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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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    • 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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      • 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 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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          • 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!

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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

              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
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              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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              • 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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                • 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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                    • 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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                      • 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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                        • 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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                                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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                                  Nagy hasn't found his balloon.

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                                    You aren't supposed to eat the balloons, silly.

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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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                                      Lost User
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                                      I'd of popped every balloon that I found that didn't have my name on it. I would have found mine within 2 minutes.

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                                        I'd of popped every balloon that I found that didn't have my name on it. I would have found mine within 2 minutes.

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                                        chriselst
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                                        I wouldn't have written my name on my balloon, it would have said Hugh Janus or Mike Hunt or some such similar.

                                        Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                                          Rage
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                                          :-D awesome !

                                          ~RaGE();

                                          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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