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ORIGINAL: slavekal

I am always amazed when people post something then put (sp?) next to it. You don't have to wonder. You are on the friggin' internet. You could check your spelling in two seconds. Why wonder?
I posted a compatibility quiz a while back. One of the questions was about body type. I used several very famous women(Paris Hilton, etc.) as examples. By each name, I posted a pic. One or two people responded, "I don't know who they are." One, there are PICTURES. Two, these are very famous people. How you could be that oblivious is beyond me. But three, you are on the INTERNET. Type in a name, and you will get more info than you could ever want. There are other examples too. You don't have to not know anything. Just look it up.

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ORIGINAL: AQuietSimpleMan

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ORIGINAL: slavekal

I am always amazed when people post something then put (sp?) next to it. You don't have to wonder. You are on the friggin' internet. You could check your spelling in two seconds. Why wonder?
I posted a compatibility quiz a while back. One of the questions was about body type. I used several very famous women(Paris Hilton, etc.) as examples. By each name, I posted a pic. One or two people responded, "I don't know who they are." One, there are PICTURES. Two, these are very famous people. How you could be that oblivious is beyond me. But three, you are on the INTERNET. Type in a name, and you will get more info than you could ever want. There are other examples too. You don't have to not know anything. Just look it up.

So you know I often answer posts like this just to point out how this is something that is pointless to argue.

I don't care.

If I take the time and want to make a clear and consice reply, I may thorw it in Word to get a Spell Check on it....

In the end I could give a shit less about Paris Hilton, or Perez Hilton, or The Flamingo Hilton. I could just give a shit less.

What I do give a shit about is how MUCH other people DO give a shit about such things. When someone like Chris Crocker can be reduced to tears cause people think Britney is a Walking Crack Whore.... The Point is I care about what I care about and the fact that I acknowledge that something might not be spelled right is as a courtesy not because I am too retarded to know that I can open a new window and google it.... I do it because I want YOU to know that I don't give a shit how it is spelled.

QSM

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ORIGINAL: ShaharThorne

LP, how does Firefox work withWindow 7?  Lizard has it running on her minibook and I to admit it that I might have to call her for assistance...

Maybe the dummies guide for firefox...

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ORIGINAL: slavekal

No offense, but that is really not the point.  I don's really CARE about Paris Hilton, either.  But to not know who she is is to be really oblivious to popular culture.  I only used her as an example of a specific body type.  I don't know your Aunt Matilda, so I can't point to her.  But we have ALL seen US Weekly covers at the supermarket.
Not googling a word that you don't know how to spell is not retarded...but it is a little lazy.

Pahunkboy...to quote Data from TNG, "Not always...but often."

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Its the internet after all, right?

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ORIGINAL: slavekal

I am always amazed when people post something then put (sp?) next to it. You don't have to wonder. You are on the friggin' internet. You could check your spelling in two seconds. Why wonder?  Because after all these years, I've only just discovered how to use the spell check within this posting, lol.  I have used an enormous dictionary to look up things when I was being anal retentive about getting spellings exactly right, but now with my cats who love to race across keyboards and erase everything...I often just say to heck with it.  Too much of a risk.  My ancient messed up computer doesn't like opening up new windows and likes to crash, so I rarely go to dictionary.com.  If I'm tired and doing several things at once, yes, I have put (sp?)...and will probably continue to do so.  The next person is welcome to be unobtrusively nice and use that word with the correct spelling in one of their own sentences...or try to point it out and make me feel retarded.  Pssst...that WON'T work. 
I posted a compatibility quiz a while back. One of the questions was about body type. I used several very famous women (Paris Hilton, etc.) as examples. By each name, I posted a pic. One or two people responded, "I don't know who they are." One, there are PICTURES. Two, these are very famous people. How you could be that oblivious is beyond me.  Because I'm not into reading gossip about celebrities.  I've met enough clebrities real time that any glamour is gone.  I just see the rag magazines as pointless and funny...the same shiite comes up again and again, it's like they have preset stories and just substitue names. 
But three, you are on the INTERNET. Type in a name, and you will get more info than you could ever want. There are other examples too. You don't have to not know anything. Just look it up.  I only look up things that interest me and only when it's convenient.  I am not ashamed to admit when I don't know something and move on.

Many were vapid creatures and it was a blessing that someone else wrote all the words that came out of their mouths.  Nowadays I don't follow the career of any celebrity...except one.  He was an angel to me when I needed it, so I make it a point to buy every blessed movie of his I can to show my appreciation.  I'm talking about Alan Rickman.  (Maybe you should look him up on Google.)   I'm going to get my hands on a movie he made with Sigourney Weaver called Snow Cake for Christmas, buy myself some eggnog, and sit back and enjoy The Man's acting.

With everyone else...it's the characters portrayed that I love.  Ask me about movie characters and I'll knock your sox off, ask about actors and other celebrities and I'll go "huh???"