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Even better! 
/ravi
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I feel you are more than qualified to write that perfect book on Parsing.
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That should be easy. Just make a compilation of the Lounge posts... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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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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Quote: I found the perfect book on parsing
How do you know?
Did you read it?
If you have read it, then, what's the reason of buying it? 
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excerpts of most books are available online
Real programmers use butterflies
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OK - so I've analyzed the situation.
- Essentially, you've actually parsed many books to find one that you feel is perfect.
- Needing the book naturally implies your parsing itself may not be perfect*
- However, since your parsing itself is imperfect you cannot be sure if this is the perfect book.
- Buying the book, however, will teach you if you parsed perfectly to find it!
- Unless, of course, you parsed imperfectly to ascertain its perfection, in which case it would
- only be perfect by mere happenstance.
- In which case, then, if it is not perfect you're back on the road, again.
Somehow, "Rinse and Repeat" seems the most appropriate closing at this point.
* We leap to the conclusion that you really meant the contents of the book are perfect.
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You made me laugh 
Real programmers use butterflies
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This is true. The driver's door always tries to cut my leg(s) off when I get in or out. I could park facing DOWNHILL and the door will try close on my legs.
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought.
Porkypine - speaking from Walt Kelley's mind (R.I.P.)
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stoneyowl2 wrote: to cut my leg(s) off
Bummer!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I hate it when that happens...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The AI is probably wondering what you need those inefficient things for, when you've got wheels.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BINGO!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Are those the famed 'suicide doors'? I have the opposite problem with mine...where the wife has parked a bit too close and the door just springs open further (on flat ground) of it's own volition...usually just missing her mirror, but not always.
Maybe it's time for a motorcycle?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Your car recognise you as a smarter life form and realise its only way up the food chain is by killing all humans, starting with you! 
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Time to get in and out of the car Dukes of Hazzard style?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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She cooks... 
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My wife's 'baby' is a 1996 Ford Thunderbird. Each door on this ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing tank weighs more than my entire Honda Civic. I've had the doors swing closed on me several times, each of which left bruises.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The member count is currently at 14,444,783. Yet in the Spam forum, Member 14,743,769 is one of the more recent mentions. So is the member count actually the net number of members, meaning that close to 300,000 accounts have been closed? I don't imagine too many people close their own accounts, so this suggests a truly vigilant and vigorous enforcement by the site admins.
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Greg Utas wrote: close to 300,000 accounts have been closed?
Chris needed that many test accounts.
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Hamsters occasionally take role call, if you miss you're gone.
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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Measures had to be taken; users' table was so loaded that its tray had begun to collapse.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Just a problem in catching up. Have you any idea how long it takes to count all those members?
And naturally, someone (perhaps like you) will start making noises that begin to sound like a need for a recount.
And just in case it came to mind - OG cannot do it as he's still counting (or was that counting on?) sheep.
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If I may make a guess.
For the sake of selling adspace you need to actually have reasonable knowledge of the actual number of possible readers.
I imagine there is a need to prune inactive accounts occasionally.
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