Ask bobistheowl!

[peace]

:no:

 

[User-E]

Is bob inviting all his friends over, or just inspiring total strangers to sign up and start posting? Hmmmmmm

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

If you put down the reefers then you wouldn't need the nail!:LMAO:


I'm the same, I lose everything and find it when I don't need it!

Reefers!!.........Try budder Guido

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Just had to do it didn't ya,lol.....

 

[bobistheowl]

Is bob inviting all his friends over, or just inspiring total strangers to sign up and start posting? Hmmmmmm

Almost everything has always been permitted in Ask bobistheowl!, Sarah. Drivel is encouraged. I don't need to be here. I just answer whenever someone uses a question mark, sometimes many posts later, unless they're on Ignore.

The only thing that's not permitted is when someone else answers my mail, and as you know, that is a serious crime in this thread. One of the two perpetrators has already been disciplined, to a limited extent.

That explanation was on one of the early pages, with lots of bold formatting in the post, probably on page 3-5 range, maybe 6, but probably not. I did not need to explain that opening other people's mail is a felony crime. I had only to establish that anything posted in Ask bobistheowl! is considered to be mail, and that's been done a number of times.

It is my prerogative to prosecute offenders within my jurisdiction, when I chose to do so. If you were the offender, for example, a few unbuttoned blouse buttons might constitute sufficient remorse, if you were not fibbing about having a C cup.

The other guys, who thought flying at half mast was a reasonable behavioral facsimile, were self deluded, or misinformed. Their motives matter not to me, only their manifest behavior. At minimum, they knew what they were doing was a severe breach of etiquette, to which I claim my right to redress, and I don't mean clothes. Once I've tamed the pony, I'll start training the jackass. He's stubborn, and he's got those huge teeth, like someone from Great Britain, but he makes a lot of mistakes, and I'll work on that first.

 

[Cardinal Fang]

I didn't like Bob's answer to at the risk of being disciplined by him I'm going to answer this question.

Is bob inviting all his friends over, or just inspiring total strangers to sign up and start posting? Hmmmmmm

YES.

 

[papasmerf]

I didn't like Bob's answer to at the risk of being disciplined by him I'm going to answer this question.



YES.

Are they visible?

 

[Jasper]

bobistheowl, sometimes I see an old font that I really like but I have no idea what it's called.
Is there a place I can drop in for an inexpensive type consultation?

 

[Madman]

Dear Bob,

I've been trapped in a crate by an elf looking creature who now is thinking of serving Betsie. Who does one call to have this said evil elf castrated? Secondly, where can I get a couple of prunes and a cold black coffee?

That is two question marks which means I get priory over Jasper's lonely question mark!

 

[peace]

...Magic word may motivate someone to answer your question...

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

Magic word for castration?! Fershame! Lol

 

[Madman]

...Magic word may motivate someone to answer your question...

ERl,,UM is your name BOB??

DO YOU KNOW IT IS A FEDERAL OFFENCE to read someone else's mail??

PRIMO arrest PEACE and bring Amy along in handcuffs but leave Amy in my room!

 

[peace]

Primo, please bring Amy to my place.......we are waiting for her....Much appreciated and many thanks.

 

[papasmerf]

Bob,

Should I order 2 or 3 of these for next year??

 

[bobistheowl]

bobistheowl, sometimes I see an old font that I really like but I have no idea what it's called.
Is there a place I can drop in for an inexpensive type consultation?

Jasper, if you had an image that contained text of the font you wanted to have identified, the answer is yes. If you wanted to have it identified by a written description of what it looks like, the answer is no.

Let's suppose you wanted to know which font is used for a the brand name on a carton of Sealtest milk, or a font similar to that - "Sealtest" could be custom logo lettering, not available to the public. You'd need to scan the milk carton, and upload an image, or find an online image, and copy the URL.

You could then go to any of a number of sites, where people identify fonts for strangers. One place is whatfontis.com, another is www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont. I think you can use those two services without being a member of a site that has a font identification forum

You could also sign up for an account at abstractfonts.com, or at dafont.com, and post your image and question in their font identification forums.

There are guys on the abstractfonts and dafont forums who compete against each other to be the first to correctly identify the font, because statistics for correct identifications are kept. They will also usually be able to tell if the text is a font, or is custom lettering. If it's a common font, it might be identified within minutes. If it's obscure, it might go unidentified, or take most of a day, or until someone who recognizes it logs in. If it hasn't been identified within 24 hours, there's about a 90% chance that none of the identifiers knows what it is.

I do very little identifying, because I make fonts, but I hardly ever use anything other than Bookman Old Style Bold, or Courier New, if I'm writing a screenplay, because all screenplays are submitted in Courier New.

 

[bobistheowl]

I didn't like Bob's answer to at the risk of being disciplined by him I'm going to answer this question.



YES.

Cardinal Fang, if a post in Ask bobistheowl! contains a question mark, DO NOT quote the question, and give your own answer.

You can do anything else, including "re: #875, Yada, yada, yada...". or something like that. Small talk is encouraged, as small talk often includes question marks, and I answer those, as if there is a search bot that's looking for question marks in unanswered posts.

If someone asks a question, but doesn't include a question mark in the post, feel free to answer those yourself, anytime. You can also comment on any answer already provided, and if your comment contains a question mark, I'll answer it, even if you were asking the question to someone else. I have explained that previously, on one of the early back pages of this thread.

 

[bobistheowl]

The elevator doesn't go up to the top, does it Bobby? That's OK, half have to be below average, by definition. Guess you got the short straw...:-Cool/"

It is necessary to walk up two flights of stairs to get to the roof.

 

[bobistheowl]

American or Canadian? I presume you meant a REAL beer, so the latter?

Canadian beer tastes better, and has a higher alcohol content. American beer, in cars, is easier to crush against one's forehead, when the can is empty. It depends on why the beer was purchased, or stolen.

 

[bobistheowl]

Dear Bob,

I've been trapped in a crate by an elf looking creature who now is thinking of serving Betsie. Who does one call to have this said evil elf castrated? Secondly, where can I get a couple of prunes and a cold black coffee?

That is two question marks which means I get priory over Jasper's lonely question mark!

Madman I don't know who Betsie is.

If you want to have an elf castrated, you could take him to a Scottish sheep farmer. They use their teeth.

If you wanted to have a smerf castrated, I would suggest you hire a microbiologist, or anyone with a strong grip with one hand, and a pair of tweezers in the other.

 

[bobistheowl]

Magic word for castration?! Fershame! Lol

Abracafuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!