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USELESS?
"To no avail"
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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Sea mist ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Marry, sir, is this in the biblical sense?
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Mmmm...
Or perhaps to MOURN
:mmmicon:
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[^] Woe unto me: this meat-over-bone package a mind-soul inhabits, to which a thin film of awareness of a fictional construct of temporal continuity, known as Bill, adheres like slime-mold tracks on concrete ... as of now is 988 moons of age.
What greater relief from the vicissitudes of time falling like half-frozen honey off a spoon can I have than unburdening myself, here, with a purgative confessional sonnet, written for the occasion. Call it "the weight:"
i shoulder this weight of pretending to carry
a burden of imagining i know more than i know
i trudge on with lead feet through wilderness,
my ignorance disguised beneath harlequin rags
i burn the altar of confessed doubt: i poison
uncertainty's sweet wine with tart conviction
i collude with you to speak of love, as if we
once understood what unselfishness really was
i tell everyone i am not just a circus parade
instincts put on as dogville's bigtop goes up
i'm held to the ground by sincerity's gravity,
crushed under the juggernaut of necessary lie
you won't wonder why i whisper after you hear
the bald-faced lies echoes say behind my back "the weight" copyright 2019, Bill Woodruff, published under the CPOPL (CodeProject Open Poetic License).
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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upvoted.
*jumping rope*
honey scared the natives
honey killed their gods
honey hid the bodies
in an outhouse west of Nod
I'm no poet.
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: I'm no poet. I think you have it in you !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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someday I'll take myself apart and find out.
i'm half deconstructed already.
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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"half deconstructed" ? take a cue from a master: Quote: It is not me who is the clown, but this monstrously cynical and so unconsciously naive society, which plays the game of seriousness in order better to hide its madness. Dali
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Fans of Douglas Adams may remember Wonko the Sane, who took Dali's sentiment to the extreme.
I'd explain it, but it's mind bendingly silly, and Adams does it best.
Wonko the Sane | Hitchhikers | FANDOM powered by Wikia[^]
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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Only Bill would have a poetic license which takes up a full shelf in the Library of Congress.
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I sent them a poem, but, they sent it back; said it was "too heavy"
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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So anyway, Bill, how's life treating you?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: how's life treating you? Thanks for asking ! It's mainly on an out-patient basis, electroconvulsive on odd days, waterboarding even.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
modified 3-Sep-19 20:08pm.
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Chris C-B wrote:
Would that be synodic moons or sidereal moons? The difference is nearly six* years, you know. If you chose the wrong one, then you may be six years younger than you thought. On the other hand...
[Rose] [Rose]
It would be the luna cycle as that would make 76 and not 82 and a third.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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The choice of unit depends on the extent to which context requires lubrication
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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The getting is not done, but the widespread intervocaliation between w and b apparently comes from latin:
ON b AND w IN LATIN AND ROMANCE
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Did you mean intercalation ?
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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The correct term is phonemic substitution g<->k d<->t and b<->w . Happens mostly at the beginning of words or intervocalic.
example:
Bill-Will
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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According to my latest Linked In email you have a new job.
Didn't even know I had you in my list of peoples on there.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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He works for me now. I'm making him stack things. It doesn't matter what the things are. It's all very keynesian.
I think tomorrow we'll try BBs. Or sand.
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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I hope he does well with the ROTFL(1) source code.
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Thanks!
Not so much a job as a freelance writing gig that I'll be working on occassionally.
In fact, I know that makes some other CP members and me colleagues
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No song quote this time, although the temptation is great
Congrats !
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