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And the stupid thing is, that had any of the people involved taken a trip here to Woking, they could have seen one of the original models standing on the pavement. War of the Worlds was written while Wells was living here, and many of the locations are within walking distance of our house.
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What, and travel 25 miles (as the crow flies) from the City?!
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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Even though it is messed up, I still think it is cool. Wish I could get one in the states.
“Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.”
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Nope.
Exhibit A: All the recent articles blathering about "monoliths" made out of multiple pieces of metal.
The prosecution rests.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I do.
I blame Spell checkers myself.
Bookworm
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Slow Eddie wrote: I blame Spell checkers myself.
How do spell checkers come into it? This isn't a matter of bad spelling or grammar, but of reading comprehension. There are worlds of difference between tripods and quadrupeds.
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 certainly agree with you.
But then... We "abuse" lots of terms. Think of "plastic glasses" - where does the glass get into it? You watch a "film": I haven't watched a film for many years, not even the film of magnetic particles on a video tape; it has all been digital (and even if you watch a video tape on your TV set, you do not see the film!) I connect to the "internet" - but it isn't, it is an intranet: The primary reason for its success is that it is a homogenous net, with a single addressing structure, a single set of network protocols. Didn't we call them "(omni)buses" even when they were not available to people with darker skin? Where is the optics in modern Optical Character Recognition, OCR? Turkeys are rarely from Turkey, and you do not put a tulip on your head nowadays. French Freedom Fries are not made in France (unless you live there).
We could go on and on. Regarding tripods in the more well known use, as a camera stand: I prefer a monopod (old photographer saying: "A monopod in the hand is better than a tripod at home"  ), but when I refer to it, I have many times had to refer to it as a "one-legged tripod" to make people understand what I am talking about. "Tripod" has come to mean "some sort of camera support, regardless of number of legs". Lots of people reading about those "tripod" creatures (that is, even those who read books) never pay much attention to the number of legs - "tripods" simply means ugly, dangerous creatures attacking you.
Often, when you dig down into the ethymology of common words, you'll find that their original meaning was quite different from the meaning today. Our modern usage is "wrong". Well, that is the way language evolves.
Of course: If you are making an illustration of the tripods of H. G. Wells, then you should draw them as the author was imagining them, and he certainly referred to "tripods" for a reason. You should consider it significant. In everyday social life, maybe it pays to be somewhat more flexible. One of my friends cannot stand to hear people refer to a modern cleaning agent as "soap" unless it chemically is a soap in the chemical sense, salt of a fatty acid. He feels morally obliged to point out, every time, that that is not a soap. And everybody else sigh "Oh no, not again!"
(Sidetrack, regarding "flexible": I learned a new term today. Some Norwegian politicians have the last twenty four hours shown great flexibility in their attitudes in certain international issues, and one satirical forum praised them for being "politicians with a very flexible backbone". But that is running into politics, which is not supposed to be referred to here. Sorry.)
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I was playing GTA Online last evening (a haven for trolls and griefers, if there ever was one) when a kid claimed in the chat window (visible to all players in the current session) that he had my IP...and had determined I'm running Windows 10 Pro on a machine with 16GB of RAM. Which was partially wrong, as the machine has 32. Then he claimed to have logged into my Instagram account and was about to delete all my photos. Problem is, I don't do social media, let alone Instagram. I made him aware of this, and told him to go ahead and do his worse.
He must've been disappointed, 'cuz he then moved on to someone else in the session, and started the same thing all over again. For all I know I could've been talking to a (poorly scripted) bot.
Whatever happened to the good trolls?
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dandy72 wrote: Whatever happened to the good trolls?
Gresham's law 
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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dandy72 wrote: Whatever happened to the good trolls?
Judging by Q&A, it is my suspicion that this is the best you can expect, for now, and it's likely to get worse before it gets better.
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I was kinda expecting that old story with the password of "hunter" (or was it "hunter2"...Google isn't helping right now...)
[Edit]
Here it is...classic.
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The bergens ate all the good trolls
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If rabbits attack when you walk past, are you having a bad hare day?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Only if they have had too much hops.
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Lepus not encourage type of comment. I don't think it warrens a response.
Night of the Lepus (1972) - IMDb[^]
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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If this happens, your ass is grass...
(Obligatory Monty Python - Killer Rabbit)
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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Yes, and when they walk away together after the attack it is called a receding hare line.
“Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.”
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+5 points to Slytherin (you are green, after all)
Please hold still. We're going to have to hurt you now.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Bunny you should mention that. As far as I cony recall, it's been ears since I've seen such mayhem.
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My rabbits name is lucky. I felt sorry for him cause he only had 3 feet.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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I ordered a book 2 weeks ago and have been watching its tracking history. It usually only takes a few days a week at most but according to tracking its been all over the state (Florida). I got to thinking: I bet it would have a story to tell.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Perhaps it got itself into a bind?
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Its days are numbered.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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