Its My Ab Birthday

[webbo3]

13 years today... :-)

[Tilly2]

Congratulations! That's a long time...:-)

[webbo3]

ty :-)

[Tilly2]

You must have seen a lot of people come and go.

[webbo3]

I have, some nice, some not so nice and some a little odd.

[Buenchico]

Congratulations on becoming an AB teenager. (I got there myself a couple of months back. Something else to make me feel old!)

[webbo3]

First question.
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question168755.html

First answer.
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Media-and-TV/Question168686.html


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[webbo3]

Thanks Chris. :-)

[Tilly2]

You haven't asked many questions in all that time, Webbo.

[webbo3]

Cos i know everything :-P lol, im more of an answerer than an askerer, i like trying to be helpful

[Buenchico]

You've asked more questions than me, Webbo! You must be the inquisitive type ;-)

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When I first posted here I'd spent 30 years looking for the perfect answer to my question and, 13 years later, I'm still hoping to find it one day!
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Science/Question140971.html

[DTCwordfan]

congrats, webbo ...a cake is due... https://images.supersport.com/galleries/AB-de-Villiers-bday-cake-110217Gbg.jpg

[webbo3]

Im guessing white will reflect light but not an image.

[Tilly2]

Buenchico, why are some of those responses, to your first question, in a different font?

[webbo3]

Thanks for the cake. :-) DTCwordfan

[Buenchico]

Back in those days, Tilly, people could alter things like fonts and colours by inserting HTML coding into their posts. The problem was though that, after posting the code to 'turn on' a particular effect, some people (i.e. Knobby, Legend, et al) 'forgot' to turn it off again, meaning that everything that followed their answer on a page appeared in a strange font and/or colour. When AB's server looks back at old posts now they can come out in some very strange ways.

[Tilly2]

Thanks for the explanation, Buen.

[webbo3]

Legend and Knobby, now theres two names from the past.

[DTCwordfan]

and who was the Blackpool loon, Doc...?

[Patsy33]

Goodness! Well done.

[Buenchico]

I can't remember, Webbo, whether it was Legend or Knobby who was the first to respond to a CB post from me.

Having ignored CB for quite some time, I decided to take a look at it. I saw a thread which looked interesting and posted on it. I was ignored. I saw another thread of interest and posted again. I was ignored again. I saw yet another thread where I thought that I'd like to join in and posted yet again. I was ignored again. That kept happening until my SEVENTEENTH post in CB, when I finally got an acknowledgement of my presence. It was a post from one of the aforementioned duo, telling me in no uncertain terms (i.e. with a multitude of four letter words) that I wasn't welcome in CB and that I should stick to AB's 'serious' areas. Legend and Knobby felt that they 'owned' CB and detested what they saw as 'interference' from anyone who didn't conform to their way of doing things.