>>>>Use another means of highlighting, like different colors (foreground/background).
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>>You've been watching too much CSI Miami! :-)
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>Did anyone ever have a look at the software these guys use in real life? I very much doubt that rotating name label is essential to catching a criminal. Or that thousands of image refreshes are actually helping the fingerprint matching app.

Flashing messages have never been popular: "Oh! I see flashing knobs!"

I don't know if you realised the implication of this commonly repeated joke, in Allo Allo, but, FYI, a "knob" in the UK is another euphamism for part of the male anatomy.