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 W∴ Balboos wrote: some of the star characters of the CodeProject are ... effectively polyps on a virtual jellyfish of intellect.
That's a delightful analogy !
Indeed: some slimy, some poisonous, some with bioluminiscence, some benign, some avatars, some red-giants approaching extinction, some dwarfs, some on the edge of collapse to black hole, some primed for supernova, some vagrant orphans wandering with no galactic home.
For some reason this reminds me of Marcus Aurelius: "What's good for the beehive, is good for the bees."
Please tell me more about the chemistry of IPA. Were there any auditory hallucinations ? How hard do you have to be struck (on the head, I assume) before, evidently, potentiating the effect of IPA: below the threshold of concussion, I hope.
yours, Bill
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“This isn't right; this isn't even wrong." Wolfgang Pauli, commenting on a physics paper submitted for a journal
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I think you have it the wrong way around.
In fact CP only has two members - you and Chris me.
Chris I has 9,999,999 user ids.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
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<Explanation>
I write in this staccato, <br />
bastardized XML style, <br />
because a kazillion<br />
mugs of Starbucks <br />
and decades of conversing <br />
mainly with computers, fused this style <br />
into my neural pathways.<br />
I can hardly communicate <br />
properly with humans nowadays.<br />
Maybe you think to shoot me<br />
is the only merciful thing to do?<br />
You will have to wait in line with your gun. <br />
And it is a very long line.
</Explanation>
<Question>
So who's to blame for this brain damage?
</Question>
<Blame>
Like all good people, I always blame <br />
external factors for my character <br />
flaws and shortcomings, specifically:<br />
(a) Society<br />
(b) Microsoft.<br />
<br />
Society: For creating a high tech environment <br />
where the techno-nerds are king, and where <br />
the high school jocks who had all the <br />
pretty girls chasing after them,<br />
inexorably fade <br />
into the grey nothingness of mediocrity.<br />
Society is to blame because it forced me <br />
to compensate for my lack of jockiness <br />
by focusing on my only talent: <br />
A modest grasp of science.<br />
I ended up talking mainly to computers, <br />
and not humans, for decades. <br />
<br />
Microsoft I blame for perpetuating this terse, <br />
staccato coding style for communicating with computers. <br />
First there was MS Assembler, then plain old C, <br />
then C++, then the visual versions, <br />
ending with C# (for the moment). <br />
Having communicated this way <br />
for almost 100,000 hours over more than 4 decades, <br />
I can no longer break this habit.<br />
(I just had to blame Microsoft for something - anything - <br />
it is the American Way.)
</Blame>
<Lament>
What's going to become of me?
</Lament>
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#include dorkapod.h
main()
{
I'm more or less just like you;
But I learned to also play lead guitar;
This allowed me to end run the jocks and score a pretty girl for my own;
}
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using LamentableFacts;
namespace OriginalGriff
{
public class NoneWhatSoEver
{
}
}
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Can say the same about a pretty girl here! Been married to her for 46 years now.
And always remember: never underestimate the dork side of The Force! 
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Same here, but thanks to Vista I managed to escape into Mac and Linux, thus preserving some parts of my brain, I hope.
Re. the old days, I never learned the guitar, instead (because I'd made a bet with a friend, that I could recite 500 decimals of pi from memory) I tried to score some girls by showing them the mimeographed paper with the decimals of pi. Needless to say, they weren't impressed 
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That's an even worse chat up than my old line of "Hello, fancy an Elephant?"
At least mine stood a chance of working...
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A mate of mine tried that one weekend, he got slapped a number of time and got laid twice, which was 2 more than I got that weekend, no not slaps!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It was surprising how often it did work. Perhaps it's the honest approach that helped?
Mind you the follow up line to "No" never worked: "Well, do you mind laying down while I have one?" 
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I wouldn't normally - but for a smooth talking b*tard like you ...
MVVM # - I did it My Way
___________________________________________
Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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So you're saying that you want to learn COBOL?
There must be on-line courses.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So, this weekend, I pulled over in my wife's vehicle in a parking lane. About 5 seconds after I stopped, I heard a thump, then saw a man going flying by my window and then he bounced off the front the vehicle. I was parked, he was on a bike, he hit my parked car. This is the second time in my life a biker has hit my stopped car. Anyways, got out to see if he was okay / inspect the car. It is a busy street, tons of bicycle traffic, and someone else on a bike saw it happen. He immediately went over to the guy, picked up his bike, asked if he could get up. The man couldn't. The witness immediately asked the man if he was drunk. He wasn't hurt, his bike was fine, he was apparently an idiot though. Full cycling gear, gloves, rear view mirror attached to his helmet, etc. He kept asking where Broadway was, which is a street. Then, he left. He damaged our car (scratch and dent), and left. I couldn't exactly pursue him, as I am on crutches. The witness at least convinced him not to ride anymore, that he should walk his bike home (I think this witness saw him riding erratically prior to the incident.)
A man in a car, that did not witness what happened, immediately started defending the biker. Why do people who don't even witness the accident jump in to place blame (always against the person in the car, never the biker)? I need a dashboard camera to defend myself. If the man injured himself, I would likely be subject to a ridiculous lawsuit.
So, any suggestions?
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forget the camera... buy a big, BIG, really BIG gun... here we can't, but... sometimes... 
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wizardzz wrote: A man in a car, that did not witness what happened, immediately started defending the biker.
You should've told this guy to elephant off, and then if he persisted, kicked his car and asked him why he just hit a pedestrian.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I was already on crutches, I should have blamed him for the fractured toe!
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LMFAO - and the winner for best idea today goes to ...... Colin Mullikin for his role in
Colin Mullikin wrote: and then if he persisted, kicked his car and asked him why he just hit a pedestrian.
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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Why thank you! I like to think that I can be clever when I really apply myself. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Colin Mullikin wrote: kicked his car and asked him why he just hit a pedestrian
I like your style
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brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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Scratch and dent for the priviledge to see idiot bicyclist fly by your window, pretty good trade I'd say.
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Knowing that there was little chance to get anyone to cover such repairs to her car, I think my wife did manage to find some humor in his stupidity. It was hilarious.
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Great story.
I would embellish it with a tricky ending. Something like, instead of asking a question, add "And then I realized it was Bob himself. And as he wobbled away I think I noticed that there was liquid streaming down the side of his glass head, presumeably from out of the hole where any normal person would have had a glasserian fissure. It was clear.
The plastic hook and the plastic ball & loop, pray ... might still be intact"
You know make it more dramatic. Targeting the other cold-blooded troglobytes here in the lounge.
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