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Because It Only Took Ten Days And Bossy Is Pretty Sure Her Husband Is Still On Hold With Typepad. Hello, Husband?

Imagine the great mood that Bossy was in
When her husband, the process, he did begin
Of removing the Typepad from her URL
Certain names come to mind, like the Devil and Hell.

Let Bossy back up: first she needed a plan
So she emailed her best friend, the Pioneer Woman
And Ree told her just how she could change that address
In a way filled with grace, and with hope, and less stress.

It involved calling the place that hosts her domain
But Bossy has a problem that she must explain,
Yes, she has a psychosis and it’s rather full-blown
You see — our dear friend Bossy is afraid of the Phone.

So Bossy did what any fine woman would do
She asked her husband, “Will you call them? Or no sex for you!”
So Bossy’s husband moved out and he filed for divorce
Just kidding — Bossy’s husband made that phone call of course.

And then the Domain place put him on hold.
And on hold and on hold and on hold hold hold hold.
In her native Pig Latin, Bossy has this to say:
Whatever you do, don’t use I-ow-er-pay Eb-way.

And then o’er at TypePad more crap was required
Bossy’s husband was on hold until the milk had expired
In the end Typepad said, “We’ve done all we can do,
the rest of the name change is now up to you.”

And here’s what this means, dear readers reader, dear friends friend
A little effort you must make, a little time you must spend
It requires some typing – and no letters can be missing
But once this is done, your ass Bossy will be kissing.

Go up to that place where her URL sits:

typepad

And select the whole name and delete the whole bit
Then take some deep breaths and try to stay calm:
And then type in its place: www.iambossy.com

When this is in place you must then hit “return”
And the name without TypePad will appear, you’ll soon learn:

real-URL

And be careful your computer doesn’t add extra bits:

extra

Because the URL will be wrong and reduce Bossy to fits.

And once you have Bossy’s shiny new URL
Why not let it relax in your Bookmark Hotel?
You can save it like this:

bookmark

Or you can save it like so:

bookmark2

Just as long as you save it – it means more than you know.

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Comments

  6. Bossy’s husband sounds like a keeper, Staying on hold can be such a sleeper,

    That’s all I’ve got since I am no poet,
    Even though I am a totally Bossy strumpet.

    Don’t like my rhyming? Go hump it.

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  7. These always comes a time when Typepad must leave the nest… sniff sniff…

    If you are on Firefox, you can also right click on the IAMBOSSY bookmark and select properties. And then change the URL to read https://iambossy.com. It may work for other browsers as well, but This fox only uses Firfox…

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  9. Since I’m a Luddite, is it at all possible to do the old thingie? Like, when is the drop dead date of not reaching you at all if I continue to use the old Typepad thingie. Hey, if this is going to affect our relationship, I’ll have to give this some thought. Why you making me do these things? I have to consider, this might even mess up my Blog Fav in the morning Feng Shui. Oh, I don’t know about this Georgia…

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  20. Changed, and bookmarked — couldn’t miss my daily dose of Bossy. (I’ll celebrate your genius (our genius?) with a glass of scotch when I get home.)

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  21. You lost me at typepad, is that cuz I use blogger?

    Anyway … your in my google reader and on my page blogroll, so get as fancy schmancy as you want, I can still find ya =)

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  31. You did it!!!!!!! Good job! (uh, any chance you have any tips/tutorial for how you did this? I have had a domain name purchased but sitting and gathering dust due to my extreme techno-idiocy).

    You’re bookmarked!

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  32. Dear Bossy, In case you only talk in rhyme/
    I’m here to say you caught me in time/
    I managed to type those pesky wee letters/
    And now your blog is changed for the better/
    I saved you to ‘favourites’ and fixed the blogroll too/
    I thought, what the heck, it’s the least I could do/
    Cos Bossy’s our favourite laugh of the Day/
    I can’t speak Pig Latin but I’ll try anyway:

    E-WAY OVE-LAY OSSY-BAY!!

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  34. I should have totally hired you to make my new website announcement. Congrats on getting it done! I’m now about to go hit the magic orange button on Firefox, and add you to my reader!

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  47. You realize that now that you’ve explained it so simply, all of the dumb people are going to follow you over to your new site? You missed a perfect opportunity to weed out some dim bulbs. To mix a metaphor.

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  51. Ah, the dreaded phone calls… totally been there and understand the fear associated with such calls. As usual, enjoyed your writing for today’s post! And I changed the bookmark…only took one try!
    Take care!

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  52. Dammit, Bossy.

    You make me want to have a limerick-off with you, only because I’m competitive, not because I’m any good with limericks.

    Off to change my links list…

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  60. Bossy is blogrolled good and proper. Was it good for you?

    What Ava von Snarky said, I would totally put a badge on my site that reads “Bossy compliant” with a checkmark and everything.

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