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  • V Vishal Pand3y

    Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.
    Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon.
    Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen.
    Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
    Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes.
    Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with eachother, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
    At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
    Now each one was asked to randomaly collect a balloon and give it to the the person whose name was written on it.
    Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
    The speaker began-- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
    Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

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    Nish Nishant
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    How about people with the same names? Would handwriting matches be used to absolutely verify that they got their original balloons back?

    Regards, Nish


    Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com Latest article: C++ 11 features in Visual C++ 2013 Preview

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    • V Vishal Pand3y

      Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.
      Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon.
      Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen.
      Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
      Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes.
      Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with eachother, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
      At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
      Now each one was asked to randomaly collect a balloon and give it to the the person whose name was written on it.
      Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
      The speaker began-- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
      Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

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      Blue Waffle
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      I was happy till I read that.

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      • N Nagy Vilmos

        Wow! Two bad copy/pastes in one day. Do it again and I'll ding ya.

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        Johnny J
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        Why wait that long??? ;)

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        I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
        Me, all the time

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        • N Nagy Vilmos

          Wow! Two bad copy/pastes in one day. Do it again and I'll ding ya.

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          Kenneth Haugland
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          Nah, he just needs to cut out the beer with something stronger.

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          • V Vishal Pand3y

            Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.
            Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon.
            Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen.
            Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
            Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes.
            Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with eachother, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
            At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
            Now each one was asked to randomaly collect a balloon and give it to the the person whose name was written on it.
            Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
            The speaker began-- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
            Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

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            Blue Waffle
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            Vishal Pand3y wrote:

            Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

            This is so much funnier if you remove the 'h's.

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            • V Vishal Pand3y

              Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.
              Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon.
              Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen.
              Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
              Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes.
              Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with eachother, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
              At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
              Now each one was asked to randomaly collect a balloon and give it to the the person whose name was written on it.
              Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
              The speaker began-- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
              Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

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              ZurdoDev
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              Please stop putting text tags around your posts. It's a post, it's already text. No need to mark text as text in a text post. It's hard to read and I really want to know what you have to say.

              There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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              • N Nagy Vilmos

                Wow! Two bad copy/pastes in one day. Do it again and I'll ding ya.

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                Blue Waffle
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                Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                Do it again and I'll ding ya

                That's abuse. He is not being abusive or Spamming. Besides the reply's to these sort of threads are one of the best things about the Lounge, don't deny us that.

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                • B Blue Waffle

                  Vishal Pand3y wrote:

                  Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

                  This is so much funnier if you remove the 'h's.

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                  Johnny J
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                  It would be even funnier if he applied Euro-English (5th year version):

                  The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

                  As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

                  In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

                  There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

                  In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

                  By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

                  After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!

                  Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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                  The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                  Winston Churchill, 1944
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                  I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                  Me, all the time

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                  • N Nish Nishant

                    How about people with the same names? Would handwriting matches be used to absolutely verify that they got their original balloons back?

                    Regards, Nish


                    Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com Latest article: C++ 11 features in Visual C++ 2013 Preview

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                    Blue Waffle
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                    They Could give them different colour balloons. Or they could make them blow up there own balloons, then DNA profiling could be used on the residue saliva.

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                    • Z ZurdoDev

                      Please stop putting text tags around your posts. It's a post, it's already text. No need to mark text as text in a text post. It's hard to read and I really want to know what you have to say.

                      There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                      Marcus_2
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                      RyanDev wrote:

                      Please stop putting text tags around your posts. It's a post, it's already text. No need to mark text as text in a text post. It's hard to read and I really want to know what you have to say copy/paste.

                      Fixed it for you. ;)

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                      • B Blue Waffle

                        Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                        Do it again and I'll ding ya

                        That's abuse. He is not being abusive or Spamming. Besides the reply's to these sort of threads are one of the best things about the Lounge, don't deny us that.

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                        Nish Nishant
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #13

                        Also, it's not as if the rest of the content on the Lounge is of a highly intellectual nature. :-)

                        Regards, Nish


                        Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com Latest article: C++ 11 features in Visual C++ 2013 Preview

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                        • M Marcus_2

                          RyanDev wrote:

                          Please stop putting text tags around your posts. It's a post, it's already text. No need to mark text as text in a text post. It's hard to read and I really want to know what you have to say copy/paste.

                          Fixed it for you. ;)

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                          ZurdoDev
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                          Thanks. But stop interrupting me while I try to read the posts. They are fascinating stuff for the Lounge. ;)

                          There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                          • Z ZurdoDev

                            Please stop putting text tags around your posts. It's a post, it's already text. No need to mark text as text in a text post. It's hard to read and I really want to know what you have to say.

                            There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                            Blue Waffle
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                            I'll translate for you. He said Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room. Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with eachother, pushing around others and there was utter chaos. At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon. Now each one was asked to randomaly collect a balloon and give it to the the person whose name was written on it. Within minutes everyone had their own balloon. The speaker began-- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is. Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

                            RyanDev wrote:

                            I really want to know what you have to say.

                            wanna take that back? :-D

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                            • V Vishal Pand3y

                              Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.
                              Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon.
                              Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen.
                              Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
                              Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes.
                              Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with eachother, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
                              At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
                              Now each one was asked to randomaly collect a balloon and give it to the the person whose name was written on it.
                              Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
                              The speaker began-- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
                              Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

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                              Dan Neely
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                              • B Blue Waffle

                                I'll translate for you. He said Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room. Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with eachother, pushing around others and there was utter chaos. At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon. Now each one was asked to randomaly collect a balloon and give it to the the person whose name was written on it. Within minutes everyone had their own balloon. The speaker began-- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is. Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

                                RyanDev wrote:

                                I really want to know what you have to say.

                                wanna take that back? :-D

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                                ZurdoDev
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                                Quote:

                                wanna take that back?

                                I'm ashamed to admit I read your translation. I feel duped.

                                There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                                • N Nish Nishant

                                  Also, it's not as if the rest of the content on the Lounge is of a highly intellectual nature. :-)

                                  Regards, Nish


                                  Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com Latest article: C++ 11 features in Visual C++ 2013 Preview

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                                  Blue Waffle
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                                  Exactly. It's better than the "I drink lots of gin" posts.

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                                  • B Blue Waffle

                                    Exactly. It's better than the "I drink lots of gin" posts.

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                                    Johnny J
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                                    Yeah, but DEFINITELY worse than the Bacon posts - everything is worse than bacon! :doh:

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                                    I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                                    Me, all the time

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                                    • B Blue Waffle

                                      Exactly. It's better than the "I drink lots of gin" posts.

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                                      Kenneth Haugland
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                                      Quote:

                                      Exactly. It's better than the "I drink lots of gin" posts.

                                      No, that is the pinnacle of Lounge post, except perheps for "I had XXX with Sheep" etc...

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                                      • V Vishal Pand3y

                                        Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.
                                        Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon.
                                        Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen.
                                        Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
                                        Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes.
                                        Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with eachother, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
                                        At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
                                        Now each one was asked to randomaly collect a balloon and give it to the the person whose name was written on it.
                                        Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
                                        The speaker began-- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
                                        Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.

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                                        OriginalGriff
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                                        Pass the barf-bag, vicar!

                                        Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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                                        • N Nagy Vilmos

                                          Wow! Two bad copy/pastes in one day. Do it again and I'll ding ya.

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                                          Lost User
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                                          Nagy hasn't found his balloon.

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