Is this a blank thread?
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
Does this mean that I have passed the first trial of n00bness?
[ March 12, 2004, 06:48 PM: Message edited by: HRE ]
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
NOT AGAIN!!
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Aren't you the clever one Posted by pajeba (Member # 5656) on :
nice, I have never actually seen a blank thread until now
Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
I never figured it out, but I never spent much time trying to figure it out. *shrug*
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Congratulations, HRE. Now to finish the quest, you must explain the historical role of Thor.
*thumbs up!
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Blank all-right... I was just thinking (it hurts, so I'll stop it in a minute): how on earth can you do a dobie of this one ?! Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Um... it doesn't look blank to me. I see one hyphen in the thread title.
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
Oy. I haven't seen an invisible thread in a while.
I guess we just have to wait until this hits 50, if it does.
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
Thor - Short for "The Hijinks of Ralph." Ralph was and is a time-traveling angsty teenager, who is responsible to most of the catastrophic events known to man.
He influenced Satan in the Garden of Eden (who was really just a good guy who had a disagreement with God beforehand), fed beans into Mt. Vesuvius, causing the destruction of Pompeii, and he was solely responsible for The West Virginia Computer Crash of 1986.
Ralphie is also responsible for the smaller disasters of life. While not on the catastrophic scale of worldwide plague, these evils hit individual people, or all people on a small scale. These include:
-Toilet Paper that falls the wrong way -All of the Darwin Awards -Michael Jackson -Macaulay Culkin -Static Electricity
Ralphie's works can eb indentified by his trademark "signature," a single atom of Element 333, "Disastrous," left behind in the rubble.
Posted by John L (Member # 6005) on :
Not even close, but you have time to study.
Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
Why would it look blank to some people and not others? Different fonts installed or something?
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Can we have a party?
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Mass hallucination?
edit: in response to Jon Boy
[ March 12, 2004, 07:11 PM: Message edited by: Rappin' Ronnie Reagan ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Getting in here was a chore. I guess I'll never not be a noob.
Good work HRE.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
I can just click on the thread title to get in here.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Wow, it was hard to find this. I'm going to add some meaningless posts so that at least we can click on "1".
Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
That's what I was thinking, RRR. You and John have obviously been smoking something.
[ March 12, 2004, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: Sarcasm ]
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
I'm the underground phat party bloodhound
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Hush little baby, don't say a word Papa's gonna buy you a mocking bird
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Hey, I was referring to all the people who thought it was blank, not myself.
edit: I think you're the ones smoking the wacky tobaccy.
[ March 12, 2004, 07:16 PM: Message edited by: Rappin' Ronnie Reagan ]
Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
Of course you were. *pat pat*
Poor crazy RRR . . .
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Hey, we haven't had a blank thread in a while. Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Just to prove I can get in here if I want. Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
Well, I think there's one thing we can agree on: Speed is definitely doing the wacky tobacky.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
So how did others make in in here? Is there some trick I am missing or... is it the same way I came in.
It was exciting. I hope there isn't a really obvious way that I missed.
[ March 12, 2004, 07:18 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
But it's not blank! Aaahh!
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
These woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome wraths outgrabe
Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
Go to a thread above or below it on the page, and then click on the Previous or Next buttons.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Beware the jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch Beware the jubjub bird, and shun That frumious bandersnatch
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I finally figured out how to get in here!
Posted by pajeba (Member # 5656) on :
I changed the thread number in the address bar, but I suppose that's the long way...
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
He took his vorpal sword in hand Long time the manxome foe he sought Till rested he by tumtum tree And stood awhile and thought
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
yay! I got in here with little effort!
I just want to know...how did you do it?
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
And as in uffish thougt he stood The Jabberwock with eyes of flame Came whiffling through the tugley wood And burbled as it came
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
One two one two, and through and through The vorpal blade went snicker snack He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy Oh frabjous day, callooh, callay He chortled in his joy
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
'Twas brillig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome wraths outgrabe
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Once upon a midnight dreary While I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
While I nodded, nearly napping Suddenly there came a tapping As of someone gently rapping Rapping at my chamber door
Only this and nothing more
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
It's blank on my list.
Somebody said that was impossible now, but I guess they were wrong.
Cool . . . now don't do it again.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Is this Speed's way of celebrating?
And I'm writing this off to mass hallucination on all of your parts. I'm completely sane, thank you very much.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Ah, distinctly I remember It was in the bleak december And each seperate dying ember Wrought its ghost upon the floor
Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
We're not the ones who are seeing things that aren't there, RRR.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Ah, distinctly I remember It was in the bleak december And each seperate dying ember Wrought its ghost upon the floor
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I used the method Sarcasm described.
Just one question: I thought someone had complained that the code had been changed and no one could make empty threads. Is that true? And if so, did HRE just find a new way to make them?
Ok, more than one question.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Eagerly I wished the morrow Vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow Sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore
Nameless here forevermore
Posted by pajeba (Member # 5656) on :
It looks blank to me on the thread list deal, but it shows a hyphen in my Back button.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Oops, now that it is 2 pages, I can just click on it!
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Oh, good. We've got numbers to click now. My work here is done.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Rats, didn't make it in before page two. I guess I'm just gauche.
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
One way to get a bunch of replies....
quote: Not even close, but you have time to study.
Do I at least get some creativity points?
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Ahem. I am not hallucinating.
Evidence: Here is the main page of the forum, and you can see that the thread is titled "-".
And clicking on that brings me to the thread, and the title on the top of the browser window is clearly "-".
So there.
Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
So you Photoshopped a couple of screen captures. So what?
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
What browser is that?
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
Well, I am obviously still a very newbie-ish newbie, cuz I didn't know how to get in here till there were numbers to click on.
[ March 12, 2004, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: digging_holes ]
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
... ... ... It's Safari.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Well, now that the numbers are here, everyone can read how to get into an empty thread. Great newbie education!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Actually, since he's on a toy computer, I wouldn't be at all surprised that his Mac renders ANSI codes differently.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
TOY?! HE?! HIS?!
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
How the heck did you all get in here?
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
quote: Go to a thread above or below it on the page, and then click on the Previous or Next buttons.
Well I guess this makes me the dumbest newbie yet. I never even thought of that.
*goes and hides in a corner, not to emerge again for the next 200 years till all present-day Hatrackers have passed away and no one will be alive to know about my humiliation*
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
I feel very special.
What is my next challenge that I must pass to evolve from n00bness?
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Okay... so in mozilla there's no hyphen. In Internet Explorer it's an upside-down ^, and in Netscape there's also no hyphen.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
RRR: Mozilla and any Netscape 6 or higher is basically the same thing.
-Bok
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
HRE:
The first thing you have to do is stop asking if you're a n00b.
Then you post in threads making fun of those newer than you. Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Wow, I was using Mozilla, but it does seem to have been much easier in Explorer. Silly me.
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
HRE
Posted by Sarcasm (Member # 4653) on :
I'm using IE, and I don't have a hacek instead of a hyphen. It's just blank. Except in the window title, where the hyphen actually shows up.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
what's all the fuss about, eh?
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
well done HRE
*presents HRE with pizza to celebrate*
I just clicked on the space where the title should have been and got in straight away! Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Guess I made it too late.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Whatever happened to Twoson Paula?
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
So, HRE, you aren't going to tell us how you made the empty thread to begin with?
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
(hugs Speed)
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Actually, even though it looks blank to me, I can actually click on the blankness.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Kama, now I can click on the empty title too, but back when there was only one page I couldn't. And I used the method of changing the thread number in the address bar, since it seemed the obvious thing to do As for how HRE did this, it's a mistery to me... I tried several things, none of them worked. It's just a matter of finding the *right glitch* in this type of forum...
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
Its not a "glitch" at all. Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
Interestingly enough, you can click on the blankness *or rather unicode character that isn't very well represented.* in IE, but not in FireFox.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
I've been experimenting on an old thread that I started that has dropped off the first page, and I've finally figured out how to do it. Good work HRE. Don't worry, I'm not sharing your secret.
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
So, who is Thor?
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
HRE:
I like your explanation of Thor better than anything these folks are likely to come up with.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
How come every noobie feels obligated to do this?
And HRE, you still haven't answered the question "Who is Thor?"
Here's another one: Who is The Silverblue Sun?
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
In the "Word of the Day" thread, Bob posted the following on January 31, 2002:
quote:Silverblue Sun provided us with a post that was the Rosetta Stone needed to aid in deciphering all those previous Thor posts.
It looks like Thor was already history two years ago. I guess Thor was tough to understand.
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
quote: How come every noobie feels obligated to do this?
"Tradition! Tradition!" -Tevye
Give me a day to be creative. Its midnight here, and I don't think you want any of those early morning "creative ideas."
John: Whats this in the blender? Bill: Beer, eggs, and pickles. John: Dare I ask why? Bill: It seemed like such a good idea at two in the morning...
[ March 14, 2004, 12:14 AM: Message edited by: HRE ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
The Silverblue Sun is Thor. He got a job in a bookstore last September, and we haven't heard much from him since. All the women here at Hatrack thought he was hot and were continually asking "where is Thor?"
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
I'm working on the real question as we speak.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
I hope you find it soon HRE. I'm stuck in a quagmire of Jack Chick religious tract parodies.
Thor's first name = Jason?
Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :
i know who Thor challenged
just haven't been able to work out what and who won Posted by peterh (Member # 5208) on :
Ela, CT threw down the gauntlet to post a blank thread and figure out the details of Thor in a Newbie post that I'm to lazy to link for you.
Thor is the Silverblue Sun.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Yes, Ela, I was the very devil. The newbies should have told me to get myself behind them. *hides head in shame
cochick, you know about the challenge? Great!
quote:It looks like Thor was already history two years ago. I guess Thor was tough to understand.
Thor occupies a unique place at Hatrack, and it's his for the duration of the forum. Although we always seem to work out our differences here (with a few notable execptions that prove the rule), with Thor, the turnaround was nothing short of unbelievable from all involved. Hatrack changed to fit him and appreciate him just as much as he changed to fit Hatrack -- and both without losing any of their own peculiar and interesting characters.
Marvelous. I only wish it could always be like that.
[ March 14, 2004, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
quote:the turnaround was nothing short of unbelievable from all involved
Oh great, I've gone and joined a cult. Next thing I'll find out that you're all living with Bo Gritz in some compound in Idaho.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
*makes secret hand motions at the other inner-circle cult members
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Bump
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
code:
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[ March 17, 2005, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: scottneb ]
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
You forgot the semicolon
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
I fugured out the answer to my own question.
[ March 17, 2005, 01:09 PM: Message edited by: scottneb ]
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
MMmm...the glory of threads long past...
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
How did you find this thread? What did you search?!
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
You know, you can just click on the page number to get in this thread. Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I don't mean that. I mean how did he search through all the threads to find the thread without a title?
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
Eruve, when the thread is only one page, it doesn't show that. The point of the thread was killed when it went to page 2.
[ March 17, 2005, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: scottneb ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I don't mean that, either. I know about these threads, I just...
I mean, how, using the search function, did he find a thread without a topic/title or a discernable word that would find this topic?
Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
...and that's a very good question. I tried searching for the title () and it brings it up but I can't click on it.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
quote:How did you find this thread? What did you search?!
I bookmarked page two in my browser back when this thread first appeared, and I wanted to figure out how it was done.
Just now I tried a search using a keyword that appears in this thread. You get search results, but nothing you can click on (unless you're using the Safari browser, I guess).
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
Hehe...skillz.
It was just &#!73;
Where the ! was a 1.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
HRE, that's what I figured from viewing the page source. Did you have to try a bunch of special chars before you found one that UBB wouldn't display on your browser? There's over 128 special chars, yet you seem to have come up with the only one that works.
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