• (cs) in reply to olddog
    olddog:

    what a hoot... I did a google on "aaaaaaaaaaaaa" and found another site that uses this clever positioning tool.  Check out:

    http://pagesperso.laposte.net/chezwouam/usplan.php

    and highlight the text.  Or do your own google.  WOW.

     

    <FONT color=#ffffff>I can't beleive it.  This is just too funny.  It surpasses BRILLANT</FONT>

  • IdeNiRiain (unregistered) in reply to Saarus

    The real WTF is that people who need sarcasm tags are reading this at all...

  • Monty (unregistered) in reply to Code Commando

    Hahahahaha

  • Sarcasm Joe (unregistered) in reply to IdeNiRiain
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that people who need sarcasm tags are reading this at all...
    <sarcasm>I have no idea what you mean.</sarcasm>
  • (cs)

    This wtf mkes me worried tht the gentlemn who coded it hs used more thn his fre shre of a's.

    ...Oh my God... it's true... the a shortge hs begun!!! (I ws only rtioned two of them for this post... sorry bout tht.)

  • Fabian (unregistered)

    Does this bookstore also sell books in braille?
    Just imagine what it would be like to have this page read to you by a narrator tool...

  • (cs) in reply to Fabian

    Anonymous:
    Does this bookstore also sell books in braille?
    Just imagine what it would be like to have this page read to you by a narrator tool...

    "Now is time time for all good -a -a -a -a -a -a -a - *user hits PC on side to jolt-the-needle*

    men to come to the aid of -a -a -a -a -a -a -a -a -a -a -a -a *user hits PC on side to jolt-the-needle*

    ..."

  • (cs) in reply to Saarus

    Saarus:
    GoatCheez:
    John Bigboote:
    Anonymous:

    Is there a specific number of "a"s that forces a new line?  They don't seem to have the same number from line to line.


    I think they probably used server-side GDI methods to calculate the width of the string, given the font face and size, and then programmatically built the string of "a"s to the appropriate length.


    Uh, I really, REALLY disagree. If this was server-side, the programmer should be SHOT IMMEDIATELY. The method you describe requires intelligence. No one with the smallest amount of intelligence would use strings of text to break a line.

    This HAD to be a wysiwyg editor. Besides, the lines with single a's should prove that. The reason the number of a's are different is because the fonts are not monospaced.
    The real WTF is that people in this forum aren't explicitly delimiting sarcasm with the requisite sarcasm tags.

    But it is so obvious to the poster that he is being sarcastic that only a complete idiot would fail to recognize it when reading the text.

  • Used to do support guy (unregistered) in reply to Ben Adams

    Give the guy a break.  He didn't know why it was behaving the way it did and figured out a way to get it to do what he wanted without having to ask you.  Be thankful.

    captcha: knowhutimean

  • (cs) in reply to Zarel
    Zarel:

    When I first learned about HTML in school, we were instructed to use FrontPage and "never click the HTML tab because it will confuse you" (I was 8 at the time).


    Sweet mother Mary, now I feel old... when I was 8, my computer experience consisted of "Oregon Trail" on an Apple ][+

    (cue the "when I was your age, all we had were 0's and 1's, and we liked it that way!" - "what, you had 1's? All we had were 0's back in my time" comments)
  • (cs) in reply to Used to do support guy
    Anonymous:

    Give the guy a break.  He didn't know why it was behaving the way it did and figured out a way to get it to do what he wanted without having to ask you.  Be thankful.

    captcha: knowhutimean



    C'mon own up. You've been hiding for so long.
  • (cs) in reply to shinmai
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Don't mess with that, it's absolutely brillant!

    All the people thinking it's fun or whatever to refer to 'brillant' (and there are a lot of you, not specifically  picking this one out) obvious don't get it. The wtf part behind Paula is that she did NOTHING at all and managed to stay on the job. No copy-past, not 'creative' combination of technologies, no language abuse, ... just nothing ...

    Next time you refer to it, think about it for a moment, it makes you look stupid.

    </rant>

    Just because _YOU_ don't think something is funny, doesn't make it so. I personally giggle, when someone posts a well thought-up "brillant"

    Quite so. I think anyone who has been reading this site for any length of time understands what the real WTF behind the Paula - it is, as you said, the fact that she did absolutely nothing.

    However, I disagree with the idea that the 'Brillant' mis-spell is not funny. It is, as it were, the icing on the cake. Although not always used appropriately, it can be quite funny when done well.

    Does anyone else say it out loud whenever they encounter something really obtuse?

    Co-worker: This function excecutes a query to get a result set, then iterates over all N records of that result set, executing a query in that loop just to get a count of some related records when COUNT( DISTINCT field1 ) and a LEFT JOIN would've worked in the first place. Me: Brillant! Co-worker: You wrote it. Me: Brillant!

    (To be fair, I was a n00b when I wrote it. )

  • (cs) in reply to Sarcasm Joe
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that people who need sarcasm tags are reading this at all...
    <sarcasm>I have no idea what you mean.</sarcasm>

    Sarcasm tags are all well and good, but what we really need are Irony validation, since most people get it confused with Apophasis or something. How's this for an error message?

    <aposiopesis>Invalid rhetorical identification, restarting the system in...</aposiopesis>
  • Buh Foon (unregistered) in reply to RyuO
    RyuO:
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that people who need sarcasm tags are reading this at all...
    <sarcasm>I have no idea what you mean.</sarcasm>

    Sarcasm tags are all well and good, but what we really need are Irony validation, since most people get it confused with Apophasis or something. How's this for an error message?

    <aposiopesis>Invalid rhetorical identification, restarting the system in...</aposiopesis>
    apo-what? Man, you're too smart for the rest of us...
  • (cs) in reply to Buh Foon
    Anonymous:
    RyuO:
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    The real WTF is that people who need sarcasm tags are reading this at all...
    <sarcasm>I have no idea what you mean.</sarcasm>

    Sarcasm tags are all well and good, but what we really need are Irony validation, since most people get it confused with Apophasis or something. How's this for an error message?

    <aposiopesis>Invalid rhetorical identification, restarting the system in...</aposiopesis>
    apo-what? Man, you're too smart for the rest of us...

    Not likely. The most I'll admit to is a better knowledge of Wikepedia and a chip on my shoulder from a classical education. My hope is that if I sufficiently amaze CS majors with 2500yo technical terms, they'll start using them as variable names.

    What goes around comes around - as software engineers we love to intimidate non-technical people with jargon. How many times have we told them, "You can't do that, it violates DeMorgan's law! The FBI will investigate you! Not only that, it won't scale!"
  • (cs) in reply to IQpierce
    IQpierce:

    This wtf mkes me worried tht the gentlemn who coded it hs used more thn his fre shre of a's.

    ...Oh my God... it's true... the a shortge hs begun!!! (I ws only rtioned two of them for this post... sorry bout tht.)

    Great....

    Actu-lly I th-nk y-u'r- on t- s-m-th-ng.  L-ts c-ll it th- "Uni-vowel". It c-uld b- us-d in pl-c- of m-st v-w-lls, wh-r- ev-r it s--ms t- f-t. Sp--lch-ck-ng m-ght b- a b-tch, b-t c-mpr-ss--n eng-n-s w-uld l-v- it.

  • Phyltre (unregistered) in reply to doodle
    Anonymous:

    Gee, doesn't he know he's only supposed to put a link to the page in his email, not copy & paste?

    Isn't this the power of the net?

    I mean what if their hours change?



    I can tell you that having the information inside an email (versus a hyperlink) is infinitely more convenient when it comes to college stuff, at least for me.  What'll happen is, the website will change, or go offline temporarily, THE MOMENT you need to know their hours.  That kind of thing is much less likely to happen to my Gmail account.
  • Not Me (unregistered) in reply to Me

    You're an idiot :)

  • Some One (unregistered)

    i don't think that person was particulary excited about the new working hours.. ;)

    cheers

  • skor (unregistered) in reply to Some One
    Anonymous:
    i don't think that person was particulary excited about the new working hours.. ;)

    cheers



    ????? ??? ???? ?????? !!!111

  • Felix (unregistered) in reply to skor

    if you even spent any time at Texas A&M in college station...
    you would think that this was written by a Freshman.



    /
     for those who dont know...
     as a freshman.. the only form of "rah rah" type cheer you are "allowed" to do as a freshman is to raise your hands in the air and yell "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

      a sophmore can say "A-A-A-A-A"

      junior "A-Whoop!"
     
      seinor 'Whoop!"
    /

  • (cs) in reply to OneFactor
    OneFactor:

    But it is so obvious to the poster that he is being sarcastic that only a complete idiot would fail to recognize it when reading the text.

    Yeah right, I'd never recognize sarcasm.

  • (cs)

    I have found this to be not so uncommon ...  Here is a company that wanted me to come in for an interview

     

    <td align="center" valign="middle"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="7" border=0 alt="spacer">
    			<font color="#000000" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> 
    			LoVullo Associates, Inc.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    	  		6450 Transit Road&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    			Depew, NY 14043&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
    			716-856-3065&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8226;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
    			email: <a href="mailto:[email protected]"><font size="1">[email protected]</font></a>  
    			</strong></font>
    		</td>

     

  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to Code Commando

    Traveling at what speed and how much does the coconut weigh?

     

    -:)

  • HTMLOCDER.exe (unregistered)

    AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAA A AAAAA AAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAA AAA!

  • lol (unregistered)

    ok. ty. use next time
    code. then it is good. like this

    hi
    my name
    is ville.

    hi my name is ville.

  • DonaldK (unregistered) in reply to John Bigboote

    Some of the comments on this site are really lame but when you keep reading people's comments, you generally get to gems like these:

    John Bigboote:
    "a" + "a"  = "<br>" for sufficiently large values of "a".

    Hahahaha thank you for sharing that John ... very clever on SO many levels...

  • cyber search (unregistered)

    hello, i want to ask. how to disable or auto reject html code on comment page?

    thanks

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