# Recognition of the excellent work done by the developers of this board software. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 24, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467 "2015-02-24T00:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![LouLou7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@LouLou7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouLou7)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/61 "2015-02-27T01:14:59Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > I like how you get all the little letters to fit in the little boxes so I don’t have to go outside the lines to type. I wish you’d have a word to the colouring book manufacturers. See, I think you’ve got it backwards. They didn’t make the boxes for all the little letters to fit in, they made stretchy lines. You can type as few or as many words as you want, and the lines stretch around the words to fit. (Try this at home: type a whole bunch of words and the lines go all around the words. Then delete all but a sentence, and the lines shrink back up to fit the sentence. It’s fun!) You can also take little pieces of the stretchy lines to underline just a word or two. (like this) Ambivalid, if you were on the Internet Design Team that came up with the stretchy line concept, I’d like to bake you a big pan of Internet brownies. Amazing work, sir. Just amazing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/62 "2015-02-27T01:19:19Z")
> [@LouLou7](#): > > See, I think you’ve got it backwards. They didn’t make the boxes for all the little letters to fit in, they made stretchy lines. You can type as few or as many words as you want, and the lines stretch around the words to fit. (Try this at home: type a whole bunch of words and the lines go all around the words. Then delete all but a sentence, and the lines shrink back up to fit the sentence. It’s fun!) > > You can also take little pieces of the stretchy lines to underline just a word or two. (like this) > > Ambivalid, if you were on the Internet Design Team that came up with the stretchy line concept, I’d like to bake you a big pan of Internet brownies. > > Amazing work, sir. Just amazing. > > 🙂 Thanks again. And if you don’t mind, make my brownies “special”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/63 "2015-02-27T02:10:07Z")
> [@LouLou7](#): > > See, I think you’ve got it backwards. They didn’t make the boxes for all the little letters to fit in, they made stretchy lines. You can type as few or as many words as you want, and the lines stretch around the words to fit. (Try this at home: type a whole bunch of words and the lines go all around the words. Then delete all but a sentence, and the lines shrink back up to fit the sentence. It’s fun!) > > You can also take little pieces of the stretchy lines to underline just a word or two. (like this) > > Ambivalid, if you were on the Internet Design Team that came up with the stretchy line concept, I’d like to bake you a big pan of Internet brownies. > > Amazing work, sir. Just amazing. > > 🙂 > [@Ambivalid](#): > > Thanks again. And if you don’t mind, make my brownies “special”. 😉 Ok, that’s it. I’ve remained silent long enough. I’m all for giving credit where credit is due, but the fact of the matter is **Ambivalid** had absolutely nothing to do with the Stretchy Line Concept. That was _my_ team. I’ll grant that **Ambivalid** ’s group did a fantastic job on the windows, but when it came time to integrate my team’s stretchy line concept with his team’s fitting the little window in the others concept, **Amivalid** was nowhere to be found. He was always off with this chick named Lisa, who headed up the Search Engine team. We ended up working strictly with **Ambivalid** ’s second, who helped to make for a smooth integration, despite **Ambi** ’s absence. That person also posts to this board, but I’ll leave it to him/her to reveal their identity. Later, **Ambivalid** got me fired when I publicly gave credit to his assistant. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/64 "2015-02-27T02:48:53Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > [pedant] It’s pedant [/pedant] > > If it **wasn’t** for spelling and grammar assholes like me **weren’t** ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/65 "2015-02-27T03:20:50Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > Ok, that’s it. I’ve remained silent long enough. I’m all for giving credit where credit is due, but the fact of the matter is **Ambivalid** had absolutely nothing to do with the Stretchy Line Concept. That was _my_ team. > > \<_snip_\> > > Later, **Ambivalid** got me fired when I publicly gave credit to his assistant. And deservedly so. While I am a humble man and don’t do this for the glory, I draw the line at frauds trying to steal my thunder. SLC was my brainchild and my team and I had been developing it for years. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/66 "2015-02-27T04:58:44Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > KayT, > > I’m just guessing but I think the green dot means that person is currently active and logged into this board. Really? I never even realized that. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/67 "2015-02-27T05:25:33Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Thanks guys. :)🙂 May God Bless You All What, no love for me. Damn, I’m the first one in this thread to truly recognize your efforts and this is the thanks I get? Harumph. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/68 "2015-02-27T06:25:38Z")
Just want to give a shout out to **Ambivalid** for his sterling work in providing a venue for **Charlie Wayne** to help cure my insomnia. Off to bed, but first, since he apparently can’t be arsed to finish it, here is the punch line of the famous Banana Bird joke: “The Aristocrats!” ---
**Author:** ![sich\_hinaufwinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sich\_hinaufwinden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sich_hinaufwinden)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/69 "2015-02-27T18:14:19Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > If Charlie doesn’t tell the damn Banana Bird joke I’m gonna get pissed. I don’t know the whole thing, but it starts like this: 14 k of g in a banana bird joke… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/70 "2015-02-27T18:16:32Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > KayT, > > I’m just guessing but I think the green dot means that person is currently active and logged into this board. No, that indicates whose turn it is to post. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/71 "2015-02-27T19:26:55Z")
I thought it was a Star Trek joke. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467/72 "2015-03-23T00:06:43Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > [pedant] It’s pedant [/pedant] > > If it wasn’t for spelling and grammar assholes like me, this place would be overrun with l33t-speak (Is that still a thing?) and texting shorthand. > > You’re welcome! > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > **weren’t** Not necessarily. “Wasn’t,” if referring to the correction made immediately above–allowing “would be” to cover “would’ve been” and hypothetical. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recognition-of-the-excellent-work-done-by-the-developers-of-this-board-software/713467.md?page=3)