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Tragic Castle

Postby Pete Biro » August 8th, 2005, 6:54 pm

Clik on various spots on the drawing....
http://www.tragiccastle.com/
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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Bill Duncan » August 8th, 2005, 8:27 pm

Nothing happens when I click except that the music stops for a moment.

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Steve Hook » August 8th, 2005, 8:34 pm

I believe you just get the text at the mouse-over. It's low-tech.

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 8th, 2005, 9:31 pm

I don't get squat no matter what I do.
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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Chris Aguilar » August 8th, 2005, 10:11 pm

I tried it in firefox and internet exploder. I get nothing of interest. Doesn't seem to work at all.

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Pete Biro » August 8th, 2005, 10:27 pm

Maybe it is because you haven't p :D aid up???
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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Matthew Field » August 9th, 2005, 2:04 am

Pete -- what does "We'll always have Paris" refer to?

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Marco Pusterla » August 9th, 2005, 2:28 am

It seems the HTML of the page is incomplete... There is a "picture map" but the various spots don't link to anything :( I also believe there is a missing space between the text and the "HREF", which would prevent some browsers from showing the text on the area. Example:
... ALT="Wizards"HREF=>
should be:
...ALT="Wizards" HREF="we_should_have_a_page.htm">

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Ian Kendall » August 9th, 2005, 4:31 am

That's a fairly glaring grammatical error for an editor, Matt...

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Jonathan Townsend » August 9th, 2005, 5:01 am

Originally posted by Pete Biro:
Clik on various spots on the drawing....
http://www.tragiccastle.com/
Does this mean the tragic castle is doomed to be both ineffective and a monument to the half hearted efforts of the tragic community?
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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Terrence » August 9th, 2005, 5:35 am

Actually, you want to run your mouse over various sections of the castle.

You should see names beside your mouse cursor - these are hotspots - clicking doesn't do anything.

There is a running help on the browser status bar...

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Jonathan Townsend » August 9th, 2005, 6:36 am

Originally posted by Terrence:
....- clicking doesn't do anything...
Got that, clicking a dead house?

Geting back to the topic and intent of the site, are those folks named no longer at the castle.
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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Terrence » August 9th, 2005, 8:17 am

Correct. BTW I could only get the mouseovers to work in IE - not in Firefox...

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Pete Biro » August 9th, 2005, 8:38 am

Right... all the names that appear, and there are many... are in the Alumni Club :(
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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Guest » August 9th, 2005, 8:39 am

Is the magic castle gone now????

And nothing is happening when I click either, just stops the music.

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Pete Biro » August 9th, 2005, 8:45 am

I just returned from Niagara Falls (on the CAnadian side) and IMHO the Magic Castle is just like the Falls... it will be around for a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time. :genii:
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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Guest » August 9th, 2005, 9:16 am

And so the point of this display is.....????? Is this the work of disgrunled Alumni, former employees, or just someone with a nice graphics program and tooooo much time or their hands ?

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Gerald Deutsch » August 9th, 2005, 9:16 am

Pete - are you saying the Castle is going down the river?

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Fred Zimmerman » August 9th, 2005, 10:45 am

"We'll always have Paris..." is an allusion to the film "Casablanca" and a dialogue exchange between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergmen.

In other words, we'll always have the memories.

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby shaena engle » August 12th, 2005, 3:42 pm

Tragic castle, sad but true. I returned from two months in Europe to find that David, long time Matre d', Katrina, long time waitress, and Sam, long time bartender and then manager, were gone from the Castle. When I asked where they were I was told they were all let go.
All were great workers and friends during the past few years, liked very much by many members, and had a long employment at the Castle.

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Terrence » August 12th, 2005, 4:24 pm

If one does a whois on this site one will see that www.tragiccastle.com is registered to prestidigitronics. The site for this company is www.prestidigitronics.com.

Perhaps this provides a clue as to the author of the Tragic Castle site. ;)

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Re: Tragic Castle

Postby Charles Spector » August 12th, 2005, 5:22 pm

That is James Williams company. James was the GM for a while and worked on all the gags at the Castle.


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