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I am a moderator for an email list. The other moderators and I have our own email list so that we may 'talk' amongst ourselves about anything from problems with a member to general day to day stuff. The following is an example I though you might enjoy.

E-mail message

"......I could give you a great big old rant about that but I'll spare you, since I'm normally not fun when I'm ranting. d:......"

That, and you're still new here and aren't allowed to rant yet.

OK! That, of course, was a joke. Let me tell y'all my webtv cut and paste tale, which will probably give you women a snicker. It will be funny to me in a half hour or so when I'm not so ticked.....

So, I wanted to make that little smart remark up there. I knew there was a way for me to do in-text cutting and pasting, but I wasn't sure how. It's Sunday, and I have a mountain of house 'wife'-ly things to do, so I decide to avoid them a bit longer and take the nifty little tutorial for cutting and pasting with webtv.

I'm going through the screen by screen commands, doing the basic stuff with my eyes closed. Then comes the in-text stuff, so I start paying attention.   It tells me to do 'cmd-f' to highlight the word 'Panama' in some text. I do and it works. Moving right along, it tells me to hit 'shift+the arrow keys' to highlight any other text I want and then to hit 'cmd-x' to cut. No problem. The next screen says to hit 'cmd-v' and that makes 'Panama' come up in a new field. Yea! I think I can do this.

So I go to K's letter to cut that quote out that is up top. I do the cmd-f thing and the shift-arrow-highlight thing. Woohoo! Then I do the cmd-x thing and go to 'reply.' A new email opens up and, breathless with anticipation, I hit cmd-v.

Panama.

That's right. Panama from the tutorial comes up. I'm thinking 'what the hell?' So I try it all again. Panama. Again. Panama.

Now, I've left out that getting to this point has taken me a good 45 minutes because I didn't want y'all to think I'm dumb, lmao, but you can imagine my frustration at this point. All I'm trying to do is cut and copy a sentence so I can make a smartass remark with no cofusion! And all I'm getting is Panama.

I shut my webtv completely off and turn it on again, thereby erasing any Panamas from it's 'brain.' I open up K's mail and try it all again. Cmd-f. Shift+arrows. Cmd-x. Open a reply and cmd-v.

No Panama!

No nothing.

After about an hour, what probably hit you guys the first time I mentioned the steps I was following, hit me.   Poindexter here wasn't keying in any sort of copy command (did I just hear a huge 'DUH'?). It works a LOT better when you do. Just for future reference.

I guess the moral is probably to keep my smart mouth shut, lol. But I gotta say that after getting Panama about half a dozen times, it was a battle of me versus the web instead of me versus my mouth.

Anyway, K and all, the opening of this was just a joke and I hope you appreciated it because it was a real b*tch to get it right.

LOL

~~M

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Bits of fire in the sky push me east back home. I used to live in flames but it's hard on the wings. Choke me. Smoke me. Scare me back. You try but you just can't. I peel the layers in my spare time, and you're easy to see through. I can fly, I've discovered on my own. I may be the lesser butterfly but my wings are just as strong. Who are you to tell me to find a place to land? I may be the lesser butterfly but baby watch me glide.