Time Flies!
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It is quaint to see nostalgia in the oh so very young! ( I am a mere stripling of 41!) I remember opal fruit and marathons, I remember when Space 1999 was set in the future. I love it when the young look back with misty eyed memories, for it was but a handful of heartbeats ago!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
marathons
We still have them old timer. I have several friends who ran the big London one just this year.
Simon
modified on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:15 AM
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I joined this community about six and a half years ago when I had just turned fifteen, I posted quite a bit back in the early days and I think I even had gold status when the criteria was different. At that age programming was just a fun hobby and when I got my first girlfriend I began spending significantly less time programming and here at CP. At age twenty one and in college for computer science now and with a job as a web developer I'm starting to spend more and more time browsing around here. I remember everyone getting excited about two million members and now theres over five. So many memories. The site has really grown and not just in members, back in the old days you would have been scoffed at for asking where the Linux section was. There was none, for this was a website dedicated to Microsoft technologies after all!:rolleyes: Its incredible to come back now, after almost a quarter of my life since joining and see so many of the same faces - Christian Graus, Shog, Colin, and so on. Is Nish still around? Its amazing how fast time flies.
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OK... so The Grand Negus, and pumkinhead don't mean anything to you? :doh: You (and your girlfriend) would have enjoyed it! :)
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Dalek Dave wrote:
marathons
We still have them old timer. I have several friends who ran the big London one just this year.
Simon
modified on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:15 AM
Simon Stevens wrote:
old timer
Damned Cheek! Did they run them in their Snickers?
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Simon Stevens wrote:
old timer
Damned Cheek! Did they run them in their Snickers?
------------------------------------ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
Dalek Dave wrote:
Did they run them in their Snickers?
It's spelt "sneakers" stop trying to use young person words. (I'm not really that young, I do remember marathons, I remember the adverts when they changed it. and I still think starburst is a stupid name)
Simon
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OK... so The Grand Negus, and pumkinhead don't mean anything to you? :doh: You (and your girlfriend) would have enjoyed it! :)
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Wikipedia tells me you speak of star trek and 80s horror films? Ahah, no, neither of those things mean anything to me.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Did they run them in their Snickers?
It's spelt "sneakers" stop trying to use young person words. (I'm not really that young, I do remember marathons, I remember the adverts when they changed it. and I still think starburst is a stupid name)
Simon
Keith Chegwin telling you it "Comes Up Peanuts, Slice After Slice!" Who in the name of God EVER sliced a marathon? I always just stuffed it down my throat! :)
------------------------------------ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
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It is quaint to see nostalgia in the oh so very young! ( I am a mere stripling of 41!) I remember opal fruit and marathons, I remember when Space 1999 was set in the future. I love it when the young look back with misty eyed memories, for it was but a handful of heartbeats ago!
------------------------------------ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
Ah, I remember that dinner I ate about 3.5 minutes ago...judging by my heart-rate, that's about 336 heartbeats. Now...how many is a handful? :confused: ;P
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It is quaint to see nostalgia in the oh so very young! ( I am a mere stripling of 41!) I remember opal fruit and marathons, I remember when Space 1999 was set in the future. I love it when the young look back with misty eyed memories, for it was but a handful of heartbeats ago!
------------------------------------ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
you young wipper snapper you, 50+ and yeah they are amusing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I joined this community about six and a half years ago when I had just turned fifteen, I posted quite a bit back in the early days and I think I even had gold status when the criteria was different. At that age programming was just a fun hobby and when I got my first girlfriend I began spending significantly less time programming and here at CP. At age twenty one and in college for computer science now and with a job as a web developer I'm starting to spend more and more time browsing around here. I remember everyone getting excited about two million members and now theres over five. So many memories. The site has really grown and not just in members, back in the old days you would have been scoffed at for asking where the Linux section was. There was none, for this was a website dedicated to Microsoft technologies after all!:rolleyes: Its incredible to come back now, after almost a quarter of my life since joining and see so many of the same faces - Christian Graus, Shog, Colin, and so on. Is Nish still around? Its amazing how fast time flies.
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Brian Olej wrote:
when I got my first girlfriend I began spending significantly less time programming
I should bloody well think so too. Mind you at early 20's what are doing back here when there are....
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Wikipedia tells me you speak of star trek and 80s horror films? Ahah, no, neither of those things mean anything to me.
We have about the same CP age, eh eh. Plus I have been more or less always around in the last six years. I am not a big Soapbox hanger, but Pumpkinhead was kind of a troll out there if I remember correctly. As for the Grand Negus, he made an attempt at a plain english compiler. It is worth a search in the Lounge threads, I think. Anyway, welcome back Brian, and good luck with your web dev job ! :Beer:
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Keith Chegwin telling you it "Comes Up Peanuts, Slice After Slice!" Who in the name of God EVER sliced a marathon? I always just stuffed it down my throat! :)
------------------------------------ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
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It is quaint to see nostalgia in the oh so very young! ( I am a mere stripling of 41!) I remember opal fruit and marathons, I remember when Space 1999 was set in the future. I love it when the young look back with misty eyed memories, for it was but a handful of heartbeats ago!
------------------------------------ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
I still can't get over the disappointment of when Starlord was merged into 2000AD and Strontonium Dog had to play second fiddle to Juge Dredd. Nostalgia - they don't make it like they used to.
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I'm old enough to remember when Lucozade came in a crinkly wrapper and was for old or sick people rather than for young thrusters who wouldn't know a pair of Dunlop Green Flash if they, for example, saw an old person wearing them.
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .
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I'm old enough to remember when Lucozade came in a crinkly wrapper and was for old or sick people rather than for young thrusters who wouldn't know a pair of Dunlop Green Flash if they, for example, saw an old person wearing them.
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .
Yeah, posh people had Lucozade in the house when no one was ill!
[ftw]melvin wrote:
Dunlop Green Flash
I had a pair! They are Cool! Also, when did old ladies stop wearing scarfs on their heads?
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Yeah, posh people had Lucozade in the house when no one was ill!
[ftw]melvin wrote:
Dunlop Green Flash
I had a pair! They are Cool! Also, when did old ladies stop wearing scarfs on their heads?
------------------------------------ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
Dalek Dave wrote:
Yeah, posh people had Lucozade in the house when no one was ill!
They don't make posh people like they used to either; I wonder if Cristal and Lucozade would make a better posh persons drink now.
Dalek Dave wrote:
Also, when did old ladies stop wearing scarfs on their heads?
About the time when Eastenders decided to follow Emmerdale down the 'blonde bimbos shouting a lot' to attract viewers - you can't be a shouty blonde with a headscarf.
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .
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Yeah, posh people had Lucozade in the house when no one was ill!
[ftw]melvin wrote:
Dunlop Green Flash
I had a pair! They are Cool! Also, when did old ladies stop wearing scarfs on their heads?
------------------------------------ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
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Brian Olej wrote:
when I got my first girlfriend I began spending significantly less time programming
I should bloody well think so too. Mind you at early 20's what are doing back here when there are....
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
He can't be at it all day, he'd never get any work done. Not getting any work done can be easily simulating by sitting in the lounge all day - but without the feeling of a bit of the other. Is the CP lounge therefore sex for us oldies?
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .
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He can't be at it all day, he'd never get any work done. Not getting any work done can be easily simulating by sitting in the lounge all day - but without the feeling of a bit of the other. Is the CP lounge therefore sex for us oldies?
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .
[ftw]melvin wrote:
He can't be at it all day, he'd never get any work done.
You're right but I bet he can think about it all day. Iii rreemmbers when I heh heh oh where was I uhm ah well...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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[ftw]melvin wrote:
He can't be at it all day, he'd never get any work done.
You're right but I bet he can think about it all day. Iii rreemmbers when I heh heh oh where was I uhm ah well...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
You're right but I bet he can think about it all day
But do you know what thinking about it leads to? If you do know, could you let me know I'm off to get my eyes tested.
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .
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I joined this community about six and a half years ago when I had just turned fifteen, I posted quite a bit back in the early days and I think I even had gold status when the criteria was different. At that age programming was just a fun hobby and when I got my first girlfriend I began spending significantly less time programming and here at CP. At age twenty one and in college for computer science now and with a job as a web developer I'm starting to spend more and more time browsing around here. I remember everyone getting excited about two million members and now theres over five. So many memories. The site has really grown and not just in members, back in the old days you would have been scoffed at for asking where the Linux section was. There was none, for this was a website dedicated to Microsoft technologies after all!:rolleyes: Its incredible to come back now, after almost a quarter of my life since joining and see so many of the same faces - Christian Graus, Shog, Colin, and so on. Is Nish still around? Its amazing how fast time flies.
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