Comments on: More tips & hints on a good post

More tips & hints on a good post

ObscureReferenceMan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:55:07 -0800

Since I can't be an example to others, at least I can serve as a stark warning...

I thought I'd call myself out on this post. So kids, in the future, make sure all the links you provide can be accessed by everyone. That is all.

By: empath

empath — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:06:33 -0800

eponysterical?

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:08:05 -0800

And of course you're not posting to metatalk in order to draw attention to your own deleted post, right? 'Cause my hint and tip is that such an action might be contrued as poor form.

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:17:06 -0800

Honestly, hadn't thought of that. Just like it didn't occur to me that non-members couldn't access JREF forum threads. I can be a bit of a dolt at times. But, hey... live and learn.

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:17:59 -0800

We all like immediate access to the goods.

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:18:06 -0800

Lay off the guy, he made a mistake and he's owning up to it. No need for pitchforks.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:22:32 -0800

I was going to say add this advice to the wiki but it's already mentioned there.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:23:35 -0800

But Pitchy is itchin' for a forkin'! Why won't you let Pitchy fork???

*grumbles as he puts away pitchfork.*

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:23:55 -0800

It's a good thing to keep in mind. We've had problems with posts before, across a range of similar hiccups: subscriber-only forums, regionally gated sites, awesome but not-open resources like JSTOR et al, registration-required news sites, and so on.

As a safeguard, checking all your links from a computer you don't personally use (or maybe even just from an alternate browser on your own system—I keep Opera around for this sort of thing) can often show you where content that you personally can access isn't available to Jane Mefite.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:29:40 -0800

That shit is stark!

By: jefbla

jefbla — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:39:01 -0800

It was a stark and warning night ...

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:49:26 -0800

If you use Firefox, there is an extension called IE Tabs. You can use that to view the current tab in IE, which is useless if you want to see whether the link works if you're not logged in.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:54:43 -0800

Useful?

By: The Deej

The Deej — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:55:11 -0800

I did that once, I think, and quickly added a comment with login info. It's not hard to do when your browser automatically logs you in every time. In fact. I've gone to sites on other computers and was shocked when I was asked to log in. When did they start that? Oh... never mind.

So, yeah, thanks for the reminder. Now you're banned. Have a nice life.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:03:59 -0800

This wouldn't be worth a callout if you weren't calling yourself out. It's not a big deal, friend. Don't sweat it.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:13:14 -0800

No pitchforks, hrm. Can I bring my spork?

By: CautionToTheWind

CautionToTheWind — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:21:22 -0800

I would have tasered you.

By: jamaro

jamaro — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:21:23 -0800

Perhaps your grapefruit spoon.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:26:01 -0800

Not the grapefruit spoon! Ahhh, anything but that! I tremble in fear that it will destroy my pulpy goodness!

Hrm. If I ever need a sock puppet, it's totally going to be grapefruitspoon.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:26:25 -0800

Useful?

Uh yeah. I constantly amaze myself at my ability to type words that are almost correct (and spelled correctly). I think my brain is a little short-circuited. (Also, I typed "braine" in that sentence.)

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:28:17 -0800

Uh yeah.

Yeah, I just wasn't positive it was the likely typo because what if your point was that the IE Tabs trick (which is brilliant) somehow failed utterly despite what you'd expect, etc.

Not the grapefruit spoon!

Tell me, do you sing? Because I've never heard a grapefruit croon.

By: pineapple

pineapple — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:33:55 -0800

If it did, that'd be a grapefruit tune.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:34:02 -0800

If she grants your wish, it is a grapefruit boon.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:36:40 -0800

I do sing! And my favorite bird is the rare grapefruit loon.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:38:52 -0800

Now members will start doing the grapefruit swoon.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:43:41 -0800

I don't think these jokes are going to stop any time grapefruitsoon.

By: slogger

slogger — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:45:23 -0800

That's because we have a bunch of grapefruit goons.

By: sotalia

sotalia — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:46:09 -0800

Maybe tomorrow by grapefruitnoon

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:46:31 -0800

Probably not until grapefruit June...

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:47:26 -0800

How many jokes are from the grapefruit hewn?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:56:02 -0800

If quonsar were here, he might say something about grapefruit FOON.

But he's not.

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:58:24 -0800

The Spice Girls must flow on the grapefruit Dune!!!

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:11:25 -0800

Lay off the guy, he made a mistake and he's owning up to it. No need for pitchforks.

A need only for pancakes, yes, for panckaes.

By: Pants!

Pants! — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:12:40 -0800

Why don't we call shovels pitchspoons?

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:12:53 -0800

A Google search on my typo -- panckaes -- yields 871 results.

By: pseudostrabismus

pseudostrabismus — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:22:20 -0800

If the spoon seems too blunt, try a grapefruit harpoon.

By: sotalia

sotalia — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:29:52 -0800

But those have been outlawed in grapefruit Cameroon

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:46:42 -0800

I put the seeds in my grapefruit spittoon.

By: quin

quin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:50:59 -0800

My secret society identifies ourselves with grapefruit runes.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:54:44 -0800

I'd enumerate various details about the lineage of certain melons, but that would be too grapefruit jejune.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:06:28 -0800

I am in awe of you all, you grapefruit buffoons.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:10:57 -0800

I'd write something ridiculing you all but that would be a grapefruit lampoon.

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:18:53 -0800

I met a bluesman named Grapefruit Calhoun

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:32:08 -0800

(Also, I typed "braine" in that sentence.)

Q. What do zombie cosmologists desire?
A. Braaaaaanes!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:35:01 -0800

Grapefruit is a noun...

D'oh!

By: Pants!

Pants! — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:40:30 -0800

you'll get squirted in the eye when you read a grapefruit cartoon.

squirt in the past tense sounds so wrong

By: jefbla

jefbla — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:44:04 -0800

In my attic, there's a grapefruit raccoon.

By: sotalia

sotalia — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:02:45 -0800

I like a grapefruit pantaloon.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:34:18 -0800

Flagged as "Other"

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:37:49 -0800

The amount of jokes in here has turned into a grapefruit typhoon.

By: whir

whir — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:46:59 -0800

Stop this rhyming now, I mean it.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:03:16 -0800

Stop this rhyming now, I mean it.
posted by whir

Sure.

By: quin

quin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:27:11 -0800

Wait, what? I can't see anything, it's all a blur!

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:29:38 -0800

Stop this rhyming now, I mean it.

Anybody want a peanut?

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:42:07 -0800

Wish you were her.

By: birdsquared

birdsquared — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:51:31 -0800

Arrhhh, make it a pirate (a dread pirate?) joke, and I'll pay with a grapefruit doubloon.

By: heeeraldo

heeeraldo — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:50:29 -0800

the sort of pirate that travels by grapefruit pontoon?

By: finite

finite — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:19:48 -0800

whir's just not sure we're not all baboons

By: aihal

aihal — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:31:49 -0800

If anyone needs me, I'll be reclining in my grapefruit saloon.

By: finite

finite — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:50:30 -0800

¿Tienes pomelo Cancún?

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:13:17 -0800

I sure do love me some grapefruit poon.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:45:59 -0800

All of these jokes about me, I'm starting to feel like a grapefruit baboon!

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:52:34 -0800

Don't feel bad. To cheer you up, have a grapefruit balloon.

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:58:12 -0800

Wish you were her.

Weather is here, wish you were beautiful.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:49:19 -0800

Time for a cheeseburger in paradise.

By: flod logic

flod logic — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:37:37 -0800

I'm moving to the desert to start a grapefruit commune.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:44:00 -0800

Ha! Enjoy your no healthcare, no electricity, mind-numbing grapefruit chew'n.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:52:35 -0800

The desert floor will be grapefruit seed strewn.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:49:49 -0800

Oh maiden, wear thy grapefruit shoon!

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:26:01 -0800

You could say this thread has gone obliquely citrus, or grapefruit skewn.

Or not.

and yes, languagehat, I know the proper form is 'skewed', but I thought at least this was less cringeworthy than using "skewin(g)"

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:30:40 -0800

Just all foragin' in the desert for food, like some arid, modern-day Daniel "Grapefruit" Boone.

By: deborah

deborah — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:33:42 -0800

Pamplemousse!

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:34:22 -0800

Pamplemousse!
That's the name of my cat!

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:38:20 -0800

Better in the desert than in the capital of Saskatchewan. That town sure is a horrible place to find grapefruit, Saskatoon.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:53:53 -0800

I have an outfit made entirely out of crepe, and I plan to be wearing my crepe suit soon.
...and wendell raises the stakes!!!

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:56:56 -0800

I am pleased to announce I have cornered the market and am now a grapefruit tycoon.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:01:19 -0800

JESUS FUCK STOP YOU FUCKERS

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:01:44 -0800

oon.

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:06:21 -0800

Looks like today is another lazy grapefruit afternoon.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:11:22 -0800

Your pleas have no effect. We are grapefruit immune.

Someone please stop me before I post again! I can't stop myself, even if it is picayune.

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:12:09 -0800

Relax, dersins. Here, have a grapefruit macaroon.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:03:41 -0800

It's me, Lord Sludge. I got no grudge, ain't gonna judge, wink and a nudge, might eat some fudge. And sittin' by my side is my main lady, my Marsha Brady, you can't imitatey, my ace boon coon, my brand new tune, my Vi-dal Sas-soon, my Looney Toon, my Daniel Boone, my ancient room, my big bal-loon, my wrinkled prune, my gold doubloon, my cat in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little Boy blue and the Man in the MIS-SOON -- it's Grapefruit Moon!

Yo, G! Tell 'em how you feel!

Um, this might help.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:09:04 -0800

Listenin' to LordSludge at the grapefruit lagoon! Can he play the bassoon?

By: ooga_booga

ooga_booga — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:16:58 -0800

LordSludge ain't no bassoon-playing grapefruit poltroon.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:18:39 -0800

LordSludge, I never meant to grapefruit impugn.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:39:39 -0800

I'm joining the Grapefruit Platoon!

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:54:44 -0800

You will be deployed in Rangoon. Just watch out for the grapefruit monsoon.

By: Karmakaze

Karmakaze — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:57:37 -0800

Hrm. If I ever need a sock puppet, it's totally going to be grapefruitspoon.

You realize you've just about guaranteed someone else is going to grab it before you, now?

By: aihal

aihal — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:45:50 -0800

I can't take it any more - I'm off to curl up in my grapefruit cocoon.

I once shot a man in Reno 'cause they cancelled Firefly...

By: finite

finite — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:11:01 -0800

Drugs affected by grapefruit include Rapamune and Sandimmune
could this explain the booming (blooming?) popularity of Grapefruit Brown Zune?

By: M.C. Lo-Carb!

M.C. Lo-Carb! — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:14:41 -0800

"Round this time of year, I get a hankerin' for a Lorna Doone.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:26:05 -0800

I'm honestly disappointed noone did yet use dragoon.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:34:36 -0800

I was going to link to some LOL CATS emails I got from Mildred, the lovable housebound crank who often sends me old-fashioned chain letters, but then I remembered my email account is password protected and you would never be able to get in.

That is all.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:46:04 -0800

I am sorry erstaz; to your feelings we shall try to attune.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:50:12 -0800

Out in the forest is the mysterious grapefruit raccoon.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:26:37 -0800

I think this is going to be the thread with the least favorites.

By: finite

finite — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:44:20 -0800

To speakers of gloom, this thread is grapefruit doomed.
For dersins has just worsened what whir could not cure
as cartoons, like bazooms, once forbidden allure.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:03:00 -0800

I am sorry erstaz; to your feelings we shall try to attune.

You make me so angry my face is maroon
I'd better calm down and go make a festoon.

j/k

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:08:02 -0800

Shall we declare this thread closed, or is it too soon?

By: tehloki

tehloki — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:05:27 -0800

self-callouts are a callout-worthy breach of callout etiquette. i hereby call an emergency in-callout-thread callout!

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:42:47 -0800

not likely, cortex started it.