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 Originally Posted By: WoodenJefferson
Is that one of your Mom's works? <img src="http://boards.collectors-society.com/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif" alt="\:\)" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

 

Yes!

 

Chris

Can anyone tell me why all the "garbage" comes up inside a quote?Chris
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 Originally Posted By: cpm9ball
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header"> Originally Posted By: WoodenJefferson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is that one of your Mom's works? <img src="http://boards.collectors-society.com/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif" alt="\:\)" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /> </div></div><br /><br />Yes!<br /><br />Chris

 

Can anyone tell me why all the "garbage" comes up inside a quote?

 

Chris

I've been wondering the same thing. (shrug)
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 Originally Posted By: cpm9ball
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header"> Originally Posted By: cpm9ball</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header"> Originally Posted By: WoodenJefferson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is that one of your Mom's works? <img src="http://boards.collectors-society.com/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif" alt="\:\)" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /> </div></div><br /><br />Yes!<br /><br />Chris </div></div><br /><br />Can anyone tell me why all the "garbage" comes up inside a quote?<br /><br />Chris
I've been wondering the same thing. \(shrug\)

 

It reminds me of the time that our local cable company had the same network show on every channel. Apparently, the guy manning the control room on the graveyard shift fell asleep and accidentally hit the wrong button on the control panel.

 

Hey, Arch, did someone fall asleep at the controls?

 

Chris

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Gremlins are responsible for the quote boxes being screwed up…we used that terminology in the late 60’s when we could not explain problems that arose for the pilots that the ground crews could not duplicate or ratify once the plane was on the ground.

 

Notice they are also associated with “widgets”

 

 

Author Roald Dahl is credited with getting the gremlins known outside of the air force. He would have been familiar with the myth, having carried out his military service in the 80th squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. Dahl had his own experience in an accidental crash-landing in the Libyan Desert. In January, 1942 he was transferred to Washington, D.C. as Assistant Air attaché. There he eventually authored his novel The Gremlins, in which he described male gremlins as "widgets" and females as "fifinellas". Dahl showed the finished manuscript to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service. Sidney reportedly came up with the idea to send it to Walt Disney.

 

 

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Gremlins are responsible for the quote boxes being screwed up…we used that terminology in the late 60’s when we could not explain problems that arose for the pilots that the ground crews could not duplicate or ratify once the plane was on the ground.

 

Notice they are also associated with “widgets”

 

 

Author Roald Dahl is credited with getting the gremlins known outside of the air force. He would have been familiar with the myth, having carried out his military service in the 80th squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. Dahl had his own experience in an accidental crash-landing in the Libyan Desert. In January, 1942 he was transferred to Washington, D.C. as Assistant Air attaché. There he eventually authored his novel The Gremlins, in which he described male gremlins as "widgets" and females as "fifinellas". Dahl showed the finished manuscript to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service. Sidney reportedly came up with the idea to send it to Walt Disney.

 

 

Have you ever seen the Bugs Bunny cartoon where he has to deal with gremlins on the airplane? Classic.

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 Originally Posted By: WoodenJefferson
Gremlins are responsible for the quote boxes being screwed up…we used that terminology in the late 60’s when we could not explain problems that arose for the pilots that the ground crews could not duplicate or ratify once the plane was on the ground.

 

Notice they are also associated with “widgets”

 

 

Author Roald Dahl is credited with getting the gremlins known outside of the air force. He would have been familiar with the myth, having carried out his military service in the 80th squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. Dahl had his own experience in an accidental crash-landing in the Libyan Desert. In January, 1942 he was transferred to Washington, D.C. as Assistant Air attaché. There he eventually authored his novel The Gremlins, in which he described male gremlins as "widgets" and females as "fifinellas". Dahl showed the finished manuscript to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service. Sidney reportedly came up with the idea to send it to Walt Disney.

 

 

Have you ever seen the Bugs Bunny cartoon where he has to deal with gremlins on the airplane? Classic.

I was thinking the same thing... lol
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