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Well, I'm resigned to it, if that helps...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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chriselst wrote: *Not a proper cryptic crossword clue
Why not?
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I started getting complaints about the structure not being exactly right for a true cryptic clue that you'd find in a newspaper so started adding that disclaimer each time I set one.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I would probably have told them TGFTs.
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PompeyThree wrote: Why not?
Since you ask, in American cryptic clues all words must count so linking words (as in 'of a' and 'leads to') would be unacceptable. In both UK and American clues the definition 'my departure' would be suspect as it does not quite match the answer properly - resignation is not the me in question. Of course that could easily have been avoided by simply excluding 'my'. There are other minor issues that might have led to this being rejected by a 'proper' crossword editor.
That said, it's probably not necessary to add a disclaimer. We do all kinda assume that some 'rules' will be bent if not snapped into a thousand pieces most days. I do occasionally mount my high horse as a professional setter but only if the clue is so messed up as to make the answer no more than guesswork.
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Wow, we must go out for a drink sometime!
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↫↶↪↩↷↬ (6)
I was thinking of some clue, but the it is an every-day word so let first try...
1. The signs are here to confuse you, I should write 123456 too
2. It is always near...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 10-Dec-15 7:34am.
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My first thought was that the arrows should direct me somewhere nowhere.
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2W
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 10-Dec-15 7:09am.
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MASTER
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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2W
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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It is symmetric, but no repeated signs!
1W
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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DIRECT
Nowhere in this case
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2W
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 10-Dec-15 7:09am.
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PISHED
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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1B
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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4W
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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2W
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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AROUND
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Bingo!
You are up tomorrow (or is that Monday?)...
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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Tomorrow is friday, so thats perfectly fine
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Context: I was gobsmacked by the language in the recent announcement by MS of their terminating support for what (in my perceptions) are relatively recent .NET FrameWork versions, as reported here on Insider News: [^].Quote: You can run those applications on a later .NET Framework version without targeting a new version. .NET Framework 4.5.2 and higher versions have higher compatibility, provided by a newer feature called "quirking". Quirking is a pattern in which a .NET Framework version maintains the semantics of earlier versions, while including updated implementations. The .NET runtime knows which of these semantics or quirks to execute depending on the .NET Framework version that the application targets. Okay, I won't worry then, knowing Microsoft has got us"quirked:" never mind the vast confusion for end-users as they find their apps don't work with some system upgrade, or update; never mind the migraines of countless front-line-support-peons deluged with angry e-mails; never mind the developers coming down with acid-reflux, program managers one step closer to suicide. It's all for the better !
I wonder why this obvious improvement for everyone reminds me of the explanation (in Voltaire's Candide) by Dr. Pangloss to Candide of the beneficial aspects of his contracting syphilis:Quote: "Not at all," replied this great man, "it was a thing unavoidable, a necessary ingredient in the best of worlds; for if Columbus had not in an island of America caught this disease, which contaminates the source of life, frequently even hinders generation, and which is evidently opposed to the great end of nature, we should have neither chocolate nor cochineal."(4.16)
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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