Where is the rest of my question?

January 10, 2004 4:46 PM

I wanted to post a question to AskMe, which I see ok in preview but when I hit post, only 1 sentence of it comes up and I get a 404 page saying the rest of it can't be found, etc. I'm using Mozilla 1.4 on Windows XP but I tried it in IE6 and the same thing happened. What am I doing wrong?
posted by Lynsey to Bugs at 4:46 PM (7 comments total)

Ok, I figured it out myself. By accident or design, I wasn't allowed to include any links in the question. Perhaps that's against the spirit of AskMe. So I managed to post my question without links.
posted by Lynsey at 8:22 PM on January 10, 2004

what's a nudie suit anyway? it makes you appear to be naked but you're not?
posted by amberglow at 8:24 PM on January 10, 2004

Darn it - if AskMe would have allowed me to put in hyperlinks, I would have been able to show you there! However, here is a link to the man himself,, plus a site that shows lots of his friends/customers wearing them. Having a Nudie suit, originally made for country western stars, was the epitome of Rhinestone Cowboyhood for a while, then when bands like the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, etc. started blending in country and bluegrass to their rock sound, Nudie suits became the height of hippie glamor for a while, too.
posted by Lynsey at 8:48 PM on January 10, 2004

ahhhh : >
posted by amberglow at 8:51 PM on January 10, 2004

you can put in links just fine, just write the html.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:42 AM on January 11, 2004

I did the html by hand, just as I did in my post here. I swear to god it didn't work right earlier, but I just tested it now in AskMe preview and it works right. I knew other folks were able to post AskMe questions with hyperlinks in them so I figured I must have been doing something wrong. So thanks, mathowie, it must have not been a bug, but a feature, right? ;)
posted by Lynsey at 12:50 AM on January 11, 2004

Great suits btw Lynsey.
posted by ginz at 5:36 AM on January 11, 2004