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User 84204-Jun-16 10:36

User 8420

4-Jun-16 10:36

You missed the bit where I was being snarky then? D'Oh! | :doh:

That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister

90823654-Jun-16 10:48

9082365

4-Jun-16 10:48

Not at all. I spotted your miserable failure of an attempt at being snarky right away.

I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!

Nagy Vilmos4-Jun-16 20:30

4-Jun-16 20:30

For Mercanball, I agree the '85 Bears were indeed the dog's danglies! As Chicago was the first place I visited in Merca, back in the dark ages as an 11 year old, my allegiance to Mercan sport has always been with the cities teams. The Bears and Bulls have done me proud on a few occasions, the White Sox and Cubs less so.

veni bibi saltavi

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter4-Jun-16 23:59

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

4-Jun-16 23:59

At least your chosen country made it well...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

H.Brydon5-Jun-16 8:58

H.Brydon

5-Jun-16 8:58

Euro 2016: Which is the greatest team in history of international football?

I'd say the 2012 Patriots - they beat the Rams 42 - 7 Link[^]

I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey

GDIAFOTD

Nagy Vilmos4-Jun-16 4:45

4-Jun-16 4:45

Hey DVLA, how come it takes 2-3 weeks to send me a funky V55/5? Can't you just post the b'tard on Monday first class? Better still, make it a downloadable pdf!

DVLA, GDIAF!

p.s. If anyone happens to have a V55/5 lying around, I'd love it.

veni bibi saltavi

Richard MacCutchan4-Jun-16 5:07

Richard MacCutchan

4-Jun-16 5:07

Damn, the dog just ate it.

Nagy Vilmos4-Jun-16 5:19

4-Jun-16 5:19

You're going on the fire with the 18th Century staff of the DVLA! Mad | :mad:

veni bibi saltavi

Richard MacCutchan4-Jun-16 5:32

Richard MacCutchan

4-Jun-16 5:32

DVLA laughingly wrote:
You can’t download the V55/5 application form because it includes features that can’t be printed (such as letters and numbers). You have to order a printed copy from a secret location that we are not telling you about.

OK, I'm ready for the fire now.

Nagy Vilmos4-Jun-16 7:38

4-Jun-16 7:38

You found the link as well Laugh | :laugh:

veni bibi saltavi

OriginalGriff4-Jun-16 5:15

4-Jun-16 5:15

I left it in my other trousers.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Nagy Vilmos4-Jun-16 5:20

4-Jun-16 5:20

* covers Griff in Lamb's fat ready for tossing him on the fire *

veni bibi saltavi

OriginalGriff4-Jun-16 6:04

4-Jun-16 6:04

I really wish you'd rephrase that... Blush | :O

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Nagy Vilmos4-Jun-16 7:39

4-Jun-16 7:39

Pig's fat? Duck's fat? Laugh | :laugh:

veni bibi saltavi

OriginalGriff4-Jun-16 7:51

4-Jun-16 7:51

Pig's fat is so down market!
If I'm going to be tossed anywhere, I'd prefer better than lard (and a gender change on your side) Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

BillWoodruff4-Jun-16 7:55

BillWoodruff

4-Jun-16 7:55

Hello, Friend,

My name is Lieutenant-General Mkweze Oblia, and I am delighted to receive your request for VS55/5 which is, as you may know, gold on deposit in a frozen bank account here in Nigeria, with the value of 5 million US Dollars.

I know you will not take pleasure in my mis-fortune, so I feel free to tell you that following the assassination of Mbweka the Fifteenth, and the military take-over, I, and other officers, escaped with only a few possessions, leaving our homes and cattle behind. We realized only a small profit from the sale of our wives, which we live on today ... barely able to afford a daily Happy Meal.

I hope you never know the despair a man feels without his cattle !

The one asset we possess is the international code to facilitate the transfer of said gold to you as a VS55/5.

Please respond if you are sincerely interested by e-mail to this address which is a forwarding address ... so your acceptance will reach our hiding place. Of course, we do need your financial information.

sincerely, Lt. Gen. Mkweze Oblia

«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

Nagy Vilmos4-Jun-16 7:59

4-Jun-16 7:59

I've more chance of seeing $1bn from Nigeria than this frogging form!

veni bibi saltavi

Joan M5-Jun-16 4:18

Joan M

5-Jun-16 4:18

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Laugh | :laugh:

[www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.
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Why....

Wendelius4-Jun-16 1:09

Wendelius

4-Jun-16 1:09

I asked a perfectly valid question in Q&A (at least I think so) and after posting it the page refreshed. As a result in "Also Read" section on the right side there were two recommendations for me:
- Modernizing COBOL Application Development
- #COBOLrocks TechCasts: New tricks for COBOL devs

So what did I do wrong, why the punishment? I haven't touched COBOL after 1990 and I'd like this situation to remain Smile | :)

Re: Why....

Mark_Wallace4-Jun-16 1:45

Mark_Wallace

4-Jun-16 1:45

Because the system recognised you as a superior human being, so realised it was obvious that you would be interested in a Real programming language, not one of those namby-pamby "let's make a bunch of simple classes to import frameworks!" ones.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Re: Why....

Wendelius4-Jun-16 2:04

Wendelius

4-Jun-16 2:04

This is starting to sound like one of those 80's B-movies: "Attack of the COBOL invaders", "Return of the COBOL plants", "Revenge of the COBOL sponge", ... Smile | :)

Re: Why....

OriginalGriff4-Jun-16 2:18