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Having just read the I feel stupid thread, I was rewarded with a duet of epiphanies:
I am not alone in the occasional* tail-chase - in fact, I now feel like part of a community.
The fessing up in the thread posts explains all too clearly why the lounge is what it is
Thus, to our mutual credit and glory, we all wipe with but one hand!
* more than occasional, but I'll never admit it.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You can keep your hand well away from my wipe! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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OriginalGriff wrote: well away from my wipe!
You just reminded me (or should I say, inspired me?) about an ecological breakthrough.
I'll allow you to invest in my plastic film bathroom tissue. Instead of flushing it away, simply squeegee it clean and hang up for the next person. We can have any number of colors and, of course, interesting textures. No-more break-through, either!
An outstanding idea and a bold stroke for environmentalism and the plastics industry.
Thanks!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I'll give it a miss, thanks - I'll stick to the Three Shells.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Well, OK. I thought it would be a real hit on your side of the Atlantic, especially in France.
Shelly the Poet; Shelly Winters, the actress, but who's the third ?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I am sooooo not going there! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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I thought you used lanolin wipes anyway. ![Sheep | [baah]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif)
speramus in juniperus
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Quote: but who's the third
Mary Shelley? Not that I want the Frankenstein monster helping me out with that... 
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W∴ Balboos wrote: plastic film bathroom
You know where you can stick that...
speramus in juniperus
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Does "Rolling" on the floor laughing fit the situation?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: can stick that
I am really happy that I was not drinking anything when I read that. I would still be wiping up the mess... 
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Struggling smartphone maker Blackberry has agreed in principal to be bought by a consortium led by Fairfax Financial for $4.7bn (£3bn).
[In other news the paste over text bug looks fixed]
speramus in juniperus
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So about a dollar a share over current market? That's 10% near enough - I think that'll go through, with everyone who didn't jump out a window at the end of last week... Be interesting to know what Fairfax are considering doing with them.
Won't help the 4,500 poor sods who they are dumping though - or improve the morale of those that are left. 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Fairfax is already the largest shareholder of BB stock, so they only pay on whatever the outstanding market shares are aside from what they hold.
In reality, this should be titled "Fairfax purchases $4.7B of failing tech in an attempt to mitigate losses". That's about what they are really doing, since they are the largest shareholder they stand to lose about that much as the stock plummets. Purchasing the company and taking it private will stop-gap the bleed, but in the end unless they have a solid plan to save the company (aside from offer 2 "high end" and 2 "entry level" phones, all they are doing is postponing the inevitable.
BB was big when people had business phones and personal phones, but now that they are mostly one and the same with employers opting to reimburse employees for usage rather than make them carry around second devices BB is falling behind because it really doesn't have many recreational uses. What they should really do is adopt Android or Windows for the new devices and jump back into the market as a new HTC, and stop trying to pigeon hole users into something that really doesn't have many third-party developers making the experience fluid (aka, new apps).
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That's Bad Font[^]-OTD
Oof!
speramus in juniperus
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Lé Oops!
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Have you ever debugged your app, asking yourself why it doesn't perform like it should just to find out that you haven't implemented the OnClick event of the Button which should call the method which is intended to make the app do what you want it to?
I just did  .
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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Well, everybody brainfarts from time to time, so do not feel stupid. Plus, that one seems pretty obvious to debug.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: Plus, that one seems pretty obvious to debug.
Genius me started to look for a bug in the TCP Client/Server implementation - For 15 minutes until I reckoned that the client's send method was never called - I think you can guess why .
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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Nah, Sometimes I debug a huge amount of code (that i previously tested) to find a problem more obvious (like and '!' in front of a Boolean expression).
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_Psychopomp_ wrote: asking yourself why it doesn't perform like it should just to find out that you haven't implemented the OnClick event of the Button which should call the method which is intended to make the app do what you want it to? [You may breathe here]
Just to prevent some accident.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I think once or twice, the opposite has happened to me. Implemented an method, but then forgot to add the method call, and then wonder why my breakpoints aren't hitting.
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_Psychopomp_ wrote: you haven't implemented the OnClick event of the Button
Just this morning I spent 30 minutes typing in over and over "www.codeproject.com", and then I realized I hadn't pushed the power button on my computer. 
Marc
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That's called a "back to bed" day...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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I do that every morning.
Life is too shor
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