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What are your worthless skills?

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  • F Fabio Franco

    While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?

    To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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    Gary R Wheeler
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    I can quote lines from movies I no longer remember or haven't even seen. In a sub-worthless skill, I can quote a significant amount of Monty Python material, despite never actually having seen the show.

    Software Zen: delete this;

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      Now that my days as sexual athlete, and orgiophantic virtuoso, seem over, I'd have to say my most worthless skills, excepting my bogus modesty, are in devising esoteric off-topic digressions which contain over-elaborated self-referentiality, literary quotes and japes, obscure sub-textuality, and archaic or out-moded vocabulary, as if were I were an architect designing twisted mirrors for fun-house add-ons to funeral-parlors. Perhaps that's why I feel a certain "kindred spirit" bond with DD, although DD's advanced abilities as a cunning linguist hierophant of the gustatory, and olfactory, senses, in the context of bibuolosity, are, ipso dipsomaniacal: nonpareil. Well, those are my latest lame excuses. As Groucho said: "these are my principles; if you don't like them: I've got others."

      "One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." Kurt Vonnegut

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      kmoorevs
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      BillWoodruff wrote:

      advanced abilities as a cunning linguist

      Now that made me laugh!!! :laugh: :laugh:

      "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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      • A AspDotNetDev

        Canadia is cheaper to visit. Last time I was up there, the only thing I recognized was poutine. :)

        Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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        PIEBALDconsult
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        AspDotNetDev wrote:

        the only thing I recognized was poutine.

        You go to my kind of places... oh, I thought you said puta, sorry.

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        • F Fabio Franco

          While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?

          To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          I don't think I have any. :sigh: You guys don't know how good you have it.

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            I can lick my elbow. How many of you have tried it?

            [www.tamautomation.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.

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            Fabio Franco
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            I think everyone I know have tried it... And believe it or not, I have a friend that succeeded.

            To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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            • P PIEBALDconsult

              AspDotNetDev wrote:

              the only thing I recognized was poutine.

              You go to my kind of places... oh, I thought you said puta, sorry.

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              AspDotNetDev
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              Puta teen? :~ Nope, can't say as I saw any of those up there.

              Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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              • A AspDotNetDev

                Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                the value of Pi to ten places

                I think I know pi to around 23 places. Let's see... 3.1415926535897962684323 And the actual digits are... 3.1415926535897932384626 Darn, I always mix up the "323" and "626".

                Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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                AspDotNetDev wrote:

                Darn, I always mix up the "323" and "626".

                It's damn not dam. The 323 is a four cylinder car while the 626 has a 6 cylinder engine. Hope that helps clarifies it for you.

                Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                  AspDotNetDev wrote:

                  Darn, I always mix up the "323" and "626".

                  It's damn not dam. The 323 is a four cylinder car while the 626 has a 6 cylinder engine. Hope that helps clarifies it for you.

                  Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                  AspDotNetDev
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                  Michael Martin wrote:

                  It's damn not dam

                  It's "darn", not "dam".

                  Michael Martin wrote:

                  The 323 is a four cylinder car while the 626 has a 6 cylinder engine

                  So one is a cylindrical car and one has a cylindrical engine?

                  Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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                  • F Fabio Franco

                    While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?

                    To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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                    Marc Clifton
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                    Fabio Franco wrote:

                    What are your worthless skills?

                    I was a killer 6502 assembly language programmer - I could read 6502 in hex, for pete's sake. Marc

                    My Blog
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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      Fabio Franco wrote:

                      What are your worthless skills?

                      I was a killer 6502 assembly language programmer - I could read 6502 in hex, for pete's sake. Marc

                      My Blog
                      Computational Types in C# and F#

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                      Fabio Franco
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                      Well, like I am good at x86 assembly, but I guess I'll never use it for a meaningfull purpose.

                      To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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                      • A AspDotNetDev

                        Michael Martin wrote:

                        It's damn not dam

                        It's "darn", not "dam".

                        Michael Martin wrote:

                        The 323 is a four cylinder car while the 626 has a 6 cylinder engine

                        So one is a cylindrical car and one has a cylindrical engine?

                        Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

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                        Lost User
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                        AspDotNetDev wrote:

                        It's "darn", not "dam".

                        I had to copy and paste to Notepad and have a look in Courier New to see that you were correct.

                        Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                        • F Fabio Franco

                          While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?

                          To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          The most appropriate one for a programming forum: COBOL. The others, well, what happens in the harem stays in the harem.

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                          • F Fabio Franco

                            While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?

                            To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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                            Super Lloyd
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                            I can move my ears!!!! And cook yummy food!

                            A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                            • F Fabio Franco

                              While I was running up the stairs some minutes ago, something that I usually find myself thinking is that I have several skills that are really worthless. For example, I am very good at walking and running silently. And they are worthless because: 1 - I'm not a criminal 2 - The job market for Ninjas is really low nowadays. I have many skills that I'm really good at but are worthless because they don't matter anymore or it makes no difference in my life or in other people's lives. What are your worthless skills?

                              To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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                              Jonathan C Dickinson
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                              Pretty good at visualizing the correct/fastest line through a corner. Useless because: 1. I am not a race driver. 2. I (now) drive responsibly.

                              He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. [Chineese Proverb] Jonathan C Dickinson (C# Software Engineer)

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