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"At 8am on 17 September 2008, to the surprise of John Humphrys, the day's main presenter on the Today programme, and Johnnie Walker, who was standing in for Terry Wogan on Radio 2, the pips went adrift by 6 seconds, and broadcast seven pips rather than six. This was traced to a problem with the pip generator, which was 'repaired' by switching it off and on again."
Ah! Technical support is wonderful!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The pips generator is probably a numbers station...
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A disappointingly mundane explanation, I'd much prefer if it had been some coded message to a deeply embedded super agent working to protect us against an evil criminal mastermind (hollowed-out volcano optional).
Andy B
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The hollowed-out volcano lair is never optional, how else do you expect to distinguish between mere criminals and evil criminal-mastermind super-villains?
speramus in juniperus
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There is always the Orbiting Space Platform of Death!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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And where, Mr Smarty Pants, do you think the Evil One is going to launch that from? Yup, the hollowed out core of volcano. It's like Cole's Law, it can't be broken.
speramus in juniperus
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I first read it as "Happy Birthday to the Pigs". 
I am happy it is not that.
modified 5-Feb-14 7:30am.
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I've met some very nice pigs!
And eaten most of them, I admit, but...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: I've met some very nice pigs!
I once knew a girl like that.
I'll leave it at that. 
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I am soooooo not going there in the Lounge!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Good idea.
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... and sheep ...
speramus in juniperus
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And I was ready to break out in a rousing chorus for Gladis and the guys!
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"Emit chronons perhaps?"(4-6)
Should be easy.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I up-voted by mistake.. is there any way to remove it? 
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Is it "Time travel"?
Emit == time backwards
Chronon == postulated indivisible unit of time.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
modified 5-Feb-14 4:26am.
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It is!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It will be! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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 Quote: The major problem [in time travel] is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.
Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.
"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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H2GT2G
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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And I had thought that moment would never come.
I've solved a CCC, albeit an easy one, but it is my first still.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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How did you come to know about the answer? 
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How can this be missed on a computer site?
the anniversary of the first electronic computer Colossus is today
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer[^]
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Well duur. It hasn't been missed - you mentioned it!
We were all politely waiting for you to bring the subject up... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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