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I did try to read the first Potter but I couldn't get on with it. I liked many of the ideas but just couldn't get on with her prose style. It's quite rare that I don't finish a book, but I abandoned it about a third of the way through.
I did read all of Agatha Christie's output many, many years ago and was quite fond of them at the time.
My own literary recommendation to anyone would be Wodehouse with a side of Wodehouse, washed down with an extra splash of Wodehouse.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The whole hype about ML/AI made me realize again what an incredible thing a human being is.
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I dunno, more than a few have come out wrong... road rage anyone?
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lopatir wrote: rage
Is this one intended at *me*  ?
I never said everybody is cool, I just said the overall information processing of human beings is incredible.
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Reverse Butlerian Jihad.
I'd rather be phishing!
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As long as you don't think Brian's books are as good as his dad's, we're cool.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Mean devil with dastardly ends (5)
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Imply
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Ya 
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Please take it to the soapbox ... oh, wait!
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... but seriously if SB is closed does that mean more crap's gonna end up here in the lounge???
Ah... I know the solution!!
Take it to SO!
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Life is too short to argue online with idiots and script kiddies.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Life is too short to argue online with idiots
Don't argue with idiots, they will drop you to their level and beat you with experience
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Talk for yourself, grandpa!
What happened to the times when we enjoyed being idiots and script kiddies ourselves?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Did you ever win any of them? Or did it just get more acrimonious until someone just stopped responding? 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They stopped responding. I won.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: What happened to the times when we enjoyed being idiots and script kiddies ourselves?
There may have been times when I was (am?) an idiot, but never a script kiddie!
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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I never was a script kiddie in the narrow sense. They were not invented yet. But what do you think the guys at the first newly opened computer stores thought when some kid walked in and told them to throw away their BASIC and get a good assembler.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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When I was a young idiot I had no chance to hide behind anonymity - embarrassment was public and face-to-face...
Now, that I'm an old idiot I behave myself (probably because of the experience)...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Now, that I'm an old idiot I behave myself (probably because of the experience)...
Me too. Once you know you're an idiot then life tends to become less embarrassing. And even better now all thos Soapbox posts have been deleted. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Life is too short to argue online with idiots and script kiddies.
Is that a hint...? 
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I'm offended by the lack of racial minorities in that video!
There's only one black man and he's a big pastor.
This video is clearly racist.
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You are not allowed to use the term "racist" in the Lounge. Move that kind of talk to the Soapbox. This place is only for Elephants that eat bacon, and tell really, really bad jokes.
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Slacker007 wrote: This place is only for Elephants that eat bacon, and tell really, really bad jokes.
Perhaps we need two new forums:
- "The pig sty" - for all matters relating to bacon
- "Dad's army" - for all the dad jokes
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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