FAQs is Broken

[quickdtoo]

Matt's working on it.  I was editing a post to update a link and add pics and it went south on me. 

Tim

[PHATINJUN]

probly gettin overloaded with great information. :)Kurt

[quickdtoo]

It's real strange, I can access the FAQs if I log out!! 

Tim

[quickdtoo]

It's fixed, all is well.... whew... (wipes sweat from brow)!!! 

Thanks Matt!!

Tim

[Skunk]

I was editing a post to update a link and add pics and it went south on me. 

Well I'm happy it's fixed Tim. But, the way you wrote up the original post got me thinking. Us folks from the North know exactly how to state that something is screwed-up, broken, not fixable, junk, messed up, and just plain FUBAR, when we say, "it went South on us." I've never once in my life heard a Southerner say, "it went North on me," when something breaks.

[quickdtoo]

Well, the origin of the expression probably has nothing to do with us Northerners or Southerners.  The Businessballs.com link is cool! 

Tim

http://www.businessballs.com/clichesorigins.htm

gone south, went south - failed (plan, business or financial venture) - almost certainly derived from the South Sea Scheme, also called the South Sea Bubble, stock scheme devised by Sir John Blunt from 1710-1720, which was based on buying out the British National Debt via investors paying £100 for a stake in exclusive South Seas trading rights. The shares soon increased in value by ten times, but 'the bubble burst' in 1720 and ruined thousands of people. The expression would have been further reinforced by the similar French scheme 1717-1720, based on paying the French national Debt, then totalling £208m, started by John Law, a Scot, which promised investors exclusive trading rights to Louisiana, on the banks of the Mississippi, central to USA southern states cotton trade, and the global textiles industry. 1870 Brewer confirms the South Sea Bubble term was used to describe any scheme which shows promise and then turns to ruin. South also has the meaning of moving or travelling down, which helps the appropriate 'feel' of the expression, which is often a factor in an expression becoming well established.

Merriam-Webster defines south as: 2 : into a state of decline or ruin <causes the sluggish economy to go south

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/south

[Skunk]

That is a good website Tim. I have it book marked now. Thanks for the link.