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HobbyProggy wrote: Look at Hertz[^]
Yeah, but having something named after you is not the same thing. Unless of course you are referring to the fact that high current AC "hurts" 
Marc
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It's Amazing the irony you get with names.
For Example did you know that the owner of Dyson is a James Dyson. Freaky.
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P0mpey3 wrote: James Dyson. Freaky
He is.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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And you wouldn't believe the name of the guy who started Ford Motors!
Or the one who designed the Weetabix!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Marc Clifton wrote: British English
ITYM "English".
It's the Johnny-come-lately "American English" that needs a determinant adjective.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's the Johnny-come-lately "American English" that needs a determinant adjective.
 I was waiting for that!
Marc
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Well, I know it's a fact, because it was programmed into the first computer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As any fule no, the first programmable electronic computer was the Colossus, not the ENIAC as that site tries to claim.
It's influence was limited as it was covered by the UK's official secrets act for far too long.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Look for 'nominative determinism' on your search-engine of choice.
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In the same vein: Amy Winehouse
(I dimly remember a study that indeed a perceived relationship between last name and profession is significantly above unrelated, don't remember any details, though.)
> Valverde
It's probably derived from "green valley"´, but hey....
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I had a substitute gym teacher that claimed his name was James Nasium
Also had a girl at my High School named Ira Tate, and she did.
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(true story) I used to drive past the office of a certified public accountant whose name was Art A. Swindler.
Software Zen: delete this;
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ENIAC was not the first electric [sic] computer as this guy claims. He said it was built in 1943 but actually the contract to build it was signed in 1943 and it was not actually built and operational until 1946.
Colossus was built and operational in 1944 and helped to decode the Enigma messages used by the Nazis and thereby win WWII.
[This gives more detail on Mr. Grainger's response of a couple of hours ago that I didn't see because it was on the next page].
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ladies and gentlemen, start your puntanators and give it your best shot for Gideon[^].
- This is why you should stick to the prescribed dose.
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"Man! Dat smack was some good sh*t!"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Man I shouldn't of had that last drink..
I know I'll take the dog out for a walk, then have a poo.. oh crap I dont have a dog.. oh he's nearly finished I best get ready to cheer.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Maybe[^] this is what he's thinking.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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This is what the British Public look like when I'm f***ing them
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-- or --
*dreamily thinks of Dave*
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On the subject of Dave, albeit it a different Tory Dave, is he returning? I would have thought the reasons he is not here now would apply even more so once he gets the job?
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I believe he has eschewed us in favour of the more cerebral life of facebook[^] 
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I know what he did. I also understand why he did it. But what I was saying was that the why he did it would mean he will be absent for long after the election too.
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Blocked @ work : adult content.
/edit : this is not my line, the picture is indeed blocked by the company firewall.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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"I don't know if I can keep a straight face while that choirboy is down there doing that"
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Here we go:http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed
While we think 'the world' of Americans, they really must resist being so inbred; the World's First Computer was Collossus at Bletchley Park, or even Charles Babbage's 'Difference Engine'.
There there. Eniac was America's First Computer.
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