Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

RE: Disappearing posts

Does it have something to do with bookmarks? If I hit F5 and reload the page, some posts are missing, but if I click on the bookmark, and then on "show all messages", it DOES appear.

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It's an optimization for loading long threads; the first 50 posts and the last 50 posts are shown with a link in the middle to load the hidden ones in order to decrease the the amt of data requested from the web server. It's been there since this iteration of the ILX code went live.

Tbh, we probably need a separate board for this.

dan, the problem is that the midthread "load all messages" link isn't showing

???

I can see it!

"she was a bitch to land today"

― special guest appearance (Roberto Spiralli), Monday, June 15, 2009 4:16 PM (37 minutes ago)

yesssss

it's back!

both the pic ZS posted at first and now this second one are showing; twenty minutes ago the first wasnt there

weird

it was in "load them all" limbo

dan, the problem is that the midthread "load all messages" link isn't showing

Yep. Every once in a while, the "show all messages" link doesn't show, either at the very top or in the middle, and it just skips from a message 5 days ago to one about 50 minutes ago.

"Tbh, we probably need a separate board for this."

Take it here!
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=56108700
It even fits the board mission statement!

New poll for week 2, ya'll:

The "Let's Dominate the New Yorker Caption Contest" Poll: Week TWO

OK, the 3 official nominees for the first caption have been chosen by the NYer.

http://i42.tinypic.com/14l7ywm.jpg

New Yorker's selections:

"O.K., let's slowly lower in the grant money.”
Submitted by Todd Bearson
Arlington, Mass.

“Relax, for them it's publish and perish.”
Submitted by David Burns
Needham, Mass.

“The research is conclusive—mice are even cuter when you dress them up in little coats.”
Submitted by Brad Hodges
Dungannon, Ontario

ILX selections:

"They look more like her but they take after me."
Submitted by Roberto Spiralli
10 votes

"Okay, NOW they're just mocking us." 4
Submitted by Hi Dere
4 votes

"I know their clipboards are proportional, but it makes it really hard to read their notes."
Submitted by EZ Snappin
3 votes

"What troubles me is that they're speaking German."
Submitted by Dr Superman
3 votes

Meanwhile...

WEEK THREE CONTEST/NOMINATIONS BEGIN HERE

http://i41.tinypic.com/2rzzb4y.jpg

NOMINATIONS DUE BY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24TH, WITH THE POLL RUNNING FROM THE NIGHT OF THE 24TH TO THE NIGHT OF THE 27TH.

oh come on, there's only one caption/theme for that one:

"Aren't you forgetting something?"/"I thought you had him!"/etc etc

"That's right, avert your eyes! You don't want to end up like Henry, do you?"

i told him, if he says "are we nearly there yet?" one more time...

"so you're certain that this 'life-sized subbuteo' game is legal?"

"Do you think these frappucinos are making me irritable?"

"just pull over slowly and let me do the talking"

"'WARNING: LOW BRIDGE AHE-' Oh look, cows!"

grant money one seems likely to win.

"So, this week's theme is National Lampoon's Vacation?"

"yes but *I* didn't forget my drink on roof of the car"

"personally, i would have opened with pawn to king's 4"

"for the last time, i'm not spending my per diem to rent an SUV"

'Idiot Blaine Ruins Gumball 3000'

"you wouldn't be hungry if you got something at the drive-thru, mr. i-hate-trans-fats"

I'm trying to think of some combined Odysseus/cop caper gag, but not getting very far. Best I can come up as of yet:

"Are you sure this is the best way to avoid the sirens?"

Not great.

"i still say the extortion industry shouldn't have to advertise."

"well, I'm not explaining why we had to drop him off 'somewhere more scenic'"

"No, the drivethrough girl did not seem weird to me."

"if you didn't want jackass 3 on your resume you shouldn't have taken the job."

ugh who knew being drily urbane was so challenging

a variation on elmo's:

"don't tell me you forgot your drink on the roof again"

short sweet and stupid is most likely on this one.
"I thought he was with you!"
"Well it's not like he WALKED away..."

"Nothing back there but a coffee cup, boss."

"what are those idiots beeping at?"

That's the cruelest depiction of distress I've seen in a NYer cartoon maybe ever. Look at that dude's eyes.

also
"That's the cruelest depiction of distress I've seen in a NYer cartoon maybe ever. Look at that dude's eyes"

"thanks for stopping, a slurpee always brings out the kid in me"

"look, paul, I'm trying to be supportive here but there are better ways of getting on reality TV"

"Thank god THAT'S taken care of."

haha I was going to do a "Jackass" one but chickened out

"It's like, he's going in the drink, but this drink is going in me. Makes you think, you know?"

"Are you or have you ever been a representative or member of a terrorist organization or a member of a group which endorses terrorist activity?"

"these car rental people don't know the meaning of the word 'legroom' do they?"

"these harsh interrogation techniques are torture on your highway milage"

"I'm not exactly sure how they took the news but they said they'd give us 'a sign'"

"maybe it's in my other pants"