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Chess player loses a ton backing one of his men and gets the bird (10)
Slogans aren't solutions.
modified 28-Feb-17 5:07am.
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Kingfisher?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Yep - do you want to explain or shall I?
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I can't. Only bird I could think of starting from a chess piece was kingfisher.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Fair enough ...
The chess player in question was Bobby FISCHER - the legendary American chess genius and general oddball.
Losing a ton (C = 100 in Roman numerals) that becomes FISHER.
Backing a chess man (in this case the KING) we get KINGFISHER giving us the bird.
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Would have never figured it out. Guess you are still up for tomorrow then?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Well, you did get the answer, so it's yours if you want it.
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I guess I will have to pass. There is a flash sale (online) I need to focus on tomorrow afternoon. Need to buy a phone.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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No worries, I'll come up with something suitably fiendish.
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So how would a ton associate with 100?
Where I come from a ton is a thousand kilos.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Ah, I'm wondering if this is a largely British thing - if so, please accept my apologies. We frequently use "ton" here to refer to a hundred, particularly in the following contexts:
Speed - anyone going over 100mph is "doing a ton."
Sport - a cricketer scoring a hundred runs has "made a ton", a dart player who scores a hundred has scored a ton. (Aussies and Kiwis would probably use the cricketing context, too).
Money - £100 is often referred to as a ton (particularly in London).
The origins, I'm not quite sure of - an imperial ton was 2,240 pounds and it obviously predates our semi-adoption of the metric system - so it's a bit of a mystery as to why.
I do always try to avoid British idioms in clues but sometimes one sneaks through simply because I haven't realised that it's not a universal English usage, which was the case with this one.
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An American ton is 2000 pounds.
Sure are a ton of tons.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: An American ton is 2000 pounds.
FTFY!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nightowl
[EDIT:] I should learn to count 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
modified 28-Feb-17 4:56am.
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megaadam wrote: I should learn to count
There are three kinds of people: those who can do maths and those who can't. 
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Hey!! Are you making fun of me? That's four kinds!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ah! You spotted the deliberate mistake - just making sure that everyone was paying attention ...
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Commit strip OTD: SHA1 Collision[^]
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I also did that once, nobody liked it. Here is the method I used:
public string SendSecretInfo(){
return "MD5 (add salt to taste)";
}
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I'm having breakfast just now. Shall I look for the secret decoder ring in the cereal box?
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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So tell us the secret info. We'll find out if you don't tell us anyway 
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If your hash keys are longer than 32 bits you obviously don't care about performance.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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64 bit machine: 32bit hashes just waste memory accesses! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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