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Skydiving is probably not for you. 
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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On a related note, the airplane was designed by an optimist. The parachute was designed by a pessimist.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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It turns out to be a great description of our "times", but on my webpage[^] I have the following:
Quote: If at first you don't succeed, try try . . . to find someone to blame. - January 25 2018 2:55 PM
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: to find someone to blame
Ahhhhh! Now, a lot of your old posts make sense. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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What are you doing lurking on a tech site if you've moved into management?
Software Zen: delete this;
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... maybe failure is just your style.
(demotivators.com used to sell a poster with this text, but it seems like it is no longer in their collection any longer)
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For sale: Parachute. Used only once. Small red stain.
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I suppose that you know the Hemmingway story: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
(Some claim that Hemmingway attribution is invalid. Nevertheless, that cruel story could have been his!)
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and something pleasant to listen to before then...
Faul, Wad Ad, Pnau - Changes (Videoclip) - YouTube[^]
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Three wins for pkfox ... so I'm up Monday.
I'll try to make it a word that more of us have heard before. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Confibulations!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I hope you will not object if I also offer my most enthusiastic contrafibularities[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's the word I was going for but my memory let me down. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I guessed it was, but I didn't want to mention it ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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My rusty old brain thanks you.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Before Coronavirus and After Coronavirus
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BC[^] and before DC[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I must admit: I stocked up on non-perishables to see our family through a potential period of 2 to 3 weeks of quarantine. But now the stores are running out of paper goods like paper towels and toilet paper!  Why are people buying up entire stocks of these items? 
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I know some people probably are buying multiple packs of toilet roll, but at the same time it's not like they put thousands of packs on the shelves. Even if each customer only bought a single pack they would probably clean out the stock pretty quick.
I think it's just that on a normal day not everyone will buy toilet roll, but now everyone wants a pack just in case... and of course the d***heads who are actually buying 10 packs.
It is frustrating being a non-panic shopper though, and I can't even get a new pack of toilet rolls when I am genuinely low on them. Same with hand soap, I ran out in the bathroom and was lucky just to get one to replace it (triple the cost of the ones I normally buy).
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musefan wrote: and of course the d***heads who are actually buying 10 packs.
"Limit 2 per customer". Problem solved.
Looking at the flyers I get through the mail, it's something they do on a regular basis. They don't do it now because stores are more than happy to sell their entire stock.
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I suspect that some of them are putting out "half loaded shelves" to make it look like they are running out - just to sell more ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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... and to justify charging more for them.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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dandy72 wrote: "Limit 2 per customer". Problem solved.
Until you get that person who comes in, buys 2, leaves, comes back half an hour later buys two more, leaves, repeats.
... Not that I would ever do that to buy my favorite single malt whisky when it was limit 1 bottle per customer. 
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So you own one of those Groucho Marx masks?
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