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  • H hairy_hats

    Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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    Nagy Vilmos
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    I really miss the old fashioned little paper bag with a 1/4 of licorice torpedoes but no green ones thank-you very much as they give me wind but the red and blue ones are great.


    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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    • H hairy_hats

      Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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      Dalek Dave
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      Something else you don't see around these days, but which were common in my youth was the Spaz Chariot.[^]

      ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

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        Something else you don't see around these days, but which were common in my youth was the Spaz Chariot.[^]

        ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

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        Nagy Vilmos
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        Rubbish, you see them all the time in London[^].


        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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          Rubbish, you see them all the time in London[^].


          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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          :)

          ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

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          • N Nagy Vilmos

            I really miss the old fashioned little paper bag with a 1/4 of licorice torpedoes but no green ones thank-you very much as they give me wind but the red and blue ones are great.


            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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            Pete OHanlon
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            I got some a few weeks ago. My kids love them.

            Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

            "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

            My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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            • P Pete OHanlon

              I got some a few weeks ago. My kids love them.

              Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

              "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

              My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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              Nagy Vilmos
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              Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

              I got some a few weeks ago. My kids love them.

              Does. Not. Compute. :-D


              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

                Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                I got some a few weeks ago. My kids love them.

                Does. Not. Compute. :-D


                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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                Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                Does. Not. Compute.

                Of course it does. Any parent knows that if they buy any form of sweet, their children will appropriate them for themselves.

                Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                  Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                  Does. Not. Compute.

                  Of course it does. Any parent knows that if they buy any form of sweet, their children will appropriate them for themselves.

                  Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                  "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                  My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                  You take sweets of that quality near your kids? Licorice has an 8 minute half life with me. :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

                    You take sweets of that quality near your kids? Licorice has an 8 minute half life with me. :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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                    Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                    Licorice has an 8 minute half life with me.

                    And the trips to the toilet caused by scoffing that much licorice has an 8 day half life.

                    Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                    "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                    My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                    • H hairy_hats

                      Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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                      viaducting wrote:

                      How Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days?

                      To me, being across the pond, after I read that I was hesitant to Google Penguin biscuits lest I set off the corporate site blocker. But curiosity prevailed, thank goodness, another awful image purged from my mind. :laugh:

                      It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                        viaducting wrote:

                        How Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days?

                        To me, being across the pond, after I read that I was hesitant to Google Penguin biscuits lest I set off the corporate site blocker. But curiosity prevailed, thank goodness, another awful image purged from my mind. :laugh:

                        It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                        The slogan of P-P-P-Pick up a Penguin could have taken a whole new meaning there.

                        Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                        "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                        My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          The slogan of P-P-P-Pick up a Penguin could have taken a whole new meaning there.

                          Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                          "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                          My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                          :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That would explain the stutter.

                          It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                            viaducting wrote:

                            How Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days?

                            To me, being across the pond, after I read that I was hesitant to Google Penguin biscuits lest I set off the corporate site blocker. But curiosity prevailed, thank goodness, another awful image purged from my mind. :laugh:

                            It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                            hairy_hats
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                            S Houghtelin wrote:

                            viaducting wrote:

                            How Have

                            Darnit! :D

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                              Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                              Licorice has an 8 minute half life with me.

                              And the trips to the toilet caused by scoffing that much licorice has an 8 day half life.

                              Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                              "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                              My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                              hairy_hats
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                              Liquorice gives you a good run for your money.

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                              • H hairy_hats

                                S Houghtelin wrote:

                                viaducting wrote:

                                How Have

                                Darnit! :D

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                                S Houghtelin
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                                You're probably like me, my brain is several words ahead of my typing. Without the red squigglies I'd end up looking like a bad typist. (Hunt and peck typist that I am.) :)

                                It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                                • H hairy_hats

                                  Have you seen how small Penguin biscuits are these days? Two bites and it's gone. I feel robbed. Wagon Wheels? Maybe on a wagon fit for a Borrower. And what happened to if-you-like-a-lot-of-chocolate-on-your-biscuit-join-our-Clubs? Now it looks like a molecule-thin layer deposited in a vacuum chamber. :sigh: (Edited for grammar.)

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                                  I remember the day (granted, when I was five) when an apple required two hands to hold and half an hour to eat; now, they are small and can be finished in about 5 minutes. One of the reasons getting old sucks is that we still remember when the world seemed big and shiny and new.

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                                  • P Pete OHanlon

                                    Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                                    Does. Not. Compute.

                                    Of course it does. Any parent knows that if they buy any form of sweet, their children will appropriate them for themselves.

                                    Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

                                    "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                                    My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                                    Ben Breeg
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                                    Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                    Of course it does. Any parent knows that if they buy any form of sweet, their children will appropriate them for themselves.

                                    I can vouch for that. I never get to see any of the chocolate/sweets that enter out house. :sigh:

                                    Why can't I find a signature that I can stick with? Are they all gone?

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                                      I remember the day (granted, when I was five) when an apple required two hands to hold and half an hour to eat; now, they are small and can be finished in about 5 minutes. One of the reasons getting old sucks is that we still remember when the world seemed big and shiny and new.

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                                      Gregory.Gadow wrote:

                                      ne of the reasons getting old sucks is that we still remember when the world seemed big and shiny and new.

                                      And more pleasant.

                                      Why can't I find a signature that I can stick with? Are they all gone?

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