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We just call it "Wendy Ball" and leave it at that.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Football was originally known as association football, to distinguish it from rugby football, a totally different game.
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"Soccer" came from Oxford University students, shortening "association football". They also came up with "Rugger", shortening "rubgy football".
Given both words came from what most normal Brits deem(ed) a snobbish institution in a period where association football was considered the "working men's game", it is not much of a surprise that it never caught on in the minds of the impoverished British labourers of the past.
Even "Rugger" is rarely, if ever, used now - it is also widely considered a "toff" word..
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Well Luke at that score. Its solo. I guess if its over I can't leia bet down on it. Kinda surprised though, pretty sure someone told me OB won.
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While reading through a potential news item[^], I came across the Beatnik language[^]. And now my head hurts.
Someone with waaaaayyyy too much time on their hands: Here is the source for a program that simply prints "Hi" to the screen.
Baa, badassed areas!
Jarheads' arses
queasy nude adverbs!
Dare address abase adder? *bares baser dadas* HA!
Equalize, add bezique, bra emblaze.
He (quezal), aeons liable. Label lilac "bulla," ocean sauce!
Ends, addends,
duodena sounded amends.(insert finger snapping here) 
TTFN - Kent
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Adverbs! Get yer queasy nude adverbs, here!
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that looks like a perl script
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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More readable than perl  (Just as obtuse though, yeah)
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: And the beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da
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Shouldn't it print, "Hey, daddy-o" ?
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Maynard G. Krebs[^] is my favorite programmer of all time so it all makes sense to me.
Beatnik hipster: Work!?!
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Huh?
Did a little mechanic work today.
Put a rear end in a recliner!
JaxCoder.com
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I've ditched C# and .NET in favor of Beatnik.
I'm still using SQL Server though, can you recommend a good ORM?
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Panicked for a second. I actually have to work with Groovy code. (Mostly fixing others code... Exception handling? We don't need no stinkin' exception handling!)
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I am still wondering why nobody invented the pirate programming language. ARRRGHH!
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Not a programming language but our own Sander has developed "arrgh.js" to provide LINQ like functionality in Javascript.
Pretty neat IMO.
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GKP1992 wrote: arrgh.js
So many things summarized in that filename. This is priceless. 
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I think I just found my next article.
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I've got an old I5-2500 with 8GB of ram (I know i know, i need to upgrade!)
I'm attempting to run ubuntu as my primary OS, with Win10 in a virtualbox (oracle) in order to run VS2017
Mainly because windows keeps getting slower and slower the longer it's installed, and because VS2017 has a nasty habit of hosing my windows and VS installations (with respect to VSIX projects for some reason).
But I have no idea if any of this will even work reliably as I'm really testing the limits of this machine with this configuration and it's a huge upfront investment in time and bandwidth installing VS without even being sure it will work.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You could use Disk2Vhd on a windows box to create a virtual hard drive from a system where VS2017 is installed. Not sure if the vhd produced will be mountable or runnable with virtualbox or not.
Disk2vhd - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs[^]
This may save you the time of installing VS2017 and Windows on a virtualbox VM.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I plan to basically ghost this VM as soon as VS is installed on it. It's the only app in my windows installation. All I've done so far is install Win10 and then install VS2017 (in progress)
Both in the VM on my ubuntu machine. I no longer have a primary windows machine since I was only using windows for a couple of things I can hopefully do in a VM instead
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Virtualizing a physical machine in this way will more than likely migrate whatever problems might exist on the physical machine.
The best way IMNSHO is almost always to do a clean install, run all updates, then set up whatever apps you need, then once you're happy with the results, take a snapshot and/or back up the virtualized drive while it's still clean. From that point on, getting back to a clean, but ready-to-use state, is just a matter of copying over the one file representing the virtualized drive. I've done it countless times.
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That's precisely what i intend to do.
I'm still working on building the initial disk though - installing VS right now.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You're making assumptions. What you suggest is exactly what I said, except that it'd be a physical box instead of a VM. But whatever.
I've done the same countless times with the same result you've had. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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