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General Category => Hockey => Topic started by: Greg Berge on August 22, 2003, 04:42:00 PM

Title: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Greg Berge on August 22, 2003, 04:42:00 PM
OK, what the hell happened to my circumflexes?

In Dreamweaver my Bâby's are right as rain, but when I bend over (loading them in IE) there's a stabbing pain (they turn into capital betas).

10 points for naming the reference, and 100 points for telling me why they got messed up.

No fonts were harmed in the creation of this problem.

Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: DeltaOne81 on August 22, 2003, 06:06:55 PM
Greg,

I checked the Player Stats and also the 2003 stats... both show up fine in Mozilla on OS X. Could be an IE thing... but since Age's work on here, maybe he (or someone else) could tell you why it's not in IE.

-10 cause I don't get the reference :-/
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: lmm9 _97 on August 22, 2003, 06:07:02 PM
Is your encoding set to Western European? [View -> Encoding -> Western European (Windows)]
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Greg Berge on August 22, 2003, 09:59:18 PM
> Is your encoding set to Western European? [View -> Encoding -> Western European (Windows)]

Bless you, my child.

Ms. McGill (no tea jokes) is awarded 100 points and extraordinarily good karma for correctly diagnosing the problem!

10 points are still on the line, and I'll be very impressed if anybody under the age of thirty nails it.  Oblique hint: there is a Cornell hockey connection involved.
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: lmm9 _97 on August 22, 2003, 11:01:20 PM
Tea jokes?  ::shifty:: ::help::

Glad that solved your problem!
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Greg Berge on August 23, 2003, 12:00:01 AM
"Tea with Ms. McGill."  (Youngblood)
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Robb \'94 on August 23, 2003, 08:28:55 AM
Underdog.

No, I didn't know that, but Google did.  Do I get partial credit?
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: jtwcornell91 on August 23, 2003, 06:23:00 PM
QuoteGreg wrote:
(they turn into capital betas).
I'm assuming that's actually an Ess-Zett (German sharp S, i.e., ß).



Post Edited (08-23-03 18:23)
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Greg Berge on August 23, 2003, 11:01:27 PM
Robb, you don't win jack because you cheated, however it appears someone can still earn, say, 25 points by giving the context of the quotation (a cursory search of the Net suggests it won't help you).
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Will on August 24, 2003, 04:26:29 PM
I'm probably going to look stupid for asking this, but...what exactly is the part of the first post that is making the reference, which obviously I don't get?

Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Greg Berge on August 24, 2003, 07:00:26 PM
"When I stand up I'm right as rain
But when I bend over, there's a stabbing pain."

(Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Robb \'94 on August 24, 2003, 08:23:27 PM
Dang, and I need a few more points for the championship, too!  :-(
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Anne 85 on August 25, 2003, 08:54:23 AM
If I hadn't been away on vacation, the Underdog points would have been mine...mine...mine!!
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Greg Berge on August 25, 2003, 11:15:14 AM
See what happens when you go to Maine?

Serves ya right.
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: ugarte on August 25, 2003, 07:26:10 PM
Are you waiting for someone to go to the Underdog archives at the Museum of Television and Radio, or are you going to tell us the context, Greg.  ;-)
(Can you ::help:: us out, Anne?)



Post Edited (08-25-03 19:26)
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Anne 85 on August 26, 2003, 01:47:30 AM
Sorry, BRA, but I thought Greg's explanation would do.  Here's a version for the Underdog-impaired.

In one episode, Underdog has trouble saving the day, criminals run rampant, and Sweet Polly Purebread is endangered because, as he repeatedly says:
[Q]"When I stand up I'm right as rain
But when I bend over, there's a stabbing pain."[/Q]

Warning, spoiler ahead.[/B]

As it turns out, someone has dropped a sword down Underdog's back (under his cape and Shoeshine Boy outfit), and it only stabs him when he bends over.  In the end, the sword is discovered and the day is saved by little old Underdog.

That's all I remember, but I could do a little research if you're still dissatisfied.
Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: jtwcornell91 on August 26, 2003, 06:16:55 PM
Shouldn't TV Land, or Nick at Nite, or Cartoon Network be showing Underdog at this point?

Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: ugarte on August 26, 2003, 06:43:36 PM
That's exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks, Anne.

Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Jay Fisher \'90 on August 27, 2003, 05:22:26 PM
QuoteJohn T. Whelan '91 wrote:

Shouldn't TV Land, or Nick at Nite, or Cartoon Network be showing Underdog at this point?


Underdog is on Boomerang, the Cartoon Network affiliate that shows classic cartoons.  It can be found on Directv on channel 297. It is on at 10:30 PM Central time for all you Underdog fans.

Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: jtwcornell91 on August 27, 2003, 08:30:03 PM
Dang, that's one of the handful of channels (along with VH1 Classic) that's not in my almost-but-not-quite-completely-expanded package.

Title: Re: OK, What the Hell Happened to My Circumflexes?
Post by: Greg Berge on August 28, 2003, 12:05:47 PM
I can't resist to nitpick, because Anne is almost never wrong.

In the episode in question, Underdog rescues a cache of stolen swords.  He carries them back to their owner in his cape but forgets one (Underdog, for all his charms, was always one milk bone short of a meal).  Hence, his bending over pains.

Of course, this is nothin' compared to Sweet Polly's unbelievable idiocy during the "balloons" epsiode.  Hopefully, those two will never have puppies.