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#1 baltimore_boy

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 08:47 PM

Here's an example of what I am talking about:


With Brandon Bolden's four-game suspension over, head coach Bill Belichick was non-committal when asked if the running back would play this week.

”I don’t know. We’ll see how it goes this week,” Belichick said. ”He just came back this week. We’ll see how it goes. I don’t know.” Typical Belichick fashion. The Patriots have a one-week roster execpmtion, and with Shane Vereen and Danny Woodhead clicking behind Stevan Ridley, we wouldn't expect to see Bolden on Monday night against the Texans.

What is that stuff at the beginning? It seems like it is supposed to be quotes, but it doesn't look like them. Not a big deal, just curious if anyone else sees this or if it supposed to happen.
11 team NL only auction league. $260 cap. Roto scoring. OnRoto. Keepers in black.

C - Castillo $9, Hanigan $4
CI - Sandoval $24, Frazier $10, Alvarez $2, Adams $3, Rendon $5
MI - Castro $27, Segura $16, Gyorko $11, Dietrich $3, Solano $10
OF - BJ Upton $26, Harper $10, Parra $11, Young $5, Moore $5, Taveras $10, Yelich $10, Sappelt $5
SP - Zimmerman $23, Harvey $11, Estrada $11, Minor $8, Corbin $7, Cashner $4, Beachy $3, Wheeler $10
RP -  Soriano $25, Henderson $3, Brothers $10, Hector Rondon $2, Valverde $5, Paco Rodriguez $1

#2 The Harsh

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 08:53 PM

View Postbaltimore_boy, on 05 December 2012 - 08:47 PM, said:

Here's an example of what I am talking about:


With Brandon Bolden's four-game suspension over, head coach Bill Belichick was non-committal when asked if the running back would play this week.

”I don’t know. We’ll see how it goes this week,” Belichick said. ”He just came back this week. We’ll see how it goes. I don’t know.” Typical Belichick fashion. The Patriots have a one-week roster execpmtion, and with Shane Vereen and Danny Woodhead clicking behind Stevan Ridley, we wouldn't expect to see Bolden on Monday night against the Texans.

What is that stuff at the beginning? It seems like it is supposed to be quotes, but it doesn't look like them. Not a big deal, just curious if anyone else sees this or if it supposed to happen.

This is a fairly common occurrence - it's just apostrophes/quote marks that didn't get translated properly. A random sequence of characters is produced when there's a mismatch between the original encoding (the way it's typed) and the encoding the website "tells" the browser to use. Whoever wrote the piece was probably using an unusual font or word processor.
"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it--our life--hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.

'But let all this threaten to become impossible forever, how beautiful it would become again! Ah! If only the cataclysm doesn't happen this time, we won't miss visiting the new galleries of the Louvre, throwing ourselves at the feet of Miss X, making a trip to India.

'The cataclysm doesn't happen, we don't do any of it, because we find ourselves back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire. And yet we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening."

- Marcel Proust

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 08:58 PM

View PostThe Harsh, on 05 December 2012 - 08:53 PM, said:

View Postbaltimore_boy, on 05 December 2012 - 08:47 PM, said:

Here's an example of what I am talking about:


With Brandon Bolden's four-game suspension over, head coach Bill Belichick was non-committal when asked if the running back would play this week.

”I don’t know. We’ll see how it goes this week,” Belichick said. ”He just came back this week. We’ll see how it goes. I don’t know.” Typical Belichick fashion. The Patriots have a one-week roster execpmtion, and with Shane Vereen and Danny Woodhead clicking behind Stevan Ridley, we wouldn't expect to see Bolden on Monday night against the Texans.

What is that stuff at the beginning? It seems like it is supposed to be quotes, but it doesn't look like them. Not a big deal, just curious if anyone else sees this or if it supposed to happen.

This is a fairly common occurrence - it's just apostrophes/quote marks that didn't get translated properly. A random sequence of characters is produced when there's a mismatch between the original encoding (the way it's typed) and the encoding the website "tells" the browser to use. Whoever wrote the piece was probably using an unusual font or word processor.

Thanks. It just looked odd and I didn't know if it happened to other people too.
11 team NL only auction league. $260 cap. Roto scoring. OnRoto. Keepers in black.

C - Castillo $9, Hanigan $4
CI - Sandoval $24, Frazier $10, Alvarez $2, Adams $3, Rendon $5
MI - Castro $27, Segura $16, Gyorko $11, Dietrich $3, Solano $10
OF - BJ Upton $26, Harper $10, Parra $11, Young $5, Moore $5, Taveras $10, Yelich $10, Sappelt $5
SP - Zimmerman $23, Harvey $11, Estrada $11, Minor $8, Corbin $7, Cashner $4, Beachy $3, Wheeler $10
RP -  Soriano $25, Henderson $3, Brothers $10, Hector Rondon $2, Valverde $5, Paco Rodriguez $1

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 09:01 PM

View Postbaltimore_boy, on 05 December 2012 - 08:58 PM, said:

Thanks. It just looked odd and I didn't know if it happened to other people too.

You're going crazy. :P
"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it--our life--hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.

'But let all this threaten to become impossible forever, how beautiful it would become again! Ah! If only the cataclysm doesn't happen this time, we won't miss visiting the new galleries of the Louvre, throwing ourselves at the feet of Miss X, making a trip to India.

'The cataclysm doesn't happen, we don't do any of it, because we find ourselves back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire. And yet we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening."

- Marcel Proust




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