Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for September 24, 2010

At least you earned the bragging rights!

Good Morning Thom & Everyone!

Well if you can’t beat em join em.

Robinson Crusoe meets the Swiss Family Robinson?

There be faces in the sea!

Who gets voted off?

Nice boat.

How did the USS MINNOW have all that stuff packed on her. 3 HOUR TOUR, an explaination please.

The Minnow was obviously a Tardis, Lew, much bigger on the inside than the outside.

Indeed, *JP*. One jumped out at me before I’d taken in the drawing as a whole.

Wierd formatting issue. I typed it correctly and edited it twice but it shows JP above as italics between asterisks instead of bold.

The next big hurricane will wipe that rock clean, don’t worry.

Forget a FedEx crash, that guy must have been flying Home Depot.

LafInLarry - Formatting only works on text of 3 characters or more, so the inside set of asterisks were taken as text, not formatting.

now we know where the ark landed

There is a way to do the two letter bold.

Where did he get all that wood.

Ya think, Doc?! LOL

OK, Lonewolf, how *do* you do the two letter bold????

Good morning, BirdBrainiacs!

At least the guy on the rock is eating! (oh, by the way, he is sitting on a rock face)

Hi, MontanaLady

Add  & nbsp; before the two letter word with asterics around the whole set of characters including the two letters.

So it would be two asterics & nbsp;  the two letters two more asterics and your done. No spaces between any of it.

Edit: I had to redo the post and add a space between the & and nbsp as it showed up as a space. NO SPACES!

 LW

It WORKED!!!!

Coolness,  ML

Do it twice, once before and once after with asterics around it and it works for one letter words, too!

 I 

 R 

It worked,  LW

Awesome!

I’ve tried before… none of those tricks work for me- not trying anymore!

Hi, Vldazzle.

Watch out for falling coconuts!

This reminds me of Saturday Night Live’s Desert Island Christmas sketch.

Of course, the quirk on italics and bold is that one letter or three will work fine–only zero and two don’t. Nobody is telling us why. Which is why *JP* shows up as italic JP plus two asterisks: the asterisks make it four letters, which the format parser can “see” to make italic.

The real question for survivalists out there: when the eschaton comes, and your neighbors come around looking for help, do you let them in or not?

Very cool, Cdward!

Hi bmonk Well- I’d let you in! Would you let *me* in?

Darn’d format parsing!

This one is really good Thom.