Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/11/2012 10:45 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>The reader doesn't normally select the color of text on a webpage, the
>owner of the page does.

But we can.  In Firefox, select Tools / Advanced / Colors.  Choose
your color for text and background, uncheck "Allow pages to chose
their own colors ...", click OK, and voila.  As one also can do with Word.

>And who said we were talking about a book??

I was.  My "Yellow Pages" are a book.

Joel

>DanG
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>On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > Subject:      Re: Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
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> > At 3/10/2012 11:28 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> > >But yellowpages.com is NOT yellow.
> > >DanG
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> > Dan, how do you know what color my screen text is set to?  Or for
> > that matter, the color of my electrons?  And is yellowpages.com a book?
> >
> > Joel
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> > >On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > > > Subject:      Re: Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon
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> > > > At 3/10/2012 10:13 AM, Ronald Butters wrote:
> > > > >My phone rings all the time. It has a ring-tone.
> > > >
> > > > And my Yellow Pages are yellow.
> > > >
> > > > Joel
> > > >
> > > > >On Mar 10, 2012, at 3:20 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On 3/10/2012 2:07 AM, W Brewer wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> Anachronyms.  My favorites are telephone expressions. Hang up your
> > > > phone,
> > > > > >> it is off the hook. Phone is ringing.  I dialed the wrong number.
> > > > Address
> > > > > >> book. Yellow pages.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Add "busy signal", "dial tone" "on the line", "I'll ring your
> > party".
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