Newbie questions... help?

Banned,

see http://www.auctionsniper.com/payment.aspx
for pricing. If you just signed up I think you get 3 free snipes.

Your group quantity you want to win belongs in
"Bid on the items in this folder until I win:"

If you only want 1 put 1 there

A-

... and fuzzy is OK. (I know the feeling)

You're only stupid if you

• don't know,
• can't find the answer,
• AND DON'T ASK.

WELCOME to the forum.

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You're only stupid if you ...

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Don't quite agree with that definition for “stupid”, especially when someone on this forum applies that adjective to some ebay seller.

Is “stupid” a synonym for “fuzzy”? When I wake up, I’m sometimes mentally fuzzy, but I wouldn’t say I was necessarily stupid (work with me on this). My face is sometimes fuzzy, but not stupid (my face might be stupid-looking). And, even my vision is sometimes fuzzy.

Is the best way to avoid being stupid is to ask a question???

bannedAnna , since you already got good advise from alanf51, I will just add welcome to our forum and good luck!

Thanks for the kind welcome.

I don't find anything that says "Bid on the items in this folder until I win," but with slighly less mental fuzziness, it appears that the Bid Groups does cancel the rest after you win. I'll watch it anyway, since I don't want two of the thing!

Re fuzziness and stupidity: Fuzziness can (usually) be remedied by the application of a) enough sleep and/or b) enough caffeine. Stupidity, OTOH, tends to be, well, shall we say, a bit less amenable to treatment?

Off to the coffeepot...

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Originally posted by bannedAnna:
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I don't find anything that says "Bid on the items in this folder until I win,"
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You only see that when you create the group, then under manage bid groups it is the wins box

Good Luck
A-

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Re fuzziness and stupidity: Fuzziness can (usually) be remedied by the application of a) enough sleep and/or b) enough caffeine. Stupidity, OTOH, tends to be, well, shall we say, a bit less amenable to treatment?

Off to the coffeepot...

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Well stated, bannedAnna!

Thank you ever so much, alanf51 and all. <beaming> I actually won the auction!</beaming> Apparently, the bid group thingie worked, too, because the second bid disappeared when I won the first one. Wheee!

This could get to be dangerously fun...

Is bannedAnna a pun for a large colored handkerchief, or do you have a tendency to get prohibited, OR is it door-number-three?

Rick,

Well, bannedAnna is kind of a pun on the kerchief, but it was given to me shortly after I got laid off from a job (without any cause whatsoever--within six months after, the group I'd been running went bankrupt).

I tend to be a little, shall we say, off the wall, and some people take offense at that. (I like to think of myself as kind, generous, diplomatic, and so forth, but I've been told I'm intimidating. So who knows?)

Door number three... What's behind that?

bannedAnna, hope you post often. I think I'm gonna like you here!

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I tend to be a little, shall we say, off the wall, and some people take offense at that.

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I think you’ll find a few off-the-wallers on this forum. The “offers” tend to be ignored by the non-offers. That’s not to say that you might not get the occasional rolly-eye (one of these little guys ==> <==) in protest, but those are fairly harmless. I can’t remember anyone being permanently marred by a rolly-eye.

Just got my power back. Went out about 4:30 yesterday afternoon.

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Don't quite agree with that definition for “stupid”,

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Didn't really intend it to be a definition,
just one of the many tests for qualifing.
I should have left out the word 'only'.

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the bid group thingie worked,

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A fella (no sexism intended) "ie-ion" too cool. I thought I was destined to be the only person on this forum who likes to put *ie* at the end of things.

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Just got my power back. Went out about 4:30 yesterday afternoon

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Did you have nasty withdrawals Puppy??

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Did you have nasty withdrawals

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Not so bad that I wanted to try dial-up. Got the generator running, and the house hooked up. An hour after that, the cable went out.

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I should have left out the word 'only'.

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It did tend to make things “fuzzy”.

Puppy, did you have a bad storm of some kind?

I am seriously starting to think the writers of "The Day After Tomorrow" were so far off the mark.

Lexie posted:

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I am seriously starting to think the writers of "The Day After Tomorrow" were so far off the mark.

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Did you mean "weren't"? And if so , you're joking, right?!?

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Originally posted by Jabbergah:
Did you mean "weren't"? And if so , you're joking, right?!?

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Uhuh - I meant weren't, that will teach me to post in here when I am still at work at 8pm and nope, I wasnt really joking.

Look at all the hinky things going on.....florida, japan (is it japan?), Australia is at the other end in drought conditions and heaps of other types of strange weather.

Mother Nature and the El Niño are certainly keeping us on our toes.

Of course, I dont honestly think we will see an ice age whilst I am around to witness it, but all this has to be leading to something bigger.

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but all this has to be leading to something bigger.

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Really? Why can't it be attributed to the natural range of normal variable weather conditions?

I believe the global warming theory is best supported by "junk science" at best, complete fraud at worst.

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the natural range of normal variable weather conditions

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a.k.a. “What whether weather”

Experts are basing their theories on 100-150 years of properly recorded data - a minute snapshot in the history of things. They now claim that Dinosaurs were wiped out by an ice age/meteor strike but it is just a theory. Well ditto global warming etc. I take it all with a pinch of salt!

R2 (with the gas central heating switched on!)

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Well ditto global warming etc. I take it all with a pinch of salt!

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Be careful! That pinch might be just enough to melt the ice!

We shall see what we wont see.

Whew! See what happens--I stop horsing around to work for a couple of days, and everybody starts chattering!

Mrs. M: Thank you for the welcome. Doubt that I'll be a frequent poster (too, too many irons on the barbie), but from time to time I'll behave like an outrageous old woman. Which is what I am. So it's appropriate. And I started doing it early that my sons are already used to it.

Rick: Off-the-wall folks are generally the world's best. I actually own a listserv that I founded because those of us who were off the wall (and several other planes) were vociferously unappreciated by the boring, staidly on-topic types with all the spontaneity of bricks. Anyway, I love those little roll-ie eyed images.

Bartelby: Well, of *course* I put "ie" on the ends of things. Doesn't *everyone*?? It's the best way there is to create technical terms in situations where knowledge lags behind experience. And, as a certified wordsmith, I have a piece of paper that allows me to make up words. Therefore, those dealies that let you carry your phone from room to room, the thingies that hang from the doorpost, and the foodies that hang around the dog-cuisine bin about this time of night. !!

Off to an election party. One must hope heavy drinking will not be required.