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  • L Lost User

    I see OriginalGriff has posted the actual quote: "even though they had never used the word in any context at all until they started complaining that they couldn't use it any more." Which would require no prescience. I'll go away now. :)

    Bob Emmett @ Ynys Thanatos

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    OriginalGriff
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    "The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Henry Huxley Sorry about that - didn't mean to rain on your parade! :-D

    If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

    "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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      "The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." Thomas Henry Huxley Sorry about that - didn't mean to rain on your parade! :-D

      If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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      Lost User
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      OriginalGriff wrote:

      "The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact CRU's Information Systems."

      FTFY :)

      Bob Emmett @ Ynys Thanatos

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      • C Christian Graus

        I thought I'd do a few CSS style posts and see if he responded.

        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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        Tim Craig
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        Christian Graus wrote:

        I thought I'd do a few CSS style posts and see if he responded.

        So it's not enough that you feed and nurture him, now you have to be him? :zzz:

        You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

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        • L Lost User

          OriginalGriff wrote:

          "The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact CRU's Information Systems."

          FTFY :)

          Bob Emmett @ Ynys Thanatos

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          Bob Emmett @ The Isle of the Dead? I didn't know you were Welsh! Paul Griffin @ Ynys Uchaf

          If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

          "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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          • C Christian Graus

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ejCqgAKZ-M&feature=channel[^]

            Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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            Jorgen Sigvardsson
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            It's got a point.

            -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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            • T Tim Craig

              Christian Graus wrote:

              I thought I'd do a few CSS style posts and see if he responded.

              So it's not enough that you feed and nurture him, now you have to be him? :zzz:

              You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

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              Christian Graus
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              *grin* this forum is very quiet, so I thought I'd mix it up a bit.

              Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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              • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                It's got a point.

                -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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                Christian Graus
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                Yeah, I can see that. I know I never say anything is gay at our family gatherings, which include two gay people. But, I couldn't resist a cheap joke.

                Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                • C Christian Graus

                  *grin* this forum is very quiet, so I thought I'd mix it up a bit.

                  Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                  That's not mixing it up. You can't complain about his behavior and then emulate it saying look how cool I can be doing it, too. Instead of offering to pay for CSS seeing a shrink, maybe you should do something about the obsession you have for him?

                  You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

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                    Bob Emmett @ The Isle of the Dead? I didn't know you were Welsh! Paul Griffin @ Ynys Uchaf

                    If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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                    Lost User
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                    OriginalGriff wrote:

                    I didn't know you were Welsh!

                    Neither did I! How did that happen? :) I am afraid the sig. is due to 'Gillian'. 'She' referred to Britain as the Isle of the Dead. I used its British form in my reply, and have retained it.

                    Bob Emmett @ Ynys Thanatos

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                    • T Tim Craig

                      That's not mixing it up. You can't complain about his behavior and then emulate it saying look how cool I can be doing it, too. Instead of offering to pay for CSS seeing a shrink, maybe you should do something about the obsession you have for him?

                      You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

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                      Christian Graus
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                      ROTFL. Fact is, I am not posting in Oakman's love in forum anymore, and as I work from home, sometimes I get bored when it's quiet.

                      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                      • C Christian Graus

                        ROTFL. Fact is, I am not posting in Oakman's love in forum anymore, and as I work from home, sometimes I get bored when it's quiet.

                        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                        Tim Craig
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                        I only lasted a few days in Oakman's thinkless tank. Too many arbitrarily enforced rules for my taste. And taking pot shots at CSS can be fun now and then but you've gone way over the top. And you already had your conspiracy theories about the US to start! :laugh:

                        You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

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                        • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                          It's got a point.

                          -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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                          Tim Craig
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                          When people started using gay in that context, they didn't just grab it out of thin air. They were tying it to homosexuals and using the derogatory interpretation. I'm pretty sure when it first got grabbed, it had a much narrower focus and the tie was more obvious.

                          You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

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                          • B Bergholt Stuttley Johnson

                            so the homosexual community have hijacked the word gay, a word that meant happy and carefree, and now complain when it has another meaning! what a supprise

                            Go away and research the subject, analyze the options for and against, understand the problem and them come back when you agree with me.

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                            Nagy Vilmos
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                            In hungarian the word for 'hot' has been taken by the butty-batters. You can no longer say 'I am hot', in the same way you wouldn't say 'I am gay' in english. The lovely solution is to say 'It is hot for me' - perfectly acceptable. I found this out when I was first learning hungarian and I went into a meeting on a hot summer's day. I knew 'meleg' is hot and 'vagyok' means I am, I was hot and sticky and said "Meleg vagyok". The room stopped. Birds fell out of trees with shock. My mistake was explained and I said a *bad* anglo saxon word.


                            Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H

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