Was somebody recently reminded of You and The Eagles?

[sodascouts]

LOL Troub!!

I would probably suddenly develop an intense academic interest in whatever exercise Mr. Henley happened to be doing at the time, and would be forced to observe closely - only for educational purposes, of course.

[Judy]

That's how most of my fantasies start!

Why don't both quotes come from that post when I quote it? How do I quote more than one post at a time?

[sodascouts]

Judy, what you're referring to is nested quotes, also known as multi-quotes. We used to have the feature, but I disabled it on this board because it can get out of control very quickly. Since most people just hit "quote" and don't remove extraneous text, before you know it, you've got half a dozen posts quoted in your post - all of which have been quoted already at least once, probably more, by the people above you. On some boards, I've seen it get so insane that you'd have a one word reply with 10 or more nested quotes above it!

However, there are some occasions when nesting a quote helps with context. If you have one of those occasions, you can nest a quote manually. You do that by:
1) copying the extra post you want to reference
2) pasting the text in between quote tags. Quote tags look like this, without the spaces: [ quote ] to begin and [ /quote ] to end. (I have to add the spaces in the directions so the tags will show up).
Note: the quote tags of the extra post should be positioned immediately after the initial quote tag of the one that gets quoted automatically.

Here is what it would look like (remember, you have to remove the spaces)

[ quote ] [ quote ] The extra post you want to quote [ /quote] the regular quote [ /quote]

or, specific to you:

[ quote ] [ quote ] Wow can you imagine running into a sweaty, tired Don in your local YMCA! [ /quote ] That's how most of my fantasies start! [/quote ]

It looks funny because there are two [ quote ] tags in a row at the beginning, but just think of it like if you were quoting something at the beginning of a dialogue sentence using quotation marks. "'Take It to the Limit' is a great song." You have to double up quotations marks there - it's just like that with nested quotes.

And if you feel comfortable, you can identify the original posters by adding an ="name" to the initial quote tags. The above would become:

[ quote="Troubadour" ] [ quote="ive always been a dreamer" ] Wow can you imagine running into a sweaty, tired Don in your local YMCA! [/quote ] That's how most of my fantasies start! [ /quote ]

Which, when the spaces in the quote tags are removed, looks like this:

Wow can you imagine running into a sweaty, tired Don in your local YMCA!

That's how most of my fantasies start!

Personally, I prefer that to:

My mom was very excited to tell me that my aunt, who works at the YMCA near Nashville, told her that Don Henley works out there all the time.

For real? That astonishes me! Has she spoken to him? Is she sure it's not just a guy who looks like him?

I'm not sure if she has talked to him or not. But I don't think she would have said anything if she wasn't sure it was him.

ETA: My aunt lives in a wealthy suburb near Nashville, which is where the YMCA is located. Its in a pretty upscale part of town so it doesn't surprise me too much that Don would be working out ther

Wow can you imagine running into a sweaty, tired Don in your local YMCA!

That's how most of my fantasies start!

See what I mean?

[Judy]

Alrighty then! Thanks for the quoting lesson, Nancy. That's too much for my little brain to handle. I'm going to have to send it to myself in an e-mail so I can try it when I have more time.

[sodascouts]

It is a bit much. It took me 10 minutes just to write that post! No lie!

[Ive always been a dreamer]

I was getting ready to answer Judy earlier, but then I got interrupted. Sure am glad that you beat me to it, Soda.

[Judy]

Love your new banner, Soda!

[sodascouts]

Thanks, Judy!

[TimothyBFan]

That's how most of my fantasies start!

I immediately thought about your dream the other night.

[TimothyBFan]

This was a message on my Facebook Wall this morning from a friend who's daughter is now 8 years old. I used to babysit her when she was 2 till she was 6:

"I thought you would find this story amusing. I have a hard drive in the Jeep so I download all my CD's and Jessica is always asking me to change it to different things. Last night she got all excited and said "can we listen to Heartache Tonight?"!!! I did and she was dancing in her seat!!! Have a great day!"

Here's my reply back to her:

"LOVE IT!!! Must be all that Eagles music she heard in the background 10 hours a day, 5 days a week for so long when she was little. It was like a subliminal message! LOL"