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Does hold your horses mean to be stable?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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OK, keep taking the tablets...
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glennPattonWork wrote: keep taking the tablets
Said God to Moses.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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:boomtish: Dang there isn't one! We need a boomtish emoji Chris!
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No, it means you have a good freezer.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Not yet, but it probably will.
I seen a post on Facebook about this the other day, something along the lines of: "I can't believe I am nearly 30 and have only just realised that hold your horses means to be stable". The post had 100k+ comments of people saying "OMG, I can't believe I didn't know this until now either!".
This seems to be quite a common trend (from my observations), posts claiming that X means Y, and as we all (should) know by now, the internet people believe what the internet people are told... no questions asked.
Soon, if not already, half the internet will believe "hold your horses" means to be stable, and good luck trying to convince those people they are wrong. So it will naturally just become a fact that 'everyone' knows is correct.
Or maybe you could just create a counter-post and un-convince them of this 'fact', they are very easily swayed...
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Didn't knew about the Facebook thing.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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It's a site where people keep a book of their faces, it's quite popular...
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It means slow down as in pull on the reins or "Whoa!"
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No, Ithink it means that you have very small horses , if you can hold them!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Yes, and the measure of how well you hold them is called instability.
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State a trap with key communication (9)
State = Mess
a trap = a gin
key = g
Communication = messaging
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modified 9-Aug-18 8:58am.
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TELEGRAPH?
Just a guess based on "key communication" and STATE == TELL, but I don't think it's right.
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You're right, it's wrong 
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At least you know we are thinking about it!
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Well you are at least - It would be nice if this page showed a "number of views" counter
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33 minutes
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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And still 33 "no ideas"! 
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Ditto. Hint time?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We don't normally hint the CCC - the idea is that the clue is the hint - but what the heck - I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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I like to drop a hint if people are really struggling.
Either an alternative clue for the same answer or just a general push towards how the clue is broken between definition/wordplay. Nothing to give it away but enough to reduce the chances of having the same person setting it for days on end.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: enough to reduce the chances of having the same person setting it for days on end
That's why I added the "three day rollback" to the original rules.
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I think the two can work perfectly well together.
A hint here might have been something like "the state is not in America" - not a giveaway by any stretch but one that would have got me (and I dare say,one or two others) away from being stuck with the idea that it was going to start with a two letter U.S. state abbreviation.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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 there are rules?? Any link?
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