FIGURATIVELY BLEEPING
Speaking of bleeping: I’m a writer who delights in wordplay; far be it from me to fart around with gratuitous profanity. You may say I’m passé, but the writers I count among my favorites are witty, not vulgar…. which isn’t to say that innuendo goes out the window when it floats my boat, so to speak. I’m simply more on board riding with a dry wit than with a vulgar boatman.
But right now, I’m about to cuss up a storm because WordPress is still messing with me (and many others, no doubt), as I find myself back in block editor (from classic) every time I go to start a new post, or resume writing a post (such as this one) which I’d started the day before. So pardon me for tripping out while I have a bleeping fit: *#@*#*%*#@*@!!!!!!! Aaaaargh!
I don’t know what more I can say along these lines….so I’ll turn to a few of those witty writers to put in their true sense worth:
“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” –Mark Twain
“The average man has a vocabulary of 10,000 words — until he misses the nail and hammers his thumb.” –Evan Esar
“Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.” —Finley Peter Dunne
“American professional athletes are bilingual: they speak English and profanity.” –Gordie Howe
“Sacrilege or not, I want to crap.” –Aristophanes
Now there’s a man after my own….heart. I’ve had about enough of this crap for a while, so I’m going to take a posting break for a week or two….or until I find a way to block “block” from screwing with me at every turn.
The Observation Post 
Rivergirl 4:14 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
I’ve had the same problem, it’s beyond annoying. I blog from my phone now, one click and it’s back to classic. Easy peasy. With all the people complaining you’d think the WordPress gods would relent..
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mistermuse 5:53 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks, Rg. It’s almost enough to make me want to break out of my 20th century cell (phone) and get a 21st century smart phone. Luckily, my horse and buggy are in quarantine, so I don’t have to make any such rash decision until the 1918 flu pandemic has run its course.
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Rivergirl 6:14 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink
Then I guess I’ll wait to tell you about this marvelous new invention that reheats your food quickly….
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magickmermaid 4:43 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
hehe I’ve hummed that tune when housecleaning. Curse and eat chocolate! The cure-all for annoying technology! 🙂
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mistermuse 6:02 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
I have been bingeing on chocolate ice cream and brownies lately, but I probably haven’t been cursing enough, mm. I blame it on being married to an ex-nun.
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magickmermaid 6:12 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink
😀 Make up your own bleepity bleep words!
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Garfield Hug 2:39 am on October 8, 2020 Permalink
I am loving your hilarious replies….sorry I just had to comment and laugh!
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Catherine Haustein 5:39 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
I’m not sure why they fixed something that wasn’t broken but for what it’s worth, I gave in and accepted the dreaded block
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mistermuse 6:31 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
NEVER! Thank goodness I’m too old of a dog to learn new tricks, because when I was younger, I didn’t have that excuse.
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D. Wallace Peach 5:57 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
WP just switched me over too. The quotes are great. You’ve encouraged me to partake in a little foul language. 😀
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mistermuse 6:53 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
When I was a boy we had a hen house, so I learned fowl language at any early age. But better late than never, Diana. Keep up the bad words…,I mean, good work. 😉
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D. Wallace Peach 8:06 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink
😀
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JosieHolford 7:45 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
Agreed. It’s an effing nightmare. And allegedly you can continue with classic with the plug-in. Not so fast. You can use Classic but you can’t do your usual Private. You can’t add tags or images in a user friendly way and the whole thing is royally messed up. One wonders whether WordPress has been taken over by tRumpists it’s so bad.
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mistermuse 8:25 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
I never thought of that, Josie, but you may be right. Who else but King tRrump and his tRumpists could take something that had been in working order and screw it up so royally?
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obbverse 9:54 pm on October 7, 2020 Permalink |
Easy to manage, say WP. The blockity blocking block has done a better job of stopping me getting back into the fray than writers block. Enjoy the time out and when you’re ready to return let nothing block your path (Sorry. Too early?)
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mistermuse 12:14 am on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
At this point, I want to let some time pass before I even think about when I’ll post again. When frustrated, one can make decisions which the passage of time teaches were premature, so I’m….
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obbverse 12:38 am on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
Yep, bide it. I’m about ready to toss more tosh out into the cruel cold blogosphere. Ain’t we suckers for punishment? But do we really need the travails of blocks, WP? Enough already!
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Garfield Hug 2:40 am on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
You made me laugh so hard! Sorry I do not mean to laugh at how WordPress is annoying you with blocks. But you make it sound funny and yes, you are classy!
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mistermuse 8:33 am on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
Thank you, G H. May I return the favor with this clip I think you’ll enjoy:
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calmkate 7:09 am on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
I second that motion … errr I mean idea!
It drives me nutsos but there are no real alternatives out there … enjoy your break but never give up!
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masercot 8:37 am on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
When I hear the word “sh*t”, I see a hammer in my imagination. I blame my father…
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mistermuse 12:20 pm on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
My vision isn’t as good as it used to was, so when I first read “hammer,” I thought it said “hangover”….but I don’t know that it makes much difference. 😉
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Garfield Hug 9:42 am on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
Love it! Love it! Thank you MisterMuse.
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Rosaliene Bacchus 2:09 pm on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
Know the way you feel. Can’t blame you. As Gordie Howe observed among American professional athletes, my father was also bilingual. The day I had the courage to ask him why he used so much profane language, he told me that it was the only language the dock workers understood. At the time, he was the person in the firm where he worked tasked with clearing imported goods at the Georgetown Port in Guyana.
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mistermuse 6:09 pm on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
Very interesting. I hope the dock workers didn’t get their pay docked for using bad language. Luckily, I can’t get my pay docked for using bad puns, because I do them for nothing.(even so, I’m probably overpaid). 😉
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josephurban 9:25 pm on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
Ah yes, modern times. Whenever I almost master some new technology, it is “improved” by a 23 year old. Then I can learn new things all over again. I still cling to my flip phone as modern enough. Every new Windows makes me want to throw my computer out the window. Sometimes the “block” come on, sometimes it doesn’t. And sometimes after single finger typing for half an hour my pinky accidentally grazes some key and my blog disappears. Ah, yes, modern times.
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mistermuse 11:20 pm on October 8, 2020 Permalink |
Joseph, those are my sentiments exactly. I’m glad WP didn’t take away the option to stay with Classic, but they might as well have, for all the complications that come up when you try to use it….and even then, the next time you go to write a new post, it has reverted back to block and you have to deal with it all over again. It’s like Classic is a sham option, otherwise it would be a straightforward, no-problems choice. AAAAAARGH!
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Elizabeth 12:48 pm on October 9, 2020 Permalink |
I hope you got to watch the Garfield video above if only for the priceless quip from the scale “you are either 20 pounds overweight or 9 inches too short.” Works for me. I am able to use the new editor and finally realized that for what I need it is working fine.
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mistermuse 2:37 pm on October 9, 2020 Permalink |
Love the overweight quip. Speaking of which, I went on a diet once, but I got fed up with it. And then there’s the one about the restaurant on the moon: great food, but no atmosphere. 😉
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Elizabeth 8:18 pm on October 9, 2020 Permalink
I will remember those. Thanks.
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Paulie 1:34 am on October 10, 2020 Permalink |
The general consensus seems to be that nobody likes the new editor. The only thing that keeps me from bailing on WP is that I can’t imagine starting from scratch with another platform.
My gut tells me that the block is the brainchild of a consultant. Consultants are the only people I know of who can take the lame ideas that got them fired from a previous job and pawn them off on another company at an exorbitant price.
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mistermuse 8:11 am on October 10, 2020 Permalink |
I agree. As much as I am frustrated with WP, putting up with it seems the lesser of two evils. When a tech-challenged person like me thinks about “starting from scratch” — well, I don’t even want to think about it. As for block editor, I don’t know if it’s the brainchild of a consultant or some recently-employed ‘whiz kid(s)’ who came to WP with bright ideas but no regard for how their bright ideas will play in the world of people like us. Either way…..Aaaaaargh!
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Ricardo 2:27 pm on October 10, 2020 Permalink |
Weebly often sucks too, Sr. Muse, as Aristophanes once noted as well.
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mistermuse 5:55 pm on October 10, 2020 Permalink |
I’m pretty wobbly as far as knowing much about Aristophanes, but if he lived now, I doubt he’d be one of Trump’s many suckers.
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annieasksyou 11:02 am on October 11, 2020 Permalink |
Aristophanes probably would have tweeted that all this technical crap is for The Birds.
I don’t know how long I’ll get away with this, but when I open a new post, I press the plus sign, click on classic, and a block bar appears. I ignore it and go on as usual, and all has been ok. But I know I gotta learn blockblog. First, I have to finish my work defeating trump. Handwriting wordy persuasive postcards to voters every week cramps my hand and my style, so it must be doing some good!
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mistermuse 1:24 am on October 12, 2020 Permalink |
I’ve been doing a little experimenting, and I’ve found that clicking “My Site” (top left) and then “Posts” on the drop down menu below “My Site” gets me to either “Add new post” or “Drafts” (of already-started new posts) with the least amount of hassle. I’m not sure if I’m in Classic or Block, but whichever it is, it seems to be something I can handle (barring complications which will probably arise just when I think all is well).
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Rachel McAlpine 4:14 pm on October 12, 2020 Permalink |
Your blog is a secret cafe where I eavesdrop on your crowded table and try to stifle my guffaws. Meanwhile I find Classic is one choice among many inside the block ed. and we are cautiously getting to understand each other this way. Rock on.
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mistermuse 7:24 pm on October 12, 2020 Permalink |
My cafe is secret because I mistakenly got a clicker license instead of a liquor license, so I can only offer links instead of drinks. Here’s one on the house, courtesy of…..
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Rachel McAlpine 7:40 pm on October 12, 2020 Permalink
darned if I can get the link to work but I assume you sent me a margharita or anice cop of tea
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mistermuse 8:32 pm on October 12, 2020 Permalink
Sorry about that, Rachel. The link is to my SECRET AGENT MAN (theme song of one of my fav TV shows in the early 1960s). Here’s another clip of the same song — hope this one works for you.
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Gibberish 3:35 pm on October 13, 2020 Permalink |
Enjoyed the blog…but the comments section is even better I’d say😛👍
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mistermuse 10:17 pm on October 13, 2020 Permalink |
I’ll take that as a compliment and a half because about half the comments are mine. 😉
P.S. I would’ve said I’d take the comments as my better half, but my wife already claims that honor.
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Gibberish 2:08 am on October 14, 2020 Permalink |
Haha…well said😛😛
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Carol A. Hand 10:24 pm on October 15, 2020 Permalink |
I’m not sure how long it will last, but so far I have been able to get around being forced to use the block editor. I click on WP Admin and copy my WORD document into Quick Draft, then go the the menu, choose all post and pick the one I want to edit. I have the option to use classic editor. I can keep choosing it if I want to make changes after I preview and post. I’m not sure if you have tired this… I hope this makes sense and works for you. It makes me sad to think your wit will be blocked forever!
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mistermuse 12:44 am on October 16, 2020 Permalink |
Thank you, Carol. In my reply to annieasksyou several comments ago, I mentioned that I’ve found a way around the issues I was having, and so far, so good..I’ve published one post since then, and am about to publish another, with no problems. Hooray!
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Kally 11:49 am on October 31, 2020 Permalink |
Sorry I am laughing too hard to type properly.
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mistermuse 2:59 pm on October 31, 2020 Permalink |
No problem, Kally. I welcome all types of laughers. 😉
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