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Not sure how you got that - but it's not the answer! 
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fishmeal[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Misplace
Miss Plaice.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Congratulations! You are up tomorrow!
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I knew the answer as MISPLACE but I still had no idea how "Fish perhaps" is PLACE?
Can you throw some light on it please?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Lose the female fish perhaps?
The female -> Miss
fish -> Plaice, and "perhaps" as it's just a common name used for flatfishs and is not an actual fish.
Miss Plaice -> Misplace -> to lose
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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The "perhaps?" says "this is close, but not quite" so it becomes
"Lose something that sounds like a female fish"
So "MISPLACE" ~= "MISS PLAICE" because the pronunciation is the same.
The clue could also have been "Lose the female fish we hear" as well for the same result.
The idea is to confuse and befuddle, to divert you off on wrong trains of thought, and such like!
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Damn! "perhaps" I "misplaced" that a bit.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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In my mind.. I assumed "Perhaps" as the clue for the anagram and so I was looking if PLACE will give a name of any fish. Alas it did not.
OriginalGriff wrote: The idea is to confuse and befuddle, to divert you off on wrong trains of
thought, and such like
Thats cruelity especially on Monday morning.. 
As Soon as I saw the CCC, I was sure it was Misplace but the path to the solution befuddled me. But thanks for giving this. Opened a new avenue for the future CCC
cheers,
Super
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super wrote: Thats cruelity especially on Monday morning
That what the first "C" is there for!
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Plaice is a kind of fish - miss plaice is a female fish...
Perhaps is an indicator that the answer is almost 'miss plaice' - misplace === lose...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I wan't to punch you in the eye...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Ah.
You've had to use it then...sad, isn't it?
I'm desperately hoping Win10 will be better, less fragmented, less schizophrenic, less Fisher-Price.
But...MS is not good at learning what was a mistake, and I understand that even Explorer has been Ribbon-ised... 
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- No. Except some test I do not use Windows 8/8.1 - my comment went to the mysterious member, who reported - in row - my comments on your post about Windows 8.1 on floppy disks...
- I run weekly test on Windows 10 and it is better in a way, that Microsoft dropped the 'touch-first-and-nothing-after' attitude...The current version of IE on Windows 10 (11.0.10011.0) has no ribbons - yet...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oh...That Explorer...In built 10049 (latest as today) the ribbon hidden by default and you do not see it in normal use (at least my normal use)...It shows when you select on of the menu items - Home, Share, View, or others joining the party...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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But if you are interested in some really bad things (not for you of course): Windows 10 changes, automatically, the layout of the windows to RTL if you are in region with RTL language...In that case the whole layout is messed up and hard to use...The really disturbing thing is, that since Windows 2000 we had no such a problem...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 20-Apr-15 5:18am.
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I'm sure you meant RTL. No idea what you could have had in mind with RTF..
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Maybe he speak fluent Rich Text Format?
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Makes no sense. Why would all those people point me to the Rich Text Format Manual?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Absolutely right...Fixed...(I'm on adding new feature to an old CLR that enables handling RTF content in SQL...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's driving me up the fruggin' wall.
Never mind the ribbon in explorer, that's nothing. The godawful baby-blocks file-access interface that replaces explorer is a thousand times worse.
Gone are the perhaps-not-pretty-but-who-gives-a-sht1-about-that-because-I-only-want-them-to-let-me-at-the-files common dialogs, replaced by full-screen baby-blocks things that, with a screen resolution of 1920x1080, allow you to see only 20 files, and have no controls to change the view in any way.
Its designers might think it's prettier, but it's really not[^]. It looks like a 14-year-old's idea of what would be cool for his "my life sucks" web page.
Directories are displayed as MS-blue baby blocks, and files as black baby-blocks (which makes them look transparent! Soooo clever!)
This is how MS sees the future of explorer, and it's as cr@ppy as its future for every other aspect of the OS user interface.
They should just stop!
They are no good at pretty or artistic, and no amount of job-shuffling will change that.
They haven't got the idea that, apart from the moronic idiots who worship apple, no-one else in the world wants computers to be glamorous or artistic -- but the apple fanbois already have apple, so they don't need MS, and they won't buy MS, so Wrong Fruggin' Market, Guys!
99% of people? The not-blinded-by-love-of-Steve-Jobs huge majority?
They want computers to do the job they're made for, and they don't want lead-booted attempts at glamorous and elegant, by people who obviously haven't a clue, to get in the way of doing the job.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think you have been heard...Check the latest built of Windows 10...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Windows has finally elevated my stance to "not botherin'" mode.
I'll maybe see Winio when I buy a new machine that has its installation package pre-copied, but even that's only a maybe.
I have no faith that they will make changes that will make my use of the computer easier, and absolute faith that they will just screw things up again, making my use of the computer more difficult, again -- perhaps in different ways, but always "again".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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