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classic :laugh: BW "Gandalf. Yes. That is what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. *I* am Gandalf the White." - Gandalf the White

Paul Riley wrote: So why don't I go around and "play the game" much like everyone else does? I've thought about it too. Theft, adultery, lying (beyond "yes, I like that dress." ;) ), etc... At the end of day the day, though, I can't do it. Well, at least not anymore :-O . It's a matter of making my life happier. I try to do unto others as I would have them do to me, not as they actually do to me. It helps me sleep at night knowing I'm trying my best to not add to the confusion and chaos in this world. It's frustrating though to see others cave to their desires so quickly, especially when they are in situations which allow them to easily do the "right thing". BW "Gandalf. Yes. That is what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. *I* am Gandalf the White." - Gandalf the White

David Wulff wrote: You've made the PG13 cycle :-D BW "Gandalf. Yes. That is what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. *I* am Gandalf the White." - Gandalf the White

Hey, that's pretty good. That's the most creative flash video I've seen in a while. Brad Jennings "if the golden arches shut shop, where else are the VB people going to get work." - Colin Davies

Paul Watson wrote: Yes but for what reasons Jason? Certainly not because all 50 believe in the war. But they sure as hell do believe in having the US as a fri Yeah ... having as friend == getting economical / military / ... support.

brianwelsch wrote: Proudly Positive in SA It is not a matter of pride, but awareness. Nobody who has HIV is proud of their status, but the aim of the t-shirts and campaign is to make people aware that ordinary people get HIV, that they are normal and not to be treated as leppers of society. I guess about realising the reality of the situation: 1 in 9 people have it here. Freaky. But you are right, the Proudly SA and HIV campaign can bring up the wrong conotations quite easily. Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

paulb wrote: you have to click on a little + button to expand one element auto-expand, based on timing (try it with drag&drop in Windows explorer). paulb wrote: results in a big list of child elements filling the viewing area I agree, even though that's up to you to come up with an owner drawn implementation based on chunks of children (along with a More button), instead of all children. paulb wrote: unlike the list control where you can add as many columns multi-column tree control is the answer. There is one on Cp. paulb wrote: Tree controls just take up a lot of screen space that could be better utilised, but what is the alternative when you have naturally heirarchical data? I believe you have forgotten to mention sorting capabilities, and stuff like that (top ten, filters, ...). Business Intelligence tools (BO, cognos, ...) have a long history of showing cube data using trees.

Paul Watson wrote: I would be thrilled to get 3 chilli emails that were not spam. What you want to do is head on down to yahoo and subscribe to a few groups. You'll get lots then! Given the abundance of very obscure special interest groups, you may even find one for eye-ball sucking afficianados. Hey, you may even find an S&M one for those with an eyeball sucking fetish! I'm not sure whether Eudora could rate the vagaries of those emails though. Debbie

You should see that when English is a foreign language to you ... first I thought 'What's the matter? Can't see anything being funny' :confused:... then I thought the translator used to have a bad idiom :~ ... but at the latest when Gandalf 's been 'translated' into Candoff even I got it :laugh: -

I'm beginning to think there is no truth anymore. To believe anything means to believe a conspiracy. And to believe in the conspiracy means to believe in a sequential conspiracy. Now it becomes like two snakes swallowing each others tales. Regardz Colin J Davies Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign' Rob Manderson wrote:

Did you by chance accidentally click the little Restore button next to the lang indicator, which puts it into floating mode? By default the IME window is transparent when it doesn't have the focus, so you might not have noticed it. --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.   -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

That is quite convincing. Regardz Colin J Davies Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign' Rob Manderson wrote:

Just a bit :) Shog9 The Man. The Legend. The Bored, Narcissistic, Whiteboard-marker Sniffing Programmer.

Ah. k :-) Regards, Brian Dela :-) Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright

Paul Watson wrote: Porridge Brain. :cool: - What a brilliant description for my condition :-O Paul Watson wrote: wife who just gave birth and she has a name for this condition: Porridge Brain. Is this what she calls the condition we are in during conception of our children? I seem to be getting more phobic of giving birth by the day! Throw in a bit of S&M or eye-ball sucking**-Paul Watson on the merits of swearing, sex and obscenities in CP posts** ...they assumed that reasonably intelligent adults would know enough to leave the building if it was burning. Those who did not were, presumably, expendable, and there was less paperwork involved than trying to fire them**-Roger Wright on fire drills at work**

something can't be obsolete if it's used by 99% of the non-photo images on the web. -c :) Fractals ThumbNailer

Thanks - my biggest fear was that I'd scare her away and make her reluctant to talk to me, but she seems to be ok with it, from what I can tell. (I guess her reactions could be summed up by her basically telling me not to be so silly) In a way I feel like I've betrayed her friendship, as I know I have been the one person she's felt she was able to talk to when anything had upset her, and now, obviously, if she is upset about what I've said to her she must feel a bit stuck as to who to talk it over with :( Well I work for a games company (plenty of clicketies in my profile) but have spent most of my time doing mindnumbingly boring database stuff (which tends to get stressfull as I end up being the intermediatary between the people entering the data, and the people who actually use the data in the application. Of course when something goes wrong with the data, it's my fault for not exporting it properly) It's depressing, as making games has always been my passion, but instead I'm stuck doing database programming, and I can't help feeling that I'd have been better off taking a boring database programming job for some huge city corporation, where at least I'd be well paid. I live in Leamington (about 20 minutes away from Birmingham or Coventry), so it'd be a couple of hours drive to get into London, and I'm not really sure if I'd want to live down there anyway (besides, the further south I go, the further away it takes me from Grimsby, where she lives) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

Kaßl wrote: Rugby (Union) is perhaps the sport where this competition is still blazing. I don't think there are the same passions when it's about football. It's more a tradition, quiet a game, than a real hate, at least from our side. It's also a way to push the pressure 10 days before a capital match This I can identify with. In Cricket, it's the same between India and Pakistan. If we win, the whole country celebrates the event. But if we lose, the country goes in mourning. :-D Regards, Rohit Sinha Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. - Anonymous

One guy had to come back for family resons, and looked so depressed all the time that he really should have stayed there! There was one australian guy who emigrated to live here in the UK, but he was a bit weird. :~ Debbie

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: ...but I still can't stand hairy bums Well, wouldn't it be a boring world if we all had the same tastes, huh? Debbie