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Problem is, one liners like that are better when delivered by someone who is good at telling jokes rather than read in the middle of article that has already told you you are going to read the funniest joke.
I heard it read out on the radio yesterday evening, it wasn't funny then either, I imagine Tim Vine delivering it and it raises a smile.
Interesting that the BBC report leaves out the Gove joke.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Gove is a joke.
But that one is the funniest in that list - it's the only one to raise a smile with me!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I totally agree - which is why Milton Jones works better live than on twitter.
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What's the most important thing TIMING about comedy?
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As already stated, delivery and expectation is important.
Humor is a funny thing. Not only does it rely heavily on circumstance in many cases, but it varies from person to person. Some people just get a huge kick out of witty one liners, and there could be nothing funnier. While some people just like people yelling, or sketch acting.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Seems like an old joke anyway?
But you're right I've seen better here...well not right here...you know?
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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The build up to the joke was more interesting than the joke. I actually put down my coffee.
Jeremy Falcon
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My fave of all time is a Steve Martin joke - an approximation as far as I recall:
Doctor: Good or Bad new first?
Patient: Good
Doctor: You're about to have a disease named after you.
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Another one bites the dust.
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The truly funny thing is I had a Hoover sitting in the closet doing exactly that for a year or so, finally took it to the dump last month. And I never thought of making that pun. Dang, what a missed opportunity!
Marc
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It's lucky that CP didn't exist when that joke was first told, or Leslie Nielsen would have posted it here.
IPOF, I believe it goes back to penny dreadfuls; something like "My missus pawned 'er cleanin' rags -- well, they was only gatherin' dust."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hi All,
As per the subject line. No one seems to know how they want a CV laid out, each agent, company wants a different layout... I am starting to think it's a case of you can't polish a turd (but Mythbusters...), but you stick a flag in it! 
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Gak. It really is a hideous task. I've stayed at more than one position until the absolute breaking point because I was avoiding the job search.
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Feeling that one. I think you need to write 20 versions with different pseudonyms.
"Please add a few extra lines about xyz"
"Oh no please shorten it to 2 pages"
"Please put education at the top"
"Why is education at the top? I want to see the relevant recent jobs"
F**king hell, just give me and application form then and sod this CV business. It's darned impossible!
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You are after all a developer are you not? 
Why not make a virtual CV that can be loaded on a website or something. Then you just populate the different views as they request it. Like say expandable objects then they can just click on Education and it will open up and show your education. Same with all the other stuff. This way they can look first at whatever they want and only look at what they want, with an option to print or download the actual CV. So now you have a CV and a proclamation of your skill set as a developer 
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Mmmm, I have debated doing that, but the recruitment agents won't touch anything that isn't a .doc file, a lot can't even link to download it... 
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So true but I am thinking of when you do it directly and not through agent. But if you go through agency they usually retype your CV and send that in to the different places don't they?
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Just remember to insert all the buzzwords, language names and such you a re interested in in white color and font size 1 everywhere you can on the CV.
This way they will be invisible, even when printed out, and your CV will pop out every time a search is made in the database with the said buzzwords.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I'm now moving some videos from the ExtSD\DCIM\CAMERA folder to ExtSD\DCIM\CAMERA\MyFolder and it is taking along half an hour. That could be OK if the files being moved would be big enough, but they are really small.
When I access the ExtSD\DCIM\CAMERA folder I can see the pictures appearing one by one in that folder...
Is there something I could do to accelerate that a little?
Apart of that, if I try to rename a folder "ExtSD\DCIM\CAMERA\MyFolder" ==> "ExtSD\DCIM\CAMERA\Concert With my wife" the operation fails from my Windows 8.1 and from my ES File Explorer.
Coming from Blackberry, the phone was like an external HDD it was blazing fast (limited by external SD card speed of course), but now with my SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 this is at least annoying.
Any idea?
Thank you in advance!
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Joan Murt wrote: the phone was like an external HDD
Same here with ACER Liquid. Copied 3Gb of video/music/pictures in no time.
Joan Murt wrote: SAMSUNG
*cough* Try with Kies  It has supplanted Norton as the worst piece of software ever in my list. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I use FTP Server[^] and update via FileZilla - faster than explorer transfers, particularly with a large number of smaller files.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Neat!...thanks for the link 
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Hi OG!
It works and it does really fast, but can you send files to your external SD card?
In my case Filezilla states:
550 Requested action not taken. /storage/extSdCard/testFile.doc cannot be written<br />
Critical file transfer error
Is it happening only to me?
Does it has something to do with the new KITKAT sd card policies?
Any idea? 
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Mine is a Nexus 7 so it doesn't have an external card slot: it had an emulated SD internally which there is no problem in writing.
Have you tried the card in other devices?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Probably is the new restriction in writting to sd cards added in KITKAT... I'll keep looking for a suitable solution...
Thank you! 
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