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Coded in FORTRAN (before numbered versions) in 1962, IBM 7090. Fortunately graduated to assembler for CDC 3600 by 1964 (for a COBOL compiler)
Joan F Silverston
jsilverston@cox.net
nhswinc.com
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If you run this on a CDC 6400 class machine it prints 2 which was both fun and educational 
PROGRAM ONETWO
CALL ADDONE(1)
PRINT*, 1
END
SUBROUTINE ADDONE (NUMBER)
NUMBER=NUMBER+1
RETURN
END
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Is pirating so addictive because when you lose your first hand, you're hooked?
"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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The only pirate joke I know;
Meeting an old pirate one day had a peg leg, a hook and an eye patch.
I asked him how he got the peg leg.
I was in the gulf of Mexico fishing and an alligator got me leg.
How about the hook.
He answered; Wading with a pretty lass in Egypt when a croc come at us and being chivalrous I stepped in front of the lady and the croc got me arm.
How about the eye patch.
A bird sh*t in me eye.
Hmm
First day with me hook.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Arrrrrrr you getting that coat?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is pirating golfing so addictive
FTFY 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Doug Marcaida voice: That pun will keel haul
"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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wft4acmHNA&list=RDh0AAFhx3RmA&index=48
this reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Milan Kundera (Czech, now living in France): "The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light can spring from their contact." (in "Betrayed Testament," translated from the French "Testament Trahis")
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Kundera still alive, I would not have guessed! Sweet clip too.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Furious buccaneer loses his parking place? (5)
"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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Irate ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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A nice easy one for a Monday - you are up tomorrow!
Care to explain it for the others?
"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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Buccaneer = Pirate
losing parking = P = irate
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Spot on! 
"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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Not 'one of the greats', but 'the greatest' English striker ever.
Note. I'm not a Spurs, Chelsea or West Ham fan - just a football fan.
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I was helping my son with his math homework.
One of the tasks was to solve a simplified version of Einsteins riddle.
Fixed it after a while, helping the kid to think the right way.
But I remember that I really struggled with it in my youth, took me several days IIRC (not continuous obviously), with several restarts, so I thought I'd try it out again.
Fixed it in a couple of minutes. 
I thought we're supposed to get slower with age.
For anyone that want to check how fast they are (Don't cheat):
Quote:
There are 5 houses in five different colors.
In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
The question is: Who owns the fish?
Hints
the Brit lives in the red house
the Swede keeps dogs as pets
the Dane drinks tea
the green house is on the left of the white house
the green house's owner drinks coffee
the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
the man living in the center house drinks milk
the Norwegian lives in the first house
the man who smokes blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
the man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
the owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
the German smokes Prince
the Norwegian lives next to the blue house
the man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water
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I got one problem - I have never smoked anything (not even tobacco ), and for at least thirty years none of my friends have been smoking. So "blend" is a completely uknown term to me. Is Prince, Pall Mall, Dunhill or BlueMaster a blend, the others not? Are several of them "blends"? I don't have a clue!
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It's a cigarette brand.
Quite a silly name for a cigarette brand, but so are cigarettes as such in my not so humble opinion.
I've never heard about Bluemaster either. But whoever wrote this specific version of this old classic riddle comes from Scandinavia I believe
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It is like naming a brand of chocolate "flavour".
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I remember this from a book of brain teasers taken from Reader's Digest. I think I did it when I was 12, but it also took me a while to figure it out.
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I got it, after some crazy pivot excel tableing.
The Swede, Brit and Dane all live in the red house. The German drinks beer together with his dogs and cats. The Norwegian has no house but he is probably dead since he smokes Blend, Pall Mall, Dunhill and BlueMaster. The cats drinks milk. The horse lives in the green house. The white house is empty (but the fish wants to run for election).
I think this Einstein thing is highly overrated, this was easy.
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So, the Norwegian is a bum?
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You guys from the North are all scandinavinian friends, aren't you ?
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I suspect we get along better than most, but there's no real trust.
And we love to poke fun at each others like the French do to Belgians.
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Alas, we French are too condescending towards the Belgians, which is a pity because it spoils the relationship we have with them, and Belgians are great... Most here see it link a kind of grown-up/child relationship.
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