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[User-E]

In the fonts forum, I'm usually asked by Private Message. My bad.

Lots of lonely, horny men in the fonts forum? :writing:

Bob,

You will find that we are very informal here.

Indeed - we are not required to shirts or shoes or ties or bras or even underpants.

Do you wear boxers, briefs, thongs, or go commando bob? :Battingeyelashes:

I know that papa goes commando (no surprise there), the Cardinal wears the same pair for a month before washing (no surprise there), Guido wears thongs, Transient pulls his undies down frequently, and I go commando when I'm at home, but wear panties when out in public.

:wink2:

 

[Art Mann]

Silk boxers here, Miss Sarah.

Fresh daily. You're welcome to check the veracity of that statement any time.

 

[oldguyzer]

I go commando when I'm at home, but wear panties when out in public.

:wink2:

What a coincidence! Me too :biggrin2:

 

[bobistheowl]

Q: bobistheowl, why do you use so much formatting in your posts? - T. Cruise, Hollywood

A: Some of the bold or bold italic text hides hyperlinks to sites that would get me banned, if the moderators knew I had posted them. A few link to innocuous sites like Wikipedia, and the rest are just text, with formatting. If you click on all of the bold or bold italic text in all of my posts, you might find some of these hidden links. There are no hidden links concealed by italicized text, (unless it is also bold), nor are any links embedded within un formatted words, except a couple of times in this particular post.

Do you really think the Mods on this board are that stupid, Bob?

No, of course not. None of the mods on this board are stupid enough to ban bobistheowl. On other boards, however, the opposite is true.

Now why would you speak such words?

Let me assure you, Sir and Madam, that no links to sites that would get me banned have been or will be hidden behind bold or bold italic formatting, nor behind any plain text, nor behind any unformatted text, in any of my posts.

This assumes that, at some future date, "honeypottrap.com" does not become a site that would get me banned. At present, it displays the "Server Not Found" page in Firefox. All hidden links are either informative or foolish. I was just messin' with T. Cruise, Hollywood, to try to get him to waste a lot of time clicking on formatted text in my older posts, looking for cheap thrills.

Had I actually included any links to sites that will go unnamed, no doubt the security bot would automatically spot them immediately, as it does on the site I moderate. I am hopeful that you will withhold this information from those who skipped this post, so that the three of us may laugh together, harmoniously, at the expense of some poor schmuck.

For some of the differently fast readers, the act of moving the mouse pointer across the text in my posts, looking for hidden links, will assist their comprehension level, as the cursor will change to a pointing finger, as if they were reading text on paper.

Note to self: ALWAYS check custom titles, before replying. Especially on Hallowe'en, when some of the avatars may be in costume.

 

[bobistheowl]

... I go commando when I'm at home, but wear panties when out in public.:wink2:

What a coincidence! Me too :biggrin2:

My experience has been that the majority of men who wear panties when out in public tend to be out, or just indulging a harmless fetish. One or the other.

 

[papasmerf]

I always go commando but keep a set of panties in my pocket, in case I have an accident.

 

[User-E]

Let me assure you, Sir and Madam, that no links to sites that would get me banned have been or will be hidden behind bold or bold italic formatting, nor behind any plain text, nor behind any unformatted text, in any of my posts.

This assumes that, at some future date, "honeypottrap.com" does not become a site that would get me banned. At present, it displays the "Server Not Found" page in Firefox. All hidden links are either informative or foolish. I was just messin' with T. Cruise, Hollywood, to try to get him to waste a lot of time clicking on formatted text in my older posts, looking for cheap thrills.

Had I actually included any links to sites that will go unnamed, no doubt the security bot would automatically spot them immediately, as it does on the site I moderate. I am hopeful that you will withhold this information from those who skipped this post, so that the three of us may laugh together, harmoniously, at the expense of some poor schmuck.

For some of the differently fast readers, the act of moving the mouse pointer across the text in my posts, looking for hidden links, will assist their comprehension level, as the cursor will change to a pointing finger, as if they were reading text on paper.

Note to self: ALWAYS check custom titles, before replying. Especially on Hallowe'en, when some of the avatars may be in costume.

I'm glad you clarified that about your hidden links bob. I was lying in a hot bath with Lavender scented epsom salts and candlelight just a while ago, and I was thinking about your links. To search or not to search, to click or not to click. Hmmmmmm

I've clicked on some links I wish I hadn't. Here. On. This. Board. :don'twantto-see:/


PS - there is a pic of me lying naked in a candlelit tub somewhere here, but I can't remember which thread. :search2:

 

[oldguyzer]

PS - there is a pic of me lying naked in a candlelit tub somewhere here, but I can't remember which thread. :search2:

There's also a pic of papa and madman in the same tub, and I do remember the thread, but for the sake of humanity won't disclose it.

 

[bobistheowl]

Lots of lonely, horny men in the fonts forum? :writing: Indeed - we are not required to shirts or shoes or ties or bras or even underpants. Do you wear boxers, briefs, thongs, or go commando bob? :Battingeyelashes: I know that papa goes commando (no surprise there), the Cardinal wears the same pair for a month before washing (no surprise there), Guido wears thongs, Transient pulls his undies down frequently, and I go commando when I'm at home, but wear panties when out in public. :wink2:

Lots of lonely, horny men in the fonts forum? The one where I'm a moderator is in France, where it's considered rude to be polite. I think they look for that, when they select moderators. Most of the mods there are really good at identifying fonts, which I'm really bad at. They keep stats, both for all time, and for the 30 day current period. I'm like tied for 4723rd place, with 17 lifetime, and that includes identifying the same fonts more than once, and the standard Windows system fonts, and a few others. I got 8 of my 17 last December, because I wanted to be in the year end top 30 for current, but I didn't feel the need to do that again. Some guys take it very seriously, in which case, they are probably lonely, but not[/b] horny, average guys who have nothing better to do than race each other to try to identify fonts for for people they don't know. If they were horny, they would do something more constructive with their time. So I stay away from Font ID, maybe I'm there 10 minutes a week, and 3 or 4 times a year I get one, in the middle of the night, when the Europeans are sleeping. I usually either give very long and detailed answers to people who ask dumb questions politely, and I do sarcastic ones, as well. Here are a few of my posts on the fonts board: Super Duty Sharp Heavy sounds like the name of a Japanese toy, translated by babelfish. No one ever needs a new font, you just ♦want♦ one. You don't quite know what you want, you just know that you want someone to make it for you, for FREE, because it would be 'a great help for [your] projects'. If you said: "I need someone to clear the rocks and trees from this 100 hectares plot of land, plough the ground, plant cotton, pick the cotton and clean it, for free. I need it for my clothing factory.", do you think anyone would volunteer? Here's a better idea: Sit on a street corner with a sign around your neck that reads "Need Money for Fonts". If each person who walks by gives you only 1% of their monthly income, within a few years, you should have enough money to hire someone to make custom fonts for you. @X56(#$J: If this inquiry is about your submission, 8&^G@3, don't be selling the cow just yet. What is the best way to give recognition to the creator? I wish to do so and ask for permission. That varies from Faith to Faith. The sacrifice by fire of an unblemished kid goat, calf, or suckling pig, while considered old school by most, is surprisingly well received, and may lead to Divine Favour within a fortnight, particularly in battle. The key word is unblemished; examine your sacrificial animal closely, and make sure it has not been surgically altered, (ie: no gelded, spayed/ neutered, animals, should ever be used, only breeding stock). While illegal in most countries, the sacrifice of an unweaned infant child will still appease most Elder Gods, especially if you are requesting permission to perform an act deemed illegal, blasphemous, or sacrilegious under more than one criminal or religious code. In all cases, you should be kneeling, or in some recognizable posture of submission. I think that's the only universal requirement. I hope this helps! ~bito No, Bright Eyes is Charleton Heston/ Taylor in Planet of the Apes, (1968). He won't die until the Earth explodes in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, almost two thousand years from now. Well, excuuuuuse me, Mr Nine Million downloads. You can't blame a guy for trying to shill his 2 downloads-a-day technically precise ugly font. Z8^$3, the problem you are experiencing is likely related to the embedding settings in the font(s). We need to know which font(s) is/are causing the problem(s) for someone to be able to help you with a solution. Otherwise you will just get more sarcasm from the chuckleheads. Bodoni designed the typefaces, either on paper, or for printing blocks. The people who digitalized his typefaces designed the fonts used for electronic printing. Designing a typeface is like creating art. Designing fonts is more like technical drawing, where precision, rather than inspiration, is most important. Those who design both their typefaces and their fonts are both artists and architects. As far as I can tell, you want help with the forgery of a gun license. I'm sure there are lots of people who want to help you do that. Take this simple test in Flash, to find out which typeface is most like you. I'm Corbusier Stencil Arthur, your profile says you are from the UK, but your IP address says you are from Kazakhstan. Are you Borat? A piece of cheese, two wooden shoes, and a tulip to the kat. Don't tease us, son. Review of %s('s fonts (from newest): Lemons Can Fly: Unremarkable, and somewhat of a disappointment, when compared to your earlier work. Rocketship Town: Not bad, but I get the impression that you modified an existing font to make this. If would be better if it had some punctuation. White Tie Affair: This is eye-catching, but the spacing/kerning seems to be off on the (lower case?), I. Again, some basic punctuation would improve this significantly, but it doesn't necessarily need accented characters. Valerie Hand: Not terribly different from a thousand other 'naive' hand printed fonts, but you get a bonus point for the extended character set. This one would probably look a lot better in a document or in a graphic than it does on the X(5^ character set page, but it doesn't scream out "install me!" University High: This is one of the better eroded fonts, and I like it a lot. The right spacing on the lower case i looks to be off. Once again, some punctuation would have been nice. Make Juice: This one is eye catching. It would make for a good logo font for a Metal band. Gothical: A winner. One of your best. Infected: This one had a run at #1 on the top fonts page, and not without merit. I made one of the 12 comments already on the font's page. Celeste Hand: Not terribly different from a ton of amateurish stuff on deviantArt. Gordon Heights: This isn't bad, but it looks like a hand drawn version of an existing font with minor variations. I'm not good at font identification, but it does look familiar. James Han: This one is one of your best. I could see it having a lot of practical uses. The extended character set is most appeciated, Two thumbs up. Northwood High: the W,X,Y, and Z in lower case and caps don't seem to have received the full treatment, but I could see more than a few people wanting to purchase a license for this one. It could work great in movie or TV credits. Clarisse: Me likeum. Black Casper: One of the more interesting ransom note fonts I've seen. Props. Alien Strawberry: For some reason I like this one, but I don't know why. Asian Girl: I guess this was your first font, and it shows. Overall impression: I know that you are much younger than almost all of the C(&6 designers, but to your credit, I have judged your work as a peer, rather than as an apprentice. If you are modifying existing fonts to make your own, you should stop doing that, as you no longer need to do so. Your original designs are your best ones, not including the hand printed stuff, which you shouldn't be doing anymore at this point. You can make better use of your time. ~bito You are what you eat, C6@)&, and you're a dick. From the looks of your picture, you do a lot of eating. It was about a week after that post, (these are in roughly reverse chronological order), that I was added to the mods list. There are moderators that don't stop by for years at a time, then they'll do 20 identifications in an hour, then disappear again. I just post occaisionally, about 650 since April, 2010. Imagine that the world of Typography is a , (click bold text, for image link). In the cheap section past Go, you have the amateurs and hacks, kids who think they'll get rich, but they have no technical knowledge of what the finished product should look like. Similar to the stool built by the guy who got 60 in Shop. After Jail, there would be the area I'm in. I do innovative work, but I mainly do picture fonts, called dingbats, and many people only collect alphabet fonts/ Lots of people collect fonts because they like collecting something. On my mod font site, everything can be downloaded for free, and some are free to use commercially, as well, but others have a license. All the ones I've done so far have been 100% free. They're ambitious, but not not previously of professional quality. Each one I've done was better or equal to the previous ones. Iied some experiments with grey tone simulation early on, (2007-08), but abandoned that. I can't draw anything with pencil and paper, so I draw even more poorly with my off hand and the mouse. What I do is find pictures or artwork on the Internet, resize to 280 pixel height, (96 pixels/ inch), with variable width, and I enlarge them picture to 800% magnification in MS Paint, and manually trace the multicoloured image into two colours, composed for monochrome, like this: So, essentially, I manually trace the picture. I save the red and bllue version as a monochrome bitmap, then import it into the font editor to make a vector, then edit the vector mainly by smoothing the edges by removing unnecessary points on the outline. So, I'm maybe at States Avenue on the Monopoly board of typography, but my new one is miles ahead. I've had some interesting professional usages. Film director Tyler Perry used an image for a poster in the background in one set from his movie For Colored Girls, and a prominent disc jockey from Tel Aviv uses one on his logo. My good but not great previous alphabet font was used on some microbrewery beer labels in the UK. I have about ten minutes of work to do to complete the font, (20 months working on it), and I have instructions on what to do, but they're in one of the Private Messages saved as .html that I have on a memory stick, and I haven't bothered to find it yet. Past me on the Monopoly board would be the people who make a meager side income from their fonts. They tend to release new ones quickly, So they're getting $20 bucks here and there on a variety of different designs. After Free Parking would be the elite free to download/ pay for commercial use group that makes their living from making fonts, and the graphic designers who usually don't make their own fonts, but they have greater technical knowledge than most of the designers on the same side of the board. There's some of each on this stretch. After Go to Jail would be the type designers, who create original designs, and execute the font, as well. Also in this area would be people who do custom lettering, for big clients, and the fonts are exclusive, so no one could, say, reproduce the lettering from a Campbell's Soup label with a purchased font, but Campbell's may have a corporate font, for internal use only. I'm going to go back to doing picture fonts after this one, and probably after a long break, doing other things. What I am doing, however, uses a 'new old school' technique that's completely different from the 'by the book' method. It gives amazing results, but it's a very long process. I do expect to make a fair bit of money from this new one, somewhere in five figures. Plus I'll be abe to spot my own font on store signs, books, magazines, etc. I like to take a break from it periodically. I still have a procedural guide to write. I recently re-edited a 2008 font, with one image, the head of Betty Boop. To my knowledge, this hold the world's record for tallest vector size in a font, This is what it looks like at 36 points: I think it would look good on tank topss with My Eyes Are Up Here! captioned below. If the head is big enough on the shirt, Betty's eyes would be at nipple height. I have another detailed graphic that I used for T-Shirt designs, but I'll have to search for where I saved it. On the black net fonts board, I'm very junior, but I know the right people. Do you wear boxers, briefs, thongs, or go commando bob? :Battingeyelashes: Briefs, but the longer legged ones, not 'tighty whitey', 70's NBA underwhere. Black or dark blue only.

 

[Art Mann]

Holy fuck, bob. Here's something to stick in your toolbox, doesn't matter which font

Help yourself to some of these as well:

 

[bobistheowl]

Holy fuck, bob. Here's something to stick in your toolbox, doesn't matter which font

Help yourself to some of these as well:

Art Mann, #309 was well formatted, when submitted, but I must have been at or near the limit for characters in a post, so the board compressed it, like a .zip file. It took me two hours to post that; that browser window was frozen, and I had to close several others, just to be able to select/ copy the text, or I might have had to try to reproduce it from memory.

I think the Betty Boop pic has been resized. The original is here:



What I like about the caption My Eyes Are Up Here! is that it's confusing to some men. They can't be sure if the woman is telling him to look her in the eye, or if Betty Boop is giving him tacit consent to stare at the woman's breasts.I think I would make minor editing changes to the bottom of the right eye brow, on the left side.

 

[oldguyzer]

It took me two hours to post that

Next time, don't bother. Not a single person on this board read it. Surprised?

 

[papasmerf]

Next time, don't bother. Not a single person on this board read it. Surprised?

Read what???? :rofl!:

 

[bobistheowl]

Next time, don't bother. Not a single person on this board read it. Surprised?

Read what???? :rofl!:

What a couple of muppets.

 

[papasmerf]

What a couple of muppets.

We've been found out

 

[bobistheowl]

We've been found out

I do not doubt this, and let me say, you make a lovely couple.

 

[papasmerf]

I do not doubt this, and let me say, you make a lovely couple.

No need for permission But I do thank you.

BTW would you tell Kermit I have the side of Bacon he ordered?

 

[bobistheowl]

Dude, none of this is real!!!, (except the flirting, and little bits, here and there).

Fourteen pages in, and you're still being punked. Do you also believe that you can make a lady one-third your age squirt, or ain't you never done that yet?

Who's the fool now, Mister Smartypants?

What do you guys mean none of this is real?? You mean I don't have a batcave to hang out in? What about my bat flesh light, I know that's real??

Why were you reading that? It was addressed to oldguyzer.

Do you think anyone would call you Mr. Smartypants? No, we'd save that one for the guy who bought trousers on vacation with multicoloured polka dots. I'm just breakin' your balls a little bit, that's all. Now go home, and get your fuckin' shine box!".

Some kidding aside, jokes about your pants have been known to be told.

That quoted reply was not intended for you. Now come in with me one more time on the Sunday nighter, and I promise you I will halve the juice on what you still owe.

 

[User-E]

Next time, don't bother. Not a single person on this board read it. Surprised?

I read every word. I smiled, I giggled, I laughed. It was good for me. :good:







:na:

 

[User-E]

Do you wear boxers, briefs, thongs, or go commando bob? :Battingeyelashes: Briefs, but the longer legged ones, not 'tighty whitey', 70's NBA underwhere. Black or dark blue only.

Thanks for answering my question. :smiling:

Someone should have a talk with Robintheboywonder. He wears his underwhere on top of his tights!



How did you get interested in fonts?