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    R Giskard Reventlov
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    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 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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      Lost User
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      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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        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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        Chris Maunder
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        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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          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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          Jeremy Falcon
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          Imagine if you went to America and your name was Seymore Butts...

          Jeremy Falcon

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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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            Jon McKee
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            Or Dick Hertz. Or Phuk Yu. Or Ivanna Svahlo Or... ok I'll stop :laugh:

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              Or Dick Hertz. Or Phuk Yu. Or Ivanna Svahlo Or... ok I'll stop :laugh:

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              lopati loaming
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              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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                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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                Jon McKee
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                I clicked that Pugwash link and now I regret everything :omg: Rule 34[^] I suppose.

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                  I clicked that Pugwash link and now I regret everything :omg: Rule 34[^] I suppose.

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                  Johnny J
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                  Ah, for duck's sake: You made me go to Urban Dictionary, and I just HAD to check out the "Trending now" links. I wish I hadn't, because now I know what a "Dog in a bath tub" is, and I really wish I hadn't seen that! How is that even remotely possible??? X|

                  Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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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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                    Johnny J
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                    This made me reflect upon the other treads about Git, and in my opinion, the name of that source control system is only fitting when pronounced in French (but then again in that case VERY fitting!) :~

                    Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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                      Ah, for duck's sake: You made me go to Urban Dictionary, and I just HAD to check out the "Trending now" links. I wish I hadn't, because now I know what a "Dog in a bath tub" is, and I really wish I hadn't seen that! How is that even remotely possible??? X|

                      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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                      The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                      Winston Churchill, 1944
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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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                      OriginalGriff
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                      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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                        Or Dick Hertz. Or Phuk Yu. Or Ivanna Svahlo Or... ok I'll stop :laugh:

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                        There actually is a guy in the UK called Fuk Yu Tu. It made the tabloids.

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

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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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                          Sander Rossel
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                          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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                            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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                              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:

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

                                "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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

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

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

                                  Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                                  Anonymous
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                                  The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                                  Winston Churchill, 1944
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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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                                  • 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^

                                        "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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                                        • 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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                                          W Balboos GHB
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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

                                          "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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