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Raul, A question of policy: Are you not allowed to use active links to the stories cited in your posts? I ask because active links would be a definite convenience, inasmuch as copy/pasting or drag/dropping either requires using the active window or opening a new one, waiting for it to load, and then pasting in the URL; and this window must be either returned to TCH via the back button or otherwise disposed of in order to return to the forum.

Venality.

Dog in the manger.

Teleport.

All's Swell that Ends Well And peachy-keen, to boot.

Soft in the attic.

Yes. It was a good Tormented Title. McBeth A new McDonald's product. No, you don't want to know what's in it.

Long in the tooth.

COINTELPRO = Counter-Intelligence Program.

Plastic. (Sorry. It's the first word that came to mind.)

That would take it one step beyond twisted; I think it's either a Tortured or at least a Tormented Title. The Merry Lives of Windsor His sins were scarlet, but his books weren't read. Of course, he was a bit too merry to write any.

TIA = Terrorist (formerly Total) Information Awareness

I think I served on that ship. It was called the USS Mars (AFS-1). The AFS purportedly stood for "Attack Food Ship" (seriously). This always gave me mental images of us pelting the Soviets to death with frozen porkchops. Other interpretations of what the AFS might stand for included: Auxiliary Floating Safeway, Always #@*&ing Somebody and the ever-popular Another [Fine] Ship. [As Bruce would have it.] Moby Duck Captain Ahab sets out in relentless pursuit of the White Mallard.

Gunfight in the OK Corral. (I hope that's acceptable. If not, let's just use "Best in the west.")

Water.

Thank you for persevering. I also hope we'll get some more players in here for variety's sake. Meanwhile: Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius Dave Eggers' second book—written entirely while under the influence of multiple margaritas.

Is that what it stands for? I was wondering. FIDE = Federation International d'Echecs = World Chess Federation.

Drill.

Arrrgh!-gebra.

Insane in the membrane. (Credit or debit my wife with this one.)

I have thought over what I said above, and have realized that my implied criticism of VirtualImager was unfair and high-handed. This is a game I have started, and one which I hope the TCH family will enjoy. But it is not my game. It is not on my site. And I therefore have no right to censor its contents. I hope that VirtualImager—and anyone else who has a good twisted title or three to contribute—will do so free of any fear of criticism, stated or implied. My apologies to VI and the rest of the family. Rock Sign

EnS, That does not accord with my test results. I have tried low-resolution settings down to 640x480, and the cell does not break. If anything, I think Robert's theory, however much work it's going to put me to, is probably the correct one: Different browsers insert varying amounts of space between the tab images. Since I've already been told that the tabs are hard to read in their inactive state and I am about to make design changes in any case, I think I'll end up redesigning my tabs altogether. I'm still wondering, though, if anyone can reproduce the problem.

ISI = Inter-Services Intelligence (the Pakistani equivalent of the CIA and one of the architects and leading sponsors of the Taliban movement).

Squort.

GPA = Grade Point Average.