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    Aamir Butt
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    Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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      Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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      In a Bangkok temple: "It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man." :laugh: Simplistic solution to utter confusion


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        In a Bangkok temple: "It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man." :laugh: Simplistic solution to utter confusion


        I never really know a killer from a savior
        boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygen

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        In a Pumwani maternity ward "No children allowed". :laugh: What the hell is allowed then? I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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          Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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          Nick Seng
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          In the office of a Roman doctor: "Specialist in women and other diseases." Ne'er a truer word said. ;P


          "if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.

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            Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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            David Wulff
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            They are all too good to quote any in particular. :laugh:


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              Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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              Rob Manderson
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              My all-time favourite is one I read in 1970 in the instruction manual for one of those motorized car aerials. It read 'If when up or downing aerial tick-tock sound be heard hand off switch fastly!' :laugh::laugh: Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]

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                Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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                Brian Delahunty
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                Brilliant. :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Regards, Brian Dela :-) Now Bloging![^]

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                  Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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                  Paul Watson
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                  In the window of an Indian shop "Why go somewhere else to be cheated, when you can come here" That is no mis-translation! regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "

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                    In the window of an Indian shop "Why go somewhere else to be cheated, when you can come here" That is no mis-translation! regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "

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                    Nish Nishant
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                    Paul Watson wrote: That is no mis-translation! How do they cheat you, Paul? Price-wise or food-wise? Nish

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                      My all-time favourite is one I read in 1970 in the instruction manual for one of those motorized car aerials. It read 'If when up or downing aerial tick-tock sound be heard hand off switch fastly!' :laugh::laugh: Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]

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                      Ted Ferenc
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                      My favourite, was a motorcylce menu which said:- 'To check headlight alignment place mototorcycle 25 light years away from a wall'


                      "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Neils Bohr

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                        Paul Watson wrote: That is no mis-translation! How do they cheat you, Paul? Price-wise or food-wise? Nish

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                        It is terrible, Nish. I cannot tell you how bad it is. They are such shrewd businessmen they outcompete everyone else. Cheaper, better, tastier, friendlier. It must be stopped! ;) To be honest though, Indians from where I come from do have a reputation for border-line wheeler-dealing. Sometimes they cut too close to the legal divide. Nice people, it's nothing personal, you just have to be very sharp to do business with them. But it's too early in the day to be going back and forth about generalisations. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "

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                          My favourite, was a motorcylce menu which said:- 'To check headlight alignment place mototorcycle 25 light years away from a wall'


                          "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Neils Bohr

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                          Rob Manderson
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                          I'm assuming you're less than 70 years old so you're still waiting for the alignment results! :laugh::laugh: Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]

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                            Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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                            Megan Forbes
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                            :laugh: Such good jokes should never be read at a work desk in an open plan office!


                            Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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                              :laugh: Such good jokes should never be read at a work desk in an open plan office!


                              Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
                              Meg's World - Blog Photography

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                              Aamir Butt
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                              Megan Forbes wrote: Such good jokes should never be read at a work desk in an open plan office! Actually, when I came this morning, I found one of my colleagues laughing his heart out reading this. :) I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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                                I'm assuming you're less than 70 years old so you're still waiting for the alignment results! :laugh::laugh: Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]

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                                Ted Ferenc
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                                Well, I had to make an adjustment, just waiting to see if it ws OK :sigh:


                                "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Neils Bohr

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                                  Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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                                  brianwelsch
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                                  In a Paris hotel elevator: "Please leave your values at the front desk." I have a daily calendar about stupid people, quotes, etc. and this is today's entry. :-D :laugh: good stuff BW


                                  "Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
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                                  Today"
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                                    Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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                                    Bassam Abdul Baki
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                                    Self-service available anywhere. In a Hong Kong supermarket: "For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service." "For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you would never have considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence." - Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) ^ Blog

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                                      In a Pumwani maternity ward "No children allowed". :laugh: What the hell is allowed then? I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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                                      Emilio Garavaglia
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                                      That could be correct ... after all ... they put them out! :laugh: 2 bugs found. > recompile ... 65534 bugs found. :doh:

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                                        Clickety[^] :laugh::laugh: Sorry if some of these are above PG limit but I couldn't help myself posting it. I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals. My Articles

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                                        Vikram A Punathambekar
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                                        > In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: "Not to perambulate > the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension." Heck, that could probably be found in England! :laugh: Funny sig, Aamir. :-D Vikram.


                                        http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions".

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