Ta for that. I noticed it just after I had added and then changed avatars and hoped that it wasn't something that I had done. Cheers.

And as if by magic - they reappear

Admin I am getting a display on my McAfee that this site is phishing is anyone else getting this or is it my Fisher Price IT system.

: You've certainly covered everything Rog.

testing 123

4,5,6?

A bit too much like Manure v Spurs

Many thanks. But when I tried this it flashed up a message saying "This file cannot be displayed because the extension htm is not allowed."

Anyone got any ideas?

You've not been around for ages Decaf. How are things?

I have plenty of ideas, Bernard. Not about avatars, however. Perhaps you would like to propose some other topic. Preferably not football related, as this seem already to have been covered here.

Mee: hang on in there. It's not that difficult.

Whoa, that's a neat little collection of smilies there. Reckon this one will be used a lot!

I also have no ideas about smilies, and no desire to remedy this defect.

What would HL Mencken (trans. Munchkin???) have said about smilies, I wonder?

I don't know, but judging from what I've read of his work, he probably would've hated them.

That "Reply"-button is very close to the one that says "Report", I just noticed. Best not to be in a hurry while posting on here!

Looking the injury list, I see that Djourou is listed as "groin", and Van Persie "virus". What does that mean? How do you injure it?

Why is chocolate gooner not on the injury list? Have EEG and Daz resigned their commissions?

Well there's a nice surprise... Nice to see you've come down from the cross Decaf...

I think you are confusing me with someone else, John.

I'm guessing EEG is busy on Nintendo Wee personal injury claims. As for Daz it doesn't matter....as soon as he see's you're back in the ballgame he'll be online pretty soon.

Have you bumped into Exiled?

Yes

That sounds painful. Is it related to "Osteitis Pubis" injury, which also apparently comes from kicking too much?

Perhaps Daz is writing another book?

Don't think so. Think he flounced because a few accused him of xenophobia in a recent re-airing of the much loved 'foreign players in the the prem lge' debate. But he has expressed a few times how much he missed his pseudo intellectual discussions with you and has bemoaned your absence. Although he tries Cannon just isn't in your league.

But how do I change the size to get it to 120 wide and 150 high pixels max?

I thought he went to Chile for a while not sure how long though.

Good to see you back Decaf, hopefully Exiled follows.

Does anyone else find the way this new forum does quotes a bit confusing. Is it possible to have it the same as the last forum?

Good to see you back Decaf.....
Hope to see one or two others return to the forum too.

Maybe even a return for USMartin? Even he'd struggle to find anything wrong with the way the clubs being run at the moment.

He did but not for this long.

Quotes thing is a bit of a trial bit I think I've got the hang of it which must mean it's not that bad. Just have to learn how to disable those awful smilies now and I'll be set.

And learn to check my spelling before I post....

Are you suggesting that he was lost in the wilds of Eastern Cape? I haven't seen anything that hairy around here the farmers here stopped raising angoras. Now its all game.

Or are you insinuating that he flounced off?

I think Gaz raised that point a few pages back, and warrior was going to have a look at it.

Big time!!! I'll let someone else fill you in, I'm off to bed.

Well if he isn't in Chile perhaps it is a Chocolate Gooner influenced flounce.

It's very long. One would have thought he could have just looked at a map.

It's this sort of reply that Daz missed. Night all...

I will look forward to that. Not enough really good flouncing these days.

Bedtime here too.

I imagine Cannonballs is still around?

You do this via "User Control Panel" -> "Board Preferences" (on the menu to the left) -> "Edit display options" and then you check the "No"-box for the "Display smilies as images"-setting.

But are you really sure you don't want to see things like this?

Mr Mechkin's comment is spot on.

I was afraid someone else was going to take AmericanGooner...silly I suppose...wait...how do we know this is the 'real'AmericanGooner. A few test questions:

How do you feel about Sam Allardyce?

Top bloke

Who is your forum mentor and jedi master?

Bernard

Where is Stoke?

A city in Staffordshire, in the west Midlands

Is the correct spelling 'colour' or 'color'?

Colour

Define 'irony'?

Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says and what is generally understood

You're cunning, America. However, I am onto you: Wikipedia also offers:

"Socratic irony takes place when someone ... pretends to be foolish or ignorant, to expose the ignorance of another."

It might have added:

"Chocolatian irony takes place when there is a gap or incongruity between the speaker's ears"

Yes - I picked up on that one. It seems to be when a page is refreshed, some avatars, sometimes, don't display. I need to determine if it's a function of that particular avatar, (too big, location, size, etc) or if it's a forum caching thing.

When it happens again, I will view the page source and check the source location - it might be a little bug even !

Edit - ok - I think it is just the forum caching the old (or no) avatar image. Thus, if someone has just changed their avatar or recently added one, it might not display correctly - by holding down the shift key, then pressing Refresh (or reload), it should come up. I will keep an eye on it

Rog ..

decaf are you sure you mistyped cunning when you described me? hehehe
Interesting the swears that are popular in either country.

Okay, some football talk. I'm nervous about the CC semi 2nd leg but I'm hoping that the bad result will galvanize the squad we take to WHL and make them want to make up for last Saturday.

I still think Chelsea may struggle despite having Anelka. They are still without Terry, Essien and Lampard and I think obi Mikel as well. One player, even of Anelka's quality, can't make up all those players missing. I haven't seen their schedule but I do think they will drop some points.