Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board Scared of Heights? Take a pill!

A new pill may be on the way to help people get over the fear of heights. See the following article:

http://www.new***server.com/24hour/science/story/1048567p-7372022c.html

It may be just the trick to get up the switchbacks, through the windows, or passed the Ebersbacher Ledges.

For the life of me, I can never figure out what the words are that this Board's software is taking exception to.

Odd. Certainly don't seem to be the usual culprits. Hmmm... Let's see... Neither "***", nor "***", nor "***" seem right. "****", "****", and "****" each have four letters, so that's not it, and "*****" and "*****" each have five, and "******" six. "************" certainly has too many. It does seem to be a one-to-one asterisk for bad word letter replacement, no?

I know, maybe it's "***"!!! Nope. That didn't work.

So, what goes in the URL where the three stars are??

You'll probably have to spell it out something like "A-B-C" otherwise the BBS software will automatically edit it out again...

As an acrophobe, I'm also interested.

Last week the board dumped:

j-e-r-k which was part of j-e-r-k-y.

I did find some references to:

D-Cycloserine (DCS) but not the url listed above

Try the following sites, all reprinting an AP story:

From the new***server:

http://www.new***server.com/24hour/science/story/1048567p-7372022c.html

(replace the asterisks with "obs")

From CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/10/fear.pill.ap/index.html

From the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Fear-Pill.html

Clamberabout,
Last week I got the asterisks when I typed in co****s, CO****S or C_O_O_K_I_E_S