The Electronic Magazine of www.Chathouse.com.

Issue #67 ~•~ August 06, 2001

Q & A | Chat Dominatrix | My2Cents | Horoscopes | Homepage Help

Q & A MichiganStorm™ The Game: The game Honesty is based on Truth or Dare, but without the dare. When actually playing the game one player asks a question and all have to answer honestly, including the player who asked the pending question. For the new Ezine version of the game I will ask a new question each week and all ChatHouse® chatters are welcome [and invited] to send in a response. The following week not only will a new question be asked, but the answers to [any] previous questions that we recieve will also be posted, including my own. Please send all answers to ch_zine@hotmail.com and be sure to include the handle under which your input should be posted [if a handle is not submitted, there will be no handle posted with the response]. If you have any questions you'd like asked in our Q & A section, please send them to the same address! Thank you. The Question:If someone were to ask you right now who you're hero is, what would you tell them? The Answers:Last Weeks Question:If you could go back to any era in history, where would your time machine take you and why? • I would go to the late 40's/early 50's because the music was great, and life was simpler. Only thing I don't think I would have been down with is wearing a skirt with a poodle on it. *L* That, and the Rock wouldnt be there, if I could bring him with me though.... Wizardess •If i had the chance to go back in time,i'd go back to the Victorian era, England, just to give Queen Elizibeth some Loréal, or maybeline foundation, to save her skin from lead poisening! ~§~ ~Soap~Gurl~ •After reading RodeoGirl's answer about Laura Ingals Wilder.... I would like to go back to when she was alive.... I love the "prarie life" in a sense.... It seems kind of cool and wholesome... me(f) • If I could travel back in time, and take someone with me, I'd like to take my daughter back in time to meet my maternal grandparents because they are/were so much a part of who I am and who she will be. If I have to go it alone, I'd like to go back to when Jesus was resurrected. ORCA~NUT •I would have to make a tough choice if I could only go back in time once. I'd either go back to about 1940 when my maternal grandparents were alive so that I could meet them both (my grandfather died in WW2 in 1945 and my grandmother died in 1956) or I'd go back to 1979, to the exact moment that my cousin was murdered to keep it from happening. MichiganStorm™ • I'd like to go back to the ummm late 1800's Where the woman were strong but still wanted to be femine and almost always wore dresses. They felt secure in the knowing of how strong they were and how important they were in the holding family and farm together, and didn't feel as though they had to prove anything to anyone. What ever happened to that way of thinking? Texas Storm ® •Ahhh... *S* There are two places back in time I would like to travel...the Romantic era to hear all that music firsthand, exactly how the composer intended it, and to the time of King Arthur so I could learn under someone as magical as Merlyn. Sitha TOP

Horoscopes By Texas Storm Borrowed from  Taurus ..... April 20 - May 20 You will be eaten alive by a horde of army ants this week. On the up side, your skeleton will never have been so shiney smooth. Do not make any long term investments this week.     Leo ..... July 23 - August 22 A trip to the beach is on the cards this week. Or at least watching an advertisement featuring a beach on television is on the cards this week. Are you going to finish that hot dog? Virgo ..... August 23 - September 22 What would ever happen if your worry beads broke? Your week will be best spent doing carpentry. Gemini ..... May 21 - June 20 Go on, count your chickens before they hatch. It's not like you're going to be off by much. Unless you've taken to mixing your dinosaur eggs in with your chicken eggs, in which case you deserve all the rounding errors you get.   Capricorn ..... December 22 - January 19 You receive a message from aliens through your SETI@Home client this week telling you to knock it off; they haven't called or written for a reason, so stop bugging them. Cancer ..... June 21 - July 22 Nothing strange at all will happen to you this week. Wear halter tops this week, all week. And show lots of leg. Especially if you find yourself having to stop by the Sane Magazine offices this week. Pisces ..... February 19 - March 20 A tray of peach cobbler proves Newton's thing about gravity this week, with you as a witness/cause. It utterly fails when you attempt to get it to talk about Descartes and his damn vortices.   Aries ..... March 21 - April 19 You miss the days when men were men and women were women. This is the least of your concerns, and doesn't cross your mind in the least, because you're stuck in a tree this week, having been chased up there by a rhinoceros being a perfect example of a rhinoceros. The monkeys inhabiting the tree with you also display distinctly monkey-like behavior.   Libra ..... September 23 - October 22 You will miss your train on Monday. You won't miss the following one, though, and the watermelon will splash and splurch all over the windows as it goes streaking past, much to the amusement of the other people waiting on the platform, except for one person who gets hit by a stray bit of rind shrapnel. Scorpio ..... October 23 - November 21 A rose by any other name is bound to confuse people, as they're more likely than not adjusted to everyone calling it a rose by this point, and you going on being all clever is just going to ruin it for everybody. We'd take your horoscope away if you had one.   Sagittarius ..... November 22 - December 21 A missive delivered by an out of shape delivery boy in hotpants will save you from jumping off that cliff at the last second to attempt to save the young fish you saw hurtle over the falls. Your stopping leaping to your heroic deed could have either been your reaction to the letter (one of those free advertisements for a sale on somewhere, a golf shoppe, I believe) or your morbid curiosity in the reaon(s) the delivery boy thought he should ever have attempted to put on hotpants in the first place.   Aquarius ..... January 20 - February 18 Being a workaholic means never having to say you're sorry. You can email it, but talking takes up far too much time. TOP

HomePage Help By MichiganStorm™ Last week I gave you a few suggestions about learning HTML and a few links to where you might find the help you need in learning the script. Once you catch on to simple HTML everything else will seem relatively simple! Well, now that you've either took the initiative to either learn HTML or look for a web design program to suit your needs it's time to think about your pages; should they all hold to a single theme, should each differ, should each page have the same colors, should each page contrast the others. Those are just a few of the many questions you're going to ask yourself while building a website! My answer to those and to any other questions you might have regarding content is only one thing: This website represents you, which means whatever you want to share with people is what you should put on it!! Don't think that you need the same type of content others have and don't compare your site to anyone else's because it's not anyone elses - It's yours! If you chose not to use any graphic backgrounds or colored background or fonts your page will be completely "default", meaning that it would look like this one [click here]! My suggestion to you would be to not only look at the page, but read it completely for a few tips on designing. If you do chose to use a color or graphic background [or both if you're going to play safe] and change the color of your fonts, please keep in mind what you may have just read on the default example - Give your background a color even if you're using a graphic background! If you use a dark graphic background and white or light gray text and your background does not load then the viewer isn't going to be able to read your text, but if you give your background a dark value and your graphic background doesn't load your text will still be readable. To see an example of what you can do Click HERE. I've tried to keep my codes as clean as possible so that if you would like to right click on either page I just linked to and view source it should be easily read. You might also notice that at the bottom of the page there is an icon linking to the site from which I got that background, well some [like myself] put all their links on one page but when it comes to linking back to a page where a background was found it's sometimes best to do it on the page it was used otherwise how do we know which link to follow to find the background you've used [or ones like it]. Many background sites request that you link back to them and considering you're using their backgrounds or graphics for free, they're not asking much. What are the HEX color codes? Well, that's a fair question while we're talking about using colors to spruce up your fonts or backgrounds and maybe sometime in the near future your tables or borders! Let's see what I can pull out of my little back of links... kagraphics has an extremely easy to use "color picker". You just click on the color you want and the page turns that color as well as putting the HEX code for the color in a little box where you can highlight it and copy it for use in your codes. HEX CODES there are a few faults with this page. You have to highlight grays 10-23 to see them because they've used a black background, but that's no big deal really, if you can copy and paste you can highlight. Another mistake I noticed right off was that because they used a black background the darker colors are shown in white and I think it's due to this that they give the wrong code for black! Instead they give you the code for white [#FFFFFF] instead of [#000000] black. Draac.com has a marvelous display for getting just the color you want, though it seems a bit small there are a lot of colors with code there! And that's not all, Draac.com also has HTML tutorials!!. Just go to www.draac.com and check out the site, they have half a dozen tutorials for the new designer as well as some pretty cool stuff for the old ones! Of the three links I just gave you, I have two of them bookmarked. I've had kagraphics bookmarked since I first started learning HTML and I bookmarked draac as soon as I found it, it seemed so usefull!. If you do a search you may find more of what you're looking for. Graphic Backgrounds are all over the net! Heck, I even have a half-assed background site! You can check out the links I'm going to give you here, but you can also go to www.webring.com which, like GeoCities, has merged with Yahoo. Once you reach Yahoo! WebRing just scroll down to where it says "Find A Ring" and in the little search box just type Backgrounds and you'll get quite a few matches, from there you're free to explore each webring and visit many sites. Of the sites I'm about to list, many, if not all, of them offer more than backgrounds, but for today's use I'm only interested in them for their backgrounds. Some of the links will take you directly to the background section of the sites as well. The Playground is my pathetic attempt, but if you like any of them feel free to use them! [the site was never "finished"] Starlight Gallery is where I found the muted background used on one of the example pages. grsites has a bazillion tiled backgrounds, though they refer to them as textures they are tiles. Wendy's Backgrounds once you arrive you'll have to scroll a bit down the page, scroll past her links for her business and a few biblical links and you'll come to the banners she asks you to link back with, just a short scroll further and you're there! She has a wonderful selection, be sure to link back!! Twilight Dreams Design has tons of great gothic, wiccan and fantasy borders and muted tiles! I've had this page bookmarked for as long as I can remember. I love this site and I adore this womans work! www.magickalmoon.com Jan's Designs Disney Designs.com That's just a few of the thousands of Free Background sites on the internet! Do a search via your favorite search engine or take a look through the webrings, you're guaranteed to find something somewhere that you like!! Other ways to find cool background sites is to go through some of your friends homepages and follow their links back to where ever they got theirs. Any HTML or other homepage questions? If I don't know the answer I'll find it and post it here with your question! ch_zine@hotmail.com TOP

The Chathouse ~Chat Dominatrix~ Note: As with every article, what I say is in purple, and what the chatters or someone else may say, is in blue. Email Box ² hey this is hottie come and talk If you would have told me which room you chat in, I would have! ² Deleted Quote The quote that was removed due to being found offensive was  "Support your local police force...steal"  I would just like to voice my opinion on how pathetically sad this is. You remove a quote that was obviously intended as a joke because (i'm guessing) one chatter found it offensive? have they not seen some of the others that could be found offensive? 'after i finish running your program let's make love like crazed weasels'  or  'start a new hobby, buy lot's of rolling papers' I guess what i'm trying to say is that if these people can't handle a little humour, maybe they shouldn't be at a chat site as diverse as chathouse and maybe you shouldn't try to accomodate they're pissy attitudes toward a little joke. It's almost a guarantee that within 5 minutes of entering almost any room in chathouse, you will encounter material much more offensive than a little quote. A lot of the quotes are pretty lame but i, and many in my room, found that quote to be one of the best and to have it removed because of one person's inability to realize a joke is a shame. Well thank you, I'm sure I'll be getting emails to have those two quotes delete now also. ~L~ And I agree that you'll find far more offensive things said within the rooms, than you will in the quotes, and  removing such quotes assures that!  The quotes I allow to be voted to be taken off, are not the ones the chatters submit, but are the ones a few Daemons put in when the program was first made . How and where they came up with most of these I have yet to be brave enough to ask. ~L~ ² how do I go about talking in the chat room?  I am new at this. The best way to start out is by browsing through a few of our links made to help the news chatters. First take a few moments to read through the Welcome Mat. Once there, be sure to click on these links! How To Chat Here you find explanations of how the chatrooms work and how to get started! Register Don't forget to fill out a profile! Add only information about yourself you would like the other chatters to know about you. This information can be viewed by all chatters by clicking on your handle. If you have already registered you can fill out your profile information here Profile. Which is also where you can go to add to or change your profile information at any time. And/or to view other profiles of the registered chatters throughout the Chathouse. The Corner Store Here you'll find the Chathouse Subscriptions, the File library Subscriptions, and Channel X Subscriptions. Other informative links are: Features Here you'll find a description of all the features the Chathouse offers. Help Here you'll find some of most common questions asked, along with their answers. You'll also find HTML help, help with how to post images, and common errors. Chathouse News The Chathouse News Page Sent in anonymously The Attic Loses a Friend One of the greatest people to have ever entered the attic has gone on to another place. For this we are saddened by her death. Those who knew Meg aka Miss Bitch loved her. Those who didn't know her thought highly of her and respected her. Some people make the world special just by being in it, Meg was one of those people!  Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.  Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.  To Nikki... I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon and all the less important ones just never go away. Added  Quotes Two quotes were picked this week to be added to the Random Quotes. Please read on past the second quote for this weeks homework.  The first was sent in by ~MM~ of  The WWWing ² "There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works." The second one was sent in by Sally Brown ² "It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." —George W. Bush Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000  I'm not sure if many of you recall when this was said by George Bush, but I would like you all to please click the link below and revisit these dark dungeons of the  internet he speaks of.  www.darkdungeonsofevil.com You may even want to go and then type in this url to be sure you've gotten it right, though I know many of you will know right away just how all too right & true it is! ~LOL~ To submit your favorite quote, joke, bumper sticker or motto for a chance to win and be added to the Random Quotes, email it in, along with your handle to, quotes@chathouse.com New Chatters RantMaster's Theater   The News Page chatdominatrix@chathouse.com TOP

My Two Cents Click to see my homepage in a new window by My2CentsDealW/it! Dear2c@HoTMaiL.com My Two Cents on Double Standards Gone are the days of Right and Wrong, Black and White, Good and Evil. Welcome to the age of pseudo-morality and double standards. Just about every major issue in America and even the World today has some kind of double standard attached to it. With the decline of religious morality in the world and the rise of secular humanism and situational ethics the double standard has flourished. Let me give you just a few examples: Take the "Drug War" for example. We 'wage war' on drugs, drug traffickers, drug pushers, drug users -- why? Supposedly because they are BAD, they hurt people, they are addictive, etc. However, cigarettes and alcohol are LEGAL! WHY? They are bad, they hurt people, they are addictive, etc. DOUBLE STANDARD! The irony here is that some of the illegal drugs do have GOOD medicinal uses and some are safer and more effective for some purposes than the legal alternatives. Such as marijuana for cancer and glaucoma treatment. Amphetamines are safer and more effective for weight-loss or staying awake and alert (say for truckers or night shift workers) than caffeine or the ephedra-based products on the market. Whereas cigarettes and alcohol have no redeeming value, other than the purported benefit of moderate amounts of alcohol in connection with heart disease. Being a smoker and a former heavy drinker myself, I can personally attest to the addictiveness of both cigarettes and alcohol as well. So, why the double standard and why is it completely backwards from what would seem to be logical? Now consider abortion, euthanasia and capital punishment. All three result in death, however rarely do you find anyone that supports all three. More often than not, if someone supports abortion and/or euthanasia they are against capital punishment. On the other hand, capital punishment supporters are are quite often against abortion and/or euthanasia. The first group thinks it is OK to kill babies and old people, but NOT the most vile and anti-social elements of our society. The second group views all three as death sentences, yet only capital punishment is a deserved death sentence. Here we have a double standard that truly does cut both ways and if that wasn't confusing enough, there are some who do not waffle on this issue at all. Many religious groups (most notably the Catholic church) are against all three. However, that in itself is a double standard, because the Bible specifically endorses the death penalty, the same Bible that they claim to hold Holy as the Word of God, but yet defy that Word on the issue of the death penalty. DOUBLE STANDARD. Racism, bigotry and homophobia. These are all loosely related issues, all of which are the poster children for double standards. The mantra of the day is tolerance, compassion and sensitivity, HOWEVER even the slightest statement or action that reflects negatively on any minority group is met with outrage, censorship and militancy. Tolerance and sensitivity are only applicable to those who disagree with these groups and not to these groups or their supporters themselves. DOUBLE STANDARD! Black pride in their history and heritage is good, southern pride in the history and heritage of the south (as symbolized in the Confederate flag) is bad. To force homosexuals to conform to heterosexual religious standards is bad, but force-feeding acceptance of homosexuality down the throats of people whose religion denounces it is good. DOUBLE STANDARD! An 'artist' portraying obscenities in a public gallery is freedom of expression, but the free expression of your religious beliefs in public is religious bigotry or a violation of the separation of church and state. DOUBLE STANDARD! If a white man kills a black man, it's a "Hate Crime", but if a black man kills a white man it's not. The first comes with a stiffer penalty than the latter, which is not only a double standard, but a violation of a little Constitutional principle called 'equal protection under the law'. Suddenly a vocal minority is a little MORE equally protected than the less vocal majority. DOUBLE STANDARD! The examples go on and on and on.... So rather than giving you my 'two cents' on these issues, other than what may be apparent within the above examples,  I will simply present the double standards to YOU. I do this so that you may see them, consider them and maybe realize how they relate to you or those around you. Is whatever is good for the goose REALLY good for the gander? Do YOU have double standards? Are Right and Wrong really a thing of the past or do they still have a place in the world? Let me hear YOUR two cents on the issue of Double Standards! (Now there's an interesting change of pace that I bet you weren't expecting, huh?) Dear2c@HoTMaiL.com Citizens for Constitutional Government So, what have you got to say? Let me know and I'll tell you if it's worth 2 cents! Dear2c@HoTMaiL.com *note: all names and handles will be changed or removed to protect the pathetic* TOP