This is too funny . . .
Sep 1st 2005 | 12:54 am
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Re: This is too funny . . .
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:18:08 -0700, PTravel wrote:
> Sorry to follow up to my own post, but a quick google search confirmed, at
> least, the fact of the town:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
It's not far from me.
The loses a lot of signposts, and as you can imagine they begin to tire of
the hilarity of it all after the 25th year. They were being stolen at least
as far back as 1991.
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> Sorry to follow up to my own post, but a quick google search confirmed, at
> least, the fact of the town:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
It's not far from me.
The loses a lot of signposts, and as you can imagine they begin to tire of
the hilarity of it all after the 25th year. They were being stolen at least
as far back as 1991.
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Tim C.
Sep 1st 2005 | 2:30 am
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Re: This is too funny . . .
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:54:36 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:18:08 -0700, PTravel wrote:
>> Sorry to follow up to my own post, but a quick google search confirmed, at
>> least, the fact of the town:
>>
>> http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
>It's not far from me.
>The loses a lot of signposts, and as you can imagine they begin to tire of
>the hilarity of it all after the 25th year. They were being stolen at least
>as far back as 1991.
That was your first then!
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<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:18:08 -0700, PTravel wrote:
>> Sorry to follow up to my own post, but a quick google search confirmed, at
>> least, the fact of the town:
>>
>> http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
>It's not far from me.
>The loses a lot of signposts, and as you can imagine they begin to tire of
>the hilarity of it all after the 25th year. They were being stolen at least
>as far back as 1991.
That was your first then!
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Sep 1st 2005 | 3:10 am
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Re: This is too funny . . .
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:30:39 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:54:36 +0200, Tim Challenger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:18:08 -0700, PTravel wrote:
>>> Sorry to follow up to my own post, but a quick google search confirmed, at
>>> least, the fact of the town:
>>>
>>> http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
>>It's not far from me.
>>The loses a lot of signposts, and as you can imagine they begin to tire of
>>the hilarity of it all after the 25th year. They were being stolen at least
>>as far back as 1991.
>
> That was your first then!
Oops! :-)
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Tim C.
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:54:36 +0200, Tim Challenger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:18:08 -0700, PTravel wrote:
>>> Sorry to follow up to my own post, but a quick google search confirmed, at
>>> least, the fact of the town:
>>>
>>> http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
>>It's not far from me.
>>The loses a lot of signposts, and as you can imagine they begin to tire of
>>the hilarity of it all after the 25th year. They were being stolen at least
>>as far back as 1991.
>
> That was your first then!
Oops! :-)
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Sep 1st 2005 | 5:57 am
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Re: This is too funny . . .
It really does appear that they are missing a significant commercial
venture.
PTravel wrote:
> Sorry to follow up to my own post, but a quick google search confirmed, at
> least, the fact of the town:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
>
>
venture.
PTravel wrote:
> Sorry to follow up to my own post, but a quick google search confirmed, at
> least, the fact of the town:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
>
>
Sep 1st 2005 | 8:29 am
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Re: This is too funny . . .
more questioning, never answering
"Martin" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected]...
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:56:07 +0100, bigbrian <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:51:50 +0100, "Andrea" <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>>Alan S wrote:
>>><<http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichel...y=9&productId=
>>>Cheers, Alan, Australia>>
>>>Hi Alan,
>>>For such long links, you can use the programme "TinyURL". It shortens the
>>>long address into a tiny one. So, the one you posted, using "TinyURL"
>>>would
>>>become http://tinyurl.com/dfq7t. Don't worry; it will take you exactly to
>>>the same page.
>>>The way to do this is very simple:
>>>1) Open the programme http://tinyurl.com/ and type the long address in
>>>the field "Enter a long URL to make tiny".
>>>2) You will get a short version INSTANTLY!!
>>>Isn't it brilliant?
>>Actually, its even easier than that. I have the Tinyurl link saved in
>>my favourites.
>>If you're already at a page with a very long URL, clicking on the
>>TinyURL link in favourites automatically takes you to the Tiny URL
>>page with a tinyurl already created for the page you just came from.
>>Don't have to type the long URL in at all, or even cut and paste it
> It doesn't do that with Firefox. Which browser are you using?
> --
> Martin
"Martin" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected]...
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:56:07 +0100, bigbrian <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:51:50 +0100, "Andrea" <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>>Alan S wrote:
>>><<http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichel...y=9&productId=
>>>Cheers, Alan, Australia>>
>>>Hi Alan,
>>>For such long links, you can use the programme "TinyURL". It shortens the
>>>long address into a tiny one. So, the one you posted, using "TinyURL"
>>>would
>>>become http://tinyurl.com/dfq7t. Don't worry; it will take you exactly to
>>>the same page.
>>>The way to do this is very simple:
>>>1) Open the programme http://tinyurl.com/ and type the long address in
>>>the field "Enter a long URL to make tiny".
>>>2) You will get a short version INSTANTLY!!
>>>Isn't it brilliant?
>>Actually, its even easier than that. I have the Tinyurl link saved in
>>my favourites.
>>If you're already at a page with a very long URL, clicking on the
>>TinyURL link in favourites automatically takes you to the Tiny URL
>>page with a tinyurl already created for the page you just came from.
>>Don't have to type the long URL in at all, or even cut and paste it
> It doesn't do that with Firefox. Which browser are you using?
> --
> Martin
Sep 1st 2005 | 3:57 pm
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Re: This is too funny . . .
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:00:03 +0200, Martin <[email protected]>
wrote:
>It doesn't do that with Firefox. Which browser are you using?
>--
>Martin
It's an extension on my Firefox.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
wrote:
>It doesn't do that with Firefox. Which browser are you using?
>--
>Martin
It's an extension on my Firefox.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
Sep 2nd 2005 | 12:03 pm
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Re: This is too funny . . .
On 2005-08-31, PTravel <[email protected]> wrote:
> It was the news report or, at least, the copy that I saw in the other
> newsgroup. I don't doubt that the signs are stolen; I hadn't heard of the
> town before and found the quotes in the article a bit too neat.
The qoutes were obviously made up.
> It was the news report or, at least, the copy that I saw in the other
> newsgroup. I don't doubt that the signs are stolen; I hadn't heard of the
> town before and found the quotes in the article a bit too neat.
The qoutes were obviously made up.
Sep 2nd 2005 | 2:32 pm
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Re: This is too funny . . .
"Andrea" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> For such long links, you can use the programme "TinyURL". It shortens
> the long address into a tiny one. So, the one you posted, using
> "TinyURL" would become http://tinyurl.com/dfq7t. Don't worry; it will
> take you exactly to the same page.
It only works as long as the the tinyurl.com webserver is up. If one
day the company who runs the server goes bankrupt or decides to stop
the service, all your bookmarks will become data garbage instantly. I
wouldn't make valuable information (which bookmarks might be) depend on
some outside service I have no control over. Browsers can bookmark URLs
of any length, there's no need to do this. Admittedly it's neater for
the formatting of usenet posts, but even there it can hurt. Imagine
someone going through usenet archives in years to come, and the posted
links don't work because the tinyurl service has disappeared. (Same
goes for "makeashorterlink" and similar services)
Regards
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news:[email protected]:
> For such long links, you can use the programme "TinyURL". It shortens
> the long address into a tiny one. So, the one you posted, using
> "TinyURL" would become http://tinyurl.com/dfq7t. Don't worry; it will
> take you exactly to the same page.
It only works as long as the the tinyurl.com webserver is up. If one
day the company who runs the server goes bankrupt or decides to stop
the service, all your bookmarks will become data garbage instantly. I
wouldn't make valuable information (which bookmarks might be) depend on
some outside service I have no control over. Browsers can bookmark URLs
of any length, there's no need to do this. Admittedly it's neater for
the formatting of usenet posts, but even there it can hurt. Imagine
someone going through usenet archives in years to come, and the posted
links don't work because the tinyurl service has disappeared. (Same
goes for "makeashorterlink" and similar services)
Regards
--
Ãœber alle Sektorengrenzen hinweg rollt Deine S-Bahn
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