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I like this so much I'm going to pocket it.
/ravi
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Good to have that straightened out, I wouldn't want to be stranded without one.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Toupé!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Parting a-side, that's not what I hair. Some might bristle with anger over that type of comb-ment.
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Smooth. Very smooth.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Since most of the stuff I get is junk, I'm not certain that this really was an error.
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Sounds like a normal day to me.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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yep, same thought over here ... this is a new normal, NBD (No Big Deal ...  )
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... That's such an obvious solution![^] 
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The usual mistake:
Quote:
sentience or sentiency
1. the state or quality of being sentient; awareness
2. sense perception not involving intelligence or mental perception; feeling
I would actually demand that a robot is sentient to some degree, so that it can fulfill its task.
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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It may be just me, but don't you ever get the feeling that jokes about vacuums suck?
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Infinite recursion not heard of drawing parallels? (9)
modified 27-May-21 9:01am.
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No idea, just a guess, I definitely won't be able to set the question if I win this.
That said, ITERATION?
Cheers,
Vikram.
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I hope I'm wrong as I'm not good at writing CCCs
LIMITLESS?
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The answer is rectangle.
I was hoping that the solution would be quite fiendish, however I wasn't expecting it to go unsolved.
Solution
First we need to identify the indicators:
"Infinite" means without end or endless
"Heard" means sounds like, and in this case is applied to "Not".
So we simplify our clue to:
Without end recursion knot of drawing parallels? (9)
REC = Recursion (without end/endless)
TANGLE = Knot
RECTANGLE = Drawing parallels (a rectangle can be drawn using 2 sets of parallel lines).
modified 27-May-21 10:46am.
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You have got to be shitting me. 
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Yes. There are too many ways to parse it, and there are two double indirections (infinite -> endless, which is then used as an indicator, and not heard -> knot -> tangle).
But others who are much better at these than me might disagree.
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I disagree with the indirection on the infinite one, I don't see it being any different to most indicators that are just synonyms of the action you should apply. Granted not a common indicator that you would see (if ever), but it's not a requirement to make them easy!
I was in two minds about the "knot" part though. I am not a big fan of these "double indirections" as you call them (no idea what I would call them), but it made the clue sound better in this case, and I have certainly seen others use them too so I couldn't justify them being against the rules.
A tough one for sure.
I would be interested on what people think of the "drawing parallels?" part though, does that work as a definition for "rectangle"?
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Drawing parallels suggests that the answer is a verb. Maybe two parallels would have been less cruel.
To return to my whingeing, there's the superfluous of. But it disappears if the clue becomes "Infinite recursion not hearing two parallels".
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Very nice, I like that version better.
Makes me wonder... could I use that clue tomorrow but find a different answer that fits!
(probably not)
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