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Did anyone fire Republicons at the hospital?
The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can’t have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles — kingons, or possibly queons — that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed. --- The Late, Great, Terry Pratchett, "Mort"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wikipedia seems to think so: List of longest-reigning monarchs - Wikipedia[^]
If Bess manages to eke out another 2068 days or so, she'll pass him for length of time on the throne, too. She might even make the top of the list of all time longest monarchs, though unlikely. In order to do so she would have to live past her 108th birthday. That's not an impossibility. The Queen Mum hit 101, so there might be some longevity genes in the pool.
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doesn't leave much for Chuck
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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Nope, it dont. It looks like all future monarchs are going to be 60+ by the time they ascend the throne. Not sure what that will do for the Monarchy after Liz leaves us.
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Well 60+ is fine if they all live to 100 right? That's still a good few decades on the throne...
Or we could role out the guillotine for anyone who ascendsthe throne at 60+...
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Meh. Does it really count if you become king/queen when you're still in diapers?
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dandy72 wrote: Meh. Does it really count if you become king/queen when you're still in diapers?
It sure did during the Middle Ages, when said royal baby would often be prevented from becoming anything else, the hard way.
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Is anybody currently in line for the throne "prevented from becoming anything else"? Ignoring the option to abdicate, I suppose...
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Probably not, regicide is so out of fashion these days.
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...and not like too much...
Quote: I obtained your information from the website and learnt that you have much experience with C#. programming. Therefore, I would like to express our desire that you could write a review for our products.
We are a professional vendor of .NET, Silverlight and WPF development components.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Tell them you'd be happy to review them, in exchange for a perpetual, royalty-free license (Including future bugfixes) to all the products you'll be reviewing, regardless of how you rate it...
Hey, some of those grid controls are expensive... I dunno about you, but I'm sick of rolling my own...
EDIT: Oh, and ask for source code too... in case they're pushing malware. Gotta be sure, right?
modified 13-Oct-16 9:44am.
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They want a review?
Too easy:
The company comprises inveterate spammers, which means that they are unlikely to be trustworthy and reliable. I therefore forewent testing their products, in favour of staying well away from them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I obtained your information from the website
What website? If it was your own website where you have your resume then what is the problem?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The problem not with the obtained info - all I have on the web (have no personal website, but several accounts all pointing to here) is public anyway, but should I advertise their products? Why should I give my - real or imaginary - reputation away like this?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: but should I advertise their products?
All they did was ask you to "write a review for our products." I don't see why that is a big deal. Who cares? Ignore it or do it. Either way, I'm not sure why they upset you.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Kessef ? ? ?
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Gornisht...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Redst yiddish? Azoy!
Also, my latest grandson has the rather atypical name, shared with you, of "Peter", for several weeks, now. So far as I know, he hasn't complained at all about it.
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זיי בעסער וועלן פּינאַץ
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Funny thing - in the email alert from CP it was written left-to-right.
I can easily read backward English, but luckily a click away was the original.
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I tried for a couple of minutes to get it right-to-left, but it wouldn't do it (on this machine).
Maybe it would work if I changed my system language or keyboard settings, but it's not something I do often, so it's not worth the risk of windows screwing things up altogether.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Treat it as a job: how long's it going to take, how much of your effort is involved, and what's the reward?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: how long's it going to take,
A few weeks (3-4). I do not know these controls of theirs, so I will have to read a lot and create a good test case, before I can say good or bad...
OriginalGriff wrote: how much of your effort is involved
See above...
OriginalGriff wrote: what's the reward
Nothing I need...
And by looking at the site - only positive reviews published, and I can't be sure mine will be one...So maybe all will be in vain...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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