**Back by posture and remand — which sufficiently rhymes with popular demand — *ASPA ANSWERS[i/]questions of grave import.
*Yes*, this thread has been exumed...
I know, it kinda *stinks*---just like most market-bound carcuses before they are deliciously disguised and neatly packaged.
*ASPAs quality guarentee:* All replies will be neat and delicious, given "fresh," after several intriquing questions are made.**I have two questions. First, who taught you how to spell? And second, does your mommy know you’re on the computer?
Just tell us what you WANT. 
Please do not feed the troll.
Why don’t you just go away?
Profanity is the crutch of the inarticulate mother-fucker.
Please do not feed the troll. At all.
Wally, I’m not so sure about this one. He’s been hanging around GQ for a while now.
He’s a weird one, no doubt about that. And he certainly could use some time in “About This Message Board” learning how to format. And a decent spell checker wouldn’t kill him.
But some of his answers have been helpful, and a few have been hilarious. So I’m withholding judgment for now. He posts too much, and posts too much nonsense. But this one might turn out to be trainable.
NYC IRL III
is on April 15th. Do you have what it takes?
manny, I bow to your good judgement, as always.
By the way, need a sig?
Dubbed The Skunk of Holes by some putz who’s name I have fortunately forgotten.
We just want to know what he WANTS.
As soon as I learn how to nest all quotes within one repy post, I will addres these many questions. While question marks are silent in some posts, never have I seen so many questions which probe so aimfully and directly for answers to critically important matters. Thank you for sharing and letting me share. I never forget important points from the past, and this will help in providing answers here. Anyone wanna tell me how to nest quotes; I asked elshere, but completely forgot which thread I used—again!!!
Um, manhattan, if I may ask . . . yer kidding, right?
I mean, pattern matching and meaning are quite different things. This looks less like the ‘sound of one hand clapping’ than a positively zen-like vacuity.
Sigh. All right ASPA, I’ll give manny the benefit of the doubt. Ration this answer: What is the color of wind?
Dr. Watson
“This is this.”
ASPA, Do you mean, “How do I use the automatic ‘reply’ copy-and-paste function to answer different questions from different people in a single post?” If that is what you mean, then I have to say that I don’t think that it is possible. (However, I welcome enlightenment on this point.)
As far as I can tell, clicking on the “reply with quote” (the letter with a red arrow at the top of a post) only allows you to “reply with quote” to that one particular post. If you want to reply to several different people in a single post, I think you just have to use the regular copy-and-paste function of your computer to put their words into your document (that’s up at the top under Edit).
And if you want all the different quotes to appear as indented paragraphs the way the “reply with quote” function does, then you have put in the quote/unquote with square brackets commands (see the UBB tutorial–it’s in the FAQ.)
It’s not hard–hey, if I can do it, anybody can!
The only thing is, you have to have TREMENDOUS attention to detail, otherwise if you leave out a bracket or something you get the kind of thing you’ve probably seen in other people’s posts, where you see a “/b” all by itself. That just means that somebody left off a square bracket.
But, like I said, I dunno for sure. Maybe there IS a way to nest quotes; I’ve just always used regular copy-and-paste if I want to answer more than one person.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen
Nope, he’s a troll.
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Nope. Deal with it. It’s just two stupid little tags.
I must at least at this time say thanx to Notthemama. (When I say “nest” I refer to what Joe Cool accomplished in his thread somewhere; can’t recall topic now.) Notthemama, thanks for all consideration. I most appreciate how when you described the posting problem you mercifully did not underscore as one of my own, but instead as one I may have seen in “other people’s.” I’ve greatly improved. Maybe someone will enlighten us on “nesting” or whatever it should be called.
Dr. Watson, before answering your question, I should offer that the answer may require pattern matching and nonsense. In other words, you may get two qualitatively excellent responses in one. This would be based on your calculation:
Actually, rather than using edit, I believe it’s easier to highlight the text then click the right mouse key. That pops up the ‘copy’ with less keystrokes.
SUE! (thanks for the note.) Do you know what time it is. How come you’re still up and in the net!? No, no, …not the time of this immediate post—the time of your own.
: :one eye leering::
Just what is your point ?
Seems to me stranger you are here to spread confusion. So clarify your intentions or get the hell out. If you need instructions on posting there are plenty of ideas in “About this MB”. Sheesh if you want to be taken even slightly seriously learn about the ins and outs prior to starting convoluted threads.
If you’ve half the sense Manny seems to think you do, you may consider what I have said. Meanwhile I shall be smacking myself around for FTT.
Hmmph.
“Empty stares from each corner of a shared prison cell . . .” Pearl Jam
He sounds like stereo instructions translated from Japanese.
It’s my duty; my duty as a complete and utter bastard.–Arnold J. Rimmer.