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But both ends are OK.
Oop! Wrong thread.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This is where double-quoting the whole thing (making it literal) can help. A little. Sometimes.
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I got home yesterday and found my left arrow key missing on my 20 year old keyboard...
The keys are pretty solid. I've tried to get them off once, but without success.
Suspect #1, the cleaner. She's the only one who has been in my house, save for the cat.
Suspect #2, there wasn't any. No way in hell that the cat could've done this without throwing the keyboard on the floor or anything.
So I asked the cleaner, but she told me it already was like that.
She sometimes brings her son, but he was at school.
She DID offer me a new keyboard though, pretty awesome for someone who did not break my keyboard in any way!
So... One person in the house and she knows nothing about the key.
I've searched and ultimately found the key, broken, in the bag of the vacuum cleaner.
Confronted the cleaner with it, but she still denies knowing anything about it.
"Must've happened while I was cleaning and I didn't notice."
So you wreck a nearly unbreakable keyboard and somehow manage to get the key in the vacuum cleaner (must've made some noise!) and do so without noticing!? 
I gave her the benefit of the doubt because she's been my cleaner for over a year without any problems and I really don't feel like finding another cleaner.
For a minute there I was afraid I'd be needing a new keyboard, but it seems my old friend can stay with me a little longer 
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She might have tried to vacuum the keyboard. That's my guess  .
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Perhaps you should try cleaning all the years worth of detritus from in-between the keys of your keyboard. Maybe that's what your cleaner was trying to do for you... Imagine trying to clean all that dead skin buildup. And all the nutella... and breadcrumbs... sheesh
#SupportHeForShe
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I've tried, but I couldn't get the keys loose! (true story) 
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Vacuuming - knock the keyboard onto the floor (is it wired?) - key pops off unnoticed - picked up by the vacuum cleaner.
She does not want to admit to knocking the keyboard to the floor and genuinely has no idea why you are wittering on about the missing key.
And I thought my paranoia was getting the better of my judgement.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The keyboard is wired. If it were to fall on the floor it would probably take my monitor and speakers with it (but more likely is that they keep the keyboard from falling).
She said she noticed the missing key right away and it was like that when she got here.
Now that sounds like a lie to not have to pay for damages.
Although I do somehow believe she's not lying to me... So I really wonder how she managed to wreck the key without noticing
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You can afford a cleaner and you expect us poorly paid keyboard monkeys to be sympathetic? :P
Best way to phone help someone fix a broken keyboard?
1. Grasp keyboard firmly in both hands
2. Raise keyboard above head
3. Shake real hard.
Wait for the screams...
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Caslen wrote: You can afford a cleaner and you expect us poorly paid keyboard monkeys to be sympathetic? :P
If that cleaner wrecks my keyboard I won't even be a poorly paid keyboard monkey! 
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Sounds like a scene from a bad porno.
"You lost a key."
"No, monsieur I didn't."
"Take off your shirt.... Uh, on the other hand, put it back on and go away."
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Sander Rossel wrote: So I asked the cleaner, but she told me it already was like that.
Who but the guilty party would even notice it was already like that? I don't think a cleaning lady would even be paying attention to what's on my desk...
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Beauty.
Because Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder.
....later.
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beer-holder
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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A stinger? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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There is a feature request to add a right-click context menu item to take you straight to the fonts and colors element that needs to be changed. This is a source of pain for me and hopefully many others so I thought I would reach out and see if I can get some support for this item.
Link to Visual Studio Suggestion
Can you help a brother out with your extra votes?
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I am no VS user, but this sounds like a nifty little improvement. Have my 3 votes.
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At least you have votes to give. I've got a total of 20 items with a single vote on both personal addresses tied to MSDN. That's (barely) enough to track everything I care about. The only thing missing is the Eternal Bring Back VB6 Post; but finding MS's Close-LARTing is easy enough since no sooner do they kill one than a successor spawns linking to it and resuming the whining.
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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rts@Dallas wrote: I thought I would reach out
Instead of 'reaching out' you might try asking . . . like we used to do so long long ago.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Instead of 'reaching out' you might try asking . . . like we used to do so long long ago.
psh, then you can't synergize your externalities. I think someone needs to effectuate his core competencies.
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You are guilty of obfuscation in the second degree.
You are hereby sentenced to 2 years of managerial meetings without earphones.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: You are hereby sentenced to 2 years of managerial meetings without earphones an Uzi .
FTFY!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are circles pointless?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No point.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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