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...that's a gift that is really hard to beat!
Ba-tish!
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Johnny J. wrote: Ba-tish!
You gave him the cymbals as well, I see.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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A drum or a trumpet is indeed a nice present for other people's children. Especially if you do not want them to talk to you ever again.
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Playdough and crayons are also good presents for small children... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Johnny J. wrote: Playdough and crayons Sharpies are also good presents for small children.
FTFY!
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Only if you don't have pets... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Or better: you don't have kids! 
Or perhaps ...[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Electric guitar, in my case. The kid's daddy was delighted and went off to get his guitar as well.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I see how you snared us!
/ravi
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In the old days, give a little girl, someone else's little girl, a Barbie Doll and leave it to the parents to be paying for all the accessories.
As for musical instruments - my brother was a professional musician - and that particular venue of vengeance (for gifts he gave my progeny) caused no bother at all.
A sneaky one, however, did work: a twenty-pound (ca. 18Kg) chocolate bar. About 1 1/2" (4cm) thick so breaking off a piece required a hammer. Dark chocolate, too - but they were figuring out how to use it up for a very very very long time.
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20 pounds is only 9kg. /pedant
I buy and chop up one of them in milk chocolate for my Mom to make Easter candy with. (I live much closer to the store Grandma bought her chocolate from.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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My five year old nephew went into my off-limits, model-making room and trashed several years worth of painstaking work on a several dioramas. My brother said, "It's only some old toys; nothing important."
So on his birthday I gave my nephew a tin drum and a plastic trumpet to encourage his (non-existent) musical abilities. When my brother complained about the constant, horrible racket his little darling produced all day (and night), I said, "it's only some toys; nothing important."
Revenge is sweet! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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...to close my browser and landed on my CP notification page, which stopped in 2014, and this is the first entry:
The Lounge[^]
Funny thread, and a small blast in the past.
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Is it Mauna Kea, Mount Everest or Chimborazo?
And by which measure?
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I think they measure the elevation from sea level, which I think is the accepted standard to measure elevation.
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Everest. Mauna Kea is a volcano so IMHO does not count as mountain. Chimborazo is not highest above sea level so that does not count either.
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Too bad that the highest known mountain is a volcano.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Its not Mauna Kea is 4,207 m and Mount Everest 8,848 m.
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That's "above sea level": Mauna Kea is over 10,000m "tall" if you count the underwater portion.
"Tall" is a relative concept; it needs a frame of reference to be accurate.
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Yeah, I see what you mean. It was only later that I read the comments below. Would've updated mine but as usual it was flagged! 
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So, Mauna Kea is taller while Everest is higher.
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Mountain, AFAIK, are formed when plates headbutt or whatever they do. While volcanoes are made when we have hot shiny liquid coming out of a crack. This liquid cools down and one day you get a cone. Is that wrong? Apart from fancy choice of words, of course.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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As if there were no cracks and volcanos where the plates headbutt. As Sheldon always says: Geology is no real science. 
Edit (stolen from Wikipedia):
Quote: Mountains are formed through tectonic forces or volcanism
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Think I've seen this before, that Everest is the highest above sea level, Mauna Kea the highest from its base (on the seafloor), and Chimborozo the farthest from the Earth's centre.
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