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sigh... my punishment for not getting it is to explain it, though I'm sure most of you can see it already (now):
RINGMASTER, as in a circus, is the chief whip (look out, lions)
MASTER is an expert
on call = RING (the telephone)
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I could ask the same question regarding "global warming" or the even more encompassing term, "climate change" (a natural process made to appear evil by the Agenda 21 advocates because global warming was proven to be fake news).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'm still waiting for a retraction for the claim that the Himalayan peaks were supposed to be completely melted by 2007.
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Well, the Star... wants to make an astronomical impact.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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When a thread is moved to the soapbox, but there's no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why do we allow people who know sod-all about science (or even "how to do research") to publish anything vaguely scientific?
You can replace the words 'science' and 'scientific' with the subject of your choice: health, computers, school policy, etc.
I understand your point; much of what is written is a thinly veiled opinion piece that hardly rises to the level of 'journalism'.
The other day, in my home town, a 'reporter' wrote an opinion piece about students lying to their parents when snow days were declared. By implication in the article, she said "all students" are saying there is no teaching, just kids sitting around playing with electronics. Her 'visit' to the school revealed teachers willing to work with students. She also said the students should all be at school - but ignored the fact the buses couldn't run because of icy roads and not all families have the means to drive their children to school. Oh.. and, if it is too icy to drive, why would we tell the children to walk?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why do we allow people who know sod-all about science (or even "how to do research") to publish anything vaguely scientific?
Freedom of speech?
Just look at all the other trash they publish. If it's not at least yet another doomsday, it's not good enough for them to publish. Or at least a few aliens with sinister plans. That's the kind of stuff they make their money with, not serious journalism.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Completely OT but...OriginalGriff wrote: mine are all muted by default
I didn't even know this was an option (Chrome pre-build 64 it wasn't unless you had an add-on) Thank you!  Also, would an OT type icon be too much?
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Handy, isn't it? And you can right click a tab and "Unmute site" to get rid of the icon for CP, and hear Youtube without problems later. But new sites (and their Elephanting adverts?) - blessed silence.
I discovered this after hearing that "Brit method" pop-up scam shouting at me for the n-th time...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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$ gut push
No command 'gut' found, did you mean:
Command 'gout' from package 'scotch'
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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My god, that's really disgusting 
Suppose Griff's cat visited your premises ...
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*opens git shell*
git this
git that
git another
git more
git again
get something else
No command 'get' found
Why do I have to type git into a git console anyway, can't you just imply it?
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Because git is, well, git. 
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Oh, git on with it 
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can you git git if you already got git?
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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You gotta get git while the gettin's good.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Chief whip is an expert on call (10)
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Is a lovely word!
See where you are coming from, but you need to check the sat nav! 
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Come on then - put us out of our misery... what is it?
All I could think of was "headmaster" - head being chief and master an expert, (and a headmaster might administer whippings....) but ...
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OOO! You were soooooooo close! See above.
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argh.... yeah ok... shoulda got it 
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Now explain to the nice chaps and chapesses! (I'm up tomorrow so there is no risk.)
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It was my birthday on Saturday, and Herself had finagled her shifts to get Friday and Saturday off.
Saturday, she was going to cook (Hooray!): steak au poire, triple-cooked chips, roasted tomatoes. Nice.
Instead, Friday afternoon she is feeling rough, and goes downhill. Full on Woman-Flu by bed time. Saturday, she has no energy, no sense of taste, and is snuffling through tissues like a nostril possessed.
Meal is canceled, and I cook Ditali in a cheese sauce with Serrano ham as it's easy to swallow.
The cat gets the squits. Oh joy.
Sunday, and she's off work - calls in sick - the cat is squirting every time he sits down, stands up, or eats. She collapses on the sofa, turns the telly up loud to the "true crime" channel and ... falls asleep for the day, waking up only when I try to lower the volume. 
Today, she's feeling well enough to go to work! Great, peace and quiet. Drop her off, come home, clean up cat poo - he's getting better but he's still locked in until he's well so he's got a serious strop on - sit down to do some stuff. She opens the door. Sent home as she looks too ill to work and might be a risk to the residents ... Oh joy.
So now, they telly is on loud, and she's snoring. What else can go wrong? 
How's your day? Going well, I hope?
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modified 26-Feb-18 4:10am.
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