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copy + paste

Hello Fresno Famous.
I am fairly computer-stupid.
Sometimes when I wish to comment on someone's post, I
would like to copy and paste some small line or quote from
what they just typed in order to comment on it.
I find that my cursor will not cooperate.
It won't make the little shaded spot that shows...you know,
that you 'got it' and can copy it or whatever.
Is it just not possible here, or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks! (and either way, thanks for all the work y'all do
to make such a Discussion Place possible)

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here i continue derailing my own thread

thanks mr. void,
that er...solved my problem. (laughs)

But it is funny you mentioned Black Sabbath. I was on a longggg road trip one time---looking for a job. Stopped at one of those gas stations with the budget cassettes on the spinning rack thing?
THere was Black Sabbath's greatest hits---I thought---ok, this'll keep me from sleeping on the long boring stretch home on highway 5---
I hadn't heard those songs for years, but I grew up with all this great 70's stonerrock coming out from under my big brother's doorway, so I knew they would be fun and familiar riffs.

--My daughter was a crawling-almost-toddler at the time,and we, of course tried to 'baby proof' everything around the apartment, and I always dreaded the day that she'd get into my records or recording stuff or whatever,well,---THE ONLY TAPE she EVER took into her sticky little hands and pulled out onto the floor inch by inch was this Black Sabbath tape. ewwww , it's an omen! I think I may need to talk to that Cornerstone guy about this?

hmmmmmmm

....could be

satan????

(sorry, bro,,, just kidding,,, we all know the metaphysically dark, parasitic, and destructive have no interest in computer activity or FresFam whatsoever...)

..still, you may want to sacrifice a chicken, just to play it safe.
(I cheat, I just wolf down half of one of those rotissere things from FoodMaxx in front of the monitor while checking the evening Email, and try not to get the keys greasy...)
-My neighbor prefers the little votive candles you can get at the store, -they're getting pretty specific with those prayers on the back... -even found one called 'Our Blessed lady of the sissy-bar'
-apparently Mary showed up on one of them new-retro Schwinn Stingrays, (they weren't sure it was her, at first, was in a pair of cutoffs and 'Journey' concert shirt with puca shells pedalling along the beach, -the halo and angels gave her away, ('guess she and Elizabeth were down at SLO for a few days, just chillin'.)
--it's got little bits of inner tube in the wax, tried it, -smells awful, --but it works, -havn't gotten a single flat when riding bikes around in the kitchen, yet.

I think your drag and click thing is probably some strange electronic field generated by Jag...
(---some fang sway thing... Turns out he was moving stuff in his office, and had a Black Sabbath album on a week or so back, --and that's what caused the collapse of that church/halloween building downtown...
(also a bunch of farm workers in hanford to start spinnin their heads like owls, -green stuff coming out the mouth, floatin all over the place... wrought havoc with the local airport landing patterns, freaked out nursing home residents and whatnot...)

-It's true, I'm telling ya, was reading it in the Weekly World News, er, 'the Bee,' while waiting inline at the Grocery Store...

-Which brings me to another point...

BigFoot and Elvis are getting no Ink whatsoever anymore... it's like they've fallen off the map...
It's all photos of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise's brat... -and there are NO PHOTO's... (Just little tiny doctored polaroids of Whitney Huston snorting fish tank gravel or something...
(I hear TomKat's kid has two faces, named it 'Janus', already saying 's supposed to be a shoe-in for the theatre.

Speaking of which
-could you confirm if there's yet another new pack of defecting Woodward Park stage-hounds starting up in a cow-shed somwhere with with some Revival blending two musicals, 'Annie Get Your Gun,' and 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,'
(-think they're calling it: 'Clovis after 9pm')
-Someone tol me you were on the theramin for the soundtrack, (heard the love scene, -with the manure spreader, flying saucers, ElCaminos and two all-american-fresh-faced-teens (with high scores in everything,) is pretty intense, especially with all that aluminum foil, in season produce, and bug zappers...)

..no Elvis no Bigfoot,
-and your drag and click is not working...
whole place is going to Hoboken in a handbucket, I tells ya...

(...still think they ought to use the Fulton Mall for the that Halloween 'scared straight,' or 'scared republican,' or 'scared fundi,' or 'just plain scared,,, amen.' thing they do each year...
'Specially with their warehouse being laid low by mysterious forces of evil and dark oppression, Leo Sayer Records or....(gasp!?) ...gravity.

still cut&paste stymied

I can do a right click and 'select all' and the whole page'll turn blue---but that is a lot less easier than left clicking and dragging that ol' blue shading line and copying a bit out of the text.
weird. i'll try it on another computer and see if it's the same.

hmmm

truthfully, bro?
nine times out of ten, I just retype it in quotes, or I wind up copying the whole comment, (headers included,) and chopping out the stuff that I don't like, (because pret -near the entire page reproduces in the composing window...)

PS...
The Basist (I think,) from the NepTunes says hello... I'm reworking a chair for him and his missus... very cool people...

-E

maybe

"It won't make the little shaded spot that shows...you know,
that you 'got it' and can copy it or whatever.
Is it just not possible here, or am I doing something wrong?"

worked for me. maybe you are doing something wrong.

point, click and hold, drag should highlight. then copy.

hope you have more success

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