Big Top by Rob Harrell for May 11, 2011

FRIED PORK CHOPS

BACON WRAPPED SCALLOPSMAC & CHEESECORN BREADBLACK EYE PEASCHILI BURRITOSREGULAR OR SPICY RICEJELLO SHOOTERSBANANA PUDDINGCOLE SLAW WITH RAISINSPEACH OR BLACKBERRY COBBLERCHEESE CAKE OR BLACK WALNUT POUND CAKE

Regular coffee or Doc’s World Famous Nuclear CoffeeStarbright’s Divine CocoMocha courtesy of Chris Alan & Johanan Rakkav My Big Sister’s Berry delicious breakfast smoothies bmonks cup of cheap mint mocha milk, chocolate milk – regular or milkshakes Asst. fruit juices and teas Premium or imported beer Bloody mary, margarita, martini Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Merlot, Or sparkling wine of your choice, V8 vegetable juice, Soda like pepsi, cherry pepsi ,cocoa cola, Mt. Dew, Dr. Pepper etc.

Toon Comment

More Pie More Pie! Throw another one.

Good Morning, Little Sis…….i couldn’t access BT…….it said that the web page does not exist. I was afraid that we have been eliminated!!! Rubbed out!!!!Whew…….glad we’re still here!

Great menu…….I would love some cheese cake….but make it really small, please.

I got that too! There still a lot of bugs they need to work out.

Sorry I was late I was chatting on Facebook. Please forgive me.

Good night.

I want my edit button back!

One small cheese cake is ready for you Montana Lady.

:-)

Now Good night everyone :-)

Good Morning, Tribeandall

Good Morning ♥Little Sister♥ & Montana LadyWhen I first tried to formant text last night it didn’t work. It seems as though I can only bold text. I’ll miss the edit button too. I used it a lot.Toon CommentNo bigger than it already is.

This site is messed up

Are you there, Grog?

LITTLE SISTER I assume under the new GoComic rules that I’m supposed to order everything printed in upper case. I would also appreciate a cup of DTWFNC please.

Even an old fart like me ought to get some respect. I couldn’t sign in last night to do my second helping of the toon and the witty comments. This morning it took aout 6 tries to login. I was going to change my user name and passcode to “LEW” but was afraid one of the brilliant people here might decode my sneakiness.

Spell check be damned, I don’t even have “edit comment”.

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Lewreader.It’s going to be a real challenge to get it right the first time.

I miss the tagging function. I used it a lot to find ’toons on particular topics.

Good Morning, Tribe

Now that’s a cool addition!

Hi, Chromosome

This is going to take some getting used to.

Thanks and Good Morning All. I was begining to think my computer was deciding things for me. Also had to resign in and then it was doing a weird line up of toons. It went from B’s to S’s?? New rules??? Oh my, I’ve probably broken one already by complaining…………………

Little Sister informed me there’s a change. I tried to get on and couldn’t noticed GC under construction. Have you all noticed there are two hidden features. Put your mouse on comment lower section and see.

If commenting on changes is breaking a rule, then count me in.

And no commas either!

What a waste of pie.

Doctor Toon your comment is coming through. I send GC a comment I like these features. Sadly though we still cannot change icons. Yet.

Good Morning *♠Lonewolf♠,♥♥ Little Sister♥♥,Wolfbyte LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, PlodswSoCo, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, Serenasakitty, SmileyRmom,Bmon,Ladyhawk,,lakesnake ,Lewreader;MisngNOLA,Josh, Yukoneric, The Sojourner, Only Tink, pseudo,Digital Frog,*

####HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY### Serenasakitty

One asterisk puts the print in bold type.

I was wanting to say this to SRmom yesterday but if you see this today. I didn’t pay a $500 for MS Office professional software. I went on line for MS Office they have student rates. For student’s they give a great rate. You also need a fast hard drive my son tells me. With my lap top acceptable. You can set it up and they go through your college email for confirmation. As a student I only paid $89 plus shipping. I have all features needed for future courses.

Good Morning, Pseudough

I didn’t know about Open Office. What is the time period of this software and does one need to be a student?

Weather reports wicked weather I hope I don’t get stuck at that dept. Not fun.

I think I am figuring this out.

Not bad.

Kab – My hubby’s in charge of buying our computer software. We have found that buying through Academic Superstore (first with our homeschooling legal card, and now with a college ID) that we can get great rates on software. I’m sure that my hubby didn’t have to pay $500 or he would have mentioned it. Psuedo – I do use MS Access, so Open Office won’t work for me. My geek son is already using Open Office on his, so I’m aware of it. Since my class was on MS Office 2007, I had to have that particular version to do my assignments, plus I figured if I was going to learn and remember it, I needed to start using that for all my various files. I’ve been in computers since punchcards, so I store a lot of information that way. PowerPoint was the only MS Office software that I hadn’t created a file in before the class started, but I’d been using the 2002 version up until that time.

Good Morning, everyone, especially: ♥Kab♥ Buch, ♠Lonewolf♠, pseudough, & SR Mom.Back to square one, I see.

I also note that the “back to the beginning” button is gone.

It’s also harder to pick out your own comments to know where to start reading again.

Maybe since they will be planning to merge comics.com into gocomics they decided to go with the inconveniences of both sites?

Also: Replies are marked—but not associated with the comment being replied to…

I just noticed the delete key on my comments – I don’t think it was there last night when I noticed there wasn’t an edit key. Comments here don’t show who’s a paying customer and who isn’t, but on my profile page, it shows I’m a “pro” now, instead of a “genius”. Probably a better description.

I tried to see if I could upload a new avatar, but couldn’t seem to figure out where that feature is at. I hope they aren’t taking away our avatars!

Good Morning, Rmom & Bmonk!

Looks like if we use the “reply” key, our comment is now getting inserted immediately below the one we’re replying to. However, there is no indention, so it’s a little subtle. (Look for the blue).

Or walla!

Still haven’t figured out how to make the words bigger though.

Rmom—I’ll stick to the old way of replying. Tried and true!

Good morning, Wolfie! I can see for people who are trying to catch up on the comments, inserting the replies immediately after the original comment would be helpful. But for those of us who are continually refreshing to read the new ones, it will make it harder to find the new comments to read. Unless, of course, we use our “tried and true” method.

How are doing this morning, dear lady?

Bmonk—Lot’s of changes to get used to. I hope that some of them are just temporary.

I see that clicking on the avatar takes you to an error page but clicking on the name takes you to your homepage.

I can’t find anyway to get a comma inserted in a sentence. Dagnabbit!

Hello……………..

Kab – Stay safe! I’m guessing that you’ll be closest to the bad weather today, although it looks like the whole state is under the same level of risk now, according to intellicast. Kansas.com said along and west of K-14 (Kingman county) is where the most risk of tornadoes in KS is today.

Wolfie – Just dealing with a body that is falling apart. Heartburn across the chest, even with prescription Prilosec. Trying to find out what my doctor wants done on me next. (Or which specialist to see.) Sounds like my most frequent summer activity is going to involve medical facilities.

I’m all boxed in.

Rmom – -I can relate to what you are (or are not) looking forward to in the upcoming months. Different reasons but the multiple visits are still upcoming for me also. Thankfully, they are are getting to where it is longer in between visits. :^)

I can’t access the second page of the 75 comments…….even though I clicked on the “Load the rest of the comments” link.We’ll see where this “comment” goes

Wolfie – I know you understand. Tain’t no fun at all. I don’t think my comma is working either, but there are a few in this sentence, so if they don’t show up after I post, we’ll know it isn’t just a lack of punctuation on my part.

Hi, M’Lady! I think I’m going to stay away from gocomics for a few hours or so, hopefully by then they’ll get all the upgrades done. We’re (includes Kab & Sojo) under a severe t-storm watch until 5pm. I hope Sojo didn’t get wet while he was out running errands, as it looked like a heavy rain moved through his area earlier today.

I tried again to “Load the rest of the comments” and it worked. I guess it’s a learning curve for me, too!

Good Afternoon Montana Lady!

Another problem: when you do sign in, you get shunted to your home comics page, and not back to the comic you had been on. And comments seem to vanish.

Hi, all you recent arrivals—or at least since I had to leave this morning. I think that’s Johanan Rakkav א and MTLady.

I also see that the synchronization is still off…

Is anyone else here?

Still no commas, I see.

Likely some of both. And I agree about the commas. Silly thing to disable. Also: I noted that multiple paragraph returns get reduced to one. Also: any number of _s (in paired sets) give italics, while *s give bold—a change from earlier formatting.

Like this and that. . . .

Sigh Stucco doesn’t speak. Why is Stucco speaking? When is the regular artist going to be back already…?

Sigh Stucco doesn’t speak. Why is Stucco speaking? When is the regular artist going to be back already…?

Could be.OTOH: single paragraph returns get disappeared.I wonder if double commas will survive? Let’s try it,, right now.

Nope! [sigh]

I’m also still getting used to (1) having to hit a button to get all the comments, and (2) using that same button location to refresh the comments. If you hit the “refresh page” button on the browser, the list gets shortened.

Good afternoon, Tribe.

Ah, they got the commas working!

I was trying to add Lost Side of Suburbia to my list, but it tells me the URL is too long. Wonder what’s up with that. Guess I’ll give ’em a couple of days to work out the bugs.

Wish when I reply to a comment it would put it with the comment instead of at the bottom.

Hi, Saucy. So far my homepage has all of my comics on it.

I wish my comments stuck out like they used to. Easier to find where you left off on the previous visit.

Hi & Bye, Doc!

Many of The Tribe are missing today and I have been reading throughout the site that many people are having trouble signing on.

I’ve noticed that the comment count has remained at 89, even though I’ve seen new comments posted. Are other ones getting deleted? (I haven’t bothered to count.)

Hi, Rmom!I haven’t bothered to count them yet either.

The count on my page says 109.

≡≡ *P O P !* ≡≡♪ *Hello TRIBE!* ♪

Hello to all those here!*

I haven’t been able to get on all day. Any help would be nice. I have figured out hoe to get on through a back door sort of but it’s a round about way. The site won’t come up when using www.gocomics.com – any ideas?

Hi, Sojo!Glad you made it. I was worried that you were having problems. I have had no problems getting on since they opened the doors this morning.

Can you see my post, Sojo?

I’m using IE9. It won’t connect withe the favorits button I use to use. It won’t come up when entering the web site in the command line. When I got on through the back door sort of I went to the home and put that on my favorites bar and then used that to get on and it wouldn’t work. Have also rebooted etc. At least I can get on but something isn’t right.

♠**Lonewolf**♠ – Yes I can see your post.

Last night I was on for a bit did get bold text to work (which your name isn’t now) but making text different size, italic, red, etc. would not work. If there are different things to do you mighy e-mail me if you have time.

I use Firefox and it seems to be working, though we are still learning of the changes.

Thanks. I had FireFox for a while and saw pluses and minuses for both to me. I decided to just use one to make it easier to not have keep up on learning both and decided to use IE9.

I’ll email you tomorrow with all of the tricks that I have learned so far, Sojo.

Okay, I tried to reply to Wolfie’s 109 comment. Mine still says 89, after I’ve refreshed and read Sojo’s #Drat!

Wow! That one posted! I see the attempt at starting a new line still doesn’t work. I wonder about commas? (comma, comma, comma,)

Hurray, commas now work!

At least I know I can get on (and hope I can still do it tomorrow). I need to get some zzzzzz’s now. P&L

Still saying 89 at the top for me. I need to get to bed. Good night!

Rmom, when you first get to the page you need to hit the reload comments button. To advance the number of comments, refresh your page as you normally would, but then you need to hit the reload comments button once again.

Good Night, Rmom. Rest well, lady.

Good night, Sojo. Catch you in the morrow.