# o/~ o/~ On the Road Again.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 6, 2002, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-o-on-the-road-again/127312 "2002-09-06T18:25:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-o-on-the-road-again/127312/61 "2002-09-15T17:27:55Z")
**phantomdiver** - I shall lead you to the smileys. Go down to the last post on this page. Keep going. Past the Reply box. Past the ‘Title’ box. Past where it says ‘Options:’. And _just_ past the “Forum Jump:”. Just below the ‘Forum Jump’ box, there’s a box that says “Forum Rules”. In the right half of that box, there’s a link to [Smilies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?s=&action=showsmilies). So it’s always there when you need it. BTW, two-character smilies like 🙂 and 😉 seem to overrule ‘word’ smilies like :eek: and 🆒 - so :eek:) will give you :eek followed by a standard smiley, rather than the :eek: icon followed by a parenthesis. (I’ve disabled smilies here for the tutorial.) ---
**Author:** ![phantomdiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5e925/32.png) [@phantomdiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantomdiver)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-o-on-the-road-again/127312/62 "2002-09-15T21:51:51Z")
**Mr. Firefly** , you are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you! 🆒 phantomdiver ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-o-on-the-road-again/127312/63 "2002-09-15T22:19:56Z")
I’m sorry I missed you folks. It sounds like a great party! Also, simply because I can, **ultrafilter** , you do realize it’s your fault I missed it. After all, if you’d been able to persuade that boss of yours that one more code wouldn’t hurt the budget . . . 😉 Anyway, I’ll get down to DC one of these days, and, when I do, I’ll let you know. CJ ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-o-on-the-road-again/127312/64 "2002-09-16T00:24:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > **I’m sorry I missed you folks. It sounds like a great party! Also, simply because I can, ultrafilter, you do realize it’s your fault I missed it. After all, if you’d been able to persuade that boss of yours that one more code wouldn’t hurt the budget . . . 😉** Well, when you finally do get down here, I’ll buy you a drink. And if that isn’t incentive to hurry down, I don’t know what is. Then again, there’s a lot of things I don’t know…🙂 [sub]Where’s the vapid smiley when you need him?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-o-on-the-road-again/127312/65 "2002-09-20T14:43:44Z")
Apparently some posts got eaten during the down time, since I recall posting to this thread – and seeing it there, so the hamsters didn’t eat it (immediately, anyway) – acknowledging the great time I had and thanking everybody for gracing the evening with their presence, and in particular thanking **Tris** for dinner and the **Firefly** clan for bed and breakfast. (Freedonia has a wonderful White House; while Mr. Lincoln may not have his own bed there, the cast of Charlotte’s Web and several Russian composers do.) And I second the motion that we find a quieter venue – since I have trouble parsing conversation when the ambient noise level is high, and we had a table in the middle of the Olive Garden’s largest dining area, I know I missed a great deal of what **iampunha** and **phantomdiver** had to say, and parts of what several others interjected. Ruth is everything they’ve said, and (drawn in a dozen directions by other conversations) I did not converse with her much, though we sat next to each other, but I do hope she forgives that and I look forward to seeing more of everybody. Barb and I will definitely be making it to Dope-a-Ween, _deo volente flumines non ascendentesque_. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-o-on-the-road-again/127312/66 "2002-09-20T16:31:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Barb and I will definitely be making it to Dope-a-Ween, Yaaaaaay!!! > [@](#): > > _deo volente flumines non ascendentesque_. If I’ve heard that phrase once, I’ve heard it a hundred times, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen it in Latin. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-o-on-the-road-again/127312.md?page=3)