Major Issue With 'Smilies'

Gentlemen-
I have recently noticed that, when posting my usual drivel, usually the smilies work just fine.....ie, I locate the appropriate smiley that EXACTLY expresses the emotion I am feeling at that particular instant (I'm not a very emotional guy, and my range is decidedly limited) and, due to the wonder and magic of the worldwideinterwebnet, it magically appears in my post, and I can proceed on my blissful way....



....however......there are times when the magic fades....and no matter HOW many times I click on the ginning face, it just sits there grinning at me....I sit there and click and click and mindlessly click (I've heard it said that one definition of insanity is the repetition of the same action with the expectation of different outcomes....whatever)....I've tried gently coaxing the smilie into my desired postiion, I've tried firmly, and with authority, clicking the mouse button....and I have even degenerated into working myself into a frothing tizzie, madly pounding away on the mouse button with a balled up fist and blood veins bulging in my forehead....all to no avail.

My question is simple.....






....do I need a bigger hammer?

-whatever

-Lou

The answer is simple lou, yes!:D

You might also try firefox! when I first came to SRP I was using Safari and I couldn't use the smilie function until I switched to Firefox!:):D:p:o:y:tu

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Originally Posted by JMS

You might also try firefox! when I first came to SRP I was using Safari and I couldn't use the smilie function until I switched to Firefox!:):D:p:o:y:tu

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...but....but.....Micro$oft didn't write Firefox.....is it LEGAL to use something that Micro$oft doesn't make like a gazilliion dollars on while using Window$ (which $uck$, I might add)????...can this BE???....Bill Gate$ left the back door open???....



....no way!


-whatever

-Lou

I cant answer for Microsoft:nono:, I use Macintosh!;):D:cool::y:roflmao

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Originally Posted by JMS

I cant answer for Microsoft:nono:, I use Macintosh!;):D:cool::y:roflmao

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I've never used a Ma¢intosh...


-whatever

-Lou

EDIT: ...and PLEASE....don't get me started on my impressions of Window$....I believe it's adequately documented elsewhere on the forum!

I've got just the thing....


http://straightrazorpalace.com/srp_images/hammer.gif

Try switching web browsers and see what happens!

";":thinking::shrug:

I can 'Copy' and 'Paste' them, but, well....I'm basically a lazy guy with a short fuze and a low tolerance for frustration....sometimes, my experiences at the keyboard tend to degeneratie to, well.....this...


http://straightrazorpalace.com/image...sis_Stress.gif

-whatever

-Lou

:roflmao :roflmao

I think you've got gremlins Lou :shrug:

Are you using the smilies over on the side, or the smilies from the drop down menu at the top? Does it make a difference?

James.

Gentlemen -

I just wanted to mention that Azjoe is scary-good, and we're fortunate to have him...


...he just got to me via PM and recomended some personal browser fixes (although I thought that his recomendation that, in the future, I forego my morning wake-me-up martini was a little unreasonable!) that work like a champ!....


...see!


:y :y :y


who's the man???....

JOE da'MAN

:bow :bow :bow

-whatever

-Lou

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Originally Posted by Jimbo

...Are you using the smilies over on the side, or the smilies from the drop down menu at the top? Does it make a difference?

James.

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That's a good question....I always use the smilies on the side....to be honest, I didn't even know the drop-down smilies existed...next time it happens, I'll check that out...


-whatever

-Lou:w

NOTE: I just checked....the right-side smilies didn't work, but the drop-down did!

NICE FIND, Jimbo:bow :bow :bow

jeeze...it's nice to be surrounded by friends!

Mac user here too, but many, many years working on Windows.....

"Windows - the world's favorite boot sector virus!"

"Outlook - the world's only interim patch with a GUI"


Greg

I was going to suggest an offering to the browser gods. It's not unlike the Christmas Eve milk and cookie bribe. Just leave a chicken, salami and cheddar cheese sandwich on your keyboard overnight and if the offering is acceptable your smilie problems will disappear! Hmmm.... I'm getting hungry. :)

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Originally Posted by Agamemnon

I was going to suggest an offering to the browser gods. It's not unlike the Christmas Eve milk and cookie bribe. Just leave a chicken, salami and cheddar cheese sandwich on your keyboard overnight and if the offering is acceptable your smilie problems will disappear! Hmmm.... I'm getting hungry. :)

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Well good grief....there's enough spilled beer and cheetos crumbs in my keyboard to throw a major toga party for both Olympus AND Valhalla!

[ on a side note....there was this big party up in Valhalla....all of the Norse gods and goddesses and nymphs and nympets were there and it was generally a wild time....anyway, the next morning, they all started waking up in the party hall, and when that big hairy one....the one with the big hammer....you remember....anyway, that guy wakes up, takes a bleary-eyed look around, raises his hammer and pounds it on the ground and bellows

'I'm Thor"

and the little nymphet sleeping next to him opens one eye, rubs her head and says

"I'm tho thore it hurtth to pith!"]

-whatever

-Lou

ya gotta love a nymphet with a lisp!! :roflmao:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao

:roflmao

BTW...are there more smilies, like on Badger and Blad? The GUIs look the same......

Lou, have you tried slaughtering a fatted calf as an offering?

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Originally Posted by JMS

Lou, have you tried slaughtering a fatted calf as an offering?

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In his case, it might take a hecatomb.
:p

-Michael

Euclid would be proud!

:D Well, whaddaya know? I don't usually have trouble with the smilies, but this was still rather informative, as I didn't ever realize there was a pull-down option in the "go advanced" box. ;) Cool!