The unintentionally hilarious John Gohde, part 2

Posted on April 5th, 2007 in John H. Gohde by dougal

If we were scriptwriting for John H Gohde, and wanted him to look ludicrous, we could hardly do a better job than the man himself has done here:

Abusing the English language to suite your own private agenda does not promote communication at any level.

If that weren’t funny enough, Gohde’s own illiteracy is the stuff of legend. In just the last 24 hours:

However I have noticed that some body has already optimized for 1-Day
Signs.

There is absolutely no such animal [?] other than in that your demented head of yours.

I butt tired of you butting in where you clearly do NOT belong.

As we said before: what a buffoon.

The unintentionally hilarious John Gohde, part 1

Posted on April 5th, 2007 in Abusive Posting, John H. Gohde by dougal

A poster in this thread asked

This is code to put ACTUAL TEXT embedded in an image, so the text is still readable by bots. This is NOT text on an image, but REAL text still ‘highlightable’.

or in other words, text with a styled background image. Simple to understand, no ? Even if the description was ambiguous, the HTML was fairly obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence.

Not so for John H. Gohde to understand, though. This may not surprise regular readers.

Here’s his first reply.

Images are images. Tables are tables. Bots, spiders, and crawlers do NOT read graphics. They read text. And, to claim that a table is a graphic does NOT promote rational communication at any level. Just thought that you might want to be more objective in the future.

Which kind of misses the point that this is text with a styled background image. But he has to realise his mistake soon and correct himself doesn’t he ?

Again, regular readers will be ahead of the pack on this one.

Images are images. Text is Text. Bots, spiders, and crawlers do NOT read graphics. They read text. And, to claim that background graphics is “TEXT embedded in an image” is just plain moronic. It most certainly does NOT promote rational communication at any level. No matter how you rationalize it. Images are images. Text is text. And, CSS rather tables does NOT change this fundamental concept.

Want text embedded in an image? Then use the pdf file format!!!

My current website template uses CSS along with tables. And, I never
have suffered from the flu in my entire life.

Some people are just hopelessly confused, among other things. :)

Apparently so, John.

Anyway - Gohde goes away, puts the code in an HTML page, and what does he discover ?

It positively does NOT contain TEXT embedded in an image.

And the last horse crosses the finishing line. Slow hand clap.

What next ? Will it be apology or bluster ? I keep seeing the same hands going up…

It is nothing but a very ordinary TEXT hyperlink with a background image. Anybody who says otherwise does NOT know what they are talking about.

The above code is about as common as you can get. It positively does not contain TEXT embedded in an image, even if you are high on drugs.

We know that, John. We knew that several days ago. Only you were saying otherwise.

And, I am growing very tired of people who do not have a clue as to what they are talking about…

You and us both, you toothless, abusive, dangerous, buffoon.