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  1. "M"

    "M" Total Gardener

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    Háázhó’ógo bee ádíní
     
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    Fat Controller 'Cuddly' Scottish Admin! Staff Member

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    Bless you :hands @"M" a tissue:
     
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    • DIY-Dave

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      • shiney

        shiney President, Grumpy Old Men's Club Staff Member

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        I ignore any posts that have those sort of acronyms, as I can't be bothered trying to think what they mean.

        I also ignore any text messages that are in text speak. :old:
         
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        • DIY-Dave

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          I hate text speak too.
          Things like:
          GR8 C U L8ter
          just drive me mad.
           
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          • clueless1

            clueless1 member... yep, that's what I am:)

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            A long time ago, when SMS stuff was limited to 216 characters, I had an idea to write a piece of software that would compress normal text into text speak and back again, as a means of saying more for less. But I couldn't be bothered, and I'm glad I didn't because it was a daft idea:)
             
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            • DIY-Dave

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              Not so daft as in those days with limited number of chars and those stupid phone keyboards that had "abc" "def" and so on and to get a "b" one had to press the "abc" key twice in quick succession then wait then type the next char was a real pain.

              These days pretty much everything has a full QWERTY keyboard so there is no excuse for lazy typing.
               
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              And sort of related, who remembers ASCII art?
              I wonder if it will work on this forum?

              _________.-"____;-"_______\
              ________/______/___________|
              _______|______|________=___|
              _______;____.-'\__.-')_____|
              ________`-'______|___|____;
              _________________|__/;___/_______,
              _______________.-.;.-=-./-""-.-`__`
              ______________/___|_____\_____\-`_`,
              _____________|____|______|_____|
              _____________|____|______|_____|
              ______________\0_/_\0___/______/
              ___________.--.-""-.`--'_____.'
              __________(#___)__________,__\
              __________('--'__________/\`__\
              ___________\_______,,__.'______\
              ____________`-.______.'\________\
              ________________`""`____\________\

              Seems to.
              Can others see Odie the dog or is it all just garbled text?
               
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              • Jiffy

                Jiffy The Match is on Fire

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                I see dog
                 
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                  Woof! Woof!

                  Couldn't use just Woof! as that has already been taken by "M"
                   
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                  • DIY-Dave

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                    GRRRRRRRRRREAT. :)
                     
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                    • Fat Controller

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                      Tony? Is that really you???

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                        There's more Navajo Wind Whisperers around than I thought!!:snork:
                         
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