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Mark Twain: “First get the facts, you can distort them later”
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Elbert Hubbard: Don't take life too seriously you will never get out of it alive.
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Funny, I thought that one was by Lincoln
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I have a better one:
Quote: It is better to remain silent and let people think you are stupid, than to start speaking and prove it.
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What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. --- Dave Barry
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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My favorite fountain of quotes is Bill Bryson, the author of several traveling books. Like this from 'Down Under':
Flying into Australia, I realized with a sigh that I had forgotten again who their Prime Minister is. I am forever doing this with the Australian PM – committing the name to memory, forgetting it (more or less instantly), then feeling terribly guilty. My thinking is that there ought to be one person outside Australia who knows.
About its wildlife:
That is what a crocodile attack is like, you see – swift, unexpected, extremely irreversible.
Or when he is advised about the stonefish, hiding in the sand so you may step on its poisonous spikes on the back:
'And what does that mean exactly?'
'Pain beyond description followed shortly by muscular paralysis, respiratory depression, cardiac palpitations and a severe disinclination to boogie.'
After settling in England, in the village where Ringo Starr lives, and his (British) wife mentions in passing that she has met Ringo several time - 'Nice chap':
'The Beatle Ringo Starr bought a hammer in our local hardware store and said hi to you and you didn't think to tell me.'
'It was just a hammer,' she said.
You need not care about the travel part to read the books of Bill Bryson; you read them for their quotability. Highly recommended!
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And if you actually read the article you link to instead of skimming it for clickbait headlines, you'd have seen that it isn't going to form the loudest noise since the last Disaster Area gig for probably 100,000 years or so ...
'Great Dimming' of Betelgeuse star is solved[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yeah, I don't believe that part(trust me, no one would...), I just posted the article for the timeline of the nova... I coudln't find the one I saw for February 2022, so I had to improvise...
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Not sure who's derelict, but I thought it was supposed to resume today. There isn't even an Oi! post. 
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Today is a holiday in the UK (because New Year's day wasn't a work day it get moved to the following Monday).
I assume that pkfox is not working: The Lounge[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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So he does CCCs when he's supposed to be working, but not on his days off? 
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And your point is? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Same In the US, but becasue of that school is starting back on the 4th...
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You are correct Paul - I've pretty much retired now
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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After a two week vacation I'm back on the grid!
I spent most of my time playing the Final Fantasy VII Remake, ate a whole lot of cheese, spent Christmas with family, didn't go out for a week.
My pants and shirt had to be chipped off, I had my underwear surgically removed and my house is currently being decontaminated, but I'm all good again 
On to the next Christmas break
But first, back to work 
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Welcome back to camp chaos.
Happy New Year.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Sander Rossel wrote: ate a whole lot of cheese
Prolly excluding the Limburger.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I don't think I had that, but I had something that looked like it 
I had nine different cheeses and especially the blue one was disgusting to smell and touch, but I just love the taste
There's a cheese specialty store just around the corner where I work, so I treat myself to a nice Christmas present with cheeses every year.
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Sander Rossel wrote: There's a cheese specialty store just around the corner where I work,
Is it, by any chance, this cheese shop?
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One and the same! 
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Blue cheese is great, especially before bedtime; helps with dreaming.
The Limburger is just a soft cheese that stinks like dirty feet.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sander Rossel wrote: My pants and shirt had to be chipped off, I had my underwear surgically removed and my house is currently being decontaminated,
Ah yes! I remember that from my student days!
Red Dwarf Season 02 Episode 01 Kryten - YouTube[^] (sorry for the tiny image and rubbish surround - it's the only version I could find quickly.)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: I remember that from my student days!
If you can remember your student days, you didn't live them properly!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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