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Characters Who Should Pop Up in the Comic Again
Black Sword:
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--- Quote from: mike837go on 22 Mar 2011, 10:59 ---Actually, I'd like Jeph to do something outlandish that includes the local cops again!
When they arrested the Vespavenger and offered Steve and Marten a beer AND a toke on some weed! Comedy GOLD!
Or when they PARTICIPATED in the beer sledding! It took me almost 10 minutes to get off the floor and stop laughing.
[Sombody, please tell me where the spellcheck is]
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Use pretty much any browser other than Internet Explorer and you'll have an automatic one (it's built into Firefox, at least).
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Pretty much this. God, I hate using IE at work.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Odin on 22 Mar 2011, 11:34 ---Use pretty much any browser other than Internet Explorer and you'll have an automatic one (it's built into Firefox, at least).
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I totally didn't know this. My first reaction was that it would not help me any way, as my Firefox installation is Finnish. But the tiniest bit of googling told me that there's an add-on that allows you to switch from one dictionary to another on the fly. When I find the time I might try it out. Don't know if I can stomach a program second guessing me all the time, though? I have turned off all the language checking in M$Office SW, because ... it just doesn't work together with a lot of symbols and formulas.
DSL:
I'm sure everyone has a spellchecker horror story, but I just want to share my favorite, from early in my former newspaper job: Our first spellchecker program didn't recognize the word "jacuzzi" and a normally meticulous editor (not me, at least not that time) had automatically hit "replace" one too many times ... so we told the readership that a church singles group was having a "swim and jackass" party. That program also liked to translate one city councilman's last name as "Migraine."
Carl-E:
One of my best friends, an English professor, used to edit an international agricultural journal when she was a grad student. In an article on the production of brazil nuts, the author apparently misspelled "warehouse" as "wharehouse", because the spellchecker caught it and corrected it - the result was
"...the nuts were spread on the whorehouse floor overnight for drying..."
tomart:
Let's start a Raven Fan Club!
At times, she was almost as endearing as Hanners . . . I like her worldview.
Good idea, to have her and Marten cross paths (oops, is that a shipment? Sorry!)
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