Sig too long
Karshkovia
24-10-2008, 19:59
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14132286&postcount=108
Just a heads up...thanks :)
Ardchoille
25-10-2008, 01:56
Dunnit
Adunabar
25-10-2008, 09:31
It was still 9 lines when I clicked on the link.
Imperial isa
25-10-2008, 09:34
It was still 9 lines when I clicked on the link.
i have sigs on an can say it was change they just went an put it all back
Ardchoille
25-10-2008, 10:09
:$ My fault. I told him it was nine lines. Guess I know what's on the menu.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2970550241_ce29e07347_o.jpg
Yes, I know, I know, geez ...
Maximum size should never exceed eight lines, including blank lines and quote lines. (A short quote takes up 5 lines - "quote", attribution line, two lines for the box, and one line for the quote).
Adunabar
25-10-2008, 10:44
Crow and lime?
Ardchoille
25-10-2008, 11:25
You can have the lime. I'm saving space for dessert.
Humble pie.
Adunabar
25-10-2008, 12:01
Oh. It looks like a crow on a plate to me.
Ardchoille
25-10-2008, 13:35
Ah, I see -- I've been using idiotic idioms again. Here's Wiki on the subject of eating crow:
Eating crow (archaically, eating boiled crow) is an English idiom meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.
Origin
It is most likely an Americanization of the English “to eat humble pie.” The English phrase is something of a pun—“umbles” were the intestines, offal and other less valued meats of a deer. Pies made of this were known to be served to those of lesser class who did not eat at the king’s/lord’s/governor’s table ... It may also be the American version of "umble," since the Oxford English Dictionary defines crow as meaning 'intestine or mesentery of an animal' ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow
Here endeth today's LitCrit lesson.
Adunabar
25-10-2008, 13:39
I've never heard of eating crow before.
Bears Armed
25-10-2008, 15:11
The Rook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(bird)), a species from the Crow family that lives in large flocks (foraging for worms & insect larvae in farmland, mostly...) and is therefore easier to obtain than the actual [& slightly larger] Crow which it quite closely resembles in most other respects, was sometimes eaten by poor people in England in historical times.
My mother was given a rook-based dish to eat on one occasion during WWII, when meat in general was scarce, and said that it tasted awful...
Which reminds me, The Two Ronnies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Ronnies) did a sketch about a restaurant called 'The Complete Rook' in which all of the dishes on the menu featured this bird...
Ardchoille
25-10-2008, 15:54
Er ... yes ... well, as we seem to have plucked the subject bare now, iLock.