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OriginalGriff was this until last week, and it's piquant (7)
modified 7-Oct-21 6:03am.
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I shudder to think ... 
"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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pungent - very Good
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I was beginning to worry!
Thank you and YAUT.
My sources tell me that piquant and pungent are synonyms, and define piquant as "pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind" which is my own little tribute to six years of TotD. 
The clue was inspired by RETROMINGENT last week and the GENT bit in particular...
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Although I got it as soon as I saw it ( I didn't look untill 11 ) it made me smile when I realised the OG reference - what was the original clue ? I've only seen the one with added clue 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Take out the italic bit ...
"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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Eh ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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OriginalGriff was this until last week, and it's piquant (7)
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OriginalGriff was this, and it's piquant (7)
"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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Ok ok thanks - when are you making your comeback ? 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It hasn't even been a week yet! 
"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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Linky no worky Derek
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I should be offended, but ...
"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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On the contrary - a compliment methinks
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"Pungent" has other meanings!
"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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... which is why I chose the synonym carefully! And you are were our pun "gent".
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And to think I was inching my way toward buying a mac.
Not anymore.
They treated a pair of orphans (brothers) I know like criminals because the younger one locked himself out of an iphone he bought refurbed from an outfit that resells refurbed apples. well, he doesn't speak english, and he's not particularly literate so the information that was put in his phone isn't easily recoverable, and they lost the paper we had everything written down on in the move (we didn't keep a copy, because who keeps copies of other people's passwords?)
Anyway, he locked himself out and we can't recover it, can't jail break it, we have the invoice for it, but Apple won't accept it.
Worse, they said "don't contact us again"
They really said that.
I can't even believe it.
I will never buy an Apple product. And for those of you that support them, I hope you reconsider. They are not nice.
Real programmers use butterflies
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To be fair, I am sure one can have similar unpleasant experience with any brand and a bit of bad luck...
Other than that, down to Apple, the evilerest(*) luxury IT monopoly!!!
(*: if you ask me, this is a perfectly cromulent word!! Totally fitting to Apple to boot!)
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With an Android I have many options at my disposal. I've unlocked them before.
Plus, in my experience, people that sell you android phones generally support them.
They regarded us like criminals instead. So not only did they not help, they insulted us. Nor will they file a police report, which would actually work in the kid's favor since he *didn't* steal it.
They're content to just basically accuse and be like "eff you we don't have to help you, nor substantiate our regard for you as criminals. eat dirt"
I can't remember the last time I or anyone I know was treated so poorly by a company they bought a product from.
Oh wait, yes I can. In 1986 my family was sold a $2000 bill of goods by a company that turned out to be useless inside of six months. That company was... wait for it! Apple.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I've heard enough horror stories about people locking themselves out of their iPhones and Apple basically telling them tough luck to believe at least some of these stories are true.
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No, they're not nice. I'm not sure they ever were.
By now they're all tired of our continual #$%t.
Doesn't excuse then though.
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Apple is the modern version of "we are Bell Telephone; we don't have to care"
Except that they've been like that from their very beginning. They may make good (but expensive!) products, but if you stuff up - you can either pay a ton to fix them, buy new, or walk away from the product.
Personally, where I have a choice, I prefer not to do business with such companies.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: They may make made good (but expensive!) products
FTFY
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Apple ripped my family off in 1986 because we were foolish enough to buy the ill fated Apple ][gs that apple abandoned 6 months after its release.
I haven't bought anything of theirs since because that horrible machine was the one I had to learn to code on.
Recently, I had finally budged on the issue. Tired of Microsoft's @#*! and annoyed that I have to fork my code to run on Windows even though the same code works on Apple and Linux left me with a bad taste in my mouth. So I was considering buying an Apple desktop workstation.
No longer. I will never buy an apple. Who messes with orphans? I'm pretty sure there isn't a hell, but they're somehow going there anyway.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Apple ][gs that apple abandoned 6 months after its release
A few years ago (ten maybe), the company I worked in was throwing six of theses, brand new, still in closed boxes, to the recycling and I was tasked of opening the boxes to separate electronics from paper and plastics.
At the time I inquired the guy in charge, that worked there for 30 years and was the guy that bought them, why they spent sooooo much money on something just to sit in storage for years before being thrown away. He said it "Was not my decision. Just following orders from management. You can take them home for free if you want".
I wonder if what you said was the real reason!
Also remember thinking at the time, "If only I had the space for those... vintage PCs... hummmm" 
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