Does CaliforniaPeggy type out the full words "my dear" every time she posts it?

[Dangerously Amused]

If so, are the letters m, y, d, e, a and r on her computer worn down to little key stubs?

OR... does she have the entire term "My dear" programmed into a hotkey?

I'm going with the hotkey theory myself.


Also, what on earth is this smilie supposed to represent?! --> ;(

I have been asking myself this question for well nigh on four years now.


Thank you. That is all. You may return to your regularly scheduled Saturday.

[Chan790]

1. crying sad face emoticon = upset. n/m

[Dangerously Amused]

5. Huh. Thanks.

I tried to cipher it out from the keystrokes, which are ; ( which is... a winking frown, I guess. Like maybe when you are pretending to be upset about something as a joke.

[femmocrat]

2. What is a hotkey?

Sorry to be so technologically-challenged! :(

[insanity]

3. like a macro

a common example if ctrl+c copies highlighted stuff.

You could create a macro that is like alt+0123 and have the words my dear type themselves.

[Chan790]

4. A single key or a combination of keys...

set up to run a macro (a simple small program) which performs a single complex task.

Push one key and the computer types an assigned text-string or performs a series of minor tasks. Example: You could assign one in a video game so that when that one key is pressed your character blocks, then parries, then attacks instead of having to issue three different commands by pushing three different keys.

Example two: one key to type "My dear" instead of 8 keystrokes.

[femmocrat]

6. Thank you both!

I learn something new at DU every day!

[Debi]

7. How DARE you question the CP 'my dear'????

:wow:

'tis a blessing to be 'my deared' by California Peggy :loveya:

Also, is also this :cry:

Now, just hope CP graces you with a 'my dear' so you don't have to spend your day crying.....








:P

[Dangerously Amused]

8. I can't help it! These are the things that keep me awake at night.

I mean, I know it is a blessing for US to be "My dear(ed)", but does anyone ever think of poor Peggy? Really, having to pound out all those "my dears" day after day after day... that's a LOT of extra typing! Think about her poor little Peggy fingers! And all the extra wear and tear on her keyboard. And then... and then, what if she ever stopped? I mean, she can't stop now even if she wanted to, can she? Because all of us would be like, "WTF, Peggy?! Why don't you call us "My dear" anymore? It's just not right!" And we would get all upset and disoriented in our DUing, and some of us would cry, even. I know I would. Look, I'm just trying to get myself mentally prepared for the possibility that some day... some sad, lonely day, CaliforniaPeggy might stop calling us "My dear," for reasons I cannot even begin to fathom, but which doubtless exist nonetheless. That's all.

And that smilie guy... I don't know. He always looks like his face is melting off to me. It's kind of unnerving, really.






;)

[Debi]

10. Next thing you know she'll be dropping F-BOMBS all over the interwebs

:wow:

[Dangerously Amused]

12. You MUST be thinking of a different CaliforniaPeggy.

I mean, "F-bombs." As if.




;)

[Debi]

14. You're right.

CP would never behave in such a depraved manner

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5084563&mesg_id=5084627

x(

[derby378]

9. Keep it up, and I'll make you play Dimmu Borgir tunes on a kazoo

With Fred Schneider on vocals. See if I don't. :evilgrin:

[Dangerously Amused]

11. Oooh! Ooohh! How about "The Serpentine Offering" on digideroo,

with Art Paul Schlosser on vocals?

:bounce:

I would totally do that!

[derby378]

15. Just for that, you get to perform it with a jaw harp and an empty chicken bucket

With vocals by Ben Stein.

[ashling]

13. The smilie looks like

someone had their mouth stapled shut ???

[flvegan]

16. Some say that Elad has programmed "My dear" into every Peggy response

for her benefit, consideration and ease of enduser posting. If she wishes, she can hit ctrl + alt + space bar and it goes away for that post.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear Dangerously Amused!

Ah, sweetie, you made me laugh!

Those keys are holding up just fine, thank you!

No hotkeys for me...

But my desktop machine does have cookies!

So all of your names are automatically called up when I type the first letter!

The "my dear" is not a problem!

My laptop is another question...NO cookies there!

So I type it all out, every time I want to say "my dear..."

Tis a small price to pay to maintain my reputation...

And to make all of you happy!

Thank you for asking...:hug:

[suninvited]

27. Good to know you don't take shortcuts

making us all happy !!!

:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. Firefox extension.

Every subject input box is pre-filled with "My dear " when the page loads. CP is a closet hacker.

[billyskank]

19. Whenever she types the letter 'M' into the box

she must get a list of auto-completions as long as my... erm, arm.

[skygazer]

20. The smiley is representative of the phrase every mother cherishes

"You keep making that face, it's going to freeze that way!"

[Ptah]

21. Gooogle says

Results 1 - 10 of about 108,000 from democraticunderground.com for "My Dear".

[nytemare]

22. LOL!

:rofl:

[nytemare]

23. My Dear, now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

:D

[From The Ashes]

24. She might be typing 'My Dear....'

but goddess only knows what she's thinking...probably something like 'Geez FTA is a dumbass' :D Just kidding Peggy, you know I loves ya! :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. My dear From The Ashes!

Ah, sweetie...

I know you loves me!

I loves ya too!

:hug:

[Solly Mack]

25. Dunno, but a "my dear" from CaliforniaPeggy is like a warm toasty hug of everything good

[Redstone]

28. DA, you're a woman after my own heart (as you already knew): You wonder about

the things nobody else wonders about (or even notices).

I had a lot of fun writing a newspaper column back in the 1980s based on doing exactly that. It might not surprise you to know that it was titled "Random Wnaderings."

Redstone