSmith out there? .. Out where? On that boat? . .. . That's not a boat. It's a whale. . . . . . . That is him! Sitting right behind the blowhole. . . . . . . . . Who's that pink chappie next to him? . . . . .. . . . . The one waving 'Hi'? . . . . . .. . . . . . Oh my, that is so cute!!

There's nothing new about a mindset that lets the government into all the nooks and crannies of your personal life. It's been done to death.

Suckrates, nice of you to cover Lucky's back. It shows class.

Never in a Million Bazillion years ! !

Indeed it is. A regular Sea of Tranquility!

Wonder if all this snooping is covered by Obamacare?

He wouldn't be creeping up on 5,000 posts either! Perhaps we won't see a full-blown musical when you reach that imminent milestone, but dare we at least hope for a modest run of Lucky On Ice?

Although it's Mr. Duc's night off, the mamasan asks Axiom to wait while she goes and gets him.

Since the Great Malware Invasion of 2012, the following glitches seem to have been left behind: 1. If you click on the 'View New Content' button, every poster's name shows up as 'Array'. At first, I thought we had a prolific new poster, until I found even my own screen name morphing to 'Array' as soon as I selected 'View New Content'. 2. Formatting codes seem to be busted. I can change the font, I can change the font size, I can change the font color, and I can center images and fonts, but I can no longer do them all at the same time. If I get the text looking just like I want it to, and then try to center it underneath the image, one or more lines will revert back to the standard small black Verdana font and the image and/or text will no longer be centered. This happens whether I use the convenient formatting tools or manually enter HTML codes. I'm not sure if these glitches are a result of the malware, or the attempts to clean it out, or something else. But I can say that they weren't there before the Invision invasion, and they are now. Mac, Safari browser version 5.1.7.

Happy and gay, Lucky vows to avoid any ruffled feathers in the New Year

Hitoallusa is a hoot When his hubby goes out on a toot. He remains warm and tender Till the end of the bender And his welcome-home hugs are so cute.

A few months back, I ran into an acquaintance at a favorite watering hole and mentioned how good he was looking. He showed me a small red mark on his hand and told me it was the entry point for three stents he had installed the week before. Or maybe it was four. Anyway, he said he was feeling better than he had in years. I think he stayed overnight in the hospital. When I saw him, he was a week out of the hospital and I don't recall any restrictions they had put on him. He was certainly hoisting his Manhattan with frequency and with flair. If I were your friend, I don't think I would be too worried about the operation or about the recovery. Although I think I would ask for some of the excellent drugs they have available to relax a patient before the surgery and during the hospital stay. I'm sure they'll give him the good stuff without his asking, but it never hurts to make a few discreet inquiries. Hope your friend does very well!

Perhaps you should let down your hair.

Agree with MsGuy. Love these insights from a bicultural perspective!

I agree, and this is one of the main reasons I'd prefer to see decriminalization rather than legalization. Once the cigarette companies get their hooks into marijuana, I can't see any reason why they wouldn't start loading it up with flavorings and chemicals and preservatives and going for a selling price that's ten times the cost of goods. I expect they'll have to budget for packaging costs, legal costs, marketing costs, distribution costs, and - wait for it - lobbying costs, just like they do now with tobacco. But it will be the slow and steady deterioration of the product that will be the real buzzkill. Also, it wouldn't surprise me to see Monsanto come along and patent a hundred varieties and sue the tie-dyes off of anyone who ends up with one of the genes in their backyard grow.

Lapdance. For those who believe it is better to give than to receive.

I hope you didn't have to give back the toaster.

I believe they later added the BatShit, when Gotham did away with public toilets.

It's been a while since I've enjoyed a serving of yak piss, so I'm grateful to those whose memories are fresher than mine. But what I can say is that, like much of the U. S. food and beverage supply, mainstream beers seem to have been formulated primarily to withstand several years in our national distribution system so they're stripped of as many perishable ingredients as possible and dosed with sufficient preservatives to keep them from further deterioration should they find themselves at the back of a hundred-twenty degree warehouse for several months at a time. In general, I think the closer you can get to where the beer is actually made, and the more you can avoid the U. S. mass-market distribution system, the better the beer is going to be. Craft beers are generally better but even a craft beer bottled for wide distribution is going to have some flavor problems. I first discovered this in the late sixties when I stumbled into the Löwenbräukeller in Munich and stumbled out again an hour later full of mein host's weisswurst and a liter of the best dark beer I had enjoyed up till then. I was surprised to find a bottle of the stuff in the U. S. when I returned and, while it was good, it was not much like its velvety namesake in Bavaria. Same with Belgian beer which, in situ, is the best beer I've ever had. The stuff that makes it over here in a bottle is only distantly related to the original. Grateful also to AdamSmith for the insight on hops. I've recently discovered that the difference between a beer I can drink and one I can't is the amount of hops they put in it. Hops are just way too harsh for me and I was wondering why folks seemed to like the taste so much. Now that I learn it's the manufacturers' way of making an extra penny or two, rather than catering to American tastes, it all makes much more sense. Kind of amazing to think of how much care the old brewmasters put into creating the best products they knew how and building brand names that lasted for centuries, and then to realize how quickly the quest for profits can undo their efforts. Scheisse!

Lucky you indeed! Your brief announcement nearly got lost in amongst the lyrics. How wonderful to have such a long lasting relationship! And to top it off with marriage would be the icing on the cake. Congrats to you both!

I know it's been easy finding things wrong with the government lately, but here's something the government's doing right! The Social Security Administration announced today that it's going to start processing disability claims in days, rather than years, for folks who have been diagnosed with cancer, early-onset Alzheimer's, and Lou Gerhig's disease. The Compassionate Allowances program is designed to get claims processed in 10 - 15 days, instead of a year or more. Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue said, "If somebody's got a confirmed diagnosis of ALS . . . there is no use burdening them with paperwork. Good thing they didn't have to go to the Senate for approval!

Sorry for the delay in responding to this most worthy thread. Fifty guys is a lot to go through in one day, for anyone but AdamSmith I should say, and I still haven't made it through the first page. But that was plenty, as Tony Dow appears halfway down. When I first saw him on the cover of TV Guide in my early adolescence, I stopped wondering whether I liked boys or girls better. He set the gold standard for me then, and he sets it for me now. Lucky, your delightful website is not friendly to hotlinking. I use a Mac too and usually, when I right-click on an image and tell it I want it to open in a new window of its own, it will do so with a web address that ends in .jpg. Not on your website. It's some awful hash of a web address that doesn't want to be found and displayed by our forum software. EXPAT's alternative of downloading it has the happy consequence of saving it as a ,jpg file and when he uploads it to all the waiting BoyToys, you should pardon the expression, it displays just fine. Nothing you're doing wrong, it's just that I think you'll have to use the download/upload trick if you want to show something from that site.