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Congratulations on your crossword being accepted for publication ! 
Being a crossword-playing fan, I find all this fascinating. You've made me want to learn more about the "conventions."
thanks, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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How do you teach your kids they must not recurse?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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By catching them when they curse the first time?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Kids are smarter these days, just try catching them. Of course there'll always be exceptions.
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Finally, an appropriate use of puns. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Play the Ten Commandments on a loop ... oh!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Give them a healthy vocabulary of swear words so they don't have to repeat themselves.
This space for rent
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This, it appears, is Mrs Wife's approach. The Hungarian language and cursing live a fruitful life of symbiotic fulfillment. Such innocuous phrases as "your mother"* can lead to extreme bouts of violence! Another twist is not saying "I am hot" as it means the same as an Englishman saying "I am gay". The only way around that particular anomaly is to say "It is hot for me"/"It is making me hot".
The other great hungarian tradition is to string one curse into another so you can find yourself on the receiving end of a ten minute tirade of filth without - to quote Mr N Parson - hesitation repetition or deviation.
* You would always include a complimentary adjective when saying it so "your [sweet|lovely] mother" is fine. Also "your mum" and "your mummy" are okay, but not "your mother". It stems from a phrase beginning "Your mother is a ..." but no one bothers with the bits about horses, God or negotiable affection.
veni bibi saltavi
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I once had a half English, half Russian girlfriend who claimed - and more than once seemed to demonstrate - that she could vituperate in Russian for up to 30 minutes!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's easy. By teaching them not to recurse.
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Nothing to fear - we sent a battleship (11)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dreadnought - don't know if I can do Mondays as I might not have a computer 
Just thought if you were to curb your worrying you would have another one (8) 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
modified 6-May-16 4:07am.
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You're up monday - so you have another incentive to get it all working!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes... did you download an iso and install it that way ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Yes.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sorry to keep on but do you do a disk or system backup ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Disk - it saves everything to an image file, and you can restore the image, or mount it it as a virtual drive to get at the bits you want if you need to instead.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ok thanks - one final question ? does AMOEI work ok with SSD's ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Oh yes!
And they do a Partition Assistant which upgrades an HDD to an SSD as well - I used it for mine, and it's excellent!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Brilliant thanks only I read some stuff where peeps had some problems with SSD's which was probably operator trouble
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I did an 8.1 to 10 update in place, and a 7 to 10 via an iso image. Although, in the latter case I did an update rather than re-install. In both cases, both PCs worked fine after the upgrades; just a bit of tweaking necessary for cosmetic reasons.
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Thanks Richard, I'm backing up using AMOEI and keeping several copies of the image in different places - also making physical copies of all my data to my server ( and you guessed it I'm backing up my server ) will post back soon
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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The Entitled Employee[^]
Remind you of QA, anyone?
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Not even QA - I have that a lot closer to my desk 
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So did I
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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