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  • N Nagy Vilmos

    Boro_Bob wrote:

    Any excuse for a party

    Your dog's dead. Now is there going to be a party?


    Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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    Boro_Bob
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    Sure. We just called it a 'wake' though for propriety. Here's to Rover. Cheers.

    Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.

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    • D Dalek Dave

      How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?

      ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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      Dalek Dave wrote:

      How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

      FTFY The amount of wood that woodchucks would chuck on a given day varies greatly with the individual woodchuck. However, using the formula:

      (W + I) * C

      where: W = the constant of wood, which is well known to be 61, as agreed in many scientific circles. I = the variable in this equation, and stands for the word "if" from the original problem. As there are three circumstances, with 0 equaling the chance that the woodchuck cannot chuck wood, 1 being the theory that the woodchuck can chuck wood but chooses not to, and 2 standing for the probability that the woodchuck can and will chuck wood, we clearly must choose 2 for use in this equation. C = the constant of Chuck Norris, whose presence in any problem involving the word chuck must there, is well known to equal 1.1 of any known being, therefore the final part of this calculation is 1.1. As is clear, this appears to give the answer of (61 + 2) * 1.1 = (63) * 1.1 = 69.3. However, Chuck Norris' awesome roundhouse kick declares that all decimal points cannot be used in formulas such as this, and so it must be rounded to the final solution of 69 units of wood. How Chuck Norris got involved: A woodchuck would only chuck as much wood as Chuck Norris would allow it to, because the woodchuck shares Chuck's name. Therefore, Chuck must punish it and make it chuck as much wood as Chuck can. So, a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as Chuck could.

      All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. My :badger:'s gonna unleash hell on your ass. :badger:tastic!

      "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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      • N Nagy Vilmos

        My Mum's old gardener[^] used to predict the weather based on what the weather was yesterday, a week ago a month ago and a year ago. Therre was some method to his madness and he was invariably right.


        Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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        Dalek Dave
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        "If you can see the hills, it is going to rain. If you can't see the hills, it is raining".

        ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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          Sure. We just called it a 'wake' though for propriety. Here's to Rover. Cheers.

          Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.

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          Dalek Dave
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          That's a happy Tail

          ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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            That's a happy Tail

            ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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            merridus
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            You're barking up the wrong tree if you think you can start a pun war here.

            - Rob

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            • M merridus

              You're barking up the wrong tree if you think you can start a pun war here.

              - Rob

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              Dalek Dave
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              Don't be so Ruff on me!

              ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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              • D Dalek Dave

                Yea. The Movie Rocked.

                ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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                I agree; my wife doesn't, but I'll keep her anyway.

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                • N Nagy Vilmos

                  Boro_Bob wrote:

                  Any excuse for a party

                  Your dog's dead. Now is there going to be a party?


                  Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                  You wouldn't have a wake [^]for the poor thing?

                  All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. My :badger:'s gonna unleash hell on your ass. :badger:tastic!

                  "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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                  • D Dalek Dave

                    Don't be so Ruff on me!

                    ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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                    merridus
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                    I'm sorry ***puppy dog **eyes*

                    - Rob****

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      You wouldn't have a wake [^]for the poor thing?

                      All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. My :badger:'s gonna unleash hell on your ass. :badger:tastic!

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                      Nagy Vilmos
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                      Ain't my dog that's dead.


                      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                      • O Oakman

                        d@nish wrote:

                        But never felt like watching it till end.

                        It's about the redemption of a man, through works rather than faith.

                        Jon "You're the kind of people the import police come asking about later. I don't like talking to the import police. They make me nervous, and my pseudopods sweat." ~ Bog, Factor for the Interstellar Trading Co. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less

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                        Andrew Rissing
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                        I wouldn't call it about redemption. He is changed by his experiences forcing him to look at life in a new perspective. I think whether or not he did good deeds is irrevalent. He changed because he saw his situation as futile and made the best of it.

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                        • I Ian Shlasko

                          Yes, that's right... It's that time again... Time for the dumbest "holiday" ever invented by a human being. This is when thousands of people with far too much free time gather around a small hole in the ground, waiting for a magical rodent to predict the weather. For those of you in countries with better things to do, here's the gist of it. The superstition is that when a groundhog comes out of its hole on the morning of February 2nd... If it sees its shadow (Because it's sunny out), there'll be six more weeks of winter. If not (Cloudy), it'll be an early spring. Now, this moronic superstition has been dressed up over the years, and now we have NAMED groundhogs... The most famous of which is Punxsutawney Phil, unsurprisingly from a town with the inexplicable name of Punxsutawney (Yes, I had to look up the spelling). They have weather reports, news articles, and even pointless forum posts! Err, wait... So it's just nice to know that while we have a global network of weather stations, thousands of satellites in orbit, and probably hundreds of thousands of people whose sole profession it is to predict these things... We still get our weather reports from an over-sized rat. Sure would be funny if that rat had a TV in his hole, and was just watching the Weather Channel. But hey... The movie[^]was funny!

                          Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)

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                          Duncan Edwards Jones
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                          Ian Shlasko wrote:

                          But hey... The movie[^]was funny!

                          My copy had a scratch - it kept skipping back to the start, so i had to retrun it to the store.

                          '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            Dalek Dave wrote:

                            How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

                            FTFY The amount of wood that woodchucks would chuck on a given day varies greatly with the individual woodchuck. However, using the formula:

                            (W + I) * C

                            where: W = the constant of wood, which is well known to be 61, as agreed in many scientific circles. I = the variable in this equation, and stands for the word "if" from the original problem. As there are three circumstances, with 0 equaling the chance that the woodchuck cannot chuck wood, 1 being the theory that the woodchuck can chuck wood but chooses not to, and 2 standing for the probability that the woodchuck can and will chuck wood, we clearly must choose 2 for use in this equation. C = the constant of Chuck Norris, whose presence in any problem involving the word chuck must there, is well known to equal 1.1 of any known being, therefore the final part of this calculation is 1.1. As is clear, this appears to give the answer of (61 + 2) * 1.1 = (63) * 1.1 = 69.3. However, Chuck Norris' awesome roundhouse kick declares that all decimal points cannot be used in formulas such as this, and so it must be rounded to the final solution of 69 units of wood. How Chuck Norris got involved: A woodchuck would only chuck as much wood as Chuck Norris would allow it to, because the woodchuck shares Chuck's name. Therefore, Chuck must punish it and make it chuck as much wood as Chuck can. So, a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as Chuck could.

                            All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. My :badger:'s gonna unleash hell on your ass. :badger:tastic!

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                            peterchen
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                            OriginalGriff wrote:

                            A woodchuck would only chuck as much wood as Chuck Norris would allow it to, because. Chuck must punish it

                            FTFY

                            Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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                            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                              You wouldn't have a wake [^]for the poor thing?

                              All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. My :badger:'s gonna unleash hell on your ass. :badger:tastic!

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                              Boro_Bob
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                              That is what I meant. I'm only joking, obviously. I don't own a dog. I have a cat though, and I probably will celebrate when that mangy animal croaks.

                              Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.

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                              • B Boro_Bob

                                That is what I meant. I'm only joking, obviously. I don't own a dog. I have a cat though, and I probably will celebrate when that mangy animal croaks.

                                Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.

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                                Nagy Vilmos
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                                Boro_Bob wrote:

                                I probably will celebrate when that mangy animal croaks.

                                gets my 5. [sorry Elaine]


                                Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                                • D Duncan Edwards Jones

                                  Ian Shlasko wrote:

                                  But hey... The movie[^]was funny!

                                  My copy had a scratch - it kept skipping back to the start, so i had to retrun it to the store.

                                  '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd

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                                  Andrew Rissing
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                                  No. That was how the movie was. ;-D Seriously though, that is ironic.

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                                  • D Duncan Edwards Jones

                                    Ian Shlasko wrote:

                                    But hey... The movie[^]was funny!

                                    My copy had a scratch - it kept skipping back to the start, so i had to retrun it to the store.

                                    '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd

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                                    NetDave
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                                    Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

                                    it kept skipping back to the start

                                    Good one!!! :laugh:

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                                    • D Dalek Dave

                                      "If you can see the hills, it is going to rain. If you can't see the hills, it is raining".

                                      ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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                                      ian dennis 0
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                                      If you're inside, it's "a nice soft day". If you're outside, it's p*ssing down.

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                                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                        Christmas isn't the worst time to have a birthday - my wife has hers on January 1st. This causes two problems: 1) We always started her birthday with a hangover. (When we were drinking) 2) I have to be thoughtful and imaginative (and generous) twice in very close proximity!

                                        All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. My :badger:'s gonna unleash hell on your ass. :badger:tastic!

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                                        CalvinHobbies
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                                        OriginalGriff wrote:

                                        Christmas isn't the worst time to have a birthday - my wife has hers on January 1st. This causes two problems: 1) We always started her birthday with a hangover. (When we were drinking) 2) I have to be thoughtful and imaginative (and generous) twice in very close proximity! All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.

                                        your right, that would be an interesting situation :) I didn't think of the hangover aspect:) I think the only thing I would trade on my birthday is the ice and cold, Since travel is an option it's only a minor issue (27th birthday I was in Kaula Lumpur first time ever to have sun burn on my birthday).

                                        ///////////////// Groucho Marx Those are my principles, if you don't like them… I have others.

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                                        • L Lost User

                                          Ian Shlasko wrote:

                                          So it's just nice to know that while we have a global network of weather stations, thousands of satellites in orbit, and probably hundreds of thousands of people whose sole profession it is to predict these things... We still get our weather reports from an over-sized rat. Sure would be funny if that rat had a TV in his hole, and was just watching the Weather Channel.

                                          Hey, don't knock the woodchucks. I don't know how accurate the 'real' weather forecasters are in your parts, but hereabouts I'd be willing to bet Phil would do no worse. ;P ;) :-D

                                          L u n a t i c F r i n g e

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                                          Roger Wright
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                                          LunaticFringe wrote:

                                          hereabouts I'd be willing to bet Phil would do no worse.

                                          I completely agree! I've long wondered, do they give those weather geeks offices with windows? For the past week they've been predicting 58°F and partly cloudy, but the sun persists in defying them - clear and 75°F.

                                          "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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