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    Hairball 186: WordPress seems to prefer em to i for italic and I seem to have obediently adopted that convention on the site I manage without really noticing. It’s a bit counterintuitive though isn’t it? And it seems to like strong rather than b for bold too, although again it accepts both. I no longer feel offended when it quietly changes my coding for me.

    Or maybe there is a subtle difference? Would be interested to know. I learned html when you pretty much had to scratch it on to bits of stone, so an update from someone a bit more au courant would be welcome.

  • (Cue best Lloyd Benson impression)
    "I've known 'Infuriatingly Frustrating. I've lived with 'Infuriatingly Frustrating'. 'Infuriatingly frustrating' has been coworkers of mine. And you, Kat(etc(etc(etc))), are no "Infuriatingly Frustrating'."

    Now, as to cookies... --Mentor]

  • hairball_of_hope says:
    August 24, 2010 at 11:20 am

    @Mentor (#189)

    I’ll bet they don’t teach that in school. For reference for you young’uns and non-USAnians, in the 1988 US Presidential campaign, the Republican ticket was George H.W. Bush (the then-sitting Vice President under Ronald Reagan, and the father of George W. Bush) and Dan Quayle, a young US Senator with good looks and no brains (he famously misspelled “potato” as “potatoe” in front of a class of elementary schoolkids who had spelled it correctly). The Democratic ticket was Michael Dukakis (the then-Governor of Massachusetts) and Lloyd Bentsen, an eminent US Senator from Texas.

    During the Vice-Presidential debate, Quayle was asked questions about his qualifications and readiness to assume the duties of the President. As he had on the campaign trail, he compared himself to John F. (Jack) Kennedy, who was the youngest person elected as President.

    Then came Sen. Bentsen’s now-famous retort in the debate, which I have copied verbatim:

    “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

    The retort took on a life of its own in popular culture, to the point where Ronald Reagan’s daughter Patti Davis once said (while complaining about all the candidates who were comparing themselves to her father), “Where is Lloyd Bentsen when you need him?”

    The reason Bentsen’s retort worked so effectively is that Quayle was widely viewed as a male bimbo. Blond, good-looking, charming, without a thought in his head. Even Republicans had doubts about Quayle, and the media and comedians had a field day with Quayle for the entire Bush-Quayle administration.

    On the other ticket, poor Michael Dukakis had the misfortune of being photographed while driving an Army tank wearing the helmet that the tank driver wears, which has a set of protrusions at the ears to accomodate sealed noise-cancelling headphones. It made Dukakis look like a squirrel, especially Rocky the Squirrel from the “Bullwinkle and Rocky” cartoon series. He never lived it down, and “Dukakis in a tank” is media relations shorthand for a photo-op or publicity that backfires.

    Thus, the 1988 US Presidential campaign gave the world two bits of political jargon that have endured.

    End of PoliSci lesson.

    (… goes back wondering about her personal cartoon favorite… “Where’s Ignatz the Mouse when you need him?” …)

  • judybusy says:
    August 24, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    And we now have Dan Quayle’s son, Ben running for congress in AZ. Ugh.

  • Feminista says:
    August 24, 2010 at 3:59 pm

    #190: I don’t remember the Rocky comparison,but do recall the MSM saying Dukakis lacked charisma.

  • Feminista says:
    August 24, 2010 at 4:01 pm

    P.S.I voted for Jesse Jackson that year.

  • Maggie Jochild says:
    August 24, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    Me, too, Feminista — what I think of as the REAL rainbow flag.

  • Andrew B says:
    August 24, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    h_o_h, 186, and others: I think the preference for e.g. <em> over e.g. <i> goes back to the earliest days of html. Html markup was originally supposed to designate content, not appearance. That would allow the browser to use whatever appearance worked best for that content on its particular platform. Then Mosaic/Netscape came along and fucked it all up — remember the innovative genius of the <blink> tag? What’s happening now is that html is finally getting back to what it was supposed to be all along. You use <em> to indicate that some text should be emphasized. Then the browser, using the style sheet, decides how best to do that — usually by italicizing.

    I guess it’s not exactly the same as what it was, because you can specify appearance using the style sheet. But the underlying idea is to separate content, which is indicated by the html markup, from appearance (should I be writing “presentation”?), which used to be entirely up to the browser but now can be specified with CSS.

    Olivia, see how we stay on topic? ;*>

  • hairball_of_hope says:
    August 24, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    @Feminista (#192)