Evil giraffes at that!
I was once sharing my screen with a remote coworker, and the SDMB was up in the background (I’m on a Mac). I was showing him how to do something in Photoshop, and it wasn’t until 5 or so minutes in, I realized at the very bottom, right below the photoshop window, you could see only one of the thread topics, and that particular one had something to do with penis sizes, or something. This was a couple years ago or so.
Oh, how we laughed once I cleared that up.
Get ready for the urine test.
Well. That’s why our Dopefests got more fabulous.
Also, you reneged on one. **Tracyfish **reminded me of this fact recently.
Back when I was a working fool, I thought about the policy that computer use was monitored.
Then I thought about how long it took IT to answer a repair ticket.
Then I thought about coworkers either porn surfing or day trading.
Then I decided I wasn’t going to worry.
~VOW
I certainly did. And I’ll make it up, by holding an even more fabulous one than the one I didn’t have! But you have to promise me you’ll wear those lime-green hot pants.
Seconded.
Tripler
“Yes, put it all on Mister Adams’ tab.”
That could lead to some interesting exchanges…
TDN: Hello, are you a “Friend of Cecil”?
GARY: Why yes, he gets me the “Straight Dope.”
COP: Okay, you two - hands where I can see them!
Actually, I’ve already got that one! That’s what I call the sidebars in my Who Pooped in the Park? books.
Yeah…NO.
Everything I do on the computer at work goes through a Federal Government Citrix portal, even the items on my desktop and email are not local but on some remote system somewhere.
I do not access anything other than work sites at all on their machine. I wouldn’t even check the weather lest I end up sitting in the HR dept listening to “you were logged on the weather.com at the same time 'Serious Incident A ’ happened that you should have been aware of.”
Anything I want to read or look up on the web at work goes through my Android phone. And I do not go through their wireless hot spot either.
Call me paranoid, but call me employed. 
I suppose the only appropriate name change, if there were ever a need, would be to call it the Teeming Millions Message Board.
Luckily I don’t work for any State or Federal organization!
And now for my trademarked straight answer while everyone else is having fun:
If I ever had that problem, I’d just block the banner image. Would you be able to do that without getting in trouble?
So you cleared that up by explaining that you were just really interested in dope and penis sizes?
If it’s over-the-shoulder reading of the big blue/yellow banner that’s the problem, you might be able to get your browser to block that particular image.
I guess I should mention that, when I was in college (the 70s), “dope” was universally understood to mean marijuana. Or “dope”, as we called it.
‘The Dope Bag’ was a section of the NRA’s magazine which gave information, usually about new products and services.
Why don’t we rename it to the straight derp?
I just did that.
It never even occurred to me what anyone would think about seeing “The Straight Dope” on my browser at work. Better safe than sorry though.
And how might one go about doing this? I can block *all *images from the site, but then I lose the thread icons and so on. That’s no good.
Dope comes from the Dutch language and literally means dip.
I wish!:mad:
If you have Ad Block Plus, right-click on the image. One of the choices on the menu will be “AdBlock Plus: Block image…”. Click on that. That brings up the filter rule dialog. Under “look for pattern” there are several patterns to choose from. You want the most specific one, which is at the top of the list. Select that pattern, click “add filter”, and you’re done.
If you don’t have adblock plus, get it.