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Edited by Willbyr on Jun 21st 2021 at 9:42:03 AM

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#51: Aug 30th 2014 at 4:13:31 PM

[lol][tup]

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#52: Sep 5th 2014 at 8:34:28 AM

Oh, and going back to the Fighting Spirit, how about:

"When spirited fight gets too literal..."

"The best soulution to any street fight."

"Always bring a ghost fighter to a fistfight."

Any of these good?

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Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#54: Sep 9th 2014 at 6:38:14 PM

On June 16th, someone changed the caption on Blue-and-Orange Morality from:

Ye who walk with the Path of Bacon shall be blessed with dinner. Yet ye who follow the Way of Necktie shall be dressed for dinner.
to
Ye who walk with the Path of Bacon shall be given breakfast. Yet ye who follow the Way of Necktie shall be put in appropriate attire.
I like the old one better, since it rhymes and is rather funny. The pot holes where there to clarify. The new one loses a lot of the original's charm.

[down]Dressed and blessed.

edited 9th Sep '14 7:14:45 PM by Rethkir

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#55: Sep 9th 2014 at 7:13:48 PM

Agree, but the old one doesn't rhyme, it repeats the same word: "dinner".

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#56: Sep 9th 2014 at 9:13:01 PM

Easy solution: "shall be with dinner blessed"; "shall be for dinner dressed".

Slightly odd grammar, admittedly, but oddly poetic, and it makes the rhyme more explicit.

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#57: Sep 11th 2014 at 3:36:40 AM

[up] I like that formatting, too.

tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#58: Sep 17th 2014 at 6:29:20 AM

Ugh, the caption on the page pic for Rosario Vampire consists entirely of bluetext in one giant sinkhole. Suggestions?

edited 17th Sep '14 6:30:53 AM by tryrar

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#59: Sep 17th 2014 at 7:52:15 AM

[up] I like the caption itself, it just needs the sinkholes pruned.

Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#60: Sep 17th 2014 at 10:22:32 AM

It helps to link to provide a link ro to the page. Do that by writing it as a Wiki Word. Rosarioto Vampire. That said, the links can all go. Here's the current caption, for reference:


And can we please do something about captions appearing blue in forum? It makes it impossible to what's a link without putting the mouse over it.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#61: Sep 17th 2014 at 10:32:21 AM

Well, to me, they show in slightly different colour, but yeah not very good.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#62: Sep 17th 2014 at 8:25:56 PM

^^ I have "highlight links" checked in my forum profile... links are always underlined (both forum and wiki), so I can easily see them, and as a side bonus I can easily see Chained Sink Holes. :P

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#63: Sep 17th 2014 at 10:43:21 PM

Can I remove the caption in Bishie Sparkle? It seems to have that "make fun of Twilight" thing going on.

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#64: Sep 17th 2014 at 10:58:00 PM

I agree with removing the Bishie Sparkle caption.

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#66: Sep 18th 2014 at 5:00:33 AM

It's gone. So, do we need to replace it with something, or does it work well enough without any?

Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#67: Sep 18th 2014 at 5:48:08 AM

It's fine without one, but I wouldn't mind one if it were funny.I removed all the blue from Rosarioto Vampire. If anyone wants to restore some of the links in a reasonable fashion, be my guest. Any other thoughts on Blue-and-Orange Morality?

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#68: Sep 18th 2014 at 6:20:52 AM

I say change as per @56.

Not right away, not right away
dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#69: Sep 18th 2014 at 6:22:22 AM

Yeah, go with 56.

Say, anyone got any thought for the caption for Fighting Spirit? The current one has to go, no doubt.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#71: Sep 18th 2014 at 6:37:06 AM

Ditto.

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Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#73: Sep 19th 2014 at 4:30:56 PM

Changed Blue-and-Orange Morality to the suggestion. It's much more poetic now.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#74: Sep 27th 2014 at 5:04:47 AM

Regarding Fighting Spirit, there are several caption suggestions ... any more thoughts?

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#75: Sep 27th 2014 at 12:44:02 PM

Again, this is my suggestion:

"The best soulution to any street fight."

edited 27th Sep '14 12:44:08 PM by dRoy

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