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I am glad they spend so much money on these types of technologies.
I dream of a future where one day I will no longer have to worry about getting my feet wait when I encounter a difficult to navigate puddle. Just a short burst on my rocket wings and I will be over that pesky puddle in no time!
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BillWoodruff wrote: "Controlled from the ground by the human body"
His ex-wife?
Her to her friend: Hold my beer we're gonna have some fun!
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
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At least he remembered to do up the straps. 
SWISS MISHAP - YouTube[^]
"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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$2 for a cup of coffee...
$3 for coat check...
$4 an hour for parking...
If they don't change their attitude, I'll just stop inviting them to my house! 
Ba-Tish! Don't worry, getting my coat real soon!
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Johnny J. wrote: getting my coat real soon!
I can give it back for as low as $5 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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This reminds me:
My folks have a towel rack in one of their washrooms, and my mom put some nice fancy towels on it, carefully selected to match the paint on the walls, and nobody's allowed to actually use those towels coming out of the shower - if you actually need a towel, those are stored in the laundry room (which is across the hall from the washroom).
I used to ask my mom what the point was, as this is a functional washroom, not a museum where people come in and pay to look at some display. She never appreciated my "function over form" rationalization.
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But if you invite people to a party, everyone asks if you want them to bring some alcohol regardless of prices for booze are continuously rising and the taxes on hem never (ever!) get lower. THAT is incongruence!
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Expectations change from one generation to the next.
In my student days (so this is quite a while ago) my parents had a cousin of mine (also a student) living in our house. One Saturday, her boyfriend came to visit our house, and he brought a pack of beer to the barbecue party. My father got really crossed; he took it as an insult: As if we couldn't affort to buy the beer when we invite people to a party.
It took me quite some effort to make him (reluctantly) accept that this was common practice among young people, more like a polite gesture saying 'Thank you for the invitation, and I would like to give my contribution to the common good'. I don't think my father accepted it in his heart; he was still insulted, but understood that he had to keep a straigth face in this situation.
The funny thing is that in his generation, bringing a bunch of flowers or a box of chocolate to the party would be great, almost expected. Alchohol was quite different, almost like bringing a slab of meat when invited to a fine dinner.
Today I am older than my father was at that time, and noone my age would have the reactions of my father. So expectation change. But when crossing generations, or crossing oceans/continents, one might run into similar cultural conflicts.
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Member 7989122 wrote: boyfriend came to visit our house, and he brought a pack of beer to the barbecue party. My father got really crossed; he took it as an insult: As if we couldn't affort to buy the beer when we invite people to a party.
Maybe the BF's beer turned out to be better/more popular than your father's?
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A friend of mine once helped a friend with some odd jobs.
My friend had a van, so he drove to the wood shop to pick up some wood, then brought it to his friend, spent the day doing chores (I think it was plinths).
So anyway, after a day of hard work (may even have been a weekend) they ate pizza and his friend handed him an invoice for the coffee and pizza and even the electricity he used TO FIX HIS HOUSE 
You may think this is a lame joke, but this guy was dead serious.
My friend gave him the finger instead and they're not friends anymore.
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True story.
I have an uncle who used to sell used cars [I know, insert used car salesman joke here].
He had a number of cars on his lot that just didn't sell; after a while, keeping a car on a lot starts to actually cost you money, so he decided he needed to make room for other cars, so he gave a half-dozen or so of them to a guy who owned a wreck yard, who was more than happy to take them all.
A few weeks later, my uncle needed a door handle for a car he had just purchased. The car was the same make/model as one of those he had given to the wreck yard owner, so he called him up and asked him if he could get a door handle, and the guy agreed.
So he went to remove it from the car himself, and just as he was leaving, the owner stopped him dead in his tracks and asked, "Where are you going? That'll be 8$."
And he wasn't joking.
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That joke doesn't sound tariff-ic and should cost reputation points - who's in-charge if I want to suggest this change?
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/ravi
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Again? That's twice this week he has died... some people have all the bad luck 
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Sorry, was ill the last days and info arrived me few hours ago the first time.
I was very sad about reading this and didn't realize the date of death.
Nevertheless, very sad. 
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I'm only messing, you can obviously post whatever you want as many times as your want!
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No, only Leslie is allowed that luxury!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just hit Ctrl-V!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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musefan wrote: Again? That's twice this week he has died...
It was a copy paste error. Could happen to anyone.
/ravi
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Indeed, Marc! 
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Lots of well known people, like artists, authors etc. have friends who take the responsibility of keeping up the website of someone who passes away.
Obviously, in many cases that is for commercial reasons, or semi-commercial. E.g. when a publishing house has provided personal web space for their authors, and want to keep up the sales of their books. It need not be commercal in the purely economic sense, but e.g. like a "fan club", or maybe relatives who think that the name and work of this person should not be forgotten.
I have no strong opinion about how important that would be in the case of Larry Tesler. To be honest, if you a week ago had asked me who "invented" cut&paste, or what I associate with the name Larry Tesler, I wouldn't have had a clue.
For being a little non-PC:
We scream in horror when some company says "We invented [something that seems like a triviality 20 years later] - it is our invention, so we have the inventor's right to exploit it commercially". We say "Blah! Anyone could have done that!". But then, when the person "inventing" it passes away, then we exclaim "Our hero, the great inventor, is gone! The world has lost a great brain!"
Why is it called 'cut', something that you do with a knife, scalpel or scissors? (You don't use either at your screen/keyboard!) Because people have been cutting for ages. Why is it called 'paste', something you do with glue, putting pieces together? (You don't use glue at your screen/keyboard!) Because people have been pasting pieces together for ages. Honestly, there is nothing revolutionary about cutting out pieces of text (or whatever) and gluing them together. It is just doing it with a computer, rather than with a scalpel and glue.
We might mourn when the "inventor" of the "desktop" metafor dies. Or the inventor of the "icon" metafor. Or whoever was the first one "inventing" brightness adjustment of an image on a computer, rather than by adjusting the exposure of the photocopy paper in the darkroom. The person "inventing" loudness adjustments of a sound file by digital means, rather than analog means.
We should select our heroes carefully. If we create heroes by blowing completely out of proportions what is really not that significant contributions, e.g. obvbious transfers of well known "analog" ideas into the digital field, then we must expect others to follow suit, and declare "inventions" such as one-click web shopping to be comparable "inventions", subject to patent protection. Explaining why one is heroic, the other is evil, quite easily ends up as hair splitting.
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