Originally Posted by WE Branch Fanatic:
Sorry, still don't know how to do quotes with "Originally posted by......" at the top of the quote box. It can't be that hard - anyone?
Make sure that you are in the full WYSIWYG mode for making posts. Go to user CP button at top left; into settings and options; click on Miscellaneous Options and go to the full function WYSIWYG mode.
That sets you up. Then, when quoting, press 'reply' as usual. The URL bar will have the following (the one below is for this post)
http://www.pprune.org/newreply.php?d...4898&noquote=1
delete the &noquote=1 from the URL
http://www.pprune.org/newreply.php?d...eply&p=6684898
And you'll get the name of the poster - which is what I did to get yours.
It comes up this in the message pane:
[QUOTE=WE Branch Fanatic;6684898]
From that, replace the semi-colon with a colon and delete the number
So the message pane now says:
[QUOTE=WE Branch Fanatic:]
Leave the rest of it alone, bar editing out any text that you don't wnat to quote.
Put your comment in underneath.
That does the job.
There is probably a
much more straightforward way of doing this, but this is what I've been doing, and why you're cited in the quote above.
By the by, I think that james may have been led by his book to confuse Stalin's 'When you chop wood, chips fly' (the Russian equivalent of 'if you make an omlette you have to break eggs') for the justification of state murder. Although I will happily concede that Stalin got up to so much of that he may have wanted a variety of pithy phrases to justify it to anyone who questionned him, he didn't get asked to justify it that often, since most people talking to him wished to remain in a state known as 'alive'