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I'm thinking "eliminate" but it would still have a tense issue with devour.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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You're right.
That was pointed out too - ok, slightly careless, but I don't think it stops anyone getting it. You did.
You win.
I will do better next time (if...)
Now get the other ones! They're easy!
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They're not easy now that you've said that they are!
I'm certainly struggling with "Is it a bird ..."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Quote: 3. Build a fake type (9)
Comic Sans
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Fabricate ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Stupid me - I couldn't think how to correct the clue, and all I had to do was change "takes" to "took"... <sigh> next time.... if... I'm clearly not at my sharpest in the morning's...
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Devour would still be synonymous with "eat" rather than "ate", I'd have thought ...
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I think I'm going for a siesta!
But.. you can us "ate" in the past tense. It may not be technically correct, but people do:
"I ate a banana yesterday"
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"I ate a banana yesterday" would be correct, "I devour a banana yesterday", on the other hand ...
Maybe "consumed" would be a better route.
Either way, a siesta sounds like a damned fine idea - I just need to run it by the boss
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Wake me when I'm awake!
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psst - you do know it's your turn - responsibility, even! - to post today's CCC?
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I think that "duty" would be the word!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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"Camoflage"?
[edit]
- Build a fake type (9)
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modified 2-Nov-17 10:27am.
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Autonomous driving cars: yay!
I've way more confidence in the wagon wheel Eustace repaired on on Mountain Men the other day.
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Call you a skeptic? I'm not sure you really mean it.
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Who else gets tripped up by environments that are similar but not identical?
Example: the "refresh" widget is right of the address box in Firefox but left in Chrome etc.
...and the one that inspired this post.
I'm writing this on a dual-boot Ubuntu/Win10 box.
On both I run multiple desktops.
In Ubuntu the desktop switching shortcut is <ctrl><alt><arrow-key>
Try THAT in Win10! Good for a double-take if you haven't met it before.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Try moving the mouse around in a coordinated fashion after that, it's next to impossible!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I once had a colleague who always held the mouse upside-down. She was a graphic designer and was drawing stuff like that with amazing dexterity.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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With the cord facing her, on the bottom of the desk, or using an old ball mouse as a trackball?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: Try THAT in Win10! Good for a double-take if you haven't met it before.
And annoyingly, ctrl-alt-left-arrow did not revert it back! I had to go into display settings, fortunately it only mutated one of my three monitors.
You can stop laughing now.
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You need to hit Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow to revert it to the default orientation.
The keys are saying "this side up" not "turn it for 90 degrees"
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I've been fixing Firefox's UI to undo that ever since they got infected by internot exploited and moved it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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