Damn forum rules....whyyyyy???? :(

Ah. Patience you need, young Themis.

And, perhaps, a respect for the efforts of others.

What we have here is a finite resource. With a lot of users. The time limits are an artifact of the vBB software, for reasons cited above. The “edit” disabling was done by the Administrators because the ability to edit was being abused by people trolling.

The rules are there to allow equitable access to the resource we have here and prevent its abuse.

(The above written after I thought this through and decided to give a straight answer; my first impulse was to post “My thread’s breath smells like hamster food.” :))

Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor, the above is a frivolous abuse of the perfectly respectable piece of punctuation, comma.

And here’s a B for good measure;)

[sub]My thread’s food smells like Polycarp’s breath:D[/sub]

No, it isn’t, Pun. Torgo is a restrictive phrase (single words can be phrases) in apposition indicating which specific respectable poster Bosda is speaking of. As such, it is properly set off from the preceding phrase to which it is in apposition by a comma. Note that this is only the case when one is appending a name in apposition after phrasing implying that there is more than one person who fills the bill.

Like this:

“Our resident vBB expert, Arnold Winkelried, says…” implies that we have only one resident vBB expert, who is Arnold. “Our resident vBB expert Gaudere says…” implies that we have more than one vBB expert but that Gaudere is one of them.

“That would involve a hack to vBB code that the Reader tech. staff is loath to do, according to our resident vBB expert, Arnold,” does not specify how many resident vBB experts we have, but only that Arnold is one that we do have.

Themis wrote:

Some of us can. Look to see whether the word “Moderator” appears under your user name.

You’re in COLLEGE?! :eek:

Sir, you don’t even know me offline. Of course I am.

Themis, lucky for you this OP preceded your newbie thread, where jjimm gave you some good advice regarding your OP here. To wit:

Of course you are, sir.

“Son, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.”

I’ve always wondered if people who are banned first go on double secret probation.

See, you never hear about it because it’s double secret.