Segment for G4 TV’s Attack of the Show: Douchebag

:cool: Marina is Hot too!!! SOUL COOL….Know the Names to be CALLED!…Fill my baggy!!

I did not figure on with the comment at “G4 TV’s Attack of the show: Douchebag”…

[RAG]…like get off the rag, the monthly woman thingy

:smile: on with Marina and HotForWords :smile: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons “Rag Doll” 1964
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Hey beautiful :!:

hmmm, an alternative word for douchebag. homework: douchepad, doucherag, douchesponger, douchesod, douchemootch

Boink! Boink! Boink!!

Darse una ducha – Spanish for to take a shower

hey Marina ;-) high five :cool: or wave hello :roll:
:cool: have a great day B.B. :mrgreen:
H/W hot crotch cleaner or leg joint washer????

My mother always called it a Hot Water Bottle. She would remove the hose and orface tube and put a cap on the bottle allowing it to used as a appliance to place be on sore muscles or for earaches. It also comes in Book Form. :lol:

:lol:–Funny–why not me …A bag of potatoes are not the same the second time around…deadly nightshade and the tobacco plant makes me fill my pants; she said that in a secret memo….[pelting] tomatoes makes to fill-up on soup supplies :-)

:cool: :lol: GooD one Mike

Change the nozzle and it’s and ‘enema bag’

HOMEWORK: There’s always scumbag or the great English word rotter (which for some reason makes me think of the actor Terry-Thomas, who played [cads] of the first order).

a word meaning “arrogant, self-important, attention-grubbing, pathologically deceitful compulsive stealer?” how about “Obama”?

Some fellow in the army from New Jersey used the expression DOUCHEBAG!

Testing posting a comment from my phone with this new phone theme. Can’t reply to someone but it is awesome

By chance…I’ll test to you.. :smile:

@HotForWords

Marina,

You just got a mention on the Factor. O’ Reilly wants you back so you can do the word origin for Doofus

:lol:

The comments are in Bizzaro World. You have reverse the order.

alax’s bright idea :roll:

http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/09/09/agent-provocateur/#comment-151260

Now THERE’s a word I’ve requested more than once in the past. But more specifically, what’s the plural form of [DUFUS]?

I always thought it sounded pretty weird when people were collectively described as “dufuses” as in: “There’s a pair of real dufuses.”

:idea: So I figured the best way to pluralize it was to use the Latin convention where the “-us” suffix would be changed to a long “I” sound, resulting in statements such as “There goes a whole bus-load of DUFI.” Now doesn’t that sound a lot better? :grin:

:o ed hardy wear rocks but wtf is this :!:

Oh, okay. Funny word that [DUFUS] Couldn’t tell ya what the plural of dufus is but I had a hearty chuckle at DUFI! :lol:
I’ve heard it used as DOOF as in GOOF & GOOFBALL but rarely as DOOFBALL.

How about showerbag? Shower pretty much means the same thing as douche.

Another bad name to call someone? I know too many of those already. :roll:

There’s lots of creative ways to insult someone back; “Yo, hey turdsatchel, your bag is full.” “When’s the last time you sat down on a clean toilet seat and let loose a big ripe juicy frapple outta yer crap sack ya nutmegbag !”

Here is a comment in a post with a really long title.

hmmm

Hello there wordsmith

OK.. that doesn’t work.. I guess I can’t show the title of the post where the comments are happening yet. Hmm..

PHP has functions to truncate strings. So the processing steps would be:

1) Do not use the title of the lesson directly, but first assign it to a variable.
2) Truncate the variable (if it is already short, you get back the full title).
3) Use the truncated variable where you originally used the title.

a lesson with a long title can be truncated before display.

PS: When truncation happens, one can get fancy and add ellipses (…) to indicate the occurrence of the truncation.

PPS: If you do not want to truncate and insist on showing the full title, then you would need to wrap the title. This too can be done with php. I did not see the exact manner in which a long title messes up the display so cannot say more. If you have a picture of the messed up display of long titles, I might be able to say more.

I don’t know how to do that.. I’ll look and see if I can find out how.

I have this variable.. how do I assign it to another variable and truncate it? get_the_title($comment->comment_post_ID);

Так смешно, Марина!!! Cамом деле!!! Super! So funny!
Привет из Москвы…от “lovelyman1968″ (struggling there to learn Russian). Пока! ;-)

Homework: Vag-O-matic.

Reply notification did not work for the two replies you made below; saw them just now. I’ll provide details sometime today.

I noticed you have implemented truncation; there are two things that can be done to the present scheme, one to make it safer and the other to make it better. You may already have the “make it safer” thingy in place (can’t tell by the display). Will elaborate sometime today.

Test to see if <code> is supported: Will try to print > within <code> and </code> tag.


can I use > directly: > ?


Yes! Thanks a lot!

Harder test:

Harder test failed! <code> … </code> does not work :(

Maybe that test was too hard. Slightly hard test:

OK, that’s good enough! To make a tinsy bit harder, since html tags are rejected, see if php tags are accepted:

Maybe I forgot something in the tinsy bit harder test; try again:

Earlier today, I said there are two things that could be done to the present scheme for displaying the author’s name and title of post in the Recent Comments box.

1) The first is that the length of the author might need to be truncated too — for example, there was a time when PK had a very long name, it was something like, “PK Vote Marina for sexiest geek”. You might already being doing this.

2) The second was that rather than truncate the author and title at a fixed length, it might be better to first truncate the author at a fixed length and to then truncate the title based (not on the length of the title but based) on the lenght of the line “$the_aurhor in $the_title”. This way, if the author’s name is short, then more characters can be used for the title.

I was going to provide php code, but gave up after I could not come up with a good php scheme to determine the length of a string! There are two issues with determining the length of a string:

A) What we want is the width in pixels (or inches) required to display $the_author (to see how the same number of characters can take up different lenghts on the display, see the lenghts of these two strings of 4 characters: “mmmm” and “nnnn”.).

The lenght of the display depends on the font being used — and it is not worth creating a general function to determine the display length of a given string in a given font. Here’s an example of such a function for a particular font (Verdana, 10px, non-bold) http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php#76043

B) The next best thing (to working with width in pixels or inches) is to work with width being the number of characters. But php’s “strlen( $the_author);” function returns the number of bytes required to store $the_author (for people knowing C, php’s strlen() does not include any terminating null) which need not equal the number of visible characters in $the_author. When $the_author is “Hs4Mm”, strlen( $the_aurhor ) returns 5 which is the number of displayed characters; but when $the_author = “Марина Орлова”; strlen( $the_aurhor ) returns a number bigger than 13 (the number of bytes required to store the 13 visible characters in “Марина Орлова”).

I am at a loss as to how to handle strings with non-ASCII characters. I tried various experiments along the lines indicated below but none of them worked!

The code tag was not parsed properly; trying again with tags between each line:


Supposedly, one can determine number of visible characters via the function:


$the_length = strlen( utf8_decode( utf8_encode( $the_string ) ) );

// preceding should return 13


Supposedly, one can also use the "/u" modifier to search patterns ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php ):


$max_length = 20;

$is_short = preg_match( '/^.{1,$max_length}$/u', uft8_encode( $the_author ) ) );

// preceding should return 1


$max_length = 10;

$is_short = preg_match( '/^.{1,$max_length}$/u', uft8_encode( $the_author ) ) );

// preceding should return 0