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Roger Wright wrote: as functional as the wings on a penguin
Um... wings on penguins are VERY functional...
Have you seen them swim? 
Also, I think a slap from an Emperor penguin can break your bone.
So I think humans forgetting how to walk are less useful than penguins forgetting how to fly. 
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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PaulowniaK wrote: Also, I think a slap from an Emperor penguin can break your bone.
Isn't that swans?
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Hey we know the real reason for the ban: Accident and Emergency units...
Things I have fished out...[^] (Technically SFW, but frankly if you value your innocence, I wouldn't click the link. Or become a doctor. There are some very odd people out there!)
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In Vancouver 8.0, all buildings will have to be built with baby blocks in primary colours.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you're lucky, your knob will be "grandfathered in". (I don't want to know what that means, but it's in the article.)
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The bylaw is for new building only; there are no provisions to force people to change their current door knobs.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: The bylaw is for new building only; there are no provisions to force people to change their current door knobs.
... yet.
The next step will be to add it to the list of features that must be updated as part of any renovation when a building permit is issued. And at some point along the way legal trolls will start extorting businesses that haven't voluntarily upgraded yet.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Just wondering. Are there any other women of a certain age in here with more that a couple decades of software behind you?
Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
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stgagnon wrote: Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
That would be a great idea for a straw poll - Let's do an adhoc survey.
20 years, and about two months.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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stgagnon wrote: what is the average age of Loungers
That is a particularly difficult question as some of us are coming in to our second childhood.
I don't think CM collects age info on the profiles, and probably doesn't care as it is not a factor in the value of the contributions.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Speak for yourself. I couldn't be bothered leaving my first childhood.
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Exactly!! If growing up was any fun, I would have done it already!!
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They forever insisted I grow up now they are complaining that I'm growing old disgracefully.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: some of us are coming in to our second childhood.
Meh! You're not trying hard enough, I'm on my third or fourth already! 
speramus in juniperus
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7 years experience
and officially 29 years old but never left childhood in my mind
(o and not a woman sorry but just in case you wanted to expand your poll )
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I don't think any women will answer that question.
Our lounger is about six years old.
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I turned six and half today... 
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Is that a barkalounger[^]?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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I think the average age of regular loungers is defined as follows, where AA == the average age
MidLifeCrisis < AA < Senility
As for those of a female persuasion? I think TrollSlayer was the last truly regular female (or so (s)he said) although DeathByChocolate has been known to post once in a while.
I'm all for more women in the industry in general, and the lounge in particular, if only because it makes us stereotypical geeks feel just a little more social if we can mention conversing with members of the opposite sex once in a while!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: if we can mention conversing with members of the opposite sex once in a while!
Pretty low standards there... I don't know if to or to 
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_Maxxx_ wrote: the opposite complementary sex
FTFY
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I'll take your word for it - I don't recall ever being complimented by a member of the opposite sex.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: As for those of a female persuasion? I think TrollSlayer was the last truly regular female (or so (s)he said) although DeathByChocolate has been known to post once in a while.
You forget Argonia here. She posts quite on a regular basis here 
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Male, 52 years old, 33 years of professional programming experience.
Yes, I did programming on punch cards.
No, I don't know COBOL.
Software Zen: delete this;
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