What's With the Carets (^) at the End of Every Thread Title?

Vanity | 9 July 2002 | Self

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My browser, IE 6.0, displays a caret, "^", at the end of every thread title on the "http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/browse" page.

[Balata]

Listen pally, we split the 2 bills equally for the returned socks.

[Clinging Bitterly]

I thought it was some feature of this new Linux thingy I'm running here - or the Mozilla thingy.

(The Alt-F4 thingy does what it always did)

Dave in Eugene

[Axenolith]

Water anyone? All you will truly ever want to know...

http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C7732185&Units=SI

[Greybird]

Which is exactly what one would expect, is not counter intuitive and is trivially obvious, like saying that if Galileo had dropped two identical canon balls the one he released first would hit the ground first. DOH!

Well, all I can say is that the Canon Law experts who prosecuted Galileo certainly DID have balls, especially if they had any imagination and could foresee some of the verdict of history. Or that a Pope would one day exonerate him.

... Oh. You meant CANNON balls. Three N's. *EmilyLitella ON* Never mind. *EmilyLitella OFF*

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Kewl.

[Movemout]

I got my wife's sewing box. I opened it and pulled out all of the spools and looked at the titles for all of the threads and didn't find one caret. I did find some curious looking codes that I was able to synthesize into a matrix and was able to apply some code breaking techniques. The results were puzzling. It read "THE ANSWER IS 42 YOU FOOL --DOUG ADAMS

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The game's afoot, Watson!

[ofMagog]

Psychoceramics are OK with me. I can't even spell Mustachussetts and, in fact, believe like Nort Dakota it does not really exist.

[powderhorn]

I knew a guy back in the 70's who would put ice cubes in water so it would boil faster.

Don't push F12. I'm pretty sure it's the key for anti-DOS. It'll blow up all the DOS computers on earth.

So...all those socks that have been appearing on my kitchen table...if you can provide a description of each item I'll be happy to return them for a small shipping & handling charge.

[MileHi]

Since yesterday, every click brings two cookies for me to cancel (I don't let cookies automaticly). Is this new? Is this neccessary?

Thanks

[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks for the warning about F12.... I have now just duct-taped all those keys so that I do no! press one accidently!

I don't know about your friend who put ice in the water he was trying to boil. Did he have other unusual habits?

Description of missing socks!
One navy blue sock
One white - lace embroidered trim
One red scrunchy sock
Three other misc white sports socks
One rainbow sock with individual toes

[CaptRon]

I always thoought it had something to do with the fact that water has the unusual characteristic of expanding when it cools.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, according to Scientific American, quoted at 61, there is only a notable difference if cold water is compared to water that is near boiling when it is put in the freezer. Evaporation and convection are named as the most plausible explanations!

[RightWhale]

Why does hot water freeze faster than cold water?

Taken literally, it doesn't. It is actually an old but not ancient allegory coined after the 1834 Perkins process.

[asformeandformyhouse]

I prefer carats myself.

I've never understood how diamonds are a woman's best friend but dogs are a man's best friend. Kinda makes you wonder who came up with those sayings.

[HairOfTheDog]

Taken literally, it doesn't. It is actually an old but not ancient allegory coined after the 1834 Perkins process.

Thanks - that sure clears that up then!

[RightWhale]

that sure clears that up

Yeah, I know. It's not the kind of Sufic saying one can just look up in the encyclopedia. It apparently gained currency during WW II. It's possible that a farmer in South Dakota was the first to make the statement, but during WW I. Oddly, the farmer had no refrigerator.

[DeFault User]

Dude, you need some DOS apps.

DOS, what's that?

[HairOfTheDog]

Oddly, the farmer had no refrigerator

He was clearly a visionary... a prophet.

[RightWhale]

He was clearly a visionary

Not at all. He had moved to South Dakota from the city, where refrigerators were well known if not particualrly common. In the summer in the Dakotas when the temperature is up to 100, a farmer might indeed think of refrigerators.