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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:20, archived)

Well, my little lovelies

I am dreading my next phone bill, cos I'm only on a dial up.
Vulga has gone home. And Gimpy is still asleep on the sofa, so I'm off to bed.
Night night.
See you in Tron Land soon, no doubt. :o)
Glad you liked the Spacefish wav.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:19, archived)

One for you as well..

Spacefish
Sorry, I was a bit too close to the mike though!
RAHHH in your ears

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:10, archived)

woo!

thankyou! that's great!

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:18, archived)

This is what that crocodile sounds like...

Crab Bloke

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:00, archived)

i couldn't be arsed turning the cd player off to hear that...

it goes remarkably well with aphex twin - polynomial c.

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:04, archived)

really is

very cool indeed. woo! i want one.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:05, archived)

Oh!

Very good.
Such a childish toy but it's great.
Maybe I'll get a Barney next and twist him up.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:07, archived)

barney scares me shitless.

i saw a computerised barney in dixons once. it just stood there, repeating "i'm barney, let's play" or similar. little kids would walk up to it, and stare at it for ages. mind control, i tell you.

it's only now as i come to relate the story that i realise how i too must have been staring at it for ages. *shivers*

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:13, archived)

buy a shirt and stop b3ta collapsing

this is joke - the post below this is seriousmental clothes for mentalists

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:49, archived)

christ the holey saviour biscuit

i think I can sort b3ta out (host wise and stuff) but none of you slack ho's has got back in touch with me... will someone who runs this piece of dadaesque photo babble get in touch with me about traffic, memory etc on [email protected]... cheers (and I am not post pub, I am just a twonk who is chatting about ham on messenger with my mate in Saltdean) good night now I love y'all...

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:45, archived)

OY You're in Brighton

Well, Hove ACTUALLY.
DELIVER ME SOME BOOZE TO SNAKE MOUNTAIN.
CHILDREN IN NEED

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:51, archived)

Michael tries to sell Kit

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:29, archived)

Michael swaps Kit for something with a bit more class

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:03, archived)

just needs a finishing touch...

there!

No sleep til Brooklyn indeed, Nacho. I just found some Strongbow, so that's me sorted til 4am.

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:16, archived)

Well, I think I might go

to bed when this film finishes, but Vulga is still asleep on my sofa!
Then again I kept saying I was gonna go to bed last night and it didn't happen till 6.30.
No booze in the house though. Not good.
There's a place in Brighton that sells a crate of vodka for £50 at this time of night, but that's a bit extreme for just me and I'm skint anyway.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:20, archived)

steal vulga's wallet!

steal his wallet!

(um. sorry, vulga.)

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:21, archived)

I don't do things like

that!
I'm nice.
However, if he had booze I would see that as a fair tax for falling asleep. But he hasn't.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:23, archived)

that's good.

meanwhile at my residence, ginger wine has brought its presence to my attention. i swear, i have no idea how it got there!

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:29, archived)

Actually

If there was someone else here to share the amusement, I think I would start drawing on them or sellotaping eyes cut out of a magazine to his eyelids or something.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:31, archived)

No booze!

it sounds like waking nightamre. a living hell. poor nacho!

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:30, archived)

BORED BORED BASTARD BORED

Coffee just isn't what I'm after. The most exciting drink I have in the house at the moment is a cappuccino.
Where have you lot been tonight anyway?
Actually my mate who lives round the corner might be having a right old sesh at the moment.
Do you reckon I should see if he is and go round there?
I stay here and boredly watch the sleeping cuddlers?
Dilema

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:35, archived)

Up to you

chicky babe. I just listened to eminem & dr dre vs the sugababes on radio cartel, and it was fan-fucking-tastic. woo. Is vulga's blood alcoholic? You could always try drinking that.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:38, archived)

I'm vegetarian.

HA can you imagine his suprise though, if he woke up to find me with a razorblade at his forarm collecting a wineglass of blood?
His blood has got vodka in it, but as far as I know, no more than mine.
Bunch of pussies, these Sussex boys!
Spacefish, are you in Brighton?
DELIVER ME SOME BOOZE

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:42, archived)

i'm in edinburgh,

and i throw like a girl. alas, there is no way i can transport booze to youse.

i'm vegetarian, but i'd make an exception for human blood once in a while.

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:44, archived)

Knocked out

equals vegetable in my book. I reckon drinking the blood of a vegetable is no less vegetarian the drinking the juice of some celery. go on, drink his blood. You know you want to.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:44, archived)

YAY veggie kerrooo in da house.

And after my ranting the other day I found out that Haloumi is vegetarian - I was told it wasn't. That pleases immensely.
Nah, I so don't want to drink his blood.
Ooh, they're awake. Ooh, Vulga's awake and the boyf is back to snoring

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:48, archived)

Woo

hello to vulga from me. has he got any spare blood?

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:53, archived)

OI!!!!!

I've just about surfaced (vulga here btw) and my blood is very much mine, thankyouverymuch... I could spare a little... no, no, I'm keeping all of it... so there... and... yeah....

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:56, archived)

go on mate

just half a pint. please. go on. you know you want to slit that artery.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:00, archived)

(nat - go to top of page for wav)

vulga - half a pint? that's nearly an arm full. I'm not losing one of my arms just to satisfy a crustacean. Well, being slightly crab-like myself I'm afraid I can't... People call me "the crab" at my local and there's even the picture from my profile up there behind the bar, honestly, come to Brighton and see (not for my blood)

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:04, archived)

Oy wait here for a minute or two,

I'm gonna record this crocodile thing speaking after saying "Crab Bloke" and FTP it.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:58, archived)

cool

sounds great. woo!

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:01, archived)

ARGH

Are you watching that?
She stabbed that old lady good and proper.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:43, archived)

hardly a dilemma,

you should undoubtedly go round there and get plastered.

I've been coding all day (mmm, fun) and am relieving the stress by having a wee drinkie. Went out last night though, which was good.

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:40, archived)

OH NO!

Sleeping, cuddling I can deal with.
Snoring....shut UP!
Right, that deserves a cigarette taxation.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:38, archived)

hehe

your right it needed that !
Do you have the original pengiun pic ? (and does that penguin have a name?)

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:31, archived)

i think it's called

Woo Clicky.

And he lives here.

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:36, archived)

fantastic

thanks!

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:41, archived)

this may sound ridiculous

and i may leave myself open to ridicule but what about contacting someone like adobe to link/advertise on here...i mean if this isn't the ideal site to highlight the capabilities of photoshop with polar bears, crabs et al then i dunno what is!!I know thats not what this site is all about but an assisted b3ta is better than no b3ta...its what makes work bearable!

(kingkongzdong, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:56, archived)

Yup

that's the kind of thing we need- a big corporate who would be prepared to give us bandwidth in return for exposure among a relevant userbase. Not sure adobe would wantto help usout- there's allsorts of issues with copyright violation in almost everything we do, which is a problem

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:09, archived)

the bandwidth is the killer

Ive got lots of space, probably enough for b3ta but i think only get a 5000mb transfer a month, which aint much. How much does B3ta go through a month? I also just looked up how much a servor would cost - the yearly cost is feasable but when they want 3 years in advance its a bit scary.. hmm damn bandwidth

(scabby dog, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:46, archived)

Yup

I would have thought we'd need a couple of hundred gigs a month to be honest- that costs, unfortunately, in the real world.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:58, archived)

yeah

i just wish the damn provider would be more helpfull in telling me how to upgrade my bandwith - why do these companies always have to be cagey and hide prices?

(scabby dog, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 21:11, archived)

Erm, maybe not such a good idea...

...since everyone who asks where to get photoshop gets given directions to warez pages.... 8o)

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grinfish redux I can remember when all this were eels, Sun 24 Feb 2002, 12:15, archived)

Hi chaps

I spent today with a brutal hangover, which I have now cured with booze. Thanks for all the nice posts- and special thanks to wifey for the multiple purchases. Re the b3ta thing- I'm sure we'll work out a way to keep it alive. It's a funny one for me because rathergood will die too if this falls over. I may resort to pleas on rathergood maybe, see if that helps. I reckon, one way or another, we'll get it to work out. I also need a job, which is a bit of a downer. Sorry about being so down last night, but I had a pretty negative conversation with rob as you probably gathered. He's much more plugged in to the general running of b3ta than me, and I hadn't realised how bad the situation was. Oh well. Really all we need is server with loads and loads of disk space and bandwidth for free. I'm not sure how much b3ta transfers, but I'd assume we'd need several gigs a day of bandwidth to make it viable. How hard can that be? You guys all having a nice weekend?

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:35, archived)

I know its obvious

and everyone hates it, but everyone seems to have (dare i say it) banner ads on their site... im sure some evil marketing scumbags can get something out of this niche demographic.
It doesn't rake in much money - but it would help a bit wouldnt it ?

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:38, archived)

Banner Ad Revenue

won't sort it, and also of course would sully the whole thing. What we need is someone who's prepared to give us loads and loads of free bandwidth on their server. I think we could probsbly live with a "b3ta - sponsored by" kind of message in return, but that's what we need if we're going to make it work. I'm personally not that keen on tryng to make b3ta profitable in its own right. I'd rather try and plug what we do well, which is provide exposure.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:45, archived)

Ah hello!

Well, I got came up by the drunkards that came back here last night till 6.30 am. Slept this afternoon, and now I am the only one in my flat awake and not tired.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:47, archived)

Hiya Nacho

I'm around for the time being- was really not well today but booze is working. Listening to radio cartel, which is dead good (in my opinion- sure it's not for everyone). also, I'm excited by the prospect of my crabwear boxers. How are you?

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:49, archived)

my god,

does no-one sleep on this board? i thought i was the only one.

perhaps b3ta should go ahead with the idea of having a stall at glastonbury. not sure what doing, though.

radio cartel is indeed dead good. crabwear boxers may be good too, but i don't know.

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:53, archived)

Well, yeah

I went to the pub this afternoon for a bit, then came home and went to bed while everyone carried on drinking.
Woke up, starting drinking again. Vulga came round. He is currently asleep on my sofa, as is the boyf.
I've run out of vodka, and I'm not tired.
What else am a supposed to do but munt around on b3ta?
What a sad, geek existence I lead.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:54, archived)

OH! Crabby,

I've got this new toy and you'd love it.
Oy, less of that...
It's called Kooky the rocking and talking crocodile.
Have you seen them?
You say something to it and then it starts dancing and repeating what ever you said in a totally munted up, stuttering type of song.
Might sound a bit naff, but it's amused me no end tonight.
Hi, Spacefish. No sleep till Brooklyn.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:58, archived)

That sounds fantastic

i want one. woo. and spacey, yes, boxers with my crab on are obviously and undeniably the way forward.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:06, archived)

Just think of how many

men's groins your face is going to be next to simultaneously around the world.
Ha ha ha well.....rathergood thought!
I might buy my lodger a pair, then you can be inside his trousers on a regular basis!

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:09, archived)

That's not the right way to look at it

would do my head in. My crab being used as a pulling tool al over the world- that's the way i think about it. far more appropriate.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:11, archived)

Yeah

but my version makes me laugh more at the thought of it.
I'm watching a mental film called "Fun" at the moment about 2 psycho teengage girls that murdered some old lady.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:13, archived)

Yup

and yes, what an appropriate title. It really is good fun killing old ladies you know

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:23, archived)

I'm sure that girl

is off the Waltons or Little House on the Prairie orsomething similar.
Or should I just put my glasses on?

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:25, archived)

The Waltons

were serial killers. No doubt there.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:27, archived)

HA HA HA

Vulga and my boyfriend are now cuddled up to each other on the sofa, both asleep.
Ah bless!
How sweet.
He came round for a vodka and pulled my boyfriend.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:29, archived)

That's really sweet.

You must have a warm glow inside

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:31, archived)

Tha'ts

Brighton for you.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:32, archived)

I've heard that

about brighton

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:33, archived)

Yeah,

I've heard the same about London as well.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:39, archived)

You know

what it's like here. I wouldn't have it any other way. You've got to live before you die.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:50, archived)

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:34, archived)

Yay

Lassie and the Luna Tick

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:02, archived)

Put this in your profiles/websites... save b3ta!!

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SqueakyG, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:11, archived)

It's true

i do you know. with a spade.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:39, archived)

Video Manipulation

After you've had enough fun Photoshopping, you might want to try out AlamDV. It's a video editing pack that lets you add lightsabres, bullets, laser, lightning bolts etc. to your home movies. Great fun.
They also have lots of videos that people have made - some good (with Daleks!) some bad (with toddlers).
We now return you to your scheduled programming

(Terry, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:02, archived)

Sheep Sledding (warning: rubbish)

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 18:44, archived)

Tips ?

As you can see in the above anim, i had a lot of trouble making the sled scale up correctly to fit with the background.
I used photoshop 6 and imageready 3 but to make the sled resize (which was all one layer) i had to keep duplicating it and making it a little bigger each time - i ended up with about 10 layers of the same thing but at different sizes.

There must be a better way to do this sort of thing...

Can anyone help a poor amature ?

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 18:48, archived)

do the animation bit

in flash, make the bear a symbol, tween it, moving forward and rescaling (have to make it a gif with indexed transparenced background first, fireworks is good for that)

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wangolini, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 18:56, archived)

Quality idea about art funding

for b3ta.
There must be a way.
If b3ta goes down I'll have to start doing some real work at work!

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 18:58, archived)

evning nacharoonie

back from pub? yeah, joel sounded so depressed on the board yesterday ive been trying 2 think of something to help all day..

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wangolini, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:03, archived)

Yeah, it's not good

I consider myself very lucky that I get free hosting - my boss is a little gem for that.
The web will be a boring place without the likes of b3ta and rathergood.
But look how many people have responded in the last 24 hours offering help. It's great. Very touching.It must have cheered Joel up.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:06, archived)

im not sure..

..i understand you about the index transparenced bit

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DaWolfey, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 19:32, archived)

small tip

using transparent backgrounds in flash from photoshop works nicely if you use PNGs rather than gifs. You don't get the jagged white borders you can end up with using gifs.

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crab_bloke), Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:03, archived)

import the jpeg or whatever into flash, and then mask just the areas of that square picture that you want to show (ie the bear and sledge) on a mask layer above.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 20:06, archived)

probably a stupid question...

But couldnt b3ta get a grant from the arts council, as some kind of community arts project or sumthing..?..

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wangolini, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 18:04, archived)

I see it, b3ta is a never(i hope)ending piece of art!

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Kaiser, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 18:07, archived)

not if Crabbys right

an it goes under...jus trying to think of ways of keeping it alive

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wangolini, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 18:10, archived)

B3ta gladiators

I say bring back gladiatorial blood sports! and at half time throw all the blue chip money wankers in with a bunch of hungry polar bears - yay!

(scabby dog, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:54, archived)

OH!

Luckily I don't need the toilet, otherwise I would have weed in my pants laughing.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 18:56, archived)

miranda loved to play with the children.....

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wangolini, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:48, archived)

aye

ignore this kids, i'm just showing my m ate my profile

(SparkyLove, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:45, archived)

my new oplympic sport,...

Skeet is a winter olympic sport, right?

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Umojan, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:12, archived)

it's an oplympic sport.
God, maidstone. (anag)

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pickledpizza Older, nicer, fluffier., Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:20, archived)

damn

I always get those 2 confused!

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Umojan, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:24, archived)

good anim tho'

im off to bed, as maidstone, and i really need some sleep.

top darts boab !!
nighty all !!

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pickledpizza Older, nicer, fluffier., Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:31, archived)

how the fuk do i get my pic to come up with my post???

help would be nice

(the bear, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:06, archived)

it says in the faq

in the features bit

i say that becuase it took me a week or 2 to find the faq and thus delayed any posting i did for a week or 2

(skagg, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 17:08, archived)

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