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Word of the day: maneuver
Quote: manoeuvre
məˈnuːvə/Submit
noun
noun: maneuver
1.
a movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.
"snowboarders performed daring manoeuvres on precipitous slopes"
synonyms: operation, exercise, activity, move, movement, action
"a tricky parking manoeuvre"
2.
a large-scale military exercise of troops, warships, and other forces.
"the Russian vessel was on manoeuvres"
synonyms: training exercises, exercises, war games, operations
"large-scale military manoeuvres"
verb
verb: maneuver
1.
move skilfully or carefully.
"the lorry was unable to manoeuvre comfortably in the narrow street"
synonyms: steer, guide, drive, negotiate, navigate, pilot, direct, manipulate, move, work, jockey
"I manoeuvred the car into a parking space"
2.
carefully guide or manipulate (someone or something) in order to achieve an end.
"they were manoeuvring him into betraying his friend"
synonyms: intrigue, plot, scheme, plan, lay plans, conspire, pull strings; More
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I suspect that most CPians are quite capable of using a dictionary.
(QA questioners excepted  )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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... and some can spell a word consistently.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Just saw the word while reading something and thought it was a nice one I thought that each day someone could post an interesting / less often used word.
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If manoeuvre is a word you don't use often you've obviously not slept with a fat lass.
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The problem with a dictionary is similar to the problem with the MSDN documentation - you need to know the word exists to be able to look it up.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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2nd word of the day: manure
Look it up yourself.
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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Oh I know already: manure not being very nice suggesting words like that.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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...as if people were nice to each other on the internet 
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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Apologies if this is a repost.
This page demonstrates just how vast space is in general and how far apart are planets in our solar system from each other, and from the sun. We've all seen pictures of the solar system, but this is a more accurate portrayal of it, and it assumes that the moon were just 1 pixel.
Enjoy: A tediously accurate map of the solar system[^].
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Big innit.
veni bibi saltavi
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Very.
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It's a miracle I can find my car keys.
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dandy72 wrote: It's a miracle I can find my car keys.
If you lost them in the space between here and Uranus you probably wouldn't be able to. 
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If you play KSP you get a feeling for those distances, while you are able to reach the moon with in hours and do a roundtrip within a day (easily), the mars is a lot longer trip where you either have to skip forward with highspeed or just fly thousands of moon missions meanwhile 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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I can't say nothing about accuracy, but really nice... You got the feeling... I will sit with the kids on this today...
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 beware there is a lot of empty space
If there weren't any texts once an a while you could just scroll through but you have to read the texts.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Or you can do view source and read the text there.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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That spoils all the fun 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Douglas Adams: Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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I love the lightspeed button. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Pah! He should have taken it out to the Solar Hill's sphere. After all, the Oort cloud is still part of the Solar System. 
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One by one they quietly slip away but they have left their footprints on forever.
Eugene Cernan [^]
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Only six men left now. 
veni bibi saltavi
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