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This theme could accomodate a certain MM
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The initial version actually mentioned "smelly balls" but I turned it down a bit!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We have a winner!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I'll have to avoid seven letter solutions tomorrow - can you imagine MM's clue on Wednesday?
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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I'd rather not imagine it!
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One of the few one bands that had a pop sensibility (other than the Beatles), that I actually liked.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Crap. I still haven't figured out how to tell my wife about Eddie Money, and now Ric Ocasek?
(she doesn't follow news)
Software Zen: delete this;
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I was told nearly everything would try to kill you...
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for years people have known you paint eyes on your helmet (or just big black/white blobs depending on helmet color) and it keeps them further away - they'll still dive but will turn away much earlier, yet so many don't do it.
(All the posties do it, magpies love the posties on their little scooters, 5 days a week.)
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About 10 years ago I read the book Three Weeks With My Brother[^] (non-fiction) by Nicholas Sparks (normally a fiction writer).
The author and his brother travel to a number of locations around the world but he also tells the story of a large crow attacking him when he was a kid. The story stuck with me.
Last week I was out running and I ran past two large crows investigating something on the road and I kept a wary eye toward them as I jogged by, wondering if they might start the chase.
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raddevus wrote: I was out running and I ran past two large crows investigating something on the road Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. A car had hit a rabbit, whose body was lying in our company's entrance road. When I went out for a run, a turkey vulture was having lunch . Fortunately, they're neither defensive nor aggressive.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The maggies around our area would laugh at fake eyes and go, arrow-like, for your real eyes.
I remember riding down a busy street on my bike, flat out, with a magpie hovering over me tearing chunks from my ears while an 18-wheeler was driving on my tail blasting his horn at me.
Pure terror.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Wait, you're from Australia and *magpies* are the local animals that terrify you?
You have spiders that eat those birds FFS.
BIRD EATING SPIDERS
*hides*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The spiders are cute. We used to bring these into our classroom in grade 4 to play with instead of listening to our teachers. They kinda tickled as they walked over your arms.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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that belongs in a cauldron, not on your skin.
along with some eye of newt, beard of a bald man, that kind of thing.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: beard of a bald man We prefer the term "follicly-challenged", thank you very much.
Software Zen: delete this;
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well if you have a beard you aren't. the hair just migrated south.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Ironically, that's exactly what it did. When I was younger and had hair, my beard was non-existent. I'm older, have lost most of my hair, but can now manage a respectable amount of scruff (much to the wife's disgust).
We won't discuss the color balance, however...
Software Zen: delete this;
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she doesn't like a beard? I like beards, as long as they don't have things growing in them.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Not her favorite thing, no. Fortunately mine is limited to a fairly short and trim scruff(*), rather than the full-on face forest.
(*) It gets straggly if it gets longer than a cm or so.
Software Zen: delete this;
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one really has to have the right face for a forest or they end up looking like a biker.
not that this is a bad thing, but it's usually not the look most men are going for.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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