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I think I know what you're saying but it is wrong.
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Well then. Good thing I am free of obligations!
I was thinking: potassium(9) as that mostly can be "anagramized" from your clues (spot & iso). Another sweetener strangely also happens to be (9): aspartame!
Life is too shor
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I think I'll SIT this one out, don't want to have a CCC tomorrow GRADED badly.
One day I aspire to having a signature.
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Message Removed
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Feel free to throw up. I know I did.
Which movie?
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Super Size Me
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The Hobbit - Director's Cut
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Debbie Does Paris?
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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Field of Dreams
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Home alone
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Nononono, now I know:
Justin Bieber: Rise To Fame[^]
(either that or Bad Taste[^] - I can't really tell the difference...)
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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Johnny J. wrote: Justin Bieber: Rise To Fame[^]
I hope that is what you did while being forced to watch this movie 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Thread made me think about JB.
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Drink it if you can
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Dinner party at Bulimic Anonymous. 
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Mo Mowlam - The Modelling Years
veni bibi saltavi
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One Night in Mo? 
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http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-01-26[^]
How many of us know that feeling?
One place I worked I had six projects on the go at one time, and they all spent weeks in that phase!
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Lucky man - only weeks...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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NYTimes, Jan. 25: "Unease for What Microsoft’s HoloLens Will Mean for Our Screen-Obsessed Lives:" [^].
" as screens have proliferated, the amount of actual, unencumbered reality we experience seems endangered. ...
What is it about our current reality that is so insufficient that we feel compelled to augment or improve it? I understand why people bury themselves in their phones on elevator rides, on subways and in the queue for coffee, but it has gotten to the point where even our distractions require distractions. No media viewing experience seems complete without a second screen, where we can yammer with our friends on social media or in instant messages about what we are watching." A strange essay, with virtually zero technical content about the HoloLens, more a series of reflections on/about contemporary movies "Black Mirror," and "Her," and various other cultural icons from Amazon to Obama.
"The individual need for placation and augmentation plays out in ways big and small. Because my daughters are grown, I used to worry about my friend’s younger children becoming bored when they stopped by to visit. Not anymore. The children are made to look up long enough to greet me, then they resume interacting with the screens in their hands." I have been intrigued by the words of Robert Louis Stevenson (in his essay, "The Lantern Bearers," 1887) a long time:
"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall." [1] And, I think my fascination with it lies in its echoing the tension between the "hard-facts" of being "in" a physical body in a "real" world and the subjective experience of the flux of consciousness in which our perception of that "real world" wanders all over the map while, at the same time, we successfully go down a flight of stairs without falling 
I grew up without television, but radio dramas were a big-thing for me. I watched my first little brother grow up, getting out of bed at 7am at age 5 and ... first thing ... going over to the tv and switching it on.
Who is to say, I ask myself, if a new generation of children growing up immersed in various visual media from cradle-onward, playing with tablets in kindergarten, texting their friends in first-grade ... is any less in the "real world" than my generation ?
Is face-to-face contact, and "bonding" any the less because of all this "virtuality" ?
Does the current Primate Operating System, using a slowly-mutating DNA data-store state-machine, still in bloody alpha, circa 100k-years-old, over-ride any variations of tangible vs. visual, of direct sensation through the senses of smell, touch, and taste vs. virtual simulacra ?
It's a lovely day, the sun is shining; I think I will not think on these questions, today
[1] the full-text of "The Lantern Bearers" is on-line through Project Gutenberg: [^]. The quote is from section III of that essay.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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I don't see the problem: our perception of what we like to call reality is already heavily influenced by the physical properties and state of health of our sensorical body parts, as well as our psyche and mental state. Whether we influence it a little more is just a matter of shifting the border.
Edgar Allen Poe wrote: All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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