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You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
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And that trashing you totally deserved ! 
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Ni!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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We want ... A SHRUBBERY!
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Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... with... a herring!
[dramatic chord]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Are you trying to say, in so many words, that Whales is entering the modern age?
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We're hoping to get this new-fangled gas lighting soon!
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New Fangled ?
I thought that was a major form of recreation up your way.
You know - eat beans for a few days. Maybe some cabbage. A pack of matches.
Then everyone gathers and does some community-oriented gas-lighting.
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The flyboys call that an afterburner...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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You had a shoe box?!?!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Last night, the lowest temeperature I read was -21.2°C (roughly -6°F), which is pretty cold here by the coast, considering the humid air and the wind.
I grew up in the inland, in a district with very dry air in winter, and "wind" was something we read about in books. Then, it wasn't real winter unless it was at least twenty below. Also, a snowfall less than 25-30 cm wasn't worth mentioning. Every wither we had at least a meter and half of snow on flat land, in snowy winters it could be up three meters. But note: When it is twenty below, a meter of snow isn't very much - it is fluffy and light, very far from wet sludge. Actually, we couldn't have snow ball wars or making snowmen, because the snow would just fall apart.
But those were the 1960-70s. Climate has changed now. From the viewpoint of a 12 year old boy, it is certainly not to the better.
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Quote: CR2025's, measured at 6.6V
Wow, are they on drugs?
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Nah, the fob takes two of 'em in series, so 3.3 + 3.3 for the new ones.
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Well I guessed that  , anyway the nominal voltage of each cell is 3V.
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Nominal indeed - I metered the two new ones (I keep 2025's in stock for a couple of devices) to be sure they were OK and they both came in at 3.3V.
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Well I got into the office and started to think about beginning work, then we were told the office was closing due to a red weather worning (and company policy)... and in leaving I left my Phone(!) & Gloves(!!).
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Yeah, I was going to go into the office today, but thought it wasnt worth it, and they have decided to close it anyway till monday.
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A quote from Bill Bryson "The road to Little Dribbling":
Measured by decent music, old stony buildings, varieties of boiled sweets and reasons for not going to work because of the weather, Britain is number one by a very large margin.
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We were feeling a cold draft in our living room, but could not trace where it came from, until we found out yesterday that it was the ghost of the Flying Dutchman haunting us.
correction, coming from where the chimney pipe comes out of the wall, I provisionally repaired it with some aluminium foil. harrrr, brrrrr 
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As an FYI:
Often (mis)used to mean a a heavy snow storm, Blizzard is not based upon the amount of snow. It is more that the snow's blowing horizontally instead of falling. Visibility approaches none.
Just wait until you get a taste of a tornado !
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Now that's weather!
If you look carefully at the video, near the end, you'll see the secondary funnels somewhat clearly - not intense enough to reach the ground; just a reminder that this is just sampler. They often decorate the countryside with large hail to amuse those who didn't have all of their possessions vacuumed up.
In the central US, some of these monsters can reach 800m across. I don't live anywhere near those places.
It is the will of Xom !
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Current strike fires open air showers (13)
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Current strike = Thunder
Fires = strikes
Thunderstrikes ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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