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OriginalGriff wrote: Burn it down
I'd rather burn the spider, I don't think setting the electricity meter on fire would help.
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That should take care of any fly problems they may be having. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Don't be silly. Want one! (UK arachnids are so dull!)
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I........hate.........spiders.
shiver
Marc
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Whack the bastard with a thong, that will discourage it from nesting in you electricity box, no not that thing the footwear thong[^].
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Damn! What a cruddy smart-meter. The ones we have here all use the ZigBee protocol to form a mesh network. A mate in the retail account division of one of power companies informs me that they've got a granularity of ~30 minutes on all readings so as to better perform load balancing.
Haven't seen a meter reader round these parts in several years now. It also means they can cut-off your power remotely, which netted someone I know a couple of grand after she was erroneously cut-off and the ombudsman hit the company with a big stick. :Laughs: You'd have thought she was going camping with all the battery powered LED lights she had to buy.
Unfortunately, our meters are still a bit crap and the power companies are too frightened to give us the key needed to perform a pull-request on the meter reading with a wireless unit, so we're stuck with counting LED flashes to get 'instantaneous' rate of consumption, or to walk out and look in the box to get a live reading.
The spiders? Meh. You haven't lived until you've dodged a snake on the way to the dunny, only to share the cubical with a red-back spider. Some loos have air-freshner in em, others just have a can (or assortment) of bug-spray. 
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Sorry - I have training Monday morning so I'll give you this to work on today...I think it's a hard one so it may still be extant by Monday
Micro units of energy align to make a song and dance (7)
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I've got it! Now what am I going to do Monday?
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Post it (with explanation) - I'll confirm if you are right or wrong on Monday before my training.
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MUSICAL
MU = micro
SI = units
CAL = of energy (although it should be joules, Shirley!)
The whole being song and dance.
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That is correct - you can do the honours on Monday?
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╦╩╦╬═
5 letters
Clue: Oh, come on- it doesn't need a clue.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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PIPES ???
Let me be wrong please
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I don;t think you are - that's the first thing which leapt to my mind as well!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That would be a bummer. Still learning the ropes of this FSOW. I will be a lost cause trying to frame the clue on Monday
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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You've got the whole weekend!
I find them difficult as well, but it might be worth thinking of a word, and seeing if you can "draw it" in characters? Like my "ANDROID" clue was (as best I could make it) a robot:
[]|<=:| Which sort-of works if you turn it 90 degrees.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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May be a dumb question?
Where do I get the symbols from? Char Map?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I think on windows you can hold alt and type a three digit ascii code
I do the equiv on the Mac then use symba that take my fancy
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Character Map (charmap.exe) is where I get them from.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Indeed, I answered only once and got away by setting
x==->
which was an arrow.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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If it makes things any easier, most of us British (based) CPers have the day off on Monday and won't see it anyway.
(Not that I've ever worked one of these out).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Which means the lucky chap gets to set it on Tuesday as well!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: that's the first thing which leapt to my mind
Mine too.
He's up for Monday, I guess
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