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The cultivated strawberries are almost gone - there are a few left still ripening, but they are pretty much over - but the wild version are going crazy this year, the whole garden smells of strawberries! Pity they are so small, but at least they have flavour (unlike some of the supermarket ones)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I took a huge punt on global warming and planted sweetcorn (in Dublin) - you'll probably be glad to know it has not worked.
(The potatoes are doing fine though)
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Our blackberries don't turn up until September, but we've already had a good batch of raspberries.
And we had a bazillion blueberries -- until the fruggin' thrushes ate the bluddy lot!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I got a pair of gooseberry bushes ten years ago - I love gooseberries - and every year it's the same thing: loads of leaves, reasonable amount of fruit, and a couple of days before it's ripe some damn Gooseberry Sawfly bursts into life and strips the whole bush down to sticks in a morning. I've had exactly two fruits from the spiky monsters!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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My goosegog bush is showing a good lot of fruit for the first time, this year (it's been there for three).
Forewarned is forearmed; I'll set up gun emplacements around it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Blackberry cobbler on a cold autumn day, awesome!
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Blackberry cobbler on a cold autumn day, awesome! You eat shoemakers in the colonies?
I thought you'd progressed beyond cannibalism.
I have no idea what a cobbler is in the culinary world, and I'm far, far too lazy to Google it, when I can settle for just making a pie.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I thought you'd progressed beyond cannibalism.
No we still eat small children and sacrifice virgins!
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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What a waste of perfectly good virgins.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I know they're getting so hard to find.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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You'd starve round here...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I am imagining how a text picture might look like.
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Well if you can do this:
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Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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My beautiful legs are damaged too: had to climb a tree to get back the children ball.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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I regularly picked the center of my parents raspberry and blackberry patches in the same cotton shorts and tshirts I wore the rest of the summer. I barely got scratched unlike the idiots *cough*youngersistersandtheirfriends*cough* who foolishly tried to charge forward directly into the narrow animal paths I carefully pulled open and let fall shut behind me. When they tried they generally got more scratches in a single attempt than I did in an entire summer of picking.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Tim Carmichael wrote: she picked blackberries in short
Wow! A prudish berry!
(of course, a blackberry isn't a berry, but let's not go there!)
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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So me and the Mrs. are watching our Netflix, taking a gander at the next episode of Twilight Zone from 60's "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up[^]". Pretty funny. Episode has the guy that played the doc in the Menagerie [pilot for Star Trek 67] as one of the aliens. Now of the aliens in the show, one had a 3rd arm, and the other 3rd eye on his for head, but they blend in, and speak English, no communicable diseases and do fairly well at blending in even though they have world colonization in their heart.
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Well extra arm, extra eye sounds like the locals around here (Bristol UK, close to Sommerset land of the prehensile tail!) Sadly English is not local language (it is appears to be Hipster!)
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Yeah, you really should get up to date with your programming skills...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: new DateTime(2014-05-01)
Isn't it annoying how stupid computer languages are? The meaning of what you're trying to do is perfectly clear, but no, the computer can't figure that out.
Marc
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Don't!
They'll modify VB so it does accept it...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It IS totally clear for the computer what he meant to do. Obviously he wants to create a datetime with 2008 Ticks
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The alternative is worse.
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Natural language processing!
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