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For the Grauniad, that's nothing!
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They fixed it in the online version, so you better keep your printed one (if any) - it would be priceless in a few years...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: it would be priceless worthless in a few years...
ftfy
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Quote: it would be worthless in a few years...
It is now.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's really bad for a supposedly national (i.e. all Britain) paper.
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Just a taste of what that is about to come if Scotland becomes independent perhaps? 
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Well it does say "Don't" call it the Glasgow miracle. Maybe the article goes on to say "call it the Edinburgh miracle" 
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A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."
The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet..
"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something."
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman..
The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!" she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"
The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the
Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now $150."
PS. I will get my coat now.
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Vivic wrote: PS. I will get my coat now.
No need. I got it for you.
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When settlers came over on the Mayflower they had a stand up comedian on board to keep moral up and I believe this was the joke he started with. 
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Shame he wasn't on the Titanic.
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When he got to the colonies he told the natives that joke and they took pity on him and symbolically gave him a turkey and that's how Thanksgiving started.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Haha, a popular one then.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Funny how the price changes with each iteration.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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DavidCrow wrote: price changes with each iteration
The economy isn't what it used to be.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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The current version above, with only $150 as the bill, is not keeping with the times, what, with ObamaCare now in full force.
Perhaps the joke teller (er, typer) forgot those two extra zeros for $15,000 ...
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I'm not sure why you'd want your account to be removed. but cross posting may get you there if you so desire.
Cheers! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: I'm not sure why you'd want your account to be removed.
There can be various reason for that. Today, before you go for any job interview etc, the person who is taking your interview knows everything about you i.e. via networking sites like facebook, linkedin, codeproject etc.
So to hide your identity, sometime people wants to remove account. But in facebook you can block account temporarily not sure if that feature exist here in cp.
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AndyInUK wrote: not sure if that feature exist here in cp.
No.
But it wouldn't be easy to tie most CP accounts to a specific individual: Emails aren't published, most avatars are inhuman, and all the "good" real world names were taken long ago!
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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Also deleting your CP account doesn't remove your display name from all the ridiculous crap you've posted over the years.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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And deleting your account makes it impossible for you to manually delete everything one stupid post at a time...
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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And of course with the original post now deleted the joke that has spawned this pointless conversation has lost all of its context.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: spawned this pointless conversation
So it’s business as usual.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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