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Although I can't find it now, I've posted Still Corners in the SOTW before 
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Outlaws announced marriages (5)
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BANNS
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Solution for the Americans please? I looked up Banns and see that it is middle English for
Quote: a notice read out on three successive Sundays in a parish church, announcing an intended marriage and giving the opportunity for objections.
But where does the Outlaws part fit in (and it hit me as I typed . . . they are Outlaws because the couple hasn't married yet. After which they will be In-Laws)
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No, it's a double definition: outlaws (verb) = bans, announced marriages = banns, with "announced" doubling as a homophone indicator.
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Greg Utas wrote: No, it's a double definition
Probably about 3.322 shannons. 
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I'd never heard of shannons, so thanks for helping me to learn something new today. 
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Banns
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Didn't last long, did it?
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Me and Og posted the answer pretty much the same time - he can type faster than me
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Yes, posted the same minute!
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@OriginalGriff
It's about time you did a Oi GregUtas
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Nah ... he's reliable ! 
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I'm watching you… | CommitStrip[^]
It's a good feature, but ... it does get kinda stupid from time to time ...
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Yep. In a few minutes I'm going to wrestle with that thing for the rest of the day. Again. In the last few months i had a lot of fun with this feature by using VS as a text editor for my assembly code. It actually kept quiet, but once in a while I let it 'check' my code, have a good laugh at the hysterical nonsense it 'found' in my code and then build it with 0 errors or warnings. I still hope that it just drops dead one day.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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VS is quite configurable. When I first started using it, I felt all the warnings so annoying that I turned off everthing that could be turned off. Gradually, I have become accustomed to those markers it puts into the code. They are like ads in the newspaper: I can easily read the article even with an ad to the right. When it suits me, I right click it to see if it should be fixed up. Often it can be ignored (such as This variable should be made read-only, when I haven't yet written the code that willl use it), but often they are also timely reminders.
I am actually far more bothered by those editors to use a whole bouquet glaringly bright colors to identify the class of each and every token. As if I didn't know that "if" is a reserved word and "+" is an operator... In some editors, the screen looks like an art painter's palette; the code structure drowns in all the visual effects. (I do not use such editors myself, and every time some other developer displays his code in that way, I repeat to myself that his editor is not for me!  )
VS makes use of color as well, but in a much softer, limited way. It is not fat signal read, florescent green and sun-brigth yellow, on a black background, but a few less saturated colors that doesn't blind you. The way you are hinted may be as subtle as changing from black to grey color, or a discrete dotted underlining.
So today, I have turned a lot of warnings back on. It is obviously a matter of habit (those people wanting their screen to look like a caleidoscope of colors obviously have no problems focusing on the program structure). Right now I am working with Javascript (embedded in an application, so I can't use a browser's debugging facilities), and every time I run into some runtime bug/issue I long back to VS where I would have been told at editing time.
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And he'd have got away with if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!
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Am I the only person on the planet who liked Clippy?
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