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You're going on the fire with the 18th Century staff of the DVLA!
veni bibi saltavi
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DVLA laughingly wrote: You can’t download the V55/5 application form because it includes features that can’t be printed (such as letters and numbers). You have to order a printed copy from a secret location that we are not telling you about.
OK, I'm ready for the fire now.
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You found the link as well 
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I left it in my other trousers.
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* covers Griff in Lamb's fat ready for tossing him on the fire *
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I really wish you'd rephrase that... 
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Pig's fat? Duck's fat?
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Pig's fat is so down market!
If I'm going to be tossed anywhere, I'd prefer better than lard (and a gender change on your side)
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Hello, Friend,
My name is Lieutenant-General Mkweze Oblia, and I am delighted to receive your request for VS55/5 which is, as you may know, gold on deposit in a frozen bank account here in Nigeria, with the value of 5 million US Dollars.
I know you will not take pleasure in my mis-fortune, so I feel free to tell you that following the assassination of Mbweka the Fifteenth, and the military take-over, I, and other officers, escaped with only a few possessions, leaving our homes and cattle behind. We realized only a small profit from the sale of our wives, which we live on today ... barely able to afford a daily Happy Meal.
I hope you never know the despair a man feels without his cattle !
The one asset we possess is the international code to facilitate the transfer of said gold to you as a VS55/5.
Please respond if you are sincerely interested by e-mail to this address which is a forwarding address ... so your acceptance will reach our hiding place. Of course, we do need your financial information.
sincerely, Lt. Gen. Mkweze Oblia
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I've more chance of seeing $1bn from Nigeria than this frogging form!
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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I asked a perfectly valid question in Q&A (at least I think so) and after posting it the page refreshed. As a result in "Also Read" section on the right side there were two recommendations for me:
- Modernizing COBOL Application Development
- #COBOLrocks TechCasts: New tricks for COBOL devs
So what did I do wrong, why the punishment? I haven't touched COBOL after 1990 and I'd like this situation to remain 
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Because the system recognised you as a superior human being, so realised it was obvious that you would be interested in a Real programming language, not one of those namby-pamby "let's make a bunch of simple classes to import frameworks!" ones.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This is starting to sound like one of those 80's B-movies: "Attack of the COBOL invaders", "Return of the COBOL plants", "Revenge of the COBOL sponge", ...
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You forgot the seminal "FORTRAN vs COBOL" 
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Can't wait for the sequels
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The view from the side of the audience
     ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif)    
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Please, God, don't let hollywood remake it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why not post this message to the "Site Bugs and Suggestions" Forum ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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It seems clear to me.
Your question is about F#.
F# was influenced by OCaml.
Change the O and the C and you'll get COaml.
You're now only two letters away from Cobol.
That may not be enough to recommend Cobol, but let's check out your question.
The error lies in ConvertedX, starts with Co, just like Cobol.
COincidence? I think not!
The missing b and o can be found right there in the double type.
So pasting together what we have we get Coobl, but that's still not Cobol.
Now where do the o and b get twisted?
This happens because Coobl is nothing, but some system may ask if, or assume that, you meant Cobble.
Cobble sounds like Cobol, and we already had the letters.
So now we're left with Cobol.
Duh!
To answer your question: every question has those Cobol recommendations.
Cobol is coming back and they might somehow support or sponsor CodeProject, so CodeProject makes sure these articles are seen.
When you check "Related Questions" just under "Also Read" you'll notice a lot about interfaces and abstract classes, which seem to be closer related to your question
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That was a good explanation. But...
Sander Rossel wrote: Cobol is coming back
now you're starting to scare me 
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COBOL will make America great again!
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