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Abi Posted Mar 27, 2003
Monday I reckon! I need to ask the other winners if they want to enter!
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 31, 2003
Err, Lifson, shouldn't FaultyTowers be spelt "Fawlty Towers"? Just a thought....
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Lifson Kofie Posted Mar 31, 2003
Yes, but in HTML terms that would make "towers" a parameter of "fawlty". It's possible to see it like that, as the "towers" are one of many posessions of "Faulty", just as "car" would be. However, I am putting it forward as a single idea and therefore there is no space.
...I think. 
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 31, 2003
I think the tribble should be awarded to whoever understood the above post. 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 31, 2003
Err, I think I followed... you mean the towers are faulty, not the the towers belong to Fawlty?
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Abi Posted Mar 31, 2003
Surely towers would an attribute of Faulty or Fawlty, rather than a parameter?
Does that mean I win the tribble? 
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SEF Posted Mar 31, 2003
It certainly looks as though lifson wants to have a faultytowers tag. Without the matching closing tag it could have been a smiley though! 
I'm with Abi in voting that would put TOWERS as an attribute of FAWLTY rather than a parameter - though one which does not require a value (like TABLE BORDER in real HTML as opposed to GuideML). There's no evidence for it being a parameter (lack of ? character). So we are left in no doubt that the towers are in fact faulty.
Now to speculate on what sort of mark-up might be applied to the text enclosed by a faultytowers tag. Is it put into the moderators' in-tray, displayed in black on black, animated or hidden behind some other feature? So many possibilities... 
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Tonsil Revenge (PG) Posted Apr 1, 2003
It is only visible if you film the computer screen at 21fps. Which would require a clock wound camera, a darkroom and a film chain...
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Lifson Kofie Posted Apr 1, 2003
I seem to have caused some confusion here. Allow me to clarify...
• Abi - you're right - I meant attribute, not parameter - the darned pills are sending me to sleep, and my brains gone all fuzzy!
• The spelling is "Fawlty" - not "Faulty" (as I recall - part of the joke was that it sounded the same, without being so blatant as to look the same)
• The towers belong to Fawlty (Basil Fawlty), the towers are *not* faulty.
• By having no space between the words, I am proposing the principle of it being a single thing - so that you can only have as opposed to , , (?!) etc...
Any better?
Lifson 
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Mu Beta Posted Apr 1, 2003
Anyway, if you did have a smiley, wouldn't it be rearranged into an amusing anagram every time?
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Lifson Kofie Posted Apr 1, 2003
Maybe that's it!!! A tag would rearrange the enclosed words into an anagram!!! There are programs out there that do that already, so it could work!!!
And the smiley could be animated (like 
) to cycle through the anagrams!!! The first could work really well, although the second there might be © problems with.
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Lifson Kofie Posted Apr 1, 2003
Well my coding is so bad it'd bring the site down - although I might have a word with my better half. He's great - although he will always deny it. However, he's knee-deep in revision at the moment - so he won't have time for a while.
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SEF Posted Apr 1, 2003
All this discussion about Fawlty and you still haven't changed your nickname though, Lifson (or should that be "so effink oil").
PS The TV programme used to cheat on the anagrams.
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Lifson Kofie Posted Apr 1, 2003
Yes - I must remember to change it occasionally - although that will probably cause even more confusion.
I like my anagram!!! Mad, but cool.
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- 61: egon (Mar 26, 2003)
- 62: Lifson Kofie (Mar 27, 2003)
- 63: Abi (Mar 27, 2003)
- 64: Tabitca (Mar 27, 2003)
- 65: Lifson Kofie (Mar 31, 2003)
- 66: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Mar 31, 2003)
- 67: Lifson Kofie (Mar 31, 2003)
- 68: Mu Beta (Mar 31, 2003)
- 69: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Mar 31, 2003)
- 70: Abi (Mar 31, 2003)
- 71: SEF (Mar 31, 2003)
- 72: Tonsil Revenge (PG) (Apr 1, 2003)
- 73: Lifson Kofie (Apr 1, 2003)
- 74: Mu Beta (Apr 1, 2003)
- 75: Lifson Kofie (Apr 1, 2003)
- 76: SEF (Apr 1, 2003)
- 77: Lifson Kofie (Apr 1, 2003)
- 78: SEF (Apr 1, 2003)
- 79: Mu Beta (Apr 1, 2003)
- 80: Lifson Kofie (Apr 1, 2003)
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