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(5 replies, posted in PagePlus)

I'm sorry, Sandy, but I'm afraid I can't even persuade PPX9 to play an embedded video in a PDF file at all, never mind including a control console! Perhaps someone else here will be better placed to help you.

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(417 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Joe wrote:

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in.

His statue is 17ft 4in.

That’s Horatio of 3:1.

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KarenPL wrote:

Thanks, Alfred. I'm never sure. https://punster.me/images/wink.gif

It sounds as though your attitude is like mine, Karen. It’s easy enough to log out of a site to find out what you can see and/or what features you can use, but then you’re faced with the terrible tedium of having to log back in again!

KarenPL wrote:

I don't know if the Twitter post will show for people -
https://x.com/maria_drutska/status/1762 … 75396?s=20 but this is the Mentor application form mentioned in the post.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp … form?pli=1

You don’t need to be logged in to Twitter to view the tweet, but I’m pretty sure you do need to be logged in to a Google account to fill in and submit the form.

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(417 replies, posted in General Discussion)

https://punster.me/images/laugh.gifhttps://punster.me/images/tongue.gifhttps://punster.me/images/laugh.gif

How’s that for originality?

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(417 replies, posted in General Discussion)

A blonde walks in a bank to get a loan. “I need to borrow $100 for a month,” she says.

The banker frowns, but takes her information anyway. He runs her credit but can’t find a report. “I’m sorry,” he says, “but in the absence of a credit record, we’ll have to charge 20% interest on the loan, and you’ll need to put up collateral.

“What does that mean?” the blonde says.

“It means,” the banker says, “you’ll have to repay us $120, and you’ll need to give us something more valuable to hold onto until you pay us back.”

“Something more valuable?” the blonde says. “How about my Ferrari?”

The banker nearly snorts his coffee all over his desk, but he prides himself on customer service so he soldiers on. He runs the title on the Ferrari and what do you know, the blonde owns it free and clear. “Okay, he says, “I’ll print out the papers.”

“Just so I understand,” the blonde says, “I give you my Ferrari and you give me a hundred dollars, right? And then in a month, I give you $120 and you give me my Ferrari back?”

“Yes,” the banker says, “that’s the deal.”

She signs the paperwork and hands him the keys. He counts out $100 for her and watches her saunter out the door.

A month to the day later, he’s sitting at his desk when the blonde saunters back in. She hands him $120 and says “I get my car back, right?”

“Yep, he says as he hands her the keys. She turns to go but he stops her. “Miss, I really have to ask, why did you use a $140,000 car as collateral on a $100 loan?”

“Oh!” the blonde says. “I got called out of town unexpectedly on business. How else can I park a Ferrari for a month in Manhattan for only $20?”

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(82 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Vakblad wrote:

Alfred thank you very much for setting this forum up!!

Thank you very much for joining my merry little band, Louis!

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(1 replies, posted in General Discussion)

William wrote:

So there is two uses.

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William wrote:

Suggestions can be serious or humerous as long as they would work.

Am I allowed to mention elbows? https://punster.me/images/unsure.gif

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(9 replies, posted in MoviePlus)

pberk wrote:

Bravo Alan Clark.  Well done all round.

Ditto. And ditto.

pberk wrote:

I didn't know anything about Gus Elen -- and that's a great big shame.

Oh, very good!

I see from the Wikipedia article about him that he “had packed eggs for the Co-op before becoming a singer.” I’m mildly disappointed that the author of the article passed up the opportunity to write that he had packed eggs from the coop for the Co-op.

Thanks for the link, Paul. As you say, an interesting piece.

pberk wrote:

I don't understand the French

YouTube’s auto-translated closed captions (CC) aren’t too bad. By default they’re at the bottom of the video, so they obscure the French subtitles that are included in this one, but you can simply drag them to another part of the screen if you want to be able to see both.

To enable CC, click on the icon to the left of the Settings cog in the control console. When you click on the Settings cog itself you should find that Subtitles/CC is set to ‘French (auto-generated)’. Click on that option to display a menu where you can change it to ‘Auto-translate’, and then scroll down the list that pops up until you find English.

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(20 replies, posted in PagePlus)

Robert N wrote:

yes, I am now on the mend

It's good to hear that.

Robert N wrote:

Age certainly doesn't come easy.

No, it certainly doesn't!

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(20 replies, posted in PagePlus)

Robert N wrote:

Please accept my sincere apologies. I would like to thank those of you who reviewed my query and offered answers. I am late responding due to an emergency abdominal surgery I had to undergo.

You're welcome, Robert, but there's no need for apologies. It's not your fault that you had to undergo emergency surgery!

Robert N wrote:

My apologies, I will make sure it doesn't happen too often in the future. Robert

It's good to know that you intend to do your best to make sure you don't need emergency surgery too often in the future. I hope you're recovering well.

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(9 replies, posted in MoviePlus)

A great little video clip, Alan. Thanks for sharing!

William wrote:

Thank you for posting in this thread to help me.

Well, to try to help you! I’m glad it’s back to the way it used to be; I don’t suppose we’re likely to find out what went wrong.

All very strange. Thanks for the update!

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(417 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Sandy wrote:

"I am so glad I am a professional accountant and not a professional archaeologist"
"Why's that?"
"I have a friend who is an archaeologist and his life is in ruins!"

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(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

GB wrote:

the primary stress should be on the first syllable

And, according to my dictionary, the "o" should be long as in "mope", not short as in "got" (or "myopic").

Biopic is ‘bio-pic’ but myopic is ‘my-opic’, so it doesn’t surprise me that the ‘o’ sounds may be articulated differently.

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(4 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

William wrote:

I had never heard of Toki Pona before.

I heard of it a long time ago, but I never really looked into it. I couldn’t even have told you its name if I hadn’t read it here!

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(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I’ve always been tempted to make it rhyme with myopic, but (as you say) it’s actually a contraction of ‘biographical picture’. As such, the primary stress should be on the first syllable rather than the second.

William wrote:

Please write a poem about a delicious meal made from a pack of organic chopped tomatoes heated in a microwave cooker and a pack of plain white Basmati rice heated in a microwave cooker.

<pedantry>
The word basmati is from Hindi, and it literally means 'fragrant'. Since it isn't a proper noun, it shouldn't have an initial capital.
</pedantry>

I think the resultant poem is actually quite good, as these things go.

William wrote:

I think it is something to do with choosing where to locate the menu bar of Microsoft Edge.

William

Perhaps your machine was set up with a menu bar before it was shipped to you. I don’t think MS Edge has a menu bar by default, which is where the ‘Proper Menubar’ add-on comes in.

There is an option to invoke Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge, but I’d be pleasantly surprised if that were to result in the UI changes that you’re looking for.

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(417 replies, posted in General Discussion)

One for Karen:

https://i.postimg.cc/2byCFPKJ/Richard-III-Camping-Goods.jpg

If you haven't updated MS Edge recently, are you sure you weren't previously using a different browser such as Internet Explorer?

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(9 replies, posted in WebPlus)

If your web host supports PHP, as most do, there are many scripts that you could add via the 'HTML Fragment...' option on the Insert menu.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+password+ … +web+pages