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Knew as I was posting it there was a good chance I had read it here first 😂
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The irony. 
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Isn't it "Ironiferrous"? 
Yes I have a steely gaze!
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If baroque musicians don't like their presents, do they give them Bach?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You can't return them once you Handel them.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If you try, you have to go into Haydn.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Unfortunately that's not my forte, but as I say, if it ain't baroque don't fix it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I can't Handel anymore Bach Bach jokes.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Bach Bach
Who's there?
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OriginalGriff wrote: If baroque musicians don't like their presents,
They are more fascinated by pasts, is that why?
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Don't toot your own horn. That was just OK.
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A tutor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tutors to toot.
Said the two to the tutor:
Is it harder to toot,
or to tout two tutors
to toot?
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No, they go into a fugue and toccata the walls.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'd like to not that that's a rather Strauss-ful preposition and you coda toned it down. I'll Beethoven you don't know!
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(Not that I'd ever used Teams, but you all know how that goes...)
My neighbour has been having problems; he can't get the "join now" button to enable when he follows a link.
So it took a while, because I took my Surface so we could set up a meeting and make sure it all worked, which meant my phone as well to provide a portable hotspot for me, and installed Teams desktop, set up a team, added him to it, sent him an invite ... and found the problem: he hadn't selected an audio source. Click on that, and it all "just works" and pretty damn well (well, apart from audio feedback)
Only I got thinking ... I'm on my Surface, which is WiFied to my phone, which is 4Ged to a radio mast, which talks to a base station, which talks to Vodaphone, which uses fibre to connect to the internet, which connects to Seattle, which talks to the internet, which uses fibre to go back under the ocean to talk to Sky (his ISP), to talk to a BT exchange for his broadband, which talks to his lappie via his WiFi so I can ask him to plug in some headphones because the feedback is hurting my ears ... 
And it all worked. From one end of a dining table to the other via a different continent and a huge variety of physical and logical connections we get good quality moving pictures. All by clicking a link in an email!
Clarke was right: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - but only for 90% of the population who have no idea how it does work ... and that doesn't include us, now does it?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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En français c'est mieux!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Et en joual, ce serait encore mieux!
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Osti de crisse de tabarnak! T'as raison
Mircea
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It's curious that profanity in Spanish, or even related Scandinavian languages, will carry over to other places that speak the same language, whereas someone in France who isn't familiar with Québecois French would scratch their heads at joual profanity.
And what's with that k! There's no k in proper French words! At least the Italians are consistent here. I was rather impressed when first seeing chilometri!
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Not entirely true: "gilipollas" is a word in official Spanish dictionary, albeit not the cleanest one, I admit. Meanwhile in South America it's very offensive and you'd better be careful when you use it. The other way around is also true: in Chile they have the "Polla de Beneficiencia" (national lottery) and I let you figure out what "polla" means in Spain
Quote: And what's with that k! There's no k in proper French words!
That's the English for you. Reminds me of a personal story in my first year in Quebec: I go to the auto mechanic and ask in proper French "Est-que vous pouvez vérifier les freins, s'il vous plaît?". I get a blank stare for a moment and then he goes: "Ah, tu veux checker les brakes".
Mircea
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It's strange how it's been influenced in some ways but not others. I knew a francophone from Ontario who took an assignment in Paris. He'd use a word in a meeting and someone would say, "That's not a word." So he'd tell them to get the Larousse out. And there it would be, marked "archaic".
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That's what isolation does: Quebec was (mostly) cut off from French language dynamic in the 18th century and remained there while mainland French changed. Note that I'm not using the word evolved
One such curiosity is the Ocracoke Island[^] in US.
Mircea
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And I suppose you've been wondering why some have taken to covering their heads with metallic foil?
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Where 100% have no idea: Easter Island, Stonehenge, Pyramids, Peru Hieroglyphics, ...
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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