Keith, don't you dare!
The "delete" function...
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Odd. I just tried deleting one that I just started, as an experiment, and it didn't work at all. I got the "only administrators" message...Sometimes you've gotta leave the kibble out where the slow dogs can get some....
... Roy Blount, Jr.
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Well, I can delete one of my own posts. And delete a 1-post thread, by deleting the only post in it. But the thread close and thread delete functions don't seem to be available to us lesser mortals.
t.If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
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No, I won't. There's WAY too much posted now; it would be grossly unfair. I tried to close it when things got nasty, but it didn't work, and now I'm glad it didn't (I think).
[ 03-10-2006, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: Keith Wilson ]"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
for nature cannot be fooled."
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Originally posted by George.:
Keith, don't you dare!Comment
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Ah. So it works if there is only the original post in the thread? That is a disappointment, although "close" would actually be better - leave the historical record but shut the thread to new posts.Sometimes you've gotta leave the kibble out where the slow dogs can get some....
... Roy Blount, Jr.
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Actually, I've just found that the thread starter CAN delete a whole thread, by deleting their first post.
I tested that on the poetry thread that I started earlier today ... as Popeye and I had only 3 posts on it between us, it seemed a reasonable loss.
That said ... here's my Yeats poem again
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
Those veins must soon be dry;
Live in a heavenly mansion,
Not in some foul sty.'
'Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,' I cried.
'My friends are gone, but that's a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied,
Learned in bodily lowliness
And in the heart's pride.
'A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.'If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
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TomF, you are the local hero.
edited to add: a bonus poem for you, by Martin Estrada:
"The Community College Revises Its Curriculum In Response To Changing Demographics"
SPA 100 Conversational Spanish
2 credits
The course
is especially concerned
with giving police
the ability
to express themselves
tersely
in matters of interest
to them
[ 03-10-2006, 03:49 PM: Message edited by: Uncle Duke ]Sometimes you've gotta leave the kibble out where the slow dogs can get some....
... Roy Blount, Jr.
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Originally posted by uncas:
TomF local!!!!!!?????
He's in an entirely different country...
But Jamie, in cyberspace everything's local.If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
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Is that found poetry, Uncle Duke? My favorite place to look for found poetry is in the badly translated warnings and instructions on products made in japan, korea, and china. There's a name for that fractured english, but I can't remember it.Comment
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