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  • M musefan

    Tell your friend to alert the conductor of a strange unattended package... when the conductor tells your friend it is another passenger, your friend should reply with one of the following remarks... 1. I think your job has started to effect your judgement. 2. So if I poke it then it won't blow up? 3. Why are there other people on my train? 4. Why are there other people on my plane???

    My opinions are right, and yours are wrong! (or at least that is my opinion)

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    Joe Simes
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    musefan wrote:

    2. So if I poke it then it won't blow up?

    I believe you have the order backwards. ;)

    The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. - Orson Scott Card

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    • L LittleYellowBird

      A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali

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      BobJanova
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      Look out of the window! As long as I have a window seat (and it's not pitch black) I never get bored on a train ...

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      • L LittleYellowBird

        A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali

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        Joe Simes
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        Years ago I took a train from Boston MA to Orlando FL. My seat was in the last car with the grandmothers and the screaming babies. 1 bottle of Jack Daniels 1 deck of cards Diner car 24 hours later => me => pissed in Florida! :-D Worked a treat!

        The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. - Orson Scott Card

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        • R Roger Wright

          Invite you to join him. :)

          Will Rogers never met me.

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          Single Step Debugger
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          Well we have “one mile high” club, why not also “on the rails” club or “the shaky train” club? Or “My first name is London and my middle name is To my family name is Paris because my parents find the love in the train’s lav…"

          There is only one Ashley Judd and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            The only problem with that is when you get the answer "Yes! I've been collecting them for years! I've got some from ..."

            Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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            CMullikin
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            Yeah, it could definitely create some problems if they are crazier than you are... but if you are able to stick with it without breaking character, you could probably have a pretty awesome conversation.

            The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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            • L Lost User

              There was an April Fools joke in Derby a number of years ago that they were going to replace train numbers with barcodes, and platforms would have readers mounted on their ends, or train spotters could buy their own handheld units. There was concern that it would interfere with the tills in the nearby Asda.

              Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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              CMullikin
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              Sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea to me... :laugh: :laugh:

              The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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              • S Single Step Debugger

                Well we have “one mile high” club, why not also “on the rails” club or “the shaky train” club? Or “My first name is London and my middle name is To my family name is Paris because my parents find the love in the train’s lav…"

                There is only one Ashley Judd and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                Lost User
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                I once made a bid for the mile under club in the channel tunnel (I know it isn't that deep really), but my girlfriend at the time declined the offer.

                Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                • L Lost User

                  I once made a bid for the mile under club in the channel tunnel (I know it isn't that deep really), but my girlfriend at the time declined the offer.

                  Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                  Nagy Vilmos
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                  ChrisElston wrote:

                  my girlfriend at the time declined the offer.

                  ... as she was home in Burnley at the time. :laugh:


                  Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                  • N Nagy Vilmos

                    ChrisElston wrote:

                    my girlfriend at the time declined the offer.

                    ... as she was home in Burnley at the time. :laugh:


                    Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                    For people from Burnley the idea of a train under the channel tunnel is one of a far off future time.

                    Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                      For people from Burnley the idea of a train under the channel tunnel is one of a far off future time.

                      Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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                      Nagy Vilmos
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                      For the people of Burnley fire is modern and the wheel is freekin bleeding edge.


                      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        Not exactly a challenge, from the inside. How about Zebra spotting instead? Ok, it's going to be difficult to read the serial number as the train speeds along, but you could always take a picture and scan the barcode later...

                        Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                        BobJanova
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                        It's quite a challenge ... you can't see any of the numbers from inside, and the trains you pass are going fast enough relative to you that you can't get theirs either!

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                        • B BobJanova

                          It's quite a challenge ... you can't see any of the numbers from inside, and the trains you pass are going fast enough relative to you that you can't get theirs either!

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                          Nagy Vilmos
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                          A long time ago, I was on a train and there was a pair of anoraks [train spotters] in the carriage. They didn't speak for the first hour or two until we went through a giant junction. Animated, they called out numbers and types for the five minutes passing through the area. They checked each others list and the STFU for the rest of the journey. IIRC, I just drank. Heavily.


                          Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                          • M musefan

                            Tell your friend to alert the conductor of a strange unattended package... when the conductor tells your friend it is another passenger, your friend should reply with one of the following remarks... 1. I think your job has started to effect your judgement. 2. So if I poke it then it won't blow up? 3. Why are there other people on my train? 4. Why are there other people on my plane???

                            My opinions are right, and yours are wrong! (or at least that is my opinion)

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                            AspDotNetDev
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                            musefan wrote:

                            I think your job has started to effect your judgement.

                            And your post has effected my reply.

                            Martin Fowler wrote:

                            Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

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                            • L LittleYellowBird

                              A friend is bored on a long train journey, what can he do to entertain himself? Ali

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                              Steve Mayfield
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                              Thumb wrestling: Left vs Right

                              Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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