BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!
Remus...@webtv.net
Lynn
>
>Queen Elizabeth has finshed reading the 5th Harry Potter book so there
>ARE GOING TO PUBLISH IT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What in God's name is that?! Terribly sorry to the owner of that webpage, but
that is the most horrible page I've ever tried to use! Most web users don't
appreciate having to chase links across the page or trying to read moving text.
And what the dickens does Queen Elizabeth have to do with Harry Potter?
Couldn't find anything about it on that wretched website. (Course, I was
getting motion sickness and gave up relatively quickly!)
-Lynn
"Mike broke the Hubbell! Mike broke the Hubbell!" -Servo & Crow
Leifr
> What in God's name is that?! Terribly sorry to the owner of that webpage,
but
> that is the most horrible page I've ever tried to use! Most web users
don't
> appreciate having to chase links across the page or trying to read moving
text.
>
I wanted to see how he got all that stuff to scroll across the screen, and I
think I found the problem.
<p><H3><marquee>The Shreiking Shack of Remus Lupin!!!!!</marquee</H3>
The closing brackets aren't complete.
Christopher Hortin
>Remus...@webtv.net wrote:
>>http://community.webtv.net/RemusLupin/doc
>>
>>Queen Elizabeth has finshed reading the 5th Harry Potter book so there
>>ARE GOING TO PUBLISH IT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
And her Royal Highness shall celebrate with tea and crumpets magically
flying out of her ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have more exclamation points than
you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>What in God's name is that?! Terribly sorry to the owner of that webpage, but
>that is the most horrible page I've ever tried to use!
That's what you call WebTV Pagebuilder! A real blast from the past for
me. There was one dude over in rmaa-d who tried to make an Ani sound
clips page with WebTV Pagebuilder. *That* was a classic.
>Most web users don't appreciate having to chase links across the page
>or trying to read moving text.
The page made me laugh so hard that my cat ran out of the room
terrified. I have *never* *ever* seen someone try and make a webpage
with scrolling links. After the shock wore off, I started to shout at
my monitor, "Hey! Get back here! I want to go to Links! No! Don't go!"
> And what the dickens does Queen Elizabeth have to do with Harry Potter?
She's really Voldemort in disguise. Didn't you read your advance copy
of Book 5? 8-)
~Chris, the Icicle Child~
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Old One
> Queen Elizabeth has finshed reading the 5th Harry Potter book so there
> ARE GOING TO PUBLISH IT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes dear, I'm sure they are. Now you go bounce off your padded walls
some more now.
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ed; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons
attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By order of the author.
--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Lynn
>
>She's really Voldemort in disguise. Didn't you read your advance copy
>of Book 5? 8-)
Gee, no. Remember, I work at a movie theatre. I only got the advance
screening of the *movie* of Book 5, not the book itself. They must have left
that part out! Darn movies! :-P
Joseph Romagnano
Old One wrote:
> <Remus...@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> > Queen Elizabeth has finshed reading the 5th Harry Potter book so there
> > ARE GOING TO PUBLISH IT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Yes dear, I'm sure they are. Now you go bounce off your padded walls
> some more now.
Just what I wanted to say Old One, only you put it much more nicely than I
was about to.
Joe :-)>
Scott L
On 4-Jun-2001, Christopher Hortin <icicl...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have *never* *ever* seen someone try and make a webpage
> with scrolling links. After the shock wore off, I started to shout at
> my monitor, "Hey! Get back here! I want to go to Links! No! Don't go!"
Use AIM. You'll see the equivalent in their news ticker.
Just a monkey,
Scott
Found at http://www.dreamwater.org/moonfriend/index.html
Email me at scott644(at)home.com
Robert Carnegie
> http://community.webtv.net/RemusLupin/doc
>
>
> Queen Elizabeth has finshed reading the 5th Harry Potter book so there
> ARE GOING TO PUBLISH IT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, no, that's the _movie_. The British Royal Household doesn't
read all the _books_ in Britain before they're published. The Royal
Household reads all the _theatre and movie scripts_ in Britain
before they're published, or shown.
http://www.cd.sc.ehu.es/FileRoom/documents/Cases/177chamberlain.html
http://www.royal.gov.uk/today/lchaoff.htm
(All right, it used to. But not now. And I don't think it really
ever did movies.)
To be fair, if anyone gets an advance copy, the Queen probably will,
if she wants one. But http://www.royal.gov.uk/ doesn't seem to have
any references at all to Harry Potter or J. K. Rowling, or
Harry Potter Webring links. Which is odd, because Her Majesty often
posts in this newsgroup...what about it, ma'am? Update your web site?
JKR was late going to see the Queen, too, and the Queen was out when
JKR actually got there. Instead, and this is almost absolutely true,
the Queen came to see her.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1065000/1065636.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1198000/1198562.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1234000/1234804.stm
Also, the Prince of Wales is very keen to see if the film is as good as the
books. The boarding school that he went to himself was rather different...
(And I've just remembered that it was he who hinted to Sir Harry Secombe,
who was taking the mickey, that it's very cold in the Tower of London.
So I hope his mother doesn't clype.)
Old One
Igenlode
> In article <RGSS6.1706$fI.1...@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
> Leifr falli...@yahoo.com said...
> >
> > I wanted to see how he got all that stuff to scroll across the screen,
> > and I think I found the problem.
> >
> > <p><H3><marquee>The Shreiking Shack of Remus Lupin!!!!!</marquee</H3>
> >
> The problem is the <marquee> tag, which is IE-specific. This means that
> it is total waste of time using it, because those of us not using IE
> don't see the effect. Not that we'd want to...
I thought that was pretty queer HTML...
Presumably it doesn't cover the page with sodden canvas, wooden poles
eight inches thick, and the smell of muddy grass and candy-floss - so
what effect *does* it have? 'Enquiring Minds Wish To Know'!
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Nat and Al Enquirer
-- snip --
> I thought that was pretty queer HTML...
> Presumably it doesn't cover the page with sodden canvas, wooden poles
> eight inches thick, and the smell of muddy grass and candy-floss - so
> what effect *does* it have? 'Enquiring Minds Wish To Know'!
Enquiring Minds are (more or less) happy to tell you:
We viewed this page in IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.76. The page was static in
Netscape. In IE everything (yes EVERYTHING) below the picture of the
wolf howling in front of (presumably a crystal ball) moves at a moderate
speed, appearing at the right and exiting stage left, even. Therefore
you have to chase the links to click on any of them (not a hard task,
but not very entertaining either).
We fail to see the point of this effect and recommend the author review
his coding (which we are in no way qualified to analyze ourselves) and
at least have his moving text stop at an appropriate location on the
page.
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Josy
<"Nat_and_Al_Enquirer*YOUR SHOES*"@att.net> wrote:
<snip>
>We viewed this page in IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.76. The page was static in
>Netscape. In IE everything (yes EVERYTHING) below the picture of the
>wolf howling in front of (presumably a crystal ball)
A moon (I think) because it is the page of Remus Lupin.
Josephoenix
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Klaus Winkler
<icicl...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>zoz...@aol.comnospam (Lynn) wrote:
>
>>Remus...@webtv.net wrote:
>
>>>http://community.webtv.net/RemusLupin/doc
>>>
>>>Queen Elizabeth has finshed reading the 5th Harry Potter book so there
>>>ARE GOING TO PUBLISH IT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>And her Royal Highness shall celebrate with tea and crumpets magically
>flying out of her ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Ha Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have more exclamation points than
>you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
"Multiple Exclamation Marks, a sure sign of a diseased mind",
Rincewind...
Regards
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Nat and Al Enquirer
>
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 06:15:39 GMT, Nat and Al Enquirer
> <"Nat_and_Al_Enquirer*YOUR SHOES*"@att.net> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >We viewed this page in IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.76. The page was static in
> >Netscape. In IE everything (yes EVERYTHING) below the picture of the
> >wolf howling in front of (presumably a crystal ball)
>
> A moon (I think) because it is the page of Remus Lupin.
-- snip --
Yes, it is a moon, but the illustration on this page is true to the
original book in making it look more like a crystal ball (the bogart
version of the moon looked like a crystal ball to those who saw it,
excepting for canny Hermione who fig'red it out). So we are taking that
perspective, but you may take yours with equal (or probably greater)
justification.
Robert Carnegie
>
>
> Queen Elizabeth has finshed reading the 5th Harry Potter book so there
> ARE GOING TO PUBLISH IT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess that if Remus Lupin says he comes from Newport, then
he ought to know. I somehow figured Wolverhampton...