Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for September 16, 2011

Hey, it’s the kid’s fault for putting his eyeball under the pillow.

He probably wanted to keep an eye out for monsters.

BTW Beviek and Dogsniff —

When I blow it, I highlight and copy my post, and paste it back into the comment box for “repairs.”

Then I delete the 1st one and re-submit.

Not that I ever make missteakz….

^ The downside to this is when other posters have based their posts on yours. (Like this one) You have to weigh leaving a post you’re not satisfied with vs. making others look confused or incoherent. Hopefully, you can catch it before it’s an issue. ( I do this a lot, too.)

Poor kid. He never saw it coming. Nor will he next time.

i’ve got eyes for her only.

from now on, he’ll keep an eye out for her…

What? No comments on flying while texting or… QUICK – I need a verb for iPad use!Could be a Kindle, but that would make it “…while Kindling” and that just conjures up images that would make a pyromaniac VERY happy.“Tableting”?? Ugh. Too much like popping pills

@GoodQuestion — ¡ʍouʞ ı ’ɥɐǝʎ

LeRoy – maybe he’ll see her next time, in 2D (sniffle,) but not the time after. :)

And @ Dogsniff, et al — You just do it like any copy and paste, but if you do mean that:

While holding down the left mouse button, glide your mouse over the text you want, right-click and select “copy.”

Either click inside the fresh comment box, hold “Ctrl” and type “v”, or right click and select “paste”, to put it back in the box, where you can edit it.

Be sure to delete the already posted version.

I usually will only do this immediately, hopefully before anyone has seen my comment — but yeah, it gets interesting when the order is changed. LOL

BTW I also copy my post before I send it because every once in a blue moon they disappear instead of posting.

Inside a comment box you can use “select all” but not on posted comments or you’ll copy the whole page.

I’ve had a couple of comments removed, myself — pretty innocuous ones too, so I have no idea why.

kid’s fault for leaving their eye under the pillow!

It’s tough when your parents tell you to “keep an eye peeled”… isn’t it?

I usually take the easy way out if I want a space:

I double return (which becomes a single return)

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and use a period as a spacer.

Sometimes a triple return (enter key) will turn into a space but formatting on this site is incredibly erratic.

so I leave a blank space and then type the HTML for a line break in front of the next paragraph.

It’s hard to give instructions in a comment cos the symbols themselves don’t show, unless you type the code for the symbol instead of the symbol itself

i.e. “>” is read as code, so it’s invisible if you type it. What I typed there was the code for that symbol, I hope.

for a line break you type <br>

Since we’re speaking of editing et al- I asked last week how Susan acheived the underline (which I agreed is useful-as opposed to the strickout which is not.