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There are three things I hate in life:
1) Rants.
2) Irony.
3) Lists.
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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This question made me smile, without even really looking at the question:
Quote: How do I convert float to money
This, young Padawan, is in a nutshell what we have been working on for years.
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On the other hand we can teach you how to float money... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Teach a man how to float money and it will last him a day, teach him to stay afloat with his money...
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Even better - teach him to stay afloat with no money... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Write a song? float...[^]
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Until you try to use a float too hold a monetary value.
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Last year I heard this question in the radio on my way to work. The right answer would have earned you 10000€. Let's see who might have won that money here:
Albert Einstein was 17 years old in 1908 (my fault, should be 1896) and worked at the Oktoberfest. What did he do there?
modified 2-Aug-17 7:08am.
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He was a steward. Except that he was born in 1879, so he was 29 when he worked there.
A non-famous Albert Einstein was 17 in 1908 and worked at there, but he was in charge of releasing the tigers when the crowd got too rowdy, and had nothing to do all week.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I stand corrected. I misread a somewhat lengthy sentence that mixed up all kinds of facts about the place where he worked with other events in the year 1908.
So it was in 1896 when he worked there, but not as a lion tamer or steward.
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Wrong year. He was born 1879 and it was 1896 when he worked for his father's company Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie.
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Yes, the date is correct. And what did they do at the Oktoberfest? Don't say that they drank beer.
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Working for his father's company as unskilled electrician installing light bulbs.
Can be all found in the web 
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Still, that would have earned you some money. But only if you did not misread the one I found and mixed up the dates.
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Not only you mixed up the dates but also a contributor to the English Oktoberfest - Wikipedia[^] page:
Quote: In 1901, Albert Einstein was a laborer in the construction of the Wiesn. As an assistant in the family-owned electrical company Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, he mounted the bulbs in the Schottenhamel marquee.
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It was really written a little confusingly. Sorry.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: he mounted the bulbs in the Schottenhamel marquee
See I was right.. pole dancing!
I'm guessing the bulbs were at the top of the dancing poles - you'd have to be careful how you mounted them though, they'd be really hot back in the days before energy saving ones - could be a very nasty accident! 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: See I was right.. pole dancing!
Not really. The poles are too thick.
But table dancing might apply.
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A 17 year old apprentice has got to make his money somehow..
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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That's how Sean got his start.
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So the legend goes ... one day Chris Maunder saw me table dancing and said, "now there's a guy that knows how to edit articles."
?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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It happens more often than you think
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Whereas we SQL-slingers make the tables dance. ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Pole dancing for cash
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Relative close, but wrong.
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