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  • L Lost User

    Imagine if you went to Germany and your name was Wilma Bumsen.

    The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
    This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
    "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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    Jochen Arndt
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    A friend of mine helping at a restaurant discovered once the name Wilma von Hinten on a marriage guest list.

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      A friend of mine helping at a restaurant discovered once the name Wilma von Hinten on a marriage guest list.

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      Lost User
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      Perfect.

      The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
      This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
      "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

        How about your name is Dick Monster? (two common Dutch names) And your company email is lastname.firstname@company.com. Your emails now go straight to the spam box :laugh: And yes, this actually happened. By the way, my name is Sander (very common Dutch name), which means I'm just a tool to smooth out surfaces in English :~

        arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly Sander's bits - Writing the code you need

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        We would never describe you as "just a tool"! :laugh:

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          We would never describe you as "just a tool"! :laugh:

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          Certainly not, we've got MUCH MORE ACCURATE descriptions! ;)

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          • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

            How about your name is Dick Monster? (two common Dutch names) And your company email is lastname.firstname@company.com. Your emails now go straight to the spam box :laugh: And yes, this actually happened. By the way, my name is Sander (very common Dutch name), which means I'm just a tool to smooth out surfaces in English :~

            arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly Sander's bits - Writing the code you need

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            Lost User
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            Sander Rossel wrote:

            By the way, my name is Sander (very common Dutch name), which means I'm just a tool to smooth out surfaces in English :~

            And what about Mordor?

            The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
            This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
            "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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            • J Jeremy Falcon

              Imagine if you went to America and your name was Seymore Butts...

              Jeremy Falcon

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              Rene Balvert
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              Remdinds me when the Dutch soccer team played in the USA long time ago, the trainers name was Dick Advocaat and one of the players name was Johan de (the) Kock.

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              • C Chris Maunder

                This reminds me of my first few years in Canada not getting the Frenglish puns. Whoosh! There went another one over my head... (I'm better now. Osmosis is a wonderful thing)

                cheers Chris Maunder

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                W Balboos GHB
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                Osmosis? I think a better analogy would "decay is inevitable", or perhaps "things will be better in the next life", or, "I'd rather have beeen kidnapped by aliens and probed".

                Ravings en masse^

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                "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                • L lopati loaming

                  Old urban myth: Pugwash (really really really old animated series), the hands on the ship were 'Master Bates' deckhand 'Seaman Stains' and 'Roger the cabin boy' and then there's the since adopted meanings for Pugwash[^] Kids today have nothing on the fun we had way back then, sadly some bleeding heart moron (oops) invented: 'PC.' (No not the IBM thing) Can't even be a proper grumpy old man with these *&^* newfangled rules.

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                  lopati: loaming wrote:

                  then, sadly some bleeding heart moron (oops) invented: 'PC.'

                  Sadly, the blame is more easily and correctly place of the religious right . . . those folks who brought (and still try to bring) censorship tall all they perceive as immoral. You know - the folks that see pornographic images in Disney Cartoons[^].

                  Ravings en masse^

                  "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

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                  • R Rene Balvert

                    Remdinds me when the Dutch soccer team played in the USA long time ago, the trainers name was Dick Advocaat and one of the players name was Johan de (the) Kock.

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                    Herman T Instance
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                    We had a prime minister called Ruud Lubbers, followed up by Wim Kok :-\

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Oh, you'd be surprised what will apparently fit... 10 Craziest Foreign Objects Found Stuck In A Rectum (found objects) - ODDEE[^] :~ (SFW, probably)

                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                      W Balboos GHB
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                      Why am I not the least bit surprised you'd have ready reference to that type of information? Well - as long as I've got your attention, do you also have a link to the site giving installation instructions for these items? And if you do, that wouldn't surprise me, either.

                      Ravings en masse^

                      "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                      "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                      • R R Giskard Reventlov

                        Imagine if you went to France and your name was Gemma Pell [^] Not my joke, I hasten to add, but it did make me laugh.

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                        Imagine you're one of Dave Gorman's[^] producers, with the surname "Fiddler", and he tries to convince you to call your baby "Adil"... :laugh:


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                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                        • W W Balboos GHB

                          lopati: loaming wrote:

                          then, sadly some bleeding heart moron (oops) invented: 'PC.'

                          Sadly, the blame is more easily and correctly place of the religious right . . . those folks who brought (and still try to bring) censorship tall all they perceive as immoral. You know - the folks that see pornographic images in Disney Cartoons[^].

                          Ravings en masse^

                          "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                          "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                          Lost User
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                          LOL, I see them in imdb doing the parents guide - they love the sex heading, telling other parents bout girls in short pants, top button undone, men with no shirts on (ffs, ever been to a beach?) Couldn't find it back but one woman wrote about a children's movie, something along the lines of 'the couple have 2 children implying they had sex in the past.' I kid you not. Yep, just the mere sight of children implies sex to some of these folks!! Holy Pugwash!! How do they look at themselves in a mirror and consider how they got there? Do they love their own parents?

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                          • L Lost User

                            LOL, I see them in imdb doing the parents guide - they love the sex heading, telling other parents bout girls in short pants, top button undone, men with no shirts on (ffs, ever been to a beach?) Couldn't find it back but one woman wrote about a children's movie, something along the lines of 'the couple have 2 children implying they had sex in the past.' I kid you not. Yep, just the mere sight of children implies sex to some of these folks!! Holy Pugwash!! How do they look at themselves in a mirror and consider how they got there? Do they love their own parents?

                            Sin tack ear lol Pressing the any key may be continuate

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                            W Balboos GHB
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                            Well, you can look at the bright side:   since they find sex so offensive we can always hope the don't breed, removing them from the gene pool. A comment (I really make) to pregnant women (or better, the couples and not strangers) is: "I know what you've been doing!".   Fortunately, by choosing my target carefully, it's always good for a laugh.   Afterwards, of course, I fall into silent reflection:   I have daughters - and I think I know what needs to happen if I want grandchildren. Frightening, since I only had brothers and . . . well, I'm not going to even think about it.

                            Ravings en masse^

                            "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                            "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                            • W W Balboos GHB

                              Why am I not the least bit surprised you'd have ready reference to that type of information? Well - as long as I've got your attention, do you also have a link to the site giving installation instructions for these items? And if you do, that wouldn't surprise me, either.

                              Ravings en masse^

                              "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                              "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                              A friend of mine used to be a nurse in the maternity ward of a London hospital, and they "share" that kind of info around. Particularly if the gentleman (for it is usually thus) is currently in A&E, standing in the corner and buzzing gently... :laugh: The worst patient she met was a very young lady who was undecided whether to have an abortion or not: when she met her in late term she brightly said "So I see you decided to have the baby then?" only to be told "Nah. I aborted it meself." While visions of knitting needles, coat hangers, and other unpleasantnesses marched resolutely across her mind, the patient pulled up her jumper to reveal a band-aid across her belly button with the triumphal words "I suffocated 'im!" :doh:

                              Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                A friend of mine used to be a nurse in the maternity ward of a London hospital, and they "share" that kind of info around. Particularly if the gentleman (for it is usually thus) is currently in A&E, standing in the corner and buzzing gently... :laugh: The worst patient she met was a very young lady who was undecided whether to have an abortion or not: when she met her in late term she brightly said "So I see you decided to have the baby then?" only to be told "Nah. I aborted it meself." While visions of knitting needles, coat hangers, and other unpleasantnesses marched resolutely across her mind, the patient pulled up her jumper to reveal a band-aid across her belly button with the triumphal words "I suffocated 'im!" :doh:

                                Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                                OriginalGriff wrote:

                                The worst patient she met was a very young AND BLOND lady who was undecided whether to have an abortion or not: when she met her in late term she brightly said "So I see you decided to have the baby then?" only to be told "Nah. I aborted it meself."While visions of knitting needles, coat hangers, and other unpleasantnesses marched resolutely across her mind, the patient pulled up her jumper to reveal a band-aid across her belly button with the triumphal words "I suffocated 'im!"

                                FTFY! :laugh:

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                                • R R Giskard Reventlov

                                  Imagine if you went to France and your name was Gemma Pell [^] Not my joke, I hasten to add, but it did make me laugh.

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                                  I don't get it, 'I like 'to call''?

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                                  • L Lost User

                                    LOL, I see them in imdb doing the parents guide - they love the sex heading, telling other parents bout girls in short pants, top button undone, men with no shirts on (ffs, ever been to a beach?) Couldn't find it back but one woman wrote about a children's movie, something along the lines of 'the couple have 2 children implying they had sex in the past.' I kid you not. Yep, just the mere sight of children implies sex to some of these folks!! Holy Pugwash!! How do they look at themselves in a mirror and consider how they got there? Do they love their own parents?

                                    Sin tack ear lol Pressing the any key may be continuate

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                                    Jorgen Andersson
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                                    I blame Disney myself. All uncles and nephews. And don't get me started on Bambi/veganism.

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                                    • R R Giskard Reventlov

                                      Imagine if you went to France and your name was Gemma Pell [^] Not my joke, I hasten to add, but it did make me laugh.

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                                      I could laugh on this when I was 10 y/o. What fun you find now?

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                                      • T Thornik

                                        I could laugh on this when I was 10 y/o. What fun you find now?

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                                        R Giskard Reventlov
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                                        It's amusing. You may not think so but, since you're not god, nobody cares.

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