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This is an adaptation of a feature on my site called Titular Torsion. The concept is simple. 1. Name the title of a book, play, movie, short story, song, sports team, etc., and change/add/delete one character or transpose two. 2. Write a brief description of what the retitled book, etc., is about. Here's an example to start with: Schindler's Lisp It wath tho bad, he called himthelf Thindler.

Feed. (If you have pets or livestock, you'll see the connection.)

Rob, I never said it was terribly tough to find. That's why I call it "the 'secret' page" rather than "the secret page." In reality, of course, there is no such thing as a secret on the internet. But it does make for a bit of light amusement to see if one can penetrate the "secrets."

SPQR = Senatus Populusque Romanus (the Senate and People of Rome).

Hmm. Perhaps I should have been a bit more specific. Who can find the page in the normal course of looking at the site? I think reading the source code could be considered cheating, strictly speaking, but it is my fault inasmuch as I failed to say so. In any case, there's room for more than one "winner" here.

Ah. I thank you, DCS. You are a sportsman.

DCS. I appeal to you as a sportsman. Please try to use traditional phrases, as other respondents have. Else there is no game here, but merely a "[fill] in the [blank]" exercise. Eggs in the nest.

Bird in the hand. (DCS. Are you a robot? Every time I post a reply and return to "Fun and Games," you've already replied to my reply.) Question to VirtualImager: Is this supposed to be a free-for-all, in which one can toss out any random phrase containing "---- in the ----," or is it supposed to be for traditional phrases arranged in the same manner? For example: "Pie in the sky" is one of the latter, while "soda in the can" is one of the former. I think using the former deprives the game of any element of challenge.

Pie in the sky.

Dead in the water.

Actually, I think that's usually taken as an abbreviation for "Keep It Short, Stupid" or occasionally "Keep It Short and Sweet," but I suppose there are many ways to skin a cat. KGB=Komitet Gosudarstvenoye Bezopastnosti or Committee for State Security.

Dog or cat? Anyway: FUBAR=[Fouled] Up Beyond All Recognition. Example: See Iraq.

Fill in the blank.

What does that mean? BMG = Be My Guest It's short for "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." IAW=In accordance with. An old military abbreviation that should be all too familiar to any veterans here. Oh, okay, thanks. BTA = But Then Again This isn't the Abbreviation Game--it's the Nested Quote Game. Anyway: SNAFU=Situation Normal All [Fouled] Up. (From Joseph Heller's Catch-22, which, incidentally, was originally to be titled Catch-18.)

What does that mean? BMG = Be My Guest It's short for "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." IAW=In accordance with. An old military abbreviation that should be all too familiar to any veterans here.

Who will be the first TCHer to find the "secret" page on my site? I should mention, one member at FICS did find it. So far, however, I have no indications that anyone else has.

Just. (As in "just deserts.")

Interesting. What Bill says brings home what I was thinking about as I read the preceding posts: Sometimes it is simply best to keep one's mouth closed. Specifically, this reminds me of four years ago, when we moved into our current apartment. We had a 20-gallon aquarium in our previous home, and hoped to bring it along--and didn't think that was an unreasonable hope. However, there was a clause in the lease about "water-filled furniture," so, to be safe, we asked management whether it applied to aquaria. We were told to send a formal request to the owner and did so. Several weeks later, we were informed that we were not allowed to keep more than a one-gallon container of water in our apartment! Our 20-gallon aquarium, of course, was completely out of the question, so it and all the money and time we'd invested in it became a total loss. Subsequently, in our perambulations of the complex, we discovered that, among other things, there was an apartment right next to the management office containing a 55-gallon aquarium that it is absolutely impossible not to see from the office window. So, let's review. We could have remained silent about the aquarium, in which case it would be quietly bubbling away in our living room. Instead, we tried to do the right thing, and paid the penalty. Apparently Mark Twain (or whoever said it if he didn't) was right: No good deed goes unpunished.

Robert, With all due respect, I think you have misread my code. As I indicated in my previous post, there are no additional table cells. There is one cell, defined to a width of 740 pixels, which contains six images. Again, no additional cells--just images inside a cell. In fact, since I have received no reports of the problem being duplicated, I am beginning to suspect that it was really the result of either some bizarre setting in the browser used to obtain the screenshot, or of the browser's cache being full. But I will pose the central question once more: Can anyone reproduce the problem? (If not, apparently it is not an actual problem.)

I know, Jim. Hope you'll allow me a bit of rhetorical license.

I don't think there's any one "ideal" gamma setting. That said, there is a standard setting for Windows and one for Mac OS; I think they're 2.2 and 1.8, respectively. Of course, your mileage may vary.

Yes. Just what hockey needed: The Stanley Cup in Disney World.

Bruce and Robert, Actually, I don't think that's the cause of this problem. I could be mistaken, but this is the way I understand it: The table for the tabs is 740 pixels wide to correspond to the width of the banner. There is only one row, containing one cell. This in turn contains six images, each 119 pixels wide. The whole row is centered over the banner. Since six times 119 is 714, it seems to me that the images should fit comfortably into a 740-pixel table cell/table. Now, it is true that the table-cell width parameter was a holdover from the previous site version, and could probably be deleted, but I'm not sure how or if its presence could produce this distortion. Meanwhile, I wonder: Has anyone actually been able to reproduce the problem?

Have I the honor of addressing mild-mannered TCH guru ClarkKent?

Thomas, Yes; please do feel free to link to Squort.com. As for the meaning of "squort," check here: http://humor.squort.com/warthog.php. Also, Virtual, if you wish to exchange links as well ....