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My favorite is
Circumvent: The opening in the front of men's underwear
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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How about:
Reprehensitive: When your representative acts reprehensibly. As in Ted Cruz is a reprehensitive from Texas.
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Vivic wrote: Errorist : Someone who repeatedly makes mistakes.
A much better use of the term would've been terrorists who manage get their explosives to go off before intended. (I was searching for a sample video that was on the BBC site a few weeks ago, but then decided against repeatedly using these search terms...)
Vivic wrote: Hiberdating : Someone who ignores all their other friends when they are dating a boyfriend/girlfriend.
That just seems to me like the polite thing to do (I'm assuming that "ignoring", in this context, involves a smartphone).
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I've just discovered that the collective noun for a group of Squid is "A Shoal"
Damnit .. it should be a "Squad of Squid"!
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And the squads should come in fours 
A Quad Squid Squad.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
modified 17-May-15 11:34am.
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Not just squid - I believe it applies to all species of fish.
/ravi
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Most of 'em, yes (there are exceptions like a company of angel fish, a battery of barracudas, a fleet of bass, a shiver of sharks...)
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Well yes, but a squid isn't a fish.
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You're right - it's a mollusk.
/ravi
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I really like the idea of using "squad" for a school of squid, but "shoal" just sucks; it's an insult to the intelligence of the cephalapods.
The large Humboldt squid, for example, often travels in schools of more than one-thousand, and hunts collectively.
cheers, Bill
«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, Jr.
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That's not a Squad, that's a whole battalion!
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's not a Squad, that's a whole battalion!
Looks like you are thinking of a squidron.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I prefer a plate of squid.
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Lightly battered in tempura batter I find is best.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I see new movies coming up:
The Squid Squad of Death
Squidnado
Sandsquids
The Soul Sucking Shoal
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The remake of Platoon will be different... 
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A tool to convert any file into an image in order to share it by simply providing a link to an image? Obviously the downloading person also has to have this tool installed to convert it back.
I had the idea yesterday and for the fun of it I implemented it. If you would see some use for it, I would extend it with automatic upload to imgur (it doesn't violate their terms) and publish it as a tip/trick.
edit: I think we have found that the answer is no
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
modified 17-May-15 11:40am.
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Um...any file?
Are we talking about an image of the file as it would be if (for example) opened in Word or Excel?
Or the binary file content "packed" into a bitmap format?
And if the later, why would I want to share a packaged version when I could share it as a ZIP, RAR, or in the original format via Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive? All I can see is it making it harder to distribute because the recipient needs the "unpack" software - for PC, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, or whatever he is using... What am I missing that is an advantage here?
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OriginalGriff wrote: the binary file content "packed" into a bitmap format?
this one
OriginalGriff wrote: why would I want to share a packaged version when I could share it as a ZIP, RAR, or in the original format via Dropbox / Google Drive / OneDrive?
Opening the image-link in the browser would "instantly" give you the data, no further clicks on "download now" required and no other hassles like ads, captchas, possibly having to register first,.. just that you have to have the tool for the reversion. (Instead of having to open the image-link in the browser the tool could accept the link itself.)
OriginalGriff wrote: What am I missing that is an advantage here?
That's why I'm asking 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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So...really all you are doing is changing the extension and posting it to an image sharing site, hoping that they don't reject it when they can't make a thumbnail?
And that when it gets to the browser as an image the data stays there instead of being replaced with a big red "X" box?
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Of course I pack it into a valid image file 
That's a PDF: http://i.imgur.com/5KzpAW7.png[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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So you need software to "depackage" it...which means finding it, downloading it, installing it, finding you have the wrong version, getting the iOS version for your Android, swearing, ...
Seriously, all I can see you doing is annoying the people who run image sites like imgur!
I wouldn't use it by preference: ZIP/RAR and download works for me - if nothing else I can virus check it before I open the file.
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It's ok - just wanted to see if someone can see more of a use of it than I 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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