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I know that having a go at Stack Exchange is a bit too much like shooting fish in a barrel these days, but there are two absolutely classic HNQs parked right next to each other at the moment.
From the ever-compelling Esperanto forum we get:
Is there a word in Esperanto for “lightsaber”?
And right beneath it, from the Sci-Fi and Fantasy squad, we have:
Can Klingon's Swim?
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PeejayAdams wrote: Can Klingon's Swim?
If you see a fin approaching you in the water, get out quick!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
If you see a fin approaching you in the water, get out quick!
What have you got against people from Finland?
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You are clearly a VB programmer. A programmer of a proper language would have realized that:
Quote: If you see a fin approaching you in the water...
... means the fin of a shark.
Whereas:Quote: If you see a Fin approaching you in the water...
... would mean someone from Finland.
Case matters! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You're both wrong, but for different reasons. A person from Finland is a Finn, not a Fin.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Yeah, but it really was a shark and it bit off the last n. 
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Then why isn't it Finnland rather than Finland?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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English speling is hard. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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In that case, it doesn't matter
veni bibi saltavi
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That's very insensitive of him.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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PeejayAdams wrote: Can Klingon's Swim?
Only if there's toilet paper nearby...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Those are the questions that matter! 
I often get distracted by those hot questions.
What I like most about it is that there are people who, in all seriousness, answer such questions like they are experts on the subject
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Sander Rossel wrote: What I like most about it is that there are people who, in all seriousness, answer such questions like they are experts on the subject
I was rather hoping for something like this:
< 98 > It is widely maintained that the reference to Ky'Trrk visiting Ny'Akkk on the planet Disfaros (DS9, Episode 578, Act I, Scene IV) implies that Ky'Trrk must have swam to the island on which Ny'Akkk was living. The usual logic supplied is that episode 578 was set on Star Date 9293.234 and the Klingon's didn't invent bridges until Star Date 9296.345.
This thinking, however, is clearly fallacious. Whilst there wouldn't have been a bridge, it is perfectly possible that Ky'Trrk had a pair of hover boots rendering the lack of bridges completely moot.
Scotty 2M+
+10 @Scotty: Nonsense, Klingons did not have hover boots until they defeated the Romulans in the Zeta Zone. T'Pau 458,456
+926 @T'Pau: But the Klingon's did have time travel in 9293.234 so it would have been easy for Ky'Trrk to travel forwards in time and get the hover boots. KirkFan97 26,382
+483 @KirkFan97: Pish, tish and tosh! The anti-grav mechanism of the hover boots could not survive reverse travel in time as the intrograspulator would become demagnitised by the photonic effect of the radyonic crystals. This can be succinctly described by the equation x:R⊢P(x)and⊢(∀x:R)P(x) which clearly proves that hover boots are only available to a maximum size of 12, whereas it is postulated by Postlethwaite and Gibbs in their definitive text Shoe Sizes of the Star Trek Universe that no adult Klingon has feet smaller than size 14. Uhura93 45, 234
Oi! Comments are not a place for extended discussion - MardyModerator 9M
Due to the low quality of answers yadda yadda yadda ...
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Diabolical chef's creation is sinful at heart (8)
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I'm hoping it isn't "FIENDISH" ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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... in which case, you'll be happy to hear that it isn't fiendish.
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So it's a little more fiendish than I thought?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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On a scale of fiendishness where 1 is a hamster and 10 is a lawyer's accountant's accountant, I'd probably give it about 3 and a half.
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Can't see the YT link from here, but I do hope that it's Tales From the Riverbank!
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The Hamster Song[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I would argue that chefs don't create them, they just put food on them, but chefs would argue back.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They would - and not too many people have ever won an argument with a chef.
I rather suspect that you have the solution ...
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Ghoulish??
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Nope, not ghoulish. An answer which has giving me a sudden craving for goulash. Can we please stop talking about food?
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