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I'll be back in approximately 16 hours and 30 minutes. In that time I will get some sleep, get through a work day and then ensure I have a big drink.
If all goes according to plan I will be back on Code Project at 18:53 drunk posting to commemorate 18 years since Melanoma took my little sister.
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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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) You'll see her again.
#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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F*** cancer! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Seconded! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Tripled! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
#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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You've got a fourth here!
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Hear, hear!
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Indeed.
#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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Sorry about your loss.
I feel your pain. My dad had a melanoma removed 21 years ago. Even though it was done right and he had follow-ups, it was not enough. In January of this year they found, that the melanoma cancer had spread throughout his body. He passed away in April.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Lost my father to prostrate C last year, also recently couple of younger brother's in law to Liver C,
had a large melanoma taken off my own back and now forever in high risk category. Dengue A - now high risk if I catch any of the other 3 variants.
Boo bl**dey hoo, sh*t happens to everybody.
Furthermore, none of those ever make me want to drink - even more so to brag about getting drunk, that's just childish. Do you really think your sister would want you to get stupid to honer her???
Grow up and do something useful for somebody instead, THAT would show proper respect.
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Robert den Hartog wrote: Lost my father to prostrate C last year, also recently couple of younger brother's in law to Liver C,
had a large melanoma taken off my own back and now forever in high risk category. Dengue A - now high risk if I catch any of the other 3 variants.
Eat a dick knob gobbler. If we're trying to show off the most cancer in the family, lets go.
Paternal Grandfather - Died of cancer, I was too young to know which type
Paternal Grandmother - Dead of old age
Maternal Grandfather - Dead Lung Cancer
Maternal Grandmother - Still Kicking after 2 bouts of stomach/bowel cancer
Father - Dead Lung Cancer (didn't smoke)
Mother - Dead Melanoma
Sister - Dead Melanoma
Maternal Aunt - Survived Lymphatic and Breast Cancer
Maternal Aunt - Survived Melanoma
Do I win a prize?
Robert den Hartog wrote: Do you really think your sister would want you to get stupid to honer her???
Seems like you know her better than me. No you don't c**k head, she would happily egg me on and would have drunk along with me. We're Australian, not alcoholics and definitely not Yankee AA wannabes like yourself.
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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Sorry Martin, not trying to compete.
You know as a survivor I don't count years, I count every day I still get, and when I get time (still have to work to support the family) I give back to other people like you and me that are suffering, yes volunteer work. I've realised life is precious, and the greatest gift one can give is to help other people.
Now I realise people handle grief differently, talked to many that do a lot worse than you've suggested - that's OK.
What I, and the colleagues at the center I showed your message to as HIGHLY OFFENSIVE (to the people we are helping, to the work we are doing, and yes to me) is YOU BRAGGING about getting drunk using the death of your sister as an excuse.
Getting drunk - maybe not the best idea but as I said grief does different thing to different people
But BRAGGING ABOUT IT: that is just 100% offensive.
Working at an organization trying to help people:
AND YOU GO AND BRAG THAT GETTING DRUNK IS ACCEPTABLE
HIGHLY HIGHLY OFFENSIVE.
Greave in your own way if you feel the need,
BUT BRAGGING ABOUT DOING SOMETHING MEANINGLESS AS A WAY TO HONOR YOUR VERY OWN SISTER'S DEMISE
- that is just sick and once more: HIGHLY OFFENSIVE!!!
(You realise the most direct implication of that is that you blame her for what happened?)
Go and look in the mirror and ask yourself:
is it really fair to use death of a loved one as an excuse to do something meaningless useless, ... well maybe, grief can be like that,
but to MAKE IT HIGHLY OFFENSIVE TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING: by BROADCASTING DOING SOMETHING USELESS USING A LOVED ONES DEATH AS AN EXCUSE!
That is not fair to ANYONE, dead or alive.
Your original message OFFENDED ME AND PEOPLE I WORK WITH AND FOR,
Your response you've added name calling as well ???
How old are you?
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I'm sorry, but kicking someone when he's down is highly offensive. You could have been a lot shorter and still get the point across. There was no reason to phrase it like this.
Just my opinion.
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I lost both parents this year - also to cancer, but at reasonably old ages (well into 80's). There's a thought I wrote down, for the rest of us, about the value of life:
Winter is neigh; we trundle homeward in twilight;
Swaddled, we prepare to endure.
Eagerly awaiting the passage into spring;
Forgetting how precious are these few moments
We call a lifetime.
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"Nigh", not "neigh", and follow it with a fullpoint, not a semi-colon (also after "twilight").
In fact, skip the semi-colons altogether; either use a fullpoint, a comma, or nothing, at the end of a line of verse.
And I don't get the "swaddled" line; it and the subsequent line seem more fitting to infancy. I know that Spring follows Winter, but it just doesn't feel right.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Poetic License (except for the spelling, which I will fix on my webpage after posting this).
As for swaddled, etc., it's to evoke the feeling of frailty and near helplessness (towards cold, in particular, and the hardships of life, in general). Emphasized by trundle. Imagery; the type that cause one to wish for tomorrow, or next week, or month - but thus wishing away the precious moments between.
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"Swathed", maybe.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
I'm not ignoring your advice (preferences). For example, I think the Mona Lisa could be improved with via sensuous Asian instead of mysterious Italian.
Perhaps you might create your own rendition? The thoughts there - express yourself; paint with your thoughts (without semicolons, if you dare!). I shall feel free to comment, or even not, and you needn't change a word of it.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: mysterious Italian
Nothing mysterious; it's a self-portrait (which is why he named it "La Gioconda" -- the big female joke; a pun about as good as any in CP).
W∴ Balboos wrote: Perhaps you might create your own rendition?
I spend too much time working on that kind of thing already. I don't need to do more in my down time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For standard prose, my two main influences are Kurt Vonnegut and Theodor Geisel[^].
I find the latter influence particularly suitable for discussions with management.
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I don't have influences. I write my own way.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd like to imagine that about myself. But what musician, no matter how good, hasn't listened to other musicians and found like and dislikes.
Indeed, all we do is a influenced by all we've done.
Spiced by what we'd care to do; diminished by what we fear might come.
Who doesn't see their fathers or mothers or siblings or friends affectations upon themselves?
Thus, when ego tells me "I make the mold that I am", realization reminds me that someone taught me the art of mold-making and what things go into a mold. Everything influences everything.
Everything does happen for a reason.
Not to prepare the way to the future but as an inevitable response to the past.
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You obviously haven't read much of my work. The way one uses words doesn't have to work that way. You're not limited by the number of strings, keys, or notes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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