margins (was: mondegreen revisited)

[Mark A. Mandel]

David Bergdahl <einstein at FROGNET.NET> writes:

>>>>>
                       A MUSIC web site which has catalogued
misinterpreted lyrics for the
                       past six years has published an all-time top 10.

                       The designer, Jessica Ross, has archived some of
the funniest
                       blunders on her website - www.kissthisguy.com. -
                       from Purple Haze.

                       Site users' admissions include Meatloaf singing
"Like a battery hen"
                       (Like a bat out of hell); the Eurythmics' "It's
all right, babies come in
<<<<<

It's annoying and rather difficult to read text in which each line is
indented nearly half a page (here, 23 columns) and then wraps to the left
margin, but that's what you often get when you Copy text off a Web page and
Paste it into a mailer. Please, folks, when you see such a passage and you
want to post it,

 1. Paste it instead into an editor or word processor,
 2. Copy one example of the string of leading blanks,
 3. perform a global Replace, Pasting that string of blanks into the "find"
field and leaving or setting the "replace with" field empty. This will
remove the gross indentation from the whole text.
 4. Copy the entire fixed text into your mailer.

Thanks.

 -- Mark "Call Me Cross-eyes" Mandel   X-(\