Tebbit Cup.

[zotz]

I voted the other day in Amicus' current attempt to win the Tebbit Cup. Is anyone still keeping track of a such things? I hadn't thought about it in years.

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Your search - "Tebbit Cup" - did not match any documents.

[zotz]

I know. "Tebbit prize" doesn't get you anything useful either.

[gingiber.livejournal.com]

You what ????

[zotz]

Norman Tebbit, back in the Eighties, decided that instead of just affiliating to the Labour Party, unions shoudl regularly ballot their member on whether to go on raising a political fund to do this sort of thing. the idea was that sometimes the members would vote No.

To the best of my knowledge, no union ever had its members vote against raising such a find, and several which hadn't had one before hand took the time to ballot, and all ended up with political funds. Not quite what Mr Tebbit intended.

A group of wags within the trades union movement declared that a small cup (I don't know whether this ever had any physical existence) would be given to the union who voted yes by the most extreme margin. This was, of course, the Tebbit Cup.

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[gingiber.livejournal.com]

Ahhh - all clear as mud now :)

[gingiber.livejournal.com]

oh yes and how have you and ciphergoth managed to get your replys bit to look so funky?

[zotz]

Try http://www.livejournal.com/customize.

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[gingiber.livejournal.com]

Ta, full on messing a-hoy :)

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Or, preferably, don't.

[gingiber.livejournal.com]

Oh why's that then?

I like to mess :)

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

You probably don't read LJ with lynx; this comments page is now actually quite hard to read from lynx (whereas the "default" comments page style is quite easy to read in lynx.)

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[gingiber.livejournal.com]

Ahh, fair enough. Well I use netscape 7 sorry.
Looks OK with this :)

[zotz]

What specifically's different? The only obvious difference I can see is that your comments pages have a line of blank text after each comment. The big problem for me would be that neither are threaded.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

In lynx, I get:
[dot.gif]
username
date and some options stuff
body text
blank line
Reply and Thread buttons

on comments pages rendered in the default style (like mine)

[zotz]

But what's the difference? I checked my comments page and yours using lynx and they looked very similar to me. What difference is it that you find difficult? I can't really do much about it if I don't understand this.