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Can't watch the video either. Is it someone hating on Mercator because of idiots using it for purposes other than the traditional compass/sextant/etc navigation it was designed to make easy?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Best I can tell it's a clip from a movie?, it has some well know US actors in it.
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"Initially The Queen let in playing tomorrow's feast."(9)
Quite hard!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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HALLOWMAS - period including All Saints' Day
The Queen = HM
let = ALLOW
in = HALLOWM
playing = AS (eg starring <actor> as <part>)
Regards, Stewart
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Well done.
You didn't fall into my elephant trap.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I was very close my answer was Halloween So I hit 6 out of 9. What do I get?
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the achievement of knowing that you were wrong 
is this a signature ?
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What about the cash prize? There is first & second runner?
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its not about w(h)inning its about the fun you had 
is this a signature ?
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Yes I consider myself a winner since this is the first time I get so close 
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my first thought was "halloween" ... no that's wrong for sure i mean cmon who really thinks a ccc is that easy ... but ... it was ... nearly the right answer dang it 
but remember - i now totally know the answer of the ccc on Christmas - or should i say "Christween" ?
is this a signature ?
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The wrong answer.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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You don't have the spirit 
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That's because I'm nearly teetotal.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Really? Not even beer ? 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Nope - can't even remember the last time I had a beer.
I drank a glass of white wine last week though, if that helps?
(I used to drink a lot - more than a wine box a night for about twenty years - but I got bored with it and stopped about six years ago. Surprisingly few adverse effects! )
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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You stopped drinking because you wanted to or you needed to ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Wanted to. I just got fed up with not remembering the ends of films, and getting drunk and so on.
If I had needed to, I suspect it would have been a lot harder to stop than it was...as it was it was a damn sight easier than when I gave up smoking!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I gave up smoking!
How?
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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He gave up sex as well, so he did not need that after-sex cigarette anymore.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I don't know about Griff, but I decided I wasn't enjoying it anymore and just stopped.
No drama - except a filthy temper for a couple of weeks - and now I haven't smoked for over four [or maybe it's five] years.
speramus in juniperus
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Patches. Each one lasted a week.
Horrible. I didn't sleep properly - I had incredibly lucid dreams the whole time - and my sense of smell came back with a bang. My sense of taste changed dramatically (I still can't eat as hot chillies as I enjoyed when I smoked). I hung onto the final patch for four weeks, like a comfort blanket, even though it had run out of nicotine ages ago. Not an experience I would want to go through again. I think what kept me going was that I was not enjoying smoking any more: I smoked because I had to. International flights were a living hell! Motivation is important IMHO: if you don't actually want to give up, you won't. If you "think you should" it's probably a lot, lot harder than if you "want to stop". I also didn't destroy my tobacco on Day One, because I didn't want to not smoke because I didn't have any - I wanted to not smoke because I didn't want a cigarette (if that makes any sense). When I took off the final patch, I chucked the tobacco because I didn't need it any more.
One of the motivators was to put the price of the cigarettes I would have smoked in a jar every day. At the end of the first month, take it all, and go spend it on a present for yourself, then again after six months - it's surprising how much free cash you get!
But completely worth it. I breathe better, I don't get the colds and such I used to, I don't stink all the time, I don't have burns in my shirts, I don't have yellow fingers, I'm much better off financially looking at the price of a pack now, I don't wake up and have to search for the cigarette I dreamt I was smoking...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I drank a glass of white wine last week though,
It's people like you causing the wine shortage. STOP IT!!!
speramus in juniperus
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Nah - I stocked up earlier on in the year!
(This is the same wine box I opened in February - does that count as hoarding? )
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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