Ron's Brain

That's quite interesting. I'm pretty sure nursery rhymes were originally oral, but it's possible that one was published in a book, along with a picture of a humanish egg sitting on a wall.

I'm reading a book called 'The Big Over Easy". It's about Humpty's murder. If you haven't yet, check out Fforde's Thursday Next series.

Why must we wait all the way until next Thursday?

Actually, Big Over (Oeuf-er?) Easy isn't part of Fford's Thursday Next series, it's part of his Nursery Crimes series.

I rated article as a 5 solely on topic alone. Fortunately, I don't regret judging the book by the cover.

As for Humpty, I had always just assumed they were talking about someone who was mentally fragile. Either that or the futility of trying to reverse change and the course of time.

Right, but you need to read Thursday Next to understand where Big Over Easy is starting from. Otherwise, I don't think it'd make sense.

And it -is- sort of part of the series, in so far as the concept was Thursday's idea.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

Spare the rod and you get more mass shootings. This is what time outs have done.

You know what I love watching? A mother trying to hold a discussion with a 2 year old "But we discussed this earlier..." and caving in when the child cries. It just warms my heart a little, because I'm glad I'm not going to make that mistake.

I got spanked when I was a child, and my own children were spanked as necessary, and we all turned out pretty good. BEATING a child is WRONG, but time outs and restrictions may harm a child's psyche far more than a swat on the butt. Treat a kid like a puppy: punish and be done with it. Teenagers, of course, are a different species altogether: spankings don't work on them, although the occasional swat says more than a thousand words about how upset a parent is. Actually, NOTHING works on teenagers, but parents MUST do SOMETHING. Parents who fail to react at all just send the message that they don't care about their own children. The most secure children I've known are those whose parents care enough to set limits and then STICK to them, 'cause that's the ONLY way to convince kids you love them.

I would have to say the best way in dealing with teens is to listen to them. Being a teen(17) I see that most problems arise in families when parents seem to not care. By not seeming to care I understand that most parents do, but many times a parents actions convey a different message to the teen than their actual feelings. Teens for the most part can be dealt with by talking with them not at them. Parents also need to make sure their teen understands they are listening. Many times parents set correct and reasonable boundaries but enforce them incorrectly.

For example this girl I used to date, mind you I can't stand her now so it's not like I am blindly on her side, had parents who set very reasonable boundaries. Then when she did something that broke those boundaries they started automatically yelling at her. For example one of the times I was over there this girl had not turned in some assignments for class. Rather than listening to her when she said that she did turn them in and her teacher turned them back for her to redo(which was later brought out to be true) her mother started yelling at her without actually talking to her. The reason I say this is bad is because of all the incidents like that she now doesn't care what her parents say and all the boundaries they set, even the good ones, she writes off and will not listen to them.

Basically all I'm saying is spank the toddlers treat them like a puppy and once they hit that age treat them like people and talk with them not at them. And now I've become freaking Dr. Phil and I hate that freaking guy.

I think I've learned to appreciate paragraphs more...

I was spanked as a kid and I deserved every single one of them. The worste brush with the law I've ever had was a traffic ticket and I was intentionally driving stupidly, so I deserved that one as well. As I try to pound into the next generation of thugz, hustlerz, and state assistance beneficiaries, the more you stay on the straight and narrow in youth, the easier your adulthood will be.

The only problem is paragraphs with tabs don't exactly work when html ignores white-spaces.

The message formatter understands two line breaks.

And two line breaks is all you get, so use them wisely!

If, at the end of stage 3-1, you jump repeatedly on the second Koopa Troopa coming down the blocks before the flagpole, you can get infinite line breaks.

I could never do it. I had to use the RonsBrain Genie, by Galoob.

And if you do it all right at the end of 1-2 you can get infinite water.

The GameShark that came later, for the N64, was vastly superior. It had a separate input for the location of the value, and the value itself. One of the codes let you define how large the soldiers were, so we put in FFFF (which is of course the largest it could do) and the soldiers were like mountains.

Half the time we'd crash the game, though.

\r\n || \n\n || 1010 || \r\r
PICK ONE!!!

Yes but I don't like using escape sequences in normal type. And technically they wouldn't be considered whitespace to be ignored.

\r is a carriage return, not a line feed.

I'll ignore you! *shakes his fist*

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