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1Minute Nature is a Dutch series of short vignettes in which children from the Netherlands reflect on how they experience nature. In this episode, 11-year-old Lieuwe recalls finding his pet cat dead, and gives an imaginative (if not entirely accurate) account of what will happen to the cat’s body after he buries it, grappling with the universal human struggle to process death by finding a slightly macabre, but funny link between himself and the dead pet. [^]
I think this boy has a future in ecology.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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So that's why my milk tastes of my ex-wife.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: So that's why my milk tastes of my ex-wife
That statement has all sorts of disturbing overtones. Well done.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That kid's head is going to explode when he hears Neil deGrasse Tyson explain where we get our atoms from.
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Continued from below:
English to Shakespearean Translator
There's also this one, but as far as I can tell, it only translates single words (and it's not very good at that either):
Old English Translator
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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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Not as funny as I thought:
if 't be true( document. Signatures != null)
{
f'reach(documentsignature signature in document. Signatures )
{
database. Documentsignatures. Fordid(signature );
}
}
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Shakespearean QA: Prithee sir sen codz
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"We doth not homew'rk" 
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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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 15-Dec-17 9:03am.
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A cookery book from 1615: Recipe for pancakes etc:
Countrey Contentments, or the English Huswife[^]
Interesting English, reads quite like modern english, except for the switching of v and u, and the f for an s.
It has some great spellings too, I want to bring back 'slic't' and 'chopt', 'mixe' and 'beate'!
modified 15-Dec-17 7:35am.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: A cookery book from 1615
Cool, that's the time I usually start cooking anyway.
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The "elongated" f for s doesn't bother me. (It's like half an eszett in German), but I've never seen an actual f used. Weird.
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It isnt an actual f, I just cant find the elongated s that looks like an f without the cross bar on my keyboard! 
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Trivial information alert.
This is actually called a descending s. It was used for the s anywhere in the word except at the end (with rare exceptions), and not the second s when doubled. E.g., I once viʃited Miʃsiʃsippi. The trip was a ʃucceʃs.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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perhapf they were ufing the microfoft ergonomic keyboard?
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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GenJerDan wrote: but I've never seen an actual f used
5 lines up on the second page - last word 'frycafe'. The first f is an actual f. Also fryingpan in the middle of that paragraph.
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Ben: "And the purfuit of happineff?"
Tom: "Pursuit of happiness."
Ben: "All your Ss look like Fs."
Tom: "It's stylish. It's very in."
-- Stan Freburg
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Syntax error. The second s would be a short s, as in "The purʃuit of happineʃs."
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I know that. You know that. I'm sure Stan knew that. But it's funnier that way.
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Me agree, that thif if uery good!
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Munchies_Matt wrote: 'beate'!
It is only when it comes to pancakes you have to "beate" it.
For "veale toasts", you "beat" it normally (can't believe I actually wrote that!)
Two different spellings for the same word on one page. I'd say they should have gotten themselves a better proof reader!
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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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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What are you insinuating on their proof reader? Their reader was at the very least 60% (alcohol) proof.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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That would certainly explain it! 
Or like Shakespeare would've said: Yond wouldst c'rtainly pray pardon me t!
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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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Yeah, did you see the two spellings for cinnamon?
It is just random isn't it, what ever the writer feels like at the time!
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Interesting. No I hadn't noticed that, but I'm not surprised. Since it's written for housewives, it's probably written BY a housewife. And we all know that they tend to change their mind whenever they feel like it 
I noticed that they used quite a lot of nutmeg, though. I knew a lady called Meg once that fit that description extremely well. 
Any way: What the he** is a quelquechofe? (I know what the French word means, but what kind of dish is it?) 
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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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 15-Dec-17 8:54am.
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Written by a bloke, Gervaise Markham apparently.
Quelquechose seems to be just a mish mash. It means 'something;' in French, the recipe seems to list any number of things that can be thrown in.
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