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[Njaco]

Njaco this might become destined for the forum's "most funny" thread. Mike's been in the military and he's asking how you become an officer?

I just spit coffee all over my screen!!

 

[Matt308]

I worked with a guy (since retired) in Washington DC. One day he made a statement that we all ganged up on for, claiming such a foolish statement would surely get him in trouble with the Cognecenti. His reply was classic, "What are they going to do, send me to Vietnam for the third time".

Beautiful.

 

[vikingBerserker]

 

[mikewint]

Matt, you bet, nobody wanted my job and very few could do it. nobody screwed with SF. one evening in Saigon a supply Major started reaming a group of us because we were out of uniform (tiger stripes) just a bit buzzed, we picked him up and threw him into the highly polluted Saigon River. We got chewed out but that was it, what could they do?

Back to a serious question. How do you work this quote thing? Hey, it took a week for me to figure out attachments

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Back to a serious question. How do you work this quote thing? Hey, it took a week for me to figure out attachments

You either use the "quote" button or you wrap this around your text:

{quote="who you are quoting"][/quote} (substitue { and } with [ and ])

It will look something like this then:

This is an example text.

 

[Matt308]

Yeah, just hit quote and the quoted text will appear in your draft text. Just delete what you don't want. I do the last part all the time to Lucky13. However out of sheer politeness, I usually keep his "the, and, or, buts".

It's okay. He's Swedish.

 

[ccheese]

It's okay. He's Swedish.

This week !!!

Charles

 

[mikewint]

Thanks guys, but still a bit unclear. in the original post, do i first highlight what i want, then hit the quote button? else how does the quote button know what i want quoted?

I hit the quote button, the entire post appeared, i deleted whar i did not want, hit post, i got the quote but no little sunken box or originally posted by header

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Just click the Quote button in the persons post that you want to quote. A new screen will appear with this persons post. You then can type your comment in below it, sometimes need to hit the return button to drop your cursor down a line or two to help separate their quote from yours. When you are done with your comment you drop down and hit your Post Quick Reply button. The button beside the quote button in each post will let you put multiple quotes in one of your post. You hit this button in each post you would like to quote and when you reach the finally individuals post you want to quote you hit the quote button in that post which will bring up the window with all of the posts quoted. You can then reply to all quotes in one post. Hope I haven't confused you to much.

 

[mikewint]

Got it Aaron, thank you so much for your help. I think I have it straight

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

You are very welcome sir.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Yeah, just hit quote and the quoted text will appear in your draft text. Just delete what you don't want. I do the last part all the time to Lucky13. However out of sheer politeness, I usually keep his "the, and, or, buts".

It's okay. He's Swedish.

 

[Airframes]

I thought he was Swettish .....

 

[Wayne Little]

I thought he was Swettish .....

 

[mikewint]

only during the summer

 

[Airframes]

Nah, Jan. He's a Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland, So we call him Swettish !