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Herself is watching a TV program on campanology, but I'm sure she's seen it before, it's ringing a lot of bells.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What a clanger!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Does a Madam say: "... and therefore never send to know for whom the belles toil; they toil for me."
(With apologies to John Donne)
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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Is this the kind of ding she does herself?
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It is indeed Her Dingaling[^]
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I barely started working this morning, when my beloved desktop totally froze and gave me a blue screen of death! I haven't seen a BSD in some years. I tried to restart, but the bios did not boot Windows, but tried to boot from some utility over IPv4! It was trying to boot from an OS on the Internet! Yikes!
After some head scratching I went into the bios and sure enough: The preferred boot sequence was: First via IPv4, then IPv6, and lastly Windows. After fixing the sequence everything was seemingly back to normal. Out of an abundance of precaution I re-imaged the systems drive using my latest Macrium image.
It just bothers me that my bios settings were changed. I must confess it left me a little nervous! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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How old is your system? It could be just that the CMOS battery has died. Power off, and either disconnect power or switch off the PSU. Wait 10-30 seconds, and power back on. If you're back to the the previous boot order and the date/time has reset, you need a new battery. They're readily available and normally fairly easy to replace. Worth testing at any rate before you get too paranoid.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Beer, food, and sports (Rugby?).
Something most countries can all agree on, I'm sure.
Cheers.
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Don't forget cricket! It's big down under.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cricket? I also heard you have serious problems with frogs, rabbits, and dingos.
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Footy! (God's own game, not that slug fest they play up north)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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game heard to cause colds (8)
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I was clearly overthinking it ... 
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Good practice for tomorrow, when we'll need unabridged dictionaries. 
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Oh grawlix! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Oh grawlix! 
This is definitely the most useful new (to me) word that we've had in the CCC. It appeared in a question on a recent episode of Richard Osman's "House of Games" on BBC2 and my wife was amazed that I knew the answer; I only knew it because it had been a CCC.
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I saw the same question, on the same show, and gave the same answer!
Herself thought I was wrong, but ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Herself thought I was wrong, but ...
Is that not what she always thinks?  
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
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Grawlix = game heard to cause colds - can you enlighten us, mere lurkers? 😀
Mircea
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A "Grawlix" is the punctuation marks used to replace profanity: "£$%*" instead of "the F-Word" for example.
It has nothing to do with this clue or solution, but was a comment about the probably difficulty of tomorrows clue - Randor is know to post fiendish ones!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Sorry, I misread the thread; thought "grawl-ix" somehow related to sound was the solution.
And it looks I'm dumber than I thought as I come from the land of killer draughts[^]
Back to lurking!
Mircea
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Ah! You are from the land of antelopes like Vlad the Impala[^] 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Randor is know to post fiendish ones!
I've already put up the CCC for tomorrow up if you want to get started early. The difficulty on this one is off the charts. You might need a 24 hour head-start.
It's a completely normal (plain text) CCC but it's just cleverly hidden and obfuscated somewhere on my profile page. It's not a trick or something you need to find with your eyes, it's a normal textual clue. Tomorrow I will drop a hint on how to locate it if it has not been found. Something inside my profile is much more than meets the eye.
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