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It was a somber but grand farewell for a beloved cardiologist, who had passed on. As a grand finale, the wall behind the casket, which was designed to look like a beautiful heart opened and the casket slowly disappeared into it. Just then a couple of men sitting in the back row could not control their giggling and nudging each other in the ribs. The master of ceremonies was visibly upset and walked up to them and asked as to what they thought they were doing.
They replied, "We are a proctologist and a Gynocologist. We were wondering as to what would be the design of the door that we will be disappearing through one day!!"
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In that respect - as well as in any other respect - I would definitely prefer being the gynecologist! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It might be all rainbows and unicorns for the first few weeks; but over the long haul there's no group that gets more bored at the sight of a sunshine. NOT a place I'd want to find myself.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Reminds me of this old joke:
- What's the similarity between a dog and a nearsighted gynecologist?
- ???
- They both have a wet nose!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It's terrible and funny 
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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den2k88 wrote: If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
That's trivial: just code for a system that uses "B" [Branch] instead (e.g., S/360 et seq) or "TRA" [TRAnsfer] (IBM 704x/709x).
Serious question: does any current-production assembler *not* use "JMP" (or some other mnemonic based on "jump")?
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My 60 year kindergarten reunion is coming up soon and I'm worried about the 195 lbs. I've gained.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Cute, Mike. 
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At least you still have the same amount of hair.
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Most of it. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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...So here it is at last: The Shepherd's Crown[^]
The final, last ever, never to be written about again, Discworld novel is finally out.
I don't honestly know if I want to read it.
If I don't, I can anticipate a "new" Discworld book for a long, long time. And perhaps that's a more fitting tribute to Sir Pterry than just keeping him in the Clacks Overhead Chrome extension.
But if I don't, I'll miss out on (hopefully) his finest work.
Does that make any sense?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It makes a lot of sense.
I had the same with DNA and his last work was incomplete...however I was glad I'd read it even then. We have so little of the genius these men created available to us that to deny ourselves any seems foolish.
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Read going Postal recently (think I said here that I was going too). Found it enjoyable, he definitely had a way with words, a few humourous bits, maybe a bit teenagerish, definitely going to read some more.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Does that make any sense?
Yes, to much sense. 
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I don't know any Terry Pratchett story.
Judging from all of the comments on CP he's pretty great and he has written A LOT.
I know they made some Discworld games[^] a long time ago (read about it at the time) and there's a mini series[^], but why isn't he more popular? As in LOTR, HP or GoT popular?
I rarely see any of his work in the Netherlands, while other fantasy, like the ones mentioned above and, to lesser extent, The Sword Of Truth (Laws Of Magic in Dutch) by Terry Goodkind and The Farseer by Robin Hobb are pretty popular in bookstores.
I don't really read novels, so I'm really waiting for a Discworld movie. Is the mini series any good?
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There are a couple of TV Movies (which I understand may be on Netflix, but I don't subscribe, so I can't check) I've seen them on Sky, and they weren't bad - pretty faithful to the original material (but with a lot left out, as usual).
There was supposed to be a TV series "The Watch" but that seems to have gone all quiet since 2012...
I'm just guessing that he isn't "big" in the Netherlands because of the difficulty of translating him into Dutch?
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Wow, you found one Dutch amateur site that mentions Terry Pratchett's death...
I wouldn't call that popular 
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I was attempting to draw your attention to the existence of a Dutch Discworld Convention. If this is the level of your observation powers perhaps your failure to notice PTerry on sale is just that?
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Member 9082365 wrote: a Dutch Discworld Convention
But how many people are attending? 
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The british DiscWorld Convention 2015 has 900 members and was sold out in 2 or 3 days.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I rarely see any of his work in the Netherlands
So he did, really! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm just guessing that he isn't "big" in the Netherlands because of the difficulty of translating him into Dutch?
I'm pretty sure everything can be translated.
The HP translations are the best ever by the way, better than the originals!
Dumbledore is called Perkamentus, which, translated back, would mean Parchmentus.
Diagon Alley is called Wegisweg, which, translated back, would mean Wayisaway (bit of a stretch, but in Dutch "road" and "gone/away" are both "weg", so the road is away (weg is weg)).
Hermoine Granger is called Hermelien Griffel, which would be Hermoine Stylus (or Pen), but it goes very well in Dutch.
It's great 
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More popular? By what standard? His sales are in the millions. His books are translated into a huge number of languages. There are Discworld Conventions across the world from USA to Australia. The play adaptations are amongst the most performed by amateur groups. There are cartoon and radio versions of many of the books and the mini-series actually number three (of which the one you highlighted is possible the least convincing).
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Member 9082365 wrote: More popular? By what standard?
I believe the OP meant in the Netherlands.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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