Flushing Follies

How do family members always manage to do these things but when asked about it nobody will ever admit to knowing any thing? I usually get answers like "it did it by itself". Been there many times Bob. Michael

Sounds like a shitty job! :D

THAT explains why BB is still willing to try and reform some of the resident sociopaths... Nothing too nasty for him to dig into. It is a good comparison.

Ya know, the shit washes off, but the slimy wax from the seal at the base isn't very water or soap soluble. I had to use Comet cleanser about 5 times to get the wax off. LOL

Now THAT was funny. LOL

I hear you on that wax... I've replaced a few toilets in my time, and that stuff is pretty nasty.

Somebody's got to do it, right? :) Cheers.

Pretty sure ammonia cuts it.

Peek-a-boo. Normally, I doubt there is much that is very interesting plugging up a toilet. LOL

BTW - I apologize for this shitty thread. The original post was an Opps, as it was meant to be an E-mail, not sent to the group.

Yea, same thing has happened to me a few times.. The best was there was a clog in the line between the outside cleanout and the toilet.. My snake couldn't reach it from either end.. Ended up renting one of the power snakes from Home Depot and that worked great. Ended up being one of my son's toy's he got from a happy meal.. IIRC it was a figure from 'The Incredibles' oh, and of course he didn't do it.. I think the final words were, I put it in the toilet but my sister flushed it.. lol

Another good reason to use a real newsreader. :)

SD:

Thunderbird is not a real newsreader?? You mean they lied to me? Those dogs. I should get my money back - oh yeah, it was free. Well they should at least be whipped with a toilet retrieved hairbrush!

I think this is a just an example of Tom's "PBKAC" Problem is between keyboard and chair. No newsreader is going to prevent ALL boo-boos. LOL

Thunderbird is a lot like OE. Primarily an email program with newsreading thrown in as a bonus. Both do the job, but are lacking a lot of things that dedicated newsreaders have.

Just about any of the decent newsreaders out there would have prevented the boo-boo you made with this thread. :)

I don't know BB. It's really hard to accidently send an email with Xnews. In fact, looking at the Xnews page right now, I don't see a way to email this reply.

SD:

Things like what? What am I missing that I'm not even aware of?

Why? Because the "decent" newsreaders are so specialized/limited that they aren't able to do mail AND newsgroups? Personally, I'd rather not have to load up multiple programs to do things combo programs can do.

The biggest one for me is scoring.

are tons of little things as well, like being able to highlight text in a post, and when you hit reply, ONLY that text is quoted, with the cursor right below it. The IDToken in Xnews alerts and upscores direct replies to my own posts. I can post to different servers from specific groups, automatically once I set it up. I can display whatever headers I choose, I can use Xface, etc. etc. There are dozens of features that a good newsreader can let you enjoy. I've been using Xnews for almost 7 years, and I am STILL finding little tweaks and tricks that I can use.

It's actually easy to email a message via Xnews, but very difficult to do it accidentally. :)

Scoring? Like used in killfiling? I haven't killfiled anyone, YET - so if that's all scoring's used for, it's a feature I'm not likely to use.

That sounds cute, but what's the real advantage of choosing the text you WANT - as opposed to choosing the text you DON'T WANT?

I can display full headers or partial headers.

But I'll add that you're making such a concerted sales pitch for Xnews that I'll check it out.

Alphonso:

Are you telling me that Xnews doesn't do E-mail? That would certainly be a downer. T-Bird does both and it's simple & convenient to switch back and forth. (hence my little boo-boo). I also occasionally post a reply to a group AND send the same reply to an individual. So you're saying I'll lose that ability with Xnews? But like I told Duck, I'll check it out and see if it's for me.

Scoring can be used to kill articles, but that is only one function that it can perform.

It's a really quick and easy way to clean up your replies. You simply highlight what you want to quote, hit reply, and you're good to go.

With Xnews, I can select which partial headers are shown.

Only do so, if you are really into newsgroups. The learning curve turns a lot of people off. It's not really complicated or anything, it just takes a while to understand how it works and what it can do.

No, you will not lose that.