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Oh damn, it was wasn't it!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Sir David, Lord of Luton, Duke Dalek,
The vicious rumor that William Shaxper of Avon had a "thing" with chickens, either gallicidal, erotomaniacally bestial, or necrophiliac, and not, just the usual gustatory amour-propre: is one the most heinous of the pack of mad-dog lies spread by his jealous contemporaries, and later detractors.
Even though you could, argue that Sonnet #143, written from the point-of-view of a neglected baby whose mother has run-off chasing a chicken, is not only one of his worst sonnets, but also a semiotically coded message about something quite kinky ... and you could argue that all the mentions of cocks crowing in his work could also be suggestive of ... some aspect of concealed emotional, or even sexual, proclivities:
I, and others, who almost "worship" the immortal Bard of Avon, reject all such innuendoes as just suppurating acnaceous pimples (usually grafted by jaded academicians) on the corpus of literature, which William, along with Cervantes, and Rabelais, and Milton, Dante, and so many other demiurges, hold up for our edification.
Another disgusting rumor is that Shakespeare used the term "chicken-scratch" to describe hand-writing, which is absolutely absurd. That phrase comes from a 1909 play by Bostelmann written to discredit Shakespeare's as the author of his works.
What is true is that Shakespeare brought into written usage a vast number of phrases, and words, idioms, and allegories, metaphors, and similes, analogies, and cunning punts of the living English language, with its vitality, vigor, and improvisational richness. A scholarly friend of mine estimates that Hamlet, alone, brought over six-hundred new usages into the written canon.
So, I invite Thee, me Lord, to, prey, consider that William's thing with Gallus Gallus, whatever it was, is as trivial a bit as a piece of a chick's down tossed hither and thither by the four winds, and all the noise made about whether the Bard was all-in for thigh, or breast, mere scrawny hen's clucking.
yr Humble Servant, William the Scrivener
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Bleedin' 'ell Bill, wot you bin' smokin' mate? You ain't arf wax lirrical. As fur tossin' a chikkin's down ivver and fivver by ver four winz yer los' me by ver furd paragrarf.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Well, Seventh of the Ejog, that's progress for you; stay with me through the trials and tribulations you encounter on the Path of Slack, and don't forget to present generous gifts frequently, and you may achieve being lost with the first word: at that point, you will be ready to continue Slackisme on your own, safely.
No smoke here, but the air did seem kind of clammy, tonight, in my favorite local pub [^].
For some reason they didn't have the northern Thai chicken-feet soup, Tom-Saab Super Teen Gai, on offer tonight, so I came home early to replace some of the nails in my head with sharper ones, because I am really meticulous about not being blunt.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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and i thought hamlet was a small picnic ham
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'E was a Danish Ham, too; that's very high on the hog, you know, 'cause them Danish hams be from pigs wot gets a lot of long days every bleedin' year.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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here in the south we have smoked ham, very good if youhave not tried.
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Hi Mike,
I am from the South myself, both parents from Georgia. And, speaking of smoked ham: my great-grandfather was a Civil War orphan who was sheltered in a partially destroyed old ante-bellum mansion somewhere south of Atlanta with other orphans. After Sherman's Army passed by, there was nothing edible, and no animal life, left, within thirty-miles. The people at the orphanage had filled the chimney with dried peas, and sealed it up, and the Union foragers didn't find them.
So, for months the orphans lived on dried peas; for flavoring, they dug up dirt from the smoke-house floor that had some pork drippings and salt in it: they boiled that with the peas.
That great-grandfather sired seventeen children, eleven of whom survived to adulthood, of whom my grandfather was the last to die, at age 101.
As a child, I had lots of great smoked ham 
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: That great-grandfather sired seventeen children, eleven of whom survived to adulthood, of whom my grandfather was the last to die, at age 101.
What a great story, bless his heart he had a long eventful life. I love talking to older people the things they tell you, some of the stories are truely amazing.
BillWoodruff wrote: As a child, I had lots of great smoked ham
I bet you did, I love it myself.
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BillWoodruff wrote: That great-grandfather sired seventeen children
Well, if all you've got to do all day is eat peas and dig up mud to cook them in...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I like this report by El Reg[^] if it's not already widely known.
The concept is noble but knowing how Embarcadero price their products I'm not sure it will be the elixir to all development ills. I'd love to see Microsoft achieve this using VS but that's my dream. It's a great concept but a step to far for the waterside voles at Embarcadero?
 if they pull it off and make it affordable.
Edit:  I just saw the pricing structure. Corporates only, I suspect.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Well, if the language is C# I'd be interested. 
But the price has to be pretty much the same as for Eclipse and Visual Studio Express. 
P.S. "and in the darkness source control link them."
FTFY
modified 14-Sep-13 18:32pm.
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In a plastic bag taped to a door. it was 42° last night. Poor little thing might not make it.
I want to find who did this and getmin the line of about 30 people who want to do something that is not nice (e.g. put him in a room with some crazy wasps)
UPDATE: The poor kitten has died. 
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
modified 14-Sep-13 16:56pm.
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The queue just grew by two. Can you wait until we get the flights over there?
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Sure.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Add me. The poor little mite. I hope it makes it ok to a rescue centre and then to a lovely home.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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indeed. Poor little kitty.
I'm sure there will be some jokes about it to "cheer" us up.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I am more kind of a dog person. But still against cruelty to animals, so add me on the list.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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If you find the sociapath, put him in a petting zoo of tigers.
To know and not do, is not yet to know
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Perfect!
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Only man and dolphins will care for another species.
Man is not so bad as we think, and it seelms dolphins are pretty cool too.
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Do dogs not do it in some way?
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poor thing hope the person that did it ggos just as horrabl
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On Steam for the next day and a bit apparently. Only played the demo so far, seems popular on Reddit.
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