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The stop-emails were probably from your wife. The do-it emails were probably from your mistress. That makes total sense
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Perhaps a bunch of gun-cleaning ads?
There seems to be varying opinions on what you should use when swabbing barrels.
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But that's one of the oldest, and most successful, tricks in The Marketing Morons' Guide to Skinning Patsies!
It's known as "cyclic product inducement " (CPI).
Another great example is getting people to buy expensive shampoos, which contain industrial-grade degreasers like alcohol and refined soaps, then making them buy "conditioner" to use afterward, and put the (very necessary) grease back.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Good grass creates an overwhelming desire for more (5)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Greed?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Greed, indeed.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Care to explain why?
I get the "overwhelming desire for more" bit, but the "Good grass creates" bit escapes me completely ... GREED and YEARN were the only five-letter words that fit, and GREED fit "nicer" so I went for it.
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Good Grass : weed. I thought you got that
EDIT: no I don't think you have weed, I thought you understood the term of the CCC... which usually require a lot of weed to understand
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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"Good grass == weed" I thought of - but getting from "WEED" to "creates an overwhelming desire for more" and "GREED" escapes me.
My first thought was "MUNCHIES has too many letters"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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GRass + WEED, if you are Greedy you have overwhelming desire for more!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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G for good (like they never used to put on my homework) + reed for grass.
I have no idea what other form of grass people might be thinking of!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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PeejayAdams wrote: I have no idea what other form of grass people might be thinking of!
No.
No, no. Me neither. :InnocentWhistleSmiley:
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OriginalGriff wrote: :InnocentWhistleSmiley:
I was looking for that one, too.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I had the "weed", didn't think of greed. Maybe I had too much weed?
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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So my dad had a "sharp" PC in the eigthies. It didn't have a HD yet and you boothed by locking a 5.25" floppy disk in to drive A. You could use another floppy on drive B to work on.
This thing had a text editor where you had to move the cursor by pressing ctrl and a key combination. This was for moving up and down, put in edit mode, remove letters, words or lines etc ...
And today I accidently ran into VIM .
I knew this still exists and it is still used BY DEFAULT on linux systems. But really, nothing better than VIM? So I was looking into using nano instead and on the internet people seem to actually PREFER vim! Anyways, I was very happy to edit my crontab in nano instead.
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I prefer Vim to EMACS because I find myself more comfortable in hitting a key, a string and enter than pressing long keyboard combinations, of difficult memorization.
nano is fairly good too but once used to Vim it loses appeal. Of course if you have the window manager started there are better alternatives, gedit is one of my favourite under Linux.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Hey, I didn't give him permission to use my forum post!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I used to use emacs a lot, and found that once you got used to the key combinations it improved your digital dexterity by a factor of 3 fingers and a thumb.
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I've never used vim, but I started out coding in vi.
At first, it was horrible to use and utterly counter-intuitive. For example, "L" moves right, for crying out loud! It made me wonder just how much acid Kernighan, Richie and co. were doing back in the day.
After a couple of months, though, as I got more familiar with it and learned more about combining it with the magic of "ex" I started thinking "this is actually pretty cool". After a couple of years, I was absolutely, head-over-heels in love with it.
By the time I'd drifted into Windows development, I found myself pining for vi on a daily basis. It was the best damned text editor that I could imagine and nothing would ever come close to the old magic. I missed it like crazy for a good few years.
Nowadays, as it so often is with former lovers, I really can't imagine ever going back there.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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PeejayAdams wrote: For example, "L" moves right It's WASD remapped on IJKL. I elephanting hate WASD and use the arrows but some keyboard didn't have those in the past (and now they are returning like bad dreams).
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Same here. Strange how one still has an urge to go back there and have another go.
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The first proper editor we used in our development team was MultiEdit which at the time was miraculous. One of my colleagues, who worked on Unix systems as well as DOS systems, asked me if there was a version for Unix as he found it a pain switching between MultiEdit and Vi. I told him I couldn't get him Multiedit for Unix, but could get him Vi for DOS! He nearly punched me.
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