@Dennis and anybody else who may have seen my first, messed up post…
Yes … Sorry…. I was the first one here, but I had to delete that one, and I’ve been trying ever since to get it to post properly.
It was full of partial repetitions, which, besides being unintelligible, also made it too long for a GoComics post, so parts were not only double or triple posted but truncated.
To make it harder, I’m doing this on my phone, with a tiny screen, and a different (virtual) keyboard from the one I’ve used for 10 years on other devices.
Aasgh!
But did I give up?
No!
I must persevere, to bring the puzzle to the people!
I hope you have all refreshed, to see this, and have found my new version of my first post.
By the way, I discovered awhile back what causes posts like that…
I couldn’t believe it, but it’s one of those weird GoComics formatting traps.
I use a lot of dots for punctuation… like those.
It started because I used to use dashes— like those … But back then, GoComics would unexpectedly format words in between dashes as strikeout text.
I learned to switch to dots, and now I probably use too many.
But in the last year or two, it changed again, so that if you ever, accidentally or not, use TWO dots,
instead of one, or three or more, whole sections of your post get repeated several times, and mess up the whole thing.
I knew I must have done that… But the process of finding the errant two dots and deleting the repetitions took forever on this tiny screen.
@Dennis and anybody else who may have seen my first, messed up post…
Yes … Sorry…. I was the first one here, but I had to delete that one, and I’ve been trying ever since to get it to post properly.
It was full of partial repetitions, which, besides being unintelligible, also made it too long for a GoComics post, so parts were not only double or triple posted but truncated.
To make it harder, I’m doing this on my phone, with a tiny screen, and a different (virtual) keyboard from the one I’ve used for 10 years on other devices.
Aasgh!
But did I give up?
No!
I must persevere, to bring the puzzle to the people!
I hope you have all refreshed, to see this, and have found my new version of my first post.
By the way, I discovered awhile back what causes posts like that…
I couldn’t believe it, but it’s one of those weird GoComics formatting traps.
I use a lot of dots for punctuation… like those.
It started because I used to use dashes— like those … But back then, GoComics would unexpectedly format words in between dashes as strikeout text.
I learned to switch to dots, and now I probably use too many.
But in the last year or two, it changed again, so that if you ever, accidentally or not, use TWO dots,
instead of one, or three or more, whole sections of your post get repeated several times, and mess up the whole thing.
I knew I must have done that… But the process of finding the errant two dots and deleting the repetitions took forever on this tiny screen.