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A friend of mine once helped a friend with some odd jobs.
My friend had a van, so he drove to the wood shop to pick up some wood, then brought it to his friend, spent the day doing chores (I think it was plinths).
So anyway, after a day of hard work (may even have been a weekend) they ate pizza and his friend handed him an invoice for the coffee and pizza and even the electricity he used TO FIX HIS HOUSE 
You may think this is a lame joke, but this guy was dead serious.
My friend gave him the finger instead and they're not friends anymore.
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True story.
I have an uncle who used to sell used cars [I know, insert used car salesman joke here].
He had a number of cars on his lot that just didn't sell; after a while, keeping a car on a lot starts to actually cost you money, so he decided he needed to make room for other cars, so he gave a half-dozen or so of them to a guy who owned a wreck yard, who was more than happy to take them all.
A few weeks later, my uncle needed a door handle for a car he had just purchased. The car was the same make/model as one of those he had given to the wreck yard owner, so he called him up and asked him if he could get a door handle, and the guy agreed.
So he went to remove it from the car himself, and just as he was leaving, the owner stopped him dead in his tracks and asked, "Where are you going? That'll be 8$."
And he wasn't joking.
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That joke doesn't sound tariff-ic and should cost reputation points - who's in-charge if I want to suggest this change?
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/ravi
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Again? That's twice this week he has died... some people have all the bad luck 
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Sorry, was ill the last days and info arrived me few hours ago the first time.
I was very sad about reading this and didn't realize the date of death.
Nevertheless, very sad. 
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I'm only messing, you can obviously post whatever you want as many times as your want!
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No, only Leslie is allowed that luxury!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Just hit Ctrl-V!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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musefan wrote: Again? That's twice this week he has died...
It was a copy paste error. Could happen to anyone.
/ravi
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Indeed, Marc! 
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Lots of well known people, like artists, authors etc. have friends who take the responsibility of keeping up the website of someone who passes away.
Obviously, in many cases that is for commercial reasons, or semi-commercial. E.g. when a publishing house has provided personal web space for their authors, and want to keep up the sales of their books. It need not be commercal in the purely economic sense, but e.g. like a "fan club", or maybe relatives who think that the name and work of this person should not be forgotten.
I have no strong opinion about how important that would be in the case of Larry Tesler. To be honest, if you a week ago had asked me who "invented" cut&paste, or what I associate with the name Larry Tesler, I wouldn't have had a clue.
For being a little non-PC:
We scream in horror when some company says "We invented [something that seems like a triviality 20 years later] - it is our invention, so we have the inventor's right to exploit it commercially". We say "Blah! Anyone could have done that!". But then, when the person "inventing" it passes away, then we exclaim "Our hero, the great inventor, is gone! The world has lost a great brain!"
Why is it called 'cut', something that you do with a knife, scalpel or scissors? (You don't use either at your screen/keyboard!) Because people have been cutting for ages. Why is it called 'paste', something you do with glue, putting pieces together? (You don't use glue at your screen/keyboard!) Because people have been pasting pieces together for ages. Honestly, there is nothing revolutionary about cutting out pieces of text (or whatever) and gluing them together. It is just doing it with a computer, rather than with a scalpel and glue.
We might mourn when the "inventor" of the "desktop" metafor dies. Or the inventor of the "icon" metafor. Or whoever was the first one "inventing" brightness adjustment of an image on a computer, rather than by adjusting the exposure of the photocopy paper in the darkroom. The person "inventing" loudness adjustments of a sound file by digital means, rather than analog means.
We should select our heroes carefully. If we create heroes by blowing completely out of proportions what is really not that significant contributions, e.g. obvbious transfers of well known "analog" ideas into the digital field, then we must expect others to follow suit, and declare "inventions" such as one-click web shopping to be comparable "inventions", subject to patent protection. Explaining why one is heroic, the other is evil, quite easily ends up as hair splitting.
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... In the end it was getting late and we were tired, so we called it a knight! 
Ba-tish!
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
modified 21-Feb-20 7:33am.
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pst! to "solder" is to join two metals together
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Damn. Small typing error and the whole joke is urined! 
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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it's funny, anyway
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I wouldn't be surprised if original typo was deliberate to pave the way for the follow up!
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You must be really pissed 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You would win with the Galahad.
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Delain - Burning Bridges[^]
This past week I've been listening to the new Delain album, Apocalypse & Chill.
Delain is a Dutch melodic metal band with (former) members from Within Temptation (founder) and Epica.
I'm usually not into this kind of metal anymore, but for some reason I decided to give this one a listen.
And it's honestly very good.
I'd actually go for another song, either The Great Escape or Combustion, the last songs of the album.
Those are some more bombastic songs and Combustion is even instrumental, but the band did their best to shot a video for this song which is also great 
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Alas, I was hoping for the theme from "Kelley's Heroes".
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Never heard of it, but apparently it's a good movie with Clint Eastwood[^].
I just can't believe that's how Donald Sutherland looked when he was young 
Apparently I've never seen him in anything older than 2005 (Pride & Prejudice) and MASH, but I never realized he was Donald Sutherland there
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