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.

[humblegunner]

I like this'n better..

[Flyer]

Let's see. . .

We shoot your gun in Bobby's tropical paradise and my dog retrieves for us. Cool!

[another cricket]

Sorry. But the holes into Somewhere are part of the natural order of things. If you plug them up you risk causing a Teseract that would result in Somewhere being Here and causing a twisted reality. The last time that happened we ended up with a sleazy Arkansas governor being elected president.

The only thing that works (sometimes) is the buddy system where you sew the side of the top band of one sock to another. This helps prevent them from getting separated and being hopelessly lost and alone in "Somewhere" Two socks have a much better chance of finding their way home. A lone sock will panic and become disoriented and never find its way back to the Door before the dryer cycle ends.

Of course sewing the side of your socks together at the top makes you walk funny but at least your socks will match.

a.cricket

[ofMagog]

This is yet another thread that has nothing to do with Texas!

[another cricket]

Sorry. I would never interfere with a good scam.

As to the story of Somewhere? If you ever have been looking for something and said, "Well, it must be Somewhere!" you are right.

Everything lost Here ends up in Somewhere. Otherwise the world would be come overcrowded with lost items.

In the Land of Somewhere is the Valley of the Lost Socks, The Forest of Lost Keys, The Beach of Lost Buttons on the shore the Sea of Lost Dreams, and through the sky float the Clouds of Lost Time.

a.cricket

[Swordmaker]

No, No, NO! How many time to we have to tell you?

Washing machines have a disgronificator that teleports left socks to the fifth ring of saturn which is composed of 10^14 (there's that blasted caret again) socks.

For those who are mathematically challenged, that is exactly 100,000,000,000,000 left socks. We know this because Maytag just gave a pristeen condition1924 gas powered (with wringer and the first model with automatic disgronificator) washing machine to the lucky owner of the 100,000,000,000,000th sock, Mr. George Frimml, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

[MamaB]

You mean to tell me that both of us have been WRONG all these years!! Unbelievable!!!!!! Thanks for the info. I will have to tell husband your idea. MamaB

[NoLongerLurker]

It means that thread will open in a new window.

Whew! I thought it meant that the Mossad/CIA had used Carnivore to enter the posting person's computer via his IP and the trap door in Windows to steal his identity and to see if he had ever typed anything subversive or had any computer generated kiddie porn in his files..../sarcasm

[Tennessee_Bob]

Cheese bit my moose.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Please, this is a serious, nay solemn, thread. Could you keep your Cocker Spaniels and Texas out of it?

[Flyer]

Cocker Spaniels

AHEM !

Golden Retrievers. . .

[Flyer]

(forgot the flag)

[mass55th]

I have them and I use Netscape 4.73.

[The Other Harry]

Or would caulk be better?

There was recently a thread posted to alt.home.repair which quite innocently posed the question of, "Which is the cock?"

Needless to say, the folks there had all kinds of fun with that one.

[X-FID]

Everbody hates carets, but they're good for you.

[John Robinson]

Oops.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Whatever. Impossibly cute either way.

[doctor noe]

Might be time to flog your caret.

[Balata]

I don't want to spoil the party, but I very quickly got the following Freep-mail:...

Sure, I let you be in the know and you blab it to the whole world.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Shhh...