… that my comments seem ever so much more clever lately. I mean the comments I leave in the little boxes on your blogs, or the replies I make to the comments you leave on mine. There is a very simple explanation for this phenomenon.
My spellchecker started working again.
I will let you in on a sad truth. Although I have the ability to make words dance and sing, I am a horrible speller… (uh oh… it looks like speller is not a real word… it has a red line under it)… Nature gives with one hand and takes away with the other… you know, like blind people have a heightened sense of smell… Oh, I could check the spelling in my posts using the spellcheck button. But for some unknown reason, there was a period of a few months where that little red line was not appearing under my wrongly spelled words in the comment boxes.
People tried to give me technical advice on how to remedy this problem, but you all know I am a computer moron. This stupid magic box uses logic, and I am all art-side-of-the-brain. I tried to fix it a few times, but gave up in disgust.
Now this might not seem like a huge problem to you. But I only had a few options. I could use words I couldn’t spell and just take a guess and hope it was close enough that you would know what I meant. Or I could open a new window to Google and type in each word I wasn’t sure of to check the correct spelling.
But I answer a lot of comments… in fact, I pride myself on trying to answer all of them… because I like to get in the last word… even if it is just ‘ha’. And I comment on a lot of blogs. So my solution to the problem was simple… I stopped using words I couldn’t spell… which is most of the impressive words in existence…
In short, I have been dumbing myself down… so I wouldn’t look dumb… how is that for irony?
But now the problem has fixed itself… or my wife did… something… and I have my little red lines back. So you should notice that I seem even more frightfully clever than my usual level of frightful cleverness.
Now if they could just invent a spellchecker that recognizes when you use a word that does exist, but used in the wrong way. Or when you just plain use the wrong word.
Their should be a way to do that… (Ha)…
Pouring My Art Out 
yea, but that’s counting other people, still it doesn’t bother me in the slightest, I can go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and… so how the hell are ya? lol
Good… and you?
PDG! just went kayakin’, watched a couple beautiful blue herons doing a mating dance… think I better go write a poem… 🙂
The forbidden heron dance of love…
forbidden, no, difficult, yet, every try it while flying??? can’t count the mile high club! 😉
birds of a feather f… never mind…
lol, that’s flock….
sure it is…
flock you! hehehe
Flock off…
ur a flockup!
That’s flocked up.
you should be flocked up! 😛
ok… that’s enough now…
what, you gettin sceered I’m a gonna win? you quitten?? that was easy! 🙂
There just didn’t seem like there was that much farther we could go with all that flocking around.
if you use windows live writer, it connects to your blog so easily, and it’s spellchecker is top of the line, it does catch wrong word use, and syntax and punctuation use…. oh my!!! although it doesn’t catch all the flavorful words you use….or understands your meaning…hehehe that could be a blessing!! HA!
No one understands my meaning, let alone the magic box!!!
my box is magic too…. 🙂
Hey now…
ha!
wheeeee….
cheater! 😉
And yet I still prosper… at least here…
how is it you have time to write ALL day long….are you making money on your blog and I don’t know it???
No… no money here… just a part time job. job
must be nice! 🙂
If you like being poor, yes.
no….Ha! is the last word!!! I WON!
or, backwards… NOW I…
O Win! 😛
I can’t even tell who is winning anymore…
I won approximately 4 comments ago…hahaha
You keep thinking that if it makes you feel better…
I plan to continue on until I have the last word….just sayin’! lol
Good luck with that.
aww thanks, you’re really too kind! ;P
I know I am.
what’s the record, you’ve had how many comments before, 1000 or so….lol I never shut up, and between just us, I think we can beat this easily!!!
If you go back and read my 36,724 comments… that is the total… I checked in the stats… and look at all of them, you will find that I almost never don’t get in the last word unless I get bored and wander off or have to go somewhere… and I still might come back and start right in again.
I occasionally like to change my default language, then correct all the typos into esparntu words.
I might try Yiddish
Pft clever..
well I am
sigh
Eye haddock novice.
say wha?
I said I hadn’t noticed…ie hadn’t noticed that Arthur’s comments were dumbed down in any way.
ouch… and I get it now… that you explained it to us…
I didn’t mean to hurt you; I’m sorry that I made you cry.
Dude… that girl we were messing with did another post telling us to get off her back… go check it out…
I know, I saw it…your second comment was spot on though.
I think we need another post… unleash the dogs of war… and the cats of anguish… and the penguins of petulance… and oh yes… the flaming beavers of vengeance!!!
Don’t go making yourself feel bad again; do you want to go wasting your time on her?
Now this is personal.
Damn it… I spent half an hour doing that post… posted it… and now I just erased the whole thing… this sucks…
I’ll bet I spent two hours between the comment on your blog, C&Ping to hers with additions on the head and then the olive branch post where I was hoping to reach her. How do I get those two hours back. Consider all of the time all of us have put into her. All wasted apparently. I wonder how many of us were being surrogate parents with her and hoping for a light to go on for her? Can I have those two hours back now. Plus the time from the first two comments she never published. Little snot. HA :).
I think she learned something… but I have no idea what that might be… other than she thinks people just pick on her for no reason.
Ditto.
I keep getting logged off wordpress…
Thank God. A break for the rest of us. HA
I suppose…
Oh… and you are a better man than I am, Gunga Din. I didn’t see the comment about the panic attack.
She’s deleted her back off now post and all the comments from the original one.
I am just moving on…
Best thing.
sigh
Crusades never end well for either side.
You have all had a chance to see my comments to her on this blog and know how I feel. I know you don’t want to here this, but It’s time for us to show some mercy and forgive her. Anyone who has had a late teen daughter know what her problem is. We need to move on for our own health even though venting feels good. If you’re a Christian or other religion that believes in the doctrine of forgiveness, forgive her and pray for her at least once, She’s really in need of help she isn’t ready to accept. If your a parent, you have to feel some pain for her. I do. We’ve all done what those around her should have. Now we need to let it go. I love when Sean Connery says that in The Last Crusade about the Holy Grail: “Let it go, Indy.”
I have let it go.
Yeah. I noticed last night after I commented. Can I at least turn her over my knee for being such a little self-absorbed snot. LOL
That might be legal… in some states…
Yeah. In the state of surrogate parenthood.
If that’s your story…
you left that so wide open dude
My smartness is so smart that sometimes people don’t notice it.
i was talking to babbage..
I don’t care.
i noticed
good
I did it… go look… go go go go go go go
okay going!!
goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
as soon as i finish reading the post on your blog.;-)
oh… okay… ha
Is that a good thing?
for whom?
Yeah, for him.
ha!
Ha is right.
Yay.
You guys need to check out the rude girl’s new post and see if I should let her have it again.
I did and I then commented on your site and C&P’ed it on hers. I did add a few moderating elements. I was surprised to see she published your admonishment. I am waiting to see if she posts mine. After it, I tried a different tack with her. We’ll see. She’s just a typical angry teen. Raised ’em. Know all about it. Just like them. I know it all too. HA
The high road is nice… less traffic… the air is cleaner…
It’s that uphill climb that dissuades us from going there as often as we should.
Good for the legs though…
Yes… whom indeed…
A fair question.
Okay… don’t feel bad… I didn’t get that one either…
phew,he’s been into something..lol
He is just smarter than us…
ummm no
I’m pretty sure he is.
nope
Ha… you sound like Captain Haddock on a binge.
You know, this will date me, but when I was sixteen (mph, mph) years ago my dad bought me a dictionary for my birthday (that’s hard copy). It cost him a week’s wages. It’s huge and has been much used. I’m worried now about the spine and of course there have been many updates since I first got it so I keep it on my desk. I have a small dictionary now for every day use. The electronic spell checker is limited and you need to know when to make the changes it suggests and when to ignore. Buy yourself a dictionary.
I have one of those… I just never thought of using it… how funny is that?
I already use Google Chrome browser instead of Firefox or Internet Explorer, mainly because it has the automatic spell check. Now all i need is a browser with a wit check, that would underline comments lacking in wit.
That is what we are here for… ha!
Ideally, it would also make suggestions on how to make comments more clever.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him think.
You’re obsessed with that proverb, aren’t you? 🙂
Here is my take: you can make the horse drink by racing him to water.
But would he be thinking while he was drinking?
I’m getting that horse drunk, and I don’t care what he thinks.
Good for you… and the horse you rode in on…
Yes you do need that 😉 lol
I am a bad smeller… uh… speller…
ha
Are you saying my comments are that bad? 🙂
Are we going to have another brawl on my blog… because I love when that happens.
we could, but it would be a short brawl because it’s almost my bedtime.
I would settle for that.
moi?
There is a grammar checker built into a lot of software & they will show you a green line under a word (or group of words) not fitting into correct grammar in a particular sentence. It will correct tenses, etc. Ask your wife to check into whether you have this capability on your computer & turn it on for you.
She does not like to do computer stuff because she does it all day at work… and she doesn’t really like the blogging.
Perhaps she feels you are being more intimate with others than with her and are willing to make an effort with them to develop and maintain that intimacy but will not afford her the same effort? That’s why I am still hesitating on starting a blog FYI. It is a situation I could easily fall into. Already been there a couple of times with blogging. I don’t want to ruin my marriage because i desire intimacy with people and am not just a chit chat kind of person. There are some who would argue you can’t claim to share intimacy with what amounts to a virtual human being. The blog persona may be a convention they use and is not really representative of their true selves. Not my belief, but possible.
Oh what a tangled world wide web we weave… ooh… I need to tweet that…
Jeez… when I type, all kinds of lines show up. Red ones, green ones, blue ones… what are the blue ones for anyway ??? :-S
If it means you are making no sense at all I need to get me some.
I bet that’s what it means! I rarely make sense, so it makes sense that it means I’m not making any sense… right?
That makes no sense.
Gramma check doesn’t do that underline with a green line thingy?
I have no idea…
Only if he is composing in a separate tab/window in Word with grammar check on and for Art all of that Ctrl A, Ctrl C, bring up the tab/window with the blog and comment box, click in the box, now Ctrl V and then hit Post may be too much. After mistakenly opening Google in the same window as the blog and losing the entire comment, and seeing disappointingly blatant grammar/real-but-wrong word occurrences I now try to remember to ALWAYS compose in Word. The spell check he may be using that I turned him onto is ieSpell that works with both Internet Explorer and Firefox. It has a feature with which you can add word to the dictionary. Believe it or not, despite its intended use, you will have to add the words “blog, blogger, blogoshphere and blogging as they come up when you spell check. Before you click add to dictionary though, make sure they are spelled absolutely correct or in the way you want (i.e. downtime as opposed to down-time) because it will thereafter allow the misspelling as correct. I don’t know that you can edit the dictionary to remove those errors or if you will just create another spelling option for the same word; one correct and one incorrect.
I never did get your advice to work… my wife might have made changes, but not to help me on my blogging, that’s for sure.
It seems like Firefox has something defaulted in or I inadvertantly activated it. It just red-lined my misspelling of inadvertently which I will not correct. If if right click it will offer other spellings or even close words. If I right click and choose “Inspect Element” in the same spell check box, a Firefox developer tool with settings comes up indicating to me that that particular spell check may be a Firefox proprietary tool and not ieSpell. I know, HUH? Me too. It just appeared one day instead of ieSpell coming up as usual with a right click. Go finger. HA
Do not meddle in the affairs of the magic box, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
You betcha.
Ha.