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An oldie but I like it
Rubber from the Middle East (7)
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And he's a noisy boy as well! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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This one sounds familiar, like it's been on here before. But I can't remember the answer, nor can I work it out.
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Quote: “Hey, I’m a street rat, remember? I’ll improvise.”
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Ah ok, I got ya.
Now I am definitely sure I have seen this clue before.
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haha very funny and a good one.
But I cheated.
I rarely ever get these CCCs but I enjoy them.
Thanks.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Damn! Missed it by two minutes: ALADDIN - blame Herself, her being ill distracted me.
Looks like you are up tomorrow!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nah you are up tomorrow cos I know you knew it
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I don't think you can use telepathy / clairvoyance as a "you win" decider. 
But I'll take it if you want.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yes please Paul I'm out tomorrow - I thought this one would go straight away as it's an old classic
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Oooo! Hang on - may be a problem, I've got to go out tomorrow AM. I'll see what I can do, but it might be early with a late "WINNER" announcement. Depends how it all goes.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I am sure you have explained it to me before, but I just can't find the duplicate!
But... can you explain the rubber...... oh... I just right now got it, he rubs the lamp. 
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And "A noisy boy" didn't give it away? I'm shocked, sir! Shocked, I tell you!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nope. Is it a reference to something?
If I had to guess based on the choice of words I might lean towards something Monty Python related, but nothing comes to mind.
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A A
Noisy DIN
Boy LAD
ALADDIN
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Also, I just found it from "rubs the lamp"...
The Lounge
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xkcd: Boat Puzzle[^]
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I jump in the boat and row across alone.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'd take the girl. And maybe the goat.
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I mean, come on man, how hard could it be?! 
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I have a boat which eats anything which comes into it.
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I had that before. In the beginning Mr. Scope Creep was more than happy to get 15000 more complex records in a download every day, as long as he really got them. Then 30000, better 50000. 100000 would be nice. Actually, some of our users may sometimes need 200000. In the end, when everything was online, we were at 2.5 millions. Twice, for different divisions of the company.
But I had seen that coming from the beginning and had built the program that prepared these downloads so that it would get only one record at a time and serialize it before moving on to the next. This way the number of records were irrelevant. It would just take a little longer than trying to get everything at once and have the server's memory hop out of its sockets somewhere between 10000 and 15000 records.
But of course it always was extremely hard to raise the bar once again (change a configuration variable) and squeeze the time and money for really important things out of Mr. Scope Creep. He even got a cool web page where every user could see how far the requested downloads were prepared and an estimate when they were going to be ready.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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C: I want all of our students (about 87000) on the screen when I open the app!
M: And what would you do with that list?
C: ... search for one ...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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This reminds me of a client program I wrote which would download specific views from a database onto a laptop so the worker could take it with him. These views contained all the necessary details for work orders, and everything the worker would need to fill out while working on the given task, and eventually completing it. One of the records had a freeform text field limited at ~1000 characters. It didn't take long for some to complain this wouldn't be enough, so we made it unlimited.
Then they started to copy and past entire word documents into that field (yes, that did work too!). And wondered why transfering their data took so long on a 1000 bit/s connection (that was >20 years ago...) 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I had a boat, was very happy when I sold it. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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