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Shed ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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ya 
modified 27-Sep-19 5:24am.
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So I was looking for some piano sheet music to play when I found a song from Laputa: Castle in the Sky[^], a classic anime movie from the great Miyazaki and Ghibli Studios.
Found the following discussion in the comments 
Some user in 2017:
"In your Laputa title, you should combine it to be Laputa without a space... because that means something completely different in Spanish..."
Author in 2017:
"Hahahaha gotcha will fix it thanks for the heads up"
[long silence]
Author in 2019:
"finally got around to fix it 2 years later lol"
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It shows that the Japanese are serious people that keep their promises 
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... signed in triplicate... lost... found... buried in soft peat...
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"Pajero" means something in Spanish as well, But Mitsubishi still call the "Shogun" that outside Europe ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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And the name of this[^] gym in London has a fairly different meaning in Swedish.
Honda almost fell into the same trap.
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There are thousands of such cases.
You know the meaning of "Kodak"? Probably not, because when Eastman Co. were searching for a product name, they checked all the officially recognized languages of the world to make sure that this completely made up word would not have any offensive or negative meaning in any of the languages.
In the 100+ years since, many other companies have followed in Kodak's footsteps. Some have not. I have been told that when CCC entered the Chinese market, they wanted a name for the drink that would be pronounced as close to "Coca Cola" as possible, no matter its meaning. So when you ask for a coke in China, you ask for a four-eyed toad ...
I don't know a single word of Chinese, so I am not able to confirm the truth of this story. If any Chinese speaking person in this forum would care to either confirm or refute it, I'd be happy.
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And the name was a reference to the floating city in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
It's unlikely that Swift came up with that name by accident.
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Somebody on youtube has a nice piano arrangement of Tabi no Tochū from the anime series Spice and Wolf. There was a link to the score.
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If your wife got a job at the Zoo, would she be a keeper?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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A pretty cagey post - but it continues to lower the bars.
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She might find someone gnu, become a cheetah and start lion to you about it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Oh gno - gnot a gnother gnu[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Work net nanny precludes me from following that lynx.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If she got the in the insectarium department she would be a beekeeper
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As long as she doesn't monkey around.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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Depends on what kind of an animal I am...
Shameel,
http://thedeveloperspace.com
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Where's the CCC?
@User-12547300
You're up tomorrow for the final themed one for the week I guess.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So I have to do some WinForms development now.
Tried to add a form to the project, but all I got was a regular class.
The designer worked for other forms.
Then I remembered the VS installer has a specific button for installing desktop development.
So I fire up the installer, install a 4 GB update ( ), choose to modify my installation and check desktop development.
It seems my 20 GB editor was missing 4 MB of files to do proper desktop development 
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That's what you get for not installing EVERYTHING to start with!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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That would make it a 40 GB installation
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If you have a 1TB HD, that's only 4% of the space. You're complaining about 0.4%?
There's an old saying that when moving into a larger home, we accumulate things to fill the available space. This appears to be true for HD as well ...
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Even VB.net? 
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Nobody needs VB to do development!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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