# Y'all Are NOT Gonna BELIEVE This....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2010, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500 "2010-01-03T08:05:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/1 "2010-01-03T08:05:58Z")
… but I just posted a long response to **Oakie’s** response to ME, and I’m getting this INTERNET IS NOT RESPONDING message and do I wanna close the program? FUCK NO! That whole thing took me 20 minutes to write, and now it’s all greyed out with that fucking circling ball sitting in the middle. WITF can I do about IE shutting me down all the damn time??? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/2 "2010-01-03T08:08:15Z")
Switch to Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/3 "2010-01-03T10:44:17Z")
Copy\> close program\> reopen program\> paste? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/4 "2010-01-03T13:40:17Z")
He can’t copy. It’s greyed out. He’s probably closed it, cursed, almost threw something at his computer and thought better about it, cried, had breakfast, and retyped it by now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/5 "2010-01-03T18:03:47Z")
Everything but the “cried” and “retyped” part, **Onomatopoeia**. 😉 I’ve learned that when **Oakie** gives you good advice, it’s best to STF about it and take it! 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/6 "2010-01-03T18:17:20Z")
Aw shucks, now yer making me blush. 😃 My laptop sometimes has a mind of its own. It apparently decides that I don’t really need the tab I’m working in, so it will just close it. Other times, it will mysteriously hiccup and vanish half the text from a post I’ve been typing. In theory, I suppose that could be caused by my fumble fingers hitting the wrong button, but I prefer to assume it’s caused by demonic possession. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/7 "2010-01-04T04:00:44Z")
You can always try the old standby of writing all your stuff in Notepad, and then pasting it into the box. That way if IE goes down, you still have your stuff. If you used Firefox, you could use [Lazarus form recovery](http://lazarus.interclue.com/), which automatically saves anything you type in a form. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/8 "2010-01-04T04:43:15Z")
If I know I’m going to create a lengthy post I’ll type it in Word and paste the copy into the message board when I’m done. Word’s auto recover has saved my butt many times. ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/9 "2010-01-04T16:50:11Z")
Last time this happened to me I hit ctrl-prtscrn to get a pictorial copy of what I had typed. I pasted it into mspaint so at least I could just copy type it in again from the screen grab. But writing it into notepad first is a great idea. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/10 "2010-01-04T17:49:34Z")
Is this a common problem with IE? I have never once had that happen. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-are-not-gonna-believe-this/523500/11 "2010-01-04T18:03:49Z")
I don’t know how common it is, but I’ve had the message board/browser freeze on me a couple of times mid-message, and let me tell ya, one time I almost threw my keyboard through the freaking wall, so I’d say it happens often enough to have caused me to type my (lengthy) messages offline first, and then paste in.