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When I first joined Code Project I loved getting the newsletter with the witty comments under the headings.
I still enjoy these.
Over all these years my favourite place on CP is the lounge.
It is such a great place to visit and be in.
I rarely go anywhere else here, except to download some code or example.
I don't respond very often, but I do enjoy and love it here in the lounge.
I often wonder what the people look like in real life.
Some offer this but most don't.
I can understand why.
But one of the best things about CP is that I will enjoy and be entertained by people that I wouldn't like in real life.
OK that is a bit of an assumption. Maybe true or not, but that is what I feel sometimes.
E.G.
I miss Dalek Dave. I always loved his posts.
But i doubt that I would have liked him in real life.
This is what makes the lounge a special place.
Anyone else feel the same?
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Most of us look like Bob.
Except me - I look just like my avatar.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Haha
No one looks like Bob.
However for some reason i have always accepted your avatar as how you look.
So you are an exception.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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OriginalGriff wrote: Most of us look like Bob.
Except me - I look just like my avatar.
ahh, I was long baffled by where you got that picture of me.
now I get it,... twins! bro gwych.
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Lounge? Have you ever been to the QA?
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QA doesn't present the same interesting dilemma.
In QA it's 100% elephanting certain that you wouldn't like the person IRL! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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I don't like some of them in the virtual world either, so at least they are consistent. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Johnny J. wrote: In QA it's 100% elephanting certain that you wouldn't like the person IRL!
Not necessarily; they could be clueless programmers, but decent people.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: clueless programmers
Exactly! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Only a fool will ask more than a hundred wise men can answer 
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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Yes i have a couple of times.
Just looking at it.
I have never asked a question ever.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: Over all these years my favourite place on CP is the lounge.
It is such a great place to visit and be in.
I rarely go anywhere else here, except to download some code or example.
perhaps you could ask for code / examples right here in the lounge, then really not need to go anywhere else?
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Naughty boy! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh no that is not allowed.
Chris's kid sister would bar me for ever.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I have met DD in real life, so you don't have to. 
veni bibi saltavi
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Is he still ranting about Gypsies on farcebok and twatter? Or has he started on Brexit?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Gods know! I blocked him even before the referendum as I was sick of the lies he was regurgitating. Haven't heard anything for 3 years now.
veni bibi saltavi
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In reality I would like to meet DD in real life. Just like you.
I am sure that his gusto and style would still entertain and enthral me.
Just saying that if i didn't know him at all and just met him, then my reaction may be different.
Seeing all his posts in the lounge, gave me a deeper understanding about what DD was about.
Meant that i was more open to him than I would normally be without this info.
I miss him.... and I miss hearing about things Luton.
I used DD as an example because he is effectively deceased as far as CP goes now.
It applies to others on here as well.
Not you though.
I have always thought that Big Willie was OK and likeable in real life as well as in the lounge.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Trust me on this one.
He is generally okay, but unless you're right of Attila don't bother.
Imagine Jacob Rees-Mogg in Boris Johnson's body, with Michael Gove's charm and Esther McVey's brains.
veni bibi saltavi
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hahaha
I do trust you Vilmos. Your advice is succinct.
That is one of the funniest replies that I have ever had ever.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Thanks for taking one for the team. We are all indebted to you!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I liked DD, and was sorry to see him leave.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I think that most of us feel the same way JSOP.
Such a shame that he has gone.
He has left a void here with his absence for sure.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Why did Dalek Dave leave?
Slow Eddie
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