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If you hang around in it for long enough, they'll give you a Nobel prize. 
"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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Sander Rossel wrote: I've taken an interest in farming... It's a growing field.
Not if you are farming bitcoin
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent home is just a train ride to Greek city (10)
modified 25-Sep-19 4:33am.
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Like it!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Very good! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
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Yep
Now you have done the easy part, you can move on to the hard bit of setting a clue for tomorrow 
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I see it as five options:
1) Continue with themes.
2) Have themed and non-themed weeks, more themed than non-themed.
3) Have themed and non-themed weeks, less themed than non-themed.
4) Abandon themes completely.
5) Abandon the CCC completely.
So: vote below here, and we'll go with the majority as from next Monday.
Voting closes in 24 hours.
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My vote: (3)
I can see the advantages of themed, but they do make coming up with good clues harder, and I think that dissuades people from trying them. One a month? Maybe two?
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Too many options, surely, can I vote for 3 1/2?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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No. Let's not have to have a Peoples Vote in three years time ... 
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In that case I'm forced to vote for 4 due to the non-specificity of 3, thus dividing the leave result.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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As much as I appreciate your democratic approach, I am more than happy to server under a CCC dictatorship...
I vote for 3!
And I am interested to see how you decide on when the themes take place... first week of the month perhaps? (assuming they aren't abolished)
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Well, being CP, we should be looking at some kind of Canada++ model for Thexit*, so we should maybe go with Canadian national holidays.
*Hideous neologisms being de rigueur for divorces.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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My Vote is for 4
Secondary Vote 3. First week of every month is a theme
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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4) Abandon themes completely.
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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5.
I don't participate in them which means you're all engaging in wrong-fun. And wrong-fun isn't allowed here any more (RIP soapbox).
/sarc (I shouldn't need to do this, but if I don't someone will be oblivious enough to think I'm serious.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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As OP said it has its pros and cons. But here is my reason why I don't like it much.
1. When CCC is posted, I can just look at it absorb it and try to solve it. I don't have to browse or look on past post to figure out the theme If I am not regular or following all post in the Lounge,
2. Theme makes solving easy but framing the next one challenging. This I feel I should be vice versa.
3. Theme gives a unfair level playing field for few ( may be not), but If lets say its decided the theme is Harry Potter or Vegan then I will not be inspired to look into the CCC for that whole week. My apology to all Muggles.
Having said that, if majority prefers theme, I will go with it.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I'm with you on all three disadvantages.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I agree, although I was partly responsible for them being introduced I didn't realise they would end up almost being compulsory.
The down side of them is, they preclude otherwise good cryptic solvers ( and there are lots on here ) from not only solving them but taking part at all if they don't know the theme ( I'm one of them ) so I've voted to abandon them.
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My Mum is a Peanuts fan, alway had a soft spot for the Block Head.
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too many people
in area fifty-one:
aliens restless
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 24-Sep-19 21:25pm.
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in winter tears come
easily as in Roswell
fragments someone knows
modified 25-Sep-19 18:46pm.
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