Quiz

[Byron]

OK - so little to go on but any suit recognition experts out there prepared to attempt an ID of this bashful blogger's Speedo ?
http://npimages.blogspot.co.uk/2010/...arch-2010.html

[louis]

Page does not exist.

[Crail]

Byron, sorry, buddy, URL does not work for me. Not picking on you, just thought you might like to know. For now, I'll use my imagination; and I do have a wild imagination LOL

[Byron]

.......it was a pic of some fabric with Speedo embroidered upon it but didn't show the whole suit. It was a blogspot from a guy called Monkton - rather an odd piece of illustration just to tell us he had been for a swim but finding him again has so far proved impossible (but I shall go back to wherever I can remember I was as I obviously need a key word to trigger it again).

[Torchwatch]

The "..." part of a url is a shortened form expressing data not shown .

If you type a url into a message and include "..." then the url missing that data will not work.

Don't ever type urls, unless you are an expert typist, the probability of error tends to 100%. It is much quicker and more accurate to "copy" and "paste" them.

If you do not know how to "cut", "copy" and paste then you need to learn, whatever language your computer works in. These are basic essential skills.

It doesn't matter if you make spelling, grammar and punctuation errors in the text body of a thread, the human reader can adjust, but any error however slight when "talking" to a computer results in the machine failing to comply, and wastes your time and your message.

If you have made a error in a thread on here, then reread it after posting and and press the edit command at the bottom of the page to correct it.

If you are using Microsoft Explorer as your web browser, selecting "Favourites" and "History" will give you a list of all sites you have visited in the last 2 weeks. You can find lost sites on there.

[Byron]

LOL - I knew you'd say that - you're right of course but I made a mess of c&p the last time I tried. The URL for a website is not usually very long and doesn't cause problems but taking out a pic from a mass of otherwise irrelevent pics is another matter and the individual URL to be specifically pinpointed in that case can run on forever with all sorts of computer hiroglyphics* (and so the mistakes creep in).

Well, practise makes perfect it is said so I will retrace what I can and rely on Crail's vivid imagination for the moment.

Thanks for your post.


*and I need a spell check there too

[sebbie]

1. Right click on photo
2. On the menu, click on "properties"
3. The URL will be listed on the properties table. Copy it from there and paste.
4. Try the URL by pasting it into your browser before posting to a blog

Sebbie

[Crail]

Byron and y'all (LOL, used to be from Southern Scotland), when it is necessary post a very long URL, it is my custom to go to "Tiny URL" http://tiny.cc/ ; enter the copied long URL and paste it in Tiny URL where it is reduced. From there, copy the new tiny URL and paste it to any post you are writing.

Now that may sound convoluted and a long road for a short cut; but it works for me. If anyone has a more convenient way, please let me know.

Lang may yir lum reek. LOL

[Byron]

Thanks for good advice guys - nicely set out and I now have two procedures to try (and I've often thought the tiny URL creation, as I've seen variously used on the forum, to be a good idea).

As for this Quiz question I think I shall have to give up on tracing the guy's
blog with the little embroidered Speedo logo in a pic which he added (it wasn't all that interesting anyway - it was one of those diaries which say I awoke at seven o'clock this morning, I put the cat out, I prepared a bowl of cornflakes, I boiled some water for a cup of tea, I put some bread in the toaster............) (not true but you get the idea) (yawn....).

However I think I have sorted myself out now on the pics for low-rise speedos in the Denverswim style - in the thread of pet hates (always had a weakness for water polo players anyway and water skiiers seem to have so much thermal protection these days that images are not as sexy as I used to remember them).

Btw I've many times sung Auld Lang Syne but never properly understood those three words - would they translate as "old good memories" ?

A friend is very fond of visiting the west (the distilleries of the western isles not least in the attractions to him). I have old memories of visiting a farm on land which was designated for creation of the new town of East Kilbride (a provision to ease pressure on overcrowded Glasgow I believe).

The farm owner had a magnificent glass cabinet full of his silver cups awarded in curling competitions and it was the duty of his daughters to keep
them regularly polished (as was their responsibility for cooking for Sunday lunch - he was a strict Presbyterian or Wesleyan I believe and proper observance of the Sabbath by he and his wife was important).

[Byron]

.....at last... (I needed "swim" under npm images)

http://npmimages.blogspot.co.uk/2010...arch-2010.html

Nigel Monckton is a photographer from West Cumbria and as he doesn't think his body suitable for website consumption we get only a corner of the fabric of his Speedo and I guess we are just meant to appreciate the quality of his photography, as focused on the logo.

Anyway, end of my cock-ups I think
(eupahmism not literal)