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Please pardon the leftovers but I posted this one over at GayGuides a couple years ago and I stand by it. Personally, I'm a big fan of boycotts and Chik-fil-A gave me my hardest test yet. I kept hearing how great it was but also how many bad causes they sent their money to. I sure didn't want them forwarding any of my money. As you might expect, it was nearly impossible to find one in the liberal Bay Area so it was only when I visited family back East that the conflict became real. A few years ago, I got as close as their parking lot but was saved by the fact that it was Sunday and they were closed. I toyed with the idea of poking around in the dumpster for a free sample but apparently I was not the only one with this idea. Fast forward to last year when I learned that, not only were they donating to pro-gay causes, they had also just opened up twenty miles away across from my Costco. A week later, I found myself in a long line waiting for my Deluxe Combo, large fries and a chocolate Hand-Spun shake, whatever the hell that means. Now, at long last, I can report that it was anything but worth the wait. Not to me anyway. The chicken was OK, but no better than KFC. The "biscuit" was only a little fluffier than cardboard and a bit less flavorful. The french fries were likewise bland, and a pickle no more goes with chicken than a feather boa goes with board shorts. It was the milkshake that was most disappointing and, had I bothered reading the ingredients first, I'd never have ordered it. Whole milk and nonfat dry milk, sugar, cream, water, contains less than 1% of: whey, mono and diglycerides, corn starch, guar gum, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, cellulose gum, brown sugar, natural and artificial flavor, natural flavor, salt, caramel color, beta-carotene (color), annatto (color), chocolate syrup (cane sugar, corn syrup, water, cocoa, natural vanilla flavor) At the very least, I'd have asked them to serve the guar gum, carageenan, calcium sulfate, cellulose gum, mono and diglycerides and artificial flavor on the side so that I could add them to taste. Don't get me wrong. I've had worse fast food. The spicy mutton curry at Little Taste of Calcutta, for example, kept me toilet-bound for three days but the price was right and my table came with its own fly swatter. So, for me anyway, the boycott merely delayed the inevitable and Chik-fil-A is officially off my list for culinary, if no longer political, reasons. They could hire RuPaul as a car hop and I still wouldn't go back.

Yes, there it is and thanks so much! I don't use it often but when I need it nothing else will do. Appreciate the help! 👍

Ah, thank you! 👍 Just went into full screen mode and I've got sixteen items in the formatting menu: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, link, quote, code, emoji, bulleted list, numbered list, left justify, center, text color, text size, preview, and gifs. I should be able to get to these reliably from now on. One remaining question: Is there a right justify formatting option? I think there used to be one, but it no longer shows up even in full screen mode. I tried monkeying around with the code menu, in which I selected HTML, but I haven't been able to make it work. I'm not asking for a tutorial. I'll just keep experimenting until I can figure it out. The only thing I'd use it for would be the right justify option, assuming that one's gone for good as a menu item.

I seem to have a fairly basic formatting menu with only ten items on it as I type this post: bold, italic, underline, text color, link, quote, emoji, bulleted list, preview, and gifs. Sometimes when Mars is in retrograde, or I set my Safari browser window to exactly the right width, a few more options will show up - like left justify and center justify. A few months ago there was a right justify option but I can't get that to show up anymore no matter what I do. In the old forum software, I used to be able to add HTML commands that would give me all kinds of formatting options, but the editing window doesn't seem to recognize those. [s]This used to be strikethrough.[/s] [right]This used to justify right.[/right] I read somewhere that HTML commands can present security risks, so maybe they've been disabled in the new software. And there may be a whole bunch of formatting commands right in plain sight that I'm just overlooking. I'm wondering if the formatting menu has been changing over the past year, or if my eyesight is just getting worse. 🤓 Thanks for any tips!

You got that right!

Got it! I made the window as wide as I could and got no change. Just more white space. What did work was just now hitting the text-size button in my Safari browser. For some reason, going to a larger text size in the same size window brings in the missing icons. Going to a smaller text size drops them out. On the Gay Guides site, it makes no difference. Go figure. Many thanks to you and @Orinfor your help! 🤙 I'm back in business.

Here it is: And here's the editing window from the Gay Guides site. It looks pretty close to the one you have, with strikethrough, text size, text color, etc.

From a laptop - MacBook Pro.

Thanks. For some reason, my editing window shows only a subset of the formatting icons shown in your editing window. Your window shows all the formatting options I'm used to seeing in the other Invision site I use. Not sure why I've got fewer options, even as I type this post. Your window has eighteen icons, and mine has only ten. Strikethrough, text size, text color, and the three alignment icons don't appear on my screen. I'll just hang on for awhile and hope they return. Sometimes things resolve themselves in the still of the night.

Thanks so much not only for the conversion but, most of all, for the preservation of hysterical - make that historical - content! It's been interesting to get a hint of how websites work, and a pleasure to know we have a web-tamer in our very midst! A couple of questions on formatting and images: First, I tried to use the HTML code for strikethrough - [s][/s] - above, but it didn't work. Another Invision board I post on has trouble with HTML codes too but instead it has some formatting icons at the top of the editing window, including strikethrough, text size, text color, left, right, centering and a handful of others. Will those formatting icons eventually be turned on for this site too? Or is there a trick that allows HTML codes to be used instead? (I think the other Invision site had a gear-wheel icon in the editing window that allowed some codes to be used.) Second, I tried inserting an image whose URL began with https. It was rejected because it didn't begin with http. I know the old XenForo site would accept an https image and I'm pretty sure the other Invision site I post on will do the same. Is that an option that will be available for this site too? These certainly aren't urgent needs but, if it's just an issue of flicking a few switches or my learning a few new tricks, it would be great to have those options. Thanks again! 🤙

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. . . as long as there's a place for the rest of us.

Not ignorant at all, and thanks for the response. ? I joined this site in 2005 when HooBoy was still alive. And I joined the MER site (later BoyToy and now Gay Guides) a year later in 2006. Over the years, I've posted on both sites, usually alternating a year or two at a time, and depending on the folks who were posting at the time. I've enjoyed both sites. When I joined MER (now Gay Guides), I recall reading that OZ, the owner of MER (and now Gay Guides) had tried to buy the HooBoy site from HooBoy's family. But the family wasn't interested, and Daddy/Guy Fawkes, who was HooBoy's site administrator, stepped in and kept the site running for the past fifteen years. When Daddy passed, and the site was in limbo, it occurred to me that OZ, if he were still interested, could make a bid for the site and fold it into Gay Guides, or even keep it running as the site it is today. OZ has a going concern, OZ has servers, OZ has software, OZ has moderators and OZ has experience operating an escort-related website. At one time, he even had a review site as well as forums. I can't say that today, fifteen years later, OZ would still want to operate this website - either the forums or a review site. All I can say is that the infrastructure and experience are still there. And it would obviate the need for members of this site to raise money, pay bills, form committees, or deal with probate courts. Just as Daddy's forum software was ported to a new off-site server, I'm guessing his forum software could be ported to OZ's server. I sure haven't asked OZ if he'd still be interested, as pages and pages of plans are currently underway to follow a different path. All my post was meant to do is identify a possible path of least resistance. As far as most of us going to the Gay Guides site, should this one cease to exist, that's as easy as just going to that site and starting to post. The only disadvantage is that all our existing content on this site would cease to exist. If OZ were able to port our content over to his server, as @RadioRob was able to do, then our content would be preserved. I had thought of the earlier interest by OZ in this site even before this site went off-line a couple of times last month. But I kept my thoughts to myself, as I saw the interest in this community to either preserve this site as it is, or to create a new one. I decided to throw the idea out there yesterday in response to a comment by @Coolwave35 about the path of least resistance, but I think the train is already rolling to preserve this site or to create a new one. Though I'll keep the possibility of a merge with Gay Guides in the back of my mind in case any of the current plans should hit a snag.

If it's the path of least resistance you're after, wouldn't that be for OZ to fold this site into the Gay Guides site? If I recall, he did make an offer to Hooboy's family back in the day but, as others have noted, the family didn't want to be bothered and the site went to Daddy. If OZ were to make an offer to the probate court, even for a hundred dollars, it might be the best offer they'll get. And it sounds like the Forums could be ported over, with previous content intact. Can't say OZ is still willing to take on this site but, as far as I know, all the infrastructure is ready and waiting. The only other issue I've heard of is that there's some ill will between some members of the two sites, but I expect that could be resolved by voting with one's feet. I'm pretty sure that everyone who posts here would be welcome there. In fact, OZ has said as much. I'm sure I'm missing something and will prepare to get out of the way so that other viewpoints may be shared.

And Bylaws! We'll definitely need some Bylaws.

Last time I thought about being rich was about thirty years ago when I realized I could go out and buy a Rolls Royce for cash. Of course that would have been the only thing I could buy and I'd have to work the rest of my life keeping it gassed up and looking good. And then I started thinking about Queen Elizabeth. She not only had a Rolls Royce, but she had somebody to gas it up, keep it clean, and drive her around in it. And she had a Bentley or two to keep it company. She had a house that was 700 times bigger than mine, and folks to make sure she never came across a speck of dust. And, if she needed a change of scenery, she had several other houses she could escape to, all of them castles and all of them tidied up, polished and dust-free. If she needed something to hang on the wall, she could choose from hundreds of museum-quality pieces of art. If she wanted a new outfit, someone would make it for her in any color and any fabric, fitting her every curve, with a hat to match. She could choose her jewelry from a stash of million-dollar pieces. She could think of anything she wanted to eat, and it would be cooked and brought to her on a silver platter. She never had to pay a bill, or wonder if she remembered to bring a little extra cash. She had people to do that, and other people to think of what she might want and make sure she had it. 'Now that's rich!', I said to myself, and I've never again thought about being rich. Except when I came across my favorite Thoreau quote: A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Of course, that applies to women too and, in that regard, I'm not as far from Queen Elizabeth as I was thirty years ago. Allevai, I've got quite a few things I can afford to let alone. In fact, when I think of folks who are technically rich but whose minds are preoccupied with becoming even richer or, even worse in my opinion, worried that somebody is going to come along and grab something from them, I wonder how being rich has made their lives better and if it may have actually made their lives worse. These days, I sure couldn't go out and buy a Rolls Royce. In fact, I just finished up a year or so without any car at all. But I could walk or take the bus to a bunch of places where I was going to enjoy myself with little to trouble me along the way. Or I could just stay home and not bother counting my money. http://www.deniskitchen.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/MNPC.167.B.gif Of course, with my 60th high school reunion coming up, I might try to make some effort. ?

Good idea! ? I've considered that but was reluctant to do it. As you're more experienced with messaging than I am, perhaps you could smarten me up on an etiquette question. I've always assumed that someone who sends me an instant message is expecting a timely response. But perhaps I've had it wrong. Would it be considered good form to check instant messages at the end of the day? Or over the weekend? If I've misunderstood, and there's no implied sense of urgency to an instant message, your fix is exactly the one I've been looking for! ?

When I was working, I wanted to be really easy for folks to reach, so I had one of the early car phones and an early flip phone. After I quit, I wanted to be really hard to reach, except for family and good friends. So I've had a couple of iPhones but just give the number to folks I want to hear from. These days I use it mostly for my music, to take pictures, to look things up and, last week, to get me from my house to Palm Springs.* I don't mind my phone ringing at home, but I don't like my iPhone ringing when I'm busy or doing something I enjoy. For me it's irritating and I'm fascinated by all the folks who seem to take such things in stride. This whole new way of human communication has sprung up right under my nose. ?? Text messages are especially irritating. I could be taking a hike and enjoying all the wildflowers, or watching something on TV, or daydreaming out in the sun and all of a sudden there's this alert that wants my attention. Does anybody else find this a pain in the ass? As @Charlie says, it may get harder to function in society without embracing all the connectivity enabled by the smartphone. My car insurance company seems to think so. They told me last year they'd like to serve me better by having my email and cell phone number so they could get in touch with me quicker. Actually it would serve me better if I could get in touch with them quicker. Anything they have to say to me, they can stick in a letter. So I guess the best answer to the OP's question is Who wants to know? *That Map app is amazing! In the past, I'd use paper maps and I could tell you exactly what route I took. This last trip, I had very little idea what my route looked like. All I knew was that I needed to turn right in 500 feet and then go straight for twenty-seven miles. I don't know if I went through LA or not. ? ?

Dunno, but any friend of @Unicorn's is a friend of mine. ?

I think it's one of those thingamajiggies where you shuffle the syllables to get a different but related meaning: in this case, Abandon all hope ⇒ A hope in all band on The guy wearing the bracelet is a nice touch, no doubt, and my hope is he's one of the boys in the band. I wouldn't abandon him though, either way.

For thirty bucks an hour, I'll come sit next to you and make you look like a Warner Brothers publicity shot. ? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SAc7Id7oQYk/T7-5pNFeYhI/AAAAAAAASoU/QLPGdkjmn6M/s1600/Lad06c.jpg

I could swear I had this exact question sixty years ago on an SAT test.

Even though it's 223 feet below sea level, the Salton Sea high point for me was Bombay Beach. It's a fifteen mile drive from the visitor center along Grapefruit Boulevard (honestly!). It was once a gathering place for the young and the beautiful, then a haven for older and less affluent folks who are now being joined by a few artists and hipsters. It's gone from chic to derelict and perhaps - slowly - back to chic. I definitely felt an affinity. (Sorry for the highjack. The Canyon Club kindly gave me a free night and I had to find something to while away the extra hours. Hopefully this will provide a brief interlude while others decide how much of the good stuff they're going to share. ?)

About fifty miles southeast of Palm Springs, at the very end of the San Andreas Fault. Interesting place, as @coriolis888 has posted. They say it's one of the lowest places in the USA. Though I expect the high jinks at Oliver's pool will give it a run for its money.