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Wish I could join the easter bunnies on the beach .
Instead , here in the hotbed of newsmaking and newsgathering that is PM , we're considering a story about a species of owl that tries to sound macho by lowering the pitch of its hoot. You can find more about that
Thanks for your comments on Friday by the way - seems Sir Max was not widely popular though, Aperitif (6) I hope you stuck with us. Have you changed your views now that some of the 15 have sold their stories to the press? Sorry not to oblige with something on Northern Ireland Big Sis (12) but glad you all managed to hear Roberto on the listeners' slot . More of the same to come, I'm sure.
I gave up coffee for Lent. That would explain the extraordinary headaches I sustained for about a week. I don't know whether I should dare to go back on it now.... but is there life without coffee?
Marc, the new Lissa, has just taught me how to put acute accents on letters on this blog. He's got a fascinating list of tricks. You'll never guess what you get if you press Alt+0165....
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Perhaps, Carolyn, you could pass on some words of encouragement to Lord Mair re the benefits of not (over)consuming caffeine? ;o)
Could you not lift the gloom and sniping of the various newsthreads around today by doing something wonderful about N.Ireland (since you couldn't on Friday - and thanks for the acknowledgement)? It would be good to have something to reflect positive politics, healing (Let the Healing Begin! as Eddie would say) the old wounds, life after conflict, etc. etc. You are of a similar generation to me, Carolyn, and will have also grown up in a Britain dominated by the fear of the IRA bombers, the horror of hearing of kneecapping, squaddies patrolling and controlling a whole country within our shores, looking suspiciously at every package on the underground, etc. etc. Surely, surely, we should be rejoicing now that those days do seem to be behind us (at least on the Northern Ireland front)? And doesn't the progress there bode well for the potential to resolve other conflicts in other parts of the world?
It's Easter. Can we go for the significantly positive?
Pictures of Lord Mair on noliday??
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LadyP
Your comments appear on the same day that you sent them?!?
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Alt+0165? It takes me back to cafe ole, with the accents which I don't know to do.
Time for another on-line tutorial, please, someone ;o)
Thanks for allowing me to talk with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ PM and fellow froggers. Roberto
Roberto, it was great to hear your voice.
Gillian - press ALT - then (whilst holding it down and only using the numerical kepad on the right) type 0165. Now release alt and - what do you see? ? Hopefully a Chinese Yen> Bless Marc and Carolyn for sharing that.
ASCII Char ASCII Char
Here are a few useful ASCII characters to enable you to put accents onto certain letters.
131 ? 139 ?
132 ? 140 ?
133 ¨¤
160 ¨¢ 147 ?
148 ?
128 ?
135 ? 150 ?
151 ¨´
136 ¨º
137 ? 171 ?
138 ¨¨ 172 ?
130 ¨¦
251 ¡Ì
248 ¡ã 253 ?
What is even better is to hold it down and only press 1?
Now, that IS fancy
?Oooooooooo look at me exclaiming in Spanish!
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LadyP
?Oooooooooo look at me exclaiming in Spanish!
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LadyP
PS . . . and translating simultaneously into English. Now THAT is clever, BigSis :-)
Rather less clever is thinking a person has time to add another thought after pressing the 'submit' button. Hmf. (Well it usually takes AGES to go . . .)
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LadyP
I am sorry that my table in 8 above became rather muddled in transmission, but I am sure that you can sort it out with a little playing. If you want me to resubmit it (in a manner that the blog will accept, then please say so)
PS. For me Alt + 157 = ?, but I cannot find an upsidedown ? for spanish writers.
It was great to hear you too Roberto!
Mary
Jacques - that's excellent and much neater than my handwritten version at work. But I've lost u umlaut (u with two dots on it) - I've tried out lots of things but can't find it. Do you know which it is?
I have found it! Try alt + 168 ( = ?)
If you really want to know how to do an upside-down question mark, a d with a line through it or indeed a capital U with a circumflex on it, I can provide the link to the website which lists these, and many many others.
Don't all shout at once.
0191 jacques ?
Oh the fun we can have now!
As Manuel would say:
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Jacques (8) Ol¨¦! Comme ?a!
Big Sis (9) ? to you too!
NBPMarc ¡Ì Yes please
Jonnie ;o( Still can't get it.
Thank you everyone. I may be an old dog, but I can still get up to a few new tricks, with your help!
Dear Marc, Frog Prince extraordinaire:
On bended knee we 'oh so nicely' request said link.
(In Lissa's day we didn't have to ask - she'd have gladly shared. Times have changed.)
But really, Marc, it would be good to be allowed into your secrets instead of spending (wasting) hours experimenting on the numeric key pad.
Pretty please?
Right, this could be fun!!!
My deal:
????
n-n
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Gillian @ 22 and Big Sis @ 23 - your wish is very much my command. [I also ask the moderators, as the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ employed person who looks after this blog, for this comment *not* to be moderated off the thread :-) ]
Here's the address for the site which shows how you can access *hundreds* of foreign-accented letters etc
Look! I can do ? and ¡ë and ? and ?
Life doesn't get any better than this ;-)
Oh Marc with a C thank you for that, now I can type my norwegian homework instead of having to handwrite it.
As Kate O Mara the sultry one herelf would say 'mwah, mwah'.
Admin Annie - ??¨² ?r? m??t w¨¨l??m?
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I did you a special sparkly sunlounger down on the beach yesterday - it's still awaiting you with a glass of (caffeine-free!) bubbly :-)
g?????m¨ª¡ìt?€?¡ì ??
I'm escaping from SO who is watching Lord of the Yawns ... sorry, Rings with the Polish carpenter. I can't say I care for anything with wizards and goblins etc in it and that includes that little Potter fellow. I mean, there's not even a decent car chase or anything.
Still, I did get a laugh when I accidentally found that our Eastern European friend had been looking at rumpy-pumpy-sites on SO's laptop.
Think I might go to bed and miss LOTR completely as I might start talking funny ... you know ... "by the quest of marthat, bequeath thee not the wrath of qwertypoiuy (continue in similar vein for four and a half hours).
Good grief, what are you all doing? Will I ever have enough free time to try to figure it out?
Re: BigSister, ;- Who wrote:
(In Lissa's day we didn't have to ask - she'd have gladly shared. Times have changed.)
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Poor Marc, who's worked tirelessly! - And brightening up a Bank Holiday to boot!
Pop down to the beach soon and have a drink! -- Ignore BigSister and her heartless comments ;-)
Re: Gillian, Thanks for your song contribution, it sounds fabulous! May be a headache to sync it all up but hey ho!
Hi froggers
A little late and a few days away, but what a fab thread. Learnt a lot and looking forward to more contributions to the song (which is THE best, btw).
Cant write more as SO is asleep and typing wakes him - can't wait for study (only been 5 years!).
Big up to Jonnie - for reaons to noisy to mention!
[Izzy steals quietly away to bed - goodnight,one and all]
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That's what I get for alt+1
Is it cos I is using a Mac?
I think it must be, Frances O - that's what I get, too (hence my comments at 10 & 11, which otherwise make absolutely no sense whatsoever).
It IS because we is using Macs :-)
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LadyP
Marc, the Frog Prince par excellence,
A very simple, unadorned 'Thank you' to the * of the website!
Big Sis
PS The Moderators wouldn't dare .....
NBPMarc, thanks for giving us a new toy to play with ;o)
Nikki Noodle, it would seem that you also have something to share with us, please......!
jonnie - I've done it ? (I need to put the number lock on) and the latest Froggers Song contribution wasn't mine, I'm afraid
Frances O (34)
In this blog, the examples of Alt + 1 show little squares.
In an email or Word document it's a smiley (which is what it shoiuld be). I suggest you try in various formats. Does the Mac have a plain text editor?
Thank you Sequin for the very personalised feedback -- just wish I'd seen it sooner!
Thanks, Lady Pen. Spose I'll just have to go on writing in English, and not have Gossipm's fun...
Thanks for explaining the difference between bloggish and Word, Vyle
There used to be an accessory on the Mac Apple menu that was called keycaps. It gave you a whole range of different characters but has been altered with OSX to "special characters' under the Edit menu. It allows you to use all currency, maths, footnote symbols as well as Latin, Accented Latin, Greek and ornamental punctuation [ if you really must]. These can also be varied as to include Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Simplified Chinese as well as Unicode and Glyphic. If can't find it there it probably doesn't exist. You just physically move by clicking on the symbol and dragging it to the place in the script you want. And it stays on screen and allows you to use whilst writing.
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re (36) Gillian, I'm keeping my cards close to my chest !
But I can tell you this: ALT + 259 will get you ?
n-n
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Eeek! I've got it! xxx to n-n!
I discovered I was using the wrong set of numbers on the keyboard. Hmmm, well I've already mentioned that I operate this device on a need to know basis, and as far as I was concerned, all that stuff over on the right hand side was in The Land Of Mystery!
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Oh, what have you started?
NN (41) ALT 259 - the techy dating agency!
None of this business works with a lapdog :-(
All, A vast array of characters are available (in windows) via start/all programs/accessories/system tools/character map.
Chinese, Japanese, greek, accents, specials, etc
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are from the Batang font.
Hours of fun.
Happy Earser all, belated by a week under the stars while oven-building and cooking wild food (and considerable bought in stuff)
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ed
EdI: Sounds like your's was more a Happy Eater!
I wouldn't care to be wild life in your neck of the woods, though ..... ;o)
Sis,
The only animate wildlife we ate was a brace of roadkilled pheasants and a roe buck who happened to stray into the sights of the vermin control ranger.
The children (there were fifteen between 5 and 14) who were on the 'wild food' exercise were most impressed by the smallness of the deer's anus, and one went round all the adults showing it and how if one squeezed it the bean-sized turds appeared....
A four year old took great pleasure in chopping off the head of an already-dead pheasant with a billhook. A number participated in the plucking. All good, healthy confrontation of the nature of the stuff we call food.
Everything we eat was once living tissue. We are all made of fallen leaves.
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ed
Regarding the young lady in Ireland who is pregnant with a fatally disabled baby. Abortion is the destruction of a life but in cases like this the life is short , perhaps painful and this tradition of the Irish attitude shouldmbe overriden.