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I'm getting a lot of snail mail at work. Most are technical magazines and product announcenments.
While checking the mail this morning, a small magazine felt out of another one. I expected an advertisement brochure but got corrected:
It was a periodical of the German society for carrier pigeon cultivators.
After wondering why such has been bundled with a magazine for electronics, I turned it over and found an address label:
Misrouted mail, even not for this area. Must have been slipped into the magazine in some mail delivery centre.
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You realize they "race" them? Weird hobby to my mind: pack bird in box, put box in big lorry. birds driven a long way away and let go. Sit in smelly shed waiting to see how many of yours evade raptors. Fastest one home is the winner.
Pigeon racing - Wikipedia[^]
And I understand that a "good bird" can be sold for a fortune!
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I know.
One article was about a bird that settled down on a research vessel in the North Sea (so a little bit on topic because I'm working in the oceanographic area). It started off a few times but always came back to the ship (maybe because feeded there). After a week the pigeon left the ship and find it's way home to Hamburg (has been set out in Paris).
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Many years ago a neighbor had pigeons and never realized that the 'raptor' that let one of his pigeons disappear once in a while was our old cat that had found a way to get in there. The evidence was always removed in the morning before he ever saw what really had happened to his birds.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I know those RFCs.
But thank you for mentioning beacuse other's might not.
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They are fairly well known among us old (and not-so-old) farts. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Jochen Arndt wrote: Misrouted mail, even not for this area
Pigeons do have non-zero failure rates too.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: It was a periodical of the German society for carrier pigeon cultivators
The whole magazine? I usually only get their flyers.
I'll get my coat....
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Thinking about it you might be right.
Why are they using snail mail?
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Don't ever trust a fat dietitian.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Too bad you don't have a pigeon, you could strap the magazine to the pigeon and get it to the person who subscribed.
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No, pigeons go home, so his own pigeons would just fly into his own back yard.
He needs to ask the person who was supposed to get the magazine to send a pigeon to him (ask the truck with the boxes of pigeons to drop one off).
Then strap the magazine to the bird and it will bring it home.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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Duplicate of correct breach will get your account closed! (9, 9)
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I know the answer this time but cannot post as I cannot create CCC. Are loopholes in the rules here?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Loopholes can be arranged, but it depends on what kind of loophole you want! 
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As I said, I cannot create CCC for tomorrow.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Have a try: it's not simple, but it shouldn't be too bad. Think of a word, then try to find "bits" that fit.
For example, yesterdays:
Word chosen: DIABETES
Break it down, and you have DIES around ABET
Look for synonyms for each word, and he got "comes to a close" and "help". Add in something to indicate one is within the other "with internal" and the clue becomes "Illness comes to a close with internal help" - where "DIABETES" is an "illness"
Have a think about it, and see if you can work something out - if you can, great! If you can't, talk to me nearer the four hour limit and we'll work something out. Sound fair?
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Replied via email.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Duplicate: copy
correct: right
breach: violation
Copyright Violation can get your account closed.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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So, you are up tomorrow! 
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You should have posted this on the post in question. There's every chance that Kent will miss it here, while there's much better odds that he'll see it as a reply to his post.
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