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Must learn to dance on stilts whose height is greater than their own.
These stilts are made of vertically connected pieces of different types of wood: each type has its own elasticity, deformability limit before breakage, swelling/shrinkage in response to air temperature and moisture, pressure threshold for breaking, resistance to termites, types of fracture or cleavage, etc.
Each piece of wood must be custom designed to take into account all the parameters of every piece above it and below it. Any modification of a piece requires alteration of every other piece, below it, or above it.
Not only does a wanna-be-Royal need to dance in front of a vast crowd ready at any moment to riot, or, throw rotten fruit, or missiles, if there is the slightest misstep ... the stilt-dancer will fall: regardless of the severity of injury to the dancer, the dancer may then be sued for damages. Did I forget to mention that every person in that crowd may have a different idea of what the correct steps are ?
And, above all, the stilt-dancer must wear an attractive face at all times, and use subtle variations to hold the attention of the crowd, most of whom will have the attention span of gnats.
And, the stilt-dancer must never think of the words: "industry standards."
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Sounds like writing software!
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Sixty-odd years ago there was a craze for stilts. We all made them from odd pieces of wood and broom handles. Not sure if what we did could be termed 'dancing', but it was fun at the time.
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I'm fairly certain that it's not a requirement for joining any European Royal family; is this really true of The House of Internet? 
Links to videos or it didn't happen!
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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Perhaps in these times, when old autocratic institutions must wear a facade of egalitarianism, they are called "influencers" ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: influencers
Sorry for the crudity Bill, but my brain automatically translates that word to "asshat" (or its nearest equivalent).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thanks, Gary, for making me aware of this interesting pejorative appellation.Quote: Asshead has been with us as an insult since at least 1541, when English cleric Thomas Becon lamented how “little pleasure have these asse heades in hearing the glorious & blessed word of god.” Asshat, in contrast, dates only to the earliest days of the 21st century. The OED identifies the Jan. 4, 2002, Usenet post “You’re an asshat too” as the word’s first known inscription in written English, making the newsgroup rec.sport.paintball sort of like asshat’s own Chauvet Cave.
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The chthonic underbelly of linguistics, that exists in a dynamic, polarized, tension with the valorized ideal, always interests me !
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I prefer "recto-cranial invert" for "a**hole"/"a**hat". Not only does it sound almost medical, but it leads to a natural name for the condition - "recto-cranial inversion". It also pluralizes and allows for a prefix describing the severity and/or origin. 
(Abbreviation - RCI)
Best of all - I've found no swear word filter that doesn't let it through. :evil grin:
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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I like it! 
Software Zen: delete this;
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If it were not for the fame and the glory, we all would lead a meaningless life in Vain. Can anybody show me on the map where Vain actually is, so that I don't ever end up there?
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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How about here[^]? 
"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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Ah, France. I should have known.
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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Quote: Vain is a zone that occupies the west coast and red river of the middle section of Kenshi.
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If you have a map of my house, it's over in the living room, coincidentally located exactly where Herself is snoring on the sofa ... :InnocentWhistle:
"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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Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland, famed for the absence of light due to the mountains that surround: made famous in the novel "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse, where the protagonist uses the name to describe his existential depression, and angst: [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Is it near Jeopardy? I am told that there are a lot of jobs in jeopardy at the moment.
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It's right next to Absentia.
"He was tried for the crime in absentia."
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Mysterious union with markers around point (8)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think it should be ACRONYMS, but I can't justify the "M". If you add a point - "N" - to CRAYONS you get "ACRONYNS" but I'm not sure that's a word ...
"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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See where you are but nope
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think you're going to be up again tomorrow - I got nothing else!
"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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Solution? I'm still nowhere near.
"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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OMG! Again! 
But here is the trick.. I work with the same people, doing the same work, having same pay.
But now I am directly employed by EA. (i.e. Electronic Arts) instead of going though an agency. And I have leave and sick days on top (so, really, a little bit of money increase  )
Yea!
Gone is my work with EA. Long live my new work with EA!
And you better pay me some micro transactions prompto! 
(just kidding, I mean surprise mechanics!)
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Gratz
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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