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The poor guy had to attend football matches. Isn't that bad enough?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks, Mark,
Even though I'm not a follower of any sports (being the son of a university head football coach led to a lifetime of aversion to all organized sports), I loved this story !
My subconscious mind was hearing the words to the song "If You're Young at Heart:" "Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you ..." as I read the story [^].
While it is, perhaps, the juxtaposition of opposites in life ... great fame, wealth, power, of a sports legend ... in contrast ... to the life-long dreams of a relatively poor, hard-working immigrant every-man ... that gives what happened such "magic" to move our emotions: I also think it shines a light on the fact that all of us, in our own way, can also, through small acts of kindness, have an effect on the lives of others we may only understand years later, or: even never understand ... consciously.
Our own spontaneous "small acts of kindness" may never have the high-drama of this touching story, but, imho, they all flow into what the Dalai Lama refers to as the "great reservoir of compassion," upon which the quality, and meaning, of life, so often: "hangs by very thin threads."
Good grief: what am I doing: this is starting to sound like a "sermon:" I will have to be very nasty to somebody tomorrow to correct this soppy tendency ! 
yours, Bill
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Not moved.
I'm a heartless cynic.
But you people already knew that, so this shouldn't come as a shock to anyone.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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You are funny: before I even opened your post I knew what it would say just because it was you!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Truly he is the special one!
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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Clickety
"Break away from everybody
Break away from everything"
:singing in my mind:
There are ppl in the room i don't want to scare them away. Or do i ?
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Good Song. Although for my week this[^] seems to fit a little better.
Terrible song. Terrible week.
Limp Bizkit wrote:
It's just one of those days
When ya don't wanna wake up
Everything is [Elephanted], everybody sucks.
You don't really know why
But you wanna justify rippin' someone's head off
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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The best part is, the day is almost over (5 PM here)
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Argonia wrote: The best part is, the day is almost over (5 PM here)
Lucky. I'm just getting started.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Same here... more ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) please
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Not availabel in my country - does it denegrate Margaret Thatcher[^]?
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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No, its Three Days Grace's song named Break
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Voila![^]
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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IM'ed the link to a co-worker that has a Macbook... too funny.
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I thought of some sort of , ehr, "laptop"-tossing..
that´s cool anyways...
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They are more stable than PC's.
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A Friend asked me to have a look at his Max book pro last weekend, wondering why it had gone slow.
I installed Sophos AV onto it as it's free for the Mac in the UK (not sure about the rest of the world), ran a scan and it found 135 viruses running on his PC
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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Simon_Whale wrote: Max book pro
What's that?
Simon_Whale wrote: it found 135 viruses running on his PC
Ah, it is apparently a PC.
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Simon_Whale wrote: I installed Sophos AV onto it as it's free for the Mac in the UK (not sure about the rest of the world), ran a scan and it found 135 viruses running on his PC
Is that the latest apple marketing scam?
"Thank you for running a virus scan on your Mac, but did you know that you have 135 viruses on your PC?"
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AspDotNetDev wrote: They are more stable than PC's.
Yup.
The last thing you want is an unstable mousepad.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Good idea. I just solved the problem in the first place by not buying it. At least at one time it had the Motorola processor, which was superior.
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The hamsters got hungry and ate it?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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and then aparently barfed it up.
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