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Hi Richard, I'm sure there is a sub-text here of some type, but I just don't get it, and I grew up listening to radio programs, like Ranger, Dragnet, Shadow... television came to my area when I was about twelve.
Of all those programs, it was "The Shadow" that most interested me, and intrigued me.
My first mental association, reading your post, was: "dump de dump dump" ... theme from Dragnet.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Think of the rythm of the theme tune: YouTube, SFW[^] - listen to the first 10 secs or so, and think: "ToTheDump, ToTheDump, ToTheDumpDumpDump" at the same time as the trumpet1 is playing.
1 Or bugle or whatever - I don't know, care or have the energy to find out.
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Thanks, OG, I tried hard, several times, listening to the ten-seconds of the LR theme trumpet-tootling, while internally focused on "dump ...," and all I could get was flashbacks to "Duke of Earl," and "Ride of the Valkyries."
I'm afraid that the involuntary sobriety of aging may have diminished my ability to summon auditory hallucinations, dammit.
yrs, bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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That one was old when I was six.
Over 45 years ago. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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To do
To do
To do, to do, to do, to do, to doooooo
sorry...
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OriginalGriff wrote: sorry...
No you're not. 
/ravi
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Well... A bit.
Very bored today, and can't settle to any actual work, and that appealed to my silly side... 
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Yeah I've been putting off starting a project for hours. Still ain't recouped from the flu shot completely but that's no excuse. Wanted to process a few pictures I took yesterday but can't get into that either.
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Quote: Very bored today
As the CEO of Wales, that seems odd.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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One of my favorite characters, the cats just got cool. 
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Ooookaaay... so now I've downloaded an image of the Pink Panther and added the text; where shall I post it? (I already posted it on FaceBook.)
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Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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He has no defense. Everyone knows it's the man's job to open the ketchup as it's always too tight.
speramus in juniperus
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This ketchup stuff is serious business! I feel it man! 
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I've been trying (on and off) for a couple of weeks to head an Excel column with xbar (an 'x' with an overline) instead of the text "Ave", simply because it is prettier. Can I do it? no. Can I find a way that works on t'interweb? No. Then this morning I looked again, and I found a solution in just 7 words: "Do it in Word and copy it" 
Gah! Why the heck didn't I think of that? Open Word, type "sdf" and space to stop it uppercasing for me, then "x" followed by ALT-0772. Highlight, copy, Excel, paste. Swear. It works...
Don't you loooove consistency between applications?
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Consistency between applications? I don't think I've heard of that.
But wait, this is actually weird. I thought alt codes were a feature of windows, not of word. ALT-30 works, but typing "x" followed by ALT-0772 doesn't seem to do anything. What's going on?
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Depends on the app (it would seem) and the font. Try it in Word with a Unicode (phonetics aware) font (MS Arial Unicode MS, stock Arial or even just the default Calibri will work fine, but my preferred Verdana doesn't) and it will add the phonetic overbar to the "x" for xbar. Stupid thing doesn't work in Excel though...
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I can't try it, I don't have Word. Still, learned something new today.
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You like Verdana? I like Verdana too. Why? Because that's what CP used for so many years.
Now CP has switched to Segoe UI, but my mind takes time to adapt.
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I dunno why, but I just find Verdana easy on the eye, and slightly quicker to read than Segoe. I used to like Times New Roman, but that was noticeably slower to read at the same font size - I think it was the serifs that did it, they "clutter" the character. Strangely I don't like Arial at all!
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harold aptroot wrote: but typing "x" followed by ALT-0772 doesn't seem to do anything. What's going on?
Doesn't work for me either. But searched for it and found that it works only with the numeric keypad
Here is the link[^]
don't worry and don't get frustrated. everything will eventually sort out and then we will regret being frustrated. the only thing that matters is conscious efforts to make things right. - Rahul Rajat Singh
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