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Old 03-11-2000, 02:03 PM
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My baby picture:
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Old 03-11-2000, 02:06 PM
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Damn. Back to the drawing board . . .
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Old 03-12-2000, 09:52 PM
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One more time . . .

http://www.members.aol.com:/rtdnc17/Franken.jpg
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Old 03-13-2000, 01:08 PM
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http://members.aol.com/rtdnc17/Franken.jpg

You musta been a beautiful baby . . . :::giggling :::

your humble TubaDiva
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Old 03-13-2000, 01:22 PM
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You guys are amazing. I've been scratchin' my head over this one fer a week now . . .

Thanks much. One more try, just to be sure . . .
http://members.aol.com/rtdnc17/Franken.jpg


Cute little devil, ain't I?
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Old 03-13-2000, 01:26 PM
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Hot damn! Life is good!

But how did I manage to evoke the 'Error' message I keep getting telling me that payment is required for this document? Was it the "www" part?

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Old 03-13-2000, 04:35 PM
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It's just you.

No, it was the "www" part.

your humble TubaDiva
Then again, maybe it was just you.
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Old 03-13-2000, 10:28 PM
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I can't tell you how relieved I am to find out that it was just me (with a bit of help from my fail-safe onboard stupidity mechanism) what evoked the evil 'Error Message'. I was afraid I might have pissed off Bill Gates somehow, and he was demanding payment.

Anyway, it isn't my fault. I was raised in a dysfunctional household, as my family portrait proves:

http://members.aol.com/rtdnc17/Family1.jpg

I mean, the apples don't fall far from the tree, eh?

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Old 03-13-2000, 10:31 PM
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1 for 4. Drat.


Back to the drawing board . . .
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Old 03-13-2000, 10:38 PM
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One more try, then I go back to me Grans scissors factory and resume me old job of puttin' in the little screw . . .

http://members.aol.com/rtdnc17/Family1.jpg
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Old 03-14-2000, 12:03 AM
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Dr. Watson, don't put a "www." in front of "members.aol.com".

Here's what you want:
[img]http://members.aol.com/rtdnc17/Franken.jpg[/img]
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Old 03-14-2000, 12:36 AM
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Old 03-14-2000, 12:38 AM
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truth

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Old 03-14-2000, 12:42 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Watson:
One more try, then I go back to me Grans scissors factory and resume me old job of puttin' in the little screw . . .

http://members.aol.com/rtdnc17/Family1.jpg

well lets see



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Old 03-14-2000, 12:58 AM
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Is it just me, again, or did the moral absoluteness of nothing just reduce this thread with an almost undetectable Zen-like vacuity?

I can barely hear it pounding down among the ruins; sad to say, I don't think I'm the only one.


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Old 03-14-2000, 11:43 AM
Arnold Winkelried Arnold Winkelried is offline
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One more try, then I go back to me Grans scissors factory and resume me old job of puttin' in the little screw . . .
Dr. Watson, the problem with your second picture (Family1.jpg) is that it's not a valid file. I would try uploading it again. (When I saved the file to my hard disk, a graphics program was unable to open it.)
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Old 03-14-2000, 04:48 PM
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Not a valid file ain't the half of it.

It tested fine when I first uploaded it a few days ago, but I just downloaded the sucker and hit the 'View Description' thing. It gave me a song list from a WAV file.

Next question. Is there a relatively secure place to upload these things to? It seems that the aol member space is wide open for jokers with too much time on their hands.

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Old 03-14-2000, 08:00 PM
Arnold Winkelried Arnold Winkelried is offline
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Dr. Watson, I personally have never had a problem with my files at "members.aol.com". Does anyone else at your house use AOL also? Maybe someone uploaded a file and gave it the same name by mistake?
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