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Maxxx wrote: YY = 2 Ys = Too Wise == Wise Owl
OIC! A truly wise falconer explained to me some years ago that owls are the stupidest and laziest of birds (next time you see one being handled notice how it leans into the handler cos it can't be bothered to stand up straight!) so I don't really associate them with wisdom any more.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Wait! What?! YOu thought they were *actually* wise?
And foxes are sly, horses constantly famished, and pigs adore living in sh*t!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Confidently cheerful while covered in blood (8)
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SANGUINE
Confidently
Sangue = French (and possibly Latin?) for blood
covered "in"
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The answer is right - so you are up tomorrow - but you're over-thinking the solution!
SANGUINE means both "Confidently cheerful" and "covered in blood": Sanguine Synonyms, Sanguine Antonyms | Thesaurus.com[^]
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There is only one person who would fit in the overlap of the Venn diagram of those two meanings: Conor McGregor.
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Not Sissy Spacek?
"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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Movie Quote Of The Day
Seems somehow appropriate after yesterdays events...
Blood has no nationality.
Which movie?
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El chef de cuisine : Vladimir the Vampire
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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Unthinkable[^]
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Belgium stays alive!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Dracula?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A River Runs Through It.
Saddly
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You're mistaking this for the SoapBox. The Lounge isn't the place for this as it's going to get out of hand very quickly.
This space for rent
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Trolls be trolls.
veni bibi saltavi
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I thought it was the soapbox?
If you open a new tab in IE and changes pages too soon the address of the original tab gets changed. Not the first time this has happened.
Did it get moved to SB then?
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Refugees are flee away from attack like these looking got safety and live. Do not assume them doing it.The terrorist attacks were the work of Demons under the permissive will of God. The attacks were part of the Cycles of National Cursing to terrorize the nation
modified 23-Mar-16 9:09am.
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Time to send in Sam and Dean Winchester then. What's a Cycle of National Cursing? Is it a government approved holiday where we all get to swear as much as we want?
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: we all get to swear as much as we want? All at full pay of course.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: What's a Cycle of National Cursing? Is it a government approved holiday where we all get to swear as much as we want?
At cyclists, obviously.
"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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"Where do minds belong? : Intelligence could have been moving back and forth between biological beings and machine receptacles for aeons" : [^] by Caleb Scharf, "director of astrobiology at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology (2009), which won the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award."
A wonderful antidote to the latest prognostications of Kurzveil, Hawking, Musk, et. al., that we are about to ravaged by our frankensteins-on-their-way-to-sentience.
I find this 3100 word essay a masterpiece of expository writing with scientific, cosmological, and philosophical content, and I think many of you would enjoy it (that means you: Marc Clifton ... unless you are in your "contrarian" quantum state
As someone who has pretensions to be a writer of fiction (not just mere lies), I find the idea of an evolved race of machines making the decision to relinquish virtual immortality and choose transient biological incarnation ... fascinating. Take that one step further, as Scharf does, and consider the possibility that we (homo saps) are the "ghosts of machines past" (if so, obviously degenerate, hell-bent on self-destruction and the destruction all other species and biota ... Scharf does not say, or imply).
Aeon.co, and Quanta (quantamagazine.org), have become two websites where I regularly read articles on science, philosophy, biology, and more. For me, they represent the zenith of excellent digital publishing. Yeah, there's TED, which is so decorated with beautiful young people with spotless minds singing hosannas to a technoid future ... but, TED just doesn't play as well in my head (age ? cynicism ? stoicism ? allergy to euphoria ?).
enjoy, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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BillWoodruff wrote: I find the idea of an evolved race of machines making the decision to relinquish virtual immortality and choose transient biological incarnation ... fascinating Apart from being completely silly, you mean.
No-one wants a "downgrade"; that's not how the universe works (don't fall for all the nonsense about entropy).
Would you swap with a dog? An ant? An amoeba?
The voice of reason: "I can do everything better than you, why should I want to be you?"
Without the voice of reason, stories are no more than fairy tales.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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