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OriginalGriff wrote: The house always looks so bare for a couple of weeks - but at least I don't have to fight the cat on a daily basis to keep decorations on the tree!
I know what you mean. I love looking at night at the lights on the tree reflecting in all the shiny silver and golden ornaments.
My cat just drinks the water from the tree stand.
Marc
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OriginalGriff wrote: down and packed away yet?
That's the plan. Tomorrow. Maybe.
Something usually gets missed regardless. Last year the Grinch sat atop a video cabinet all year.
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We usually put up our big tree, along with a zillion lights and ornaments, a couple of weeks before Christmas. It then comes down on New Year's Day or the day after. We also have a porcelain Nativity and other decorations that go out. It's usually a day-long process to set everything up, and about half a day to put it away.
That didn't happen this year 
Due to a number of family events and other issues this year, none of us really felt like going through the rigamarole  . We have a small tree that usually goes up on our staircase landing. I put that tree up instead this year, with a about a dozen ornaments and one string of lights, on the 23rd. It came down and went back into storage on the 27th.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That was all done and dusted on the 27th!
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Ours go up the 24th and come down on the 1st...
... of February.
speramus in juniperus
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So you take them down for 23 days to clean them? 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Down day after boxing day. Due to 2 of the ickles stripping the tree bare from 2ft and lower.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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This heretic did not decorate, so there's nothing to pack away 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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And I thought you were quoting the bard. Memories of O-Levels with several tomes of Shakespeare at hand.
/ravi
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I had beard such hard that I could slit hippos throat with it. Having used hair products on it for past few days, it is now soft and silky. I feel beautiful.
*Once upon a time, I had man points.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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d@nish wrote: it is now soft and silky. I feel beautiful.
And where's the pic? 
d@nish wrote: *Once upon a time, I had man points.
Now you have metro-man points.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: And where's the pic?
Here[^] it is. Enjoy.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Should have been this[^]
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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d@nish wrote: Here[^] it is. Enjoy.
You handsome devil!
Now let's see how many people actually look!
Marc
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How strange...
I had a nice soft moustache and now use wax to make it stiff!
Muzzle fuzz is an artform, and something to be proud of.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I could never shape the moustache the way I wanted. It was really tough to do so. I guess in few days, I would be privileged enough to try out this[^] one.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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That is the one I am aiming for!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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You only get Man Points for facial hair if it doubles up as carpentry equipment.
My facial adornment has never got me Man Points - perhaps I should dye it black and reshape it into an Evil Overlord Goatee?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: You only get Man Points for facial hair if it doubles up as carpentry equipment.
Sorry, I am not sure what that means.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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If you can use it to bore holes in wood, sand surfaces smooth, or rout "interesting" edges with it.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I could have. Few days back, I truly could have.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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All I can think of is this[^]
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What a great day.
Just spent four long hours trying to buy a house.
Success!
Just have to find £1700 a month for the next 7 years!
I am now the proud owner of two properties, just need to start looking for a third one to buy in about three years time and I can start thinking about retiring!
Today is a good day to buy!
(5% fixed over the entire term with no penalty for over payments of the capital)
I may have to up the rent on the other place to help pay for this one, but that's life.
I told Michelle, but she was shopping and seemed more interested in clothes than in house purchases.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am now the proud owner of two properties
No, the bank is the proud owner for the next 30 years.
Out of curiosity, what (if applicable) are your property tax rates? Take a look at this map.[^]
I live in Columbia County, on the right edge, near the middle. Property taxes as percentage of home value: 1.44%
Not sure what Full Value Tax Rate[^] exactly means ("Tax rates in each county are based on combination of levies, for county, city, town, village, school district, and special district purposes"), but it's over 20% in Columbia County.
Marc
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Property taxes (called "Rates") were removed in the UK by his beloved Thatcher and others who had expensive houses, and replaced with a Council Tax which was fairer in that if you had a big house you paid less than under Rates, if you didn't you paid a lot more. After a number of small riots, we ended up with a sliding scale system where the amount you pay is proportional to the size of the house you live in, but still a lot cheaper for large houses and more expensive for smaller ones. And which rises above inflation every year just to annoy people.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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