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Obligatory XKCD[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I had a similar, but less helpful, experience when I was working for a large British Airline that will remain nameless.
I called the Technical Help Desk and asked about a particular system feature and was directed to call the person who "knows most about it in the company", me!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's brilliant 
Especially if you have no idea and the phone next to you starts to ring and you pick up and hear yourself (please tell me it was like that)
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Almost. I received a message on one of my pagers (I had to carry two identical pagers, for two systems I supported, but with the same message tone. I was constantly checking the wrong one first.) to call a particular number... guess who's number that was! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hi All,
It's the day in which in NASA launched for the moon, I would have thought Bob would be happy there was the start of a program to reunite him to his brothers... For the landing give Bob a Helmet at least!
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No Google doodle for it either 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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That's because it never happened...
Seriously, look around you, if we knew how to get off this s***hole then we would have left already
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I could tell you a lot about some nearby s***holes, but fortunately they are still out of your reach. Wretched hives of scum and villainy, all of them. You may already have heard of such places.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah - but they have a great band!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Old men in bathrobes cut up wanted men with a death sentence in twelve systems, smugglers shoot bounty hunters and more like that. And you want to listen to the band. Good luck.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: smugglers shoot bounty hunters
But the bounty hunter shot first! (and that is where they lost me...  )
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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That's just propaganda made to confuse you, just like the attack of the killer Teddies. That's where they got me.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Okay the take off not as momentous as the landing but quote Buzz Aldrin "When you are sitting on top of the most powerful rocket mankind has produced, built by the lowest bidder, it focuses your attention!"
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glennPattonWork wrote: not as momentous
Not as momentouos. The Saturn V is to this day the most powerful rocket ever to fly anywhere. It's launch must have been absolutely unspectacular.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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With the distance you have to sit/stand with the mark 1 eyeball it looks a bit unimpressive.
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Tell the russians who flew directly to the moon without a capsule when this thing[^] blew up with the force of a small nuke. At least this rocket looked really good.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well they had just lost the 'Chief Designer' and went for the easier smaller is better approach with the motors... I wonder if that blast is still the largest non-nuke in history...
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Certainly not when you count in some larger or smaller asteroid impacts. Only recently I heard of one that exploded over South America with the equivalent of a few kilotons.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I was thinking man-made, we are weak compared to Nature.
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I think that quote was from Alan Shepard - the first American to travel into space.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You are right, I am sorry! His actual quote was: Quote: It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
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Bob no longer needs an environment suit in order to breathe Erath's atmosphere.
".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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Or Earth's too. Still think it's worth something...
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Snap!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Actually, there's a town here in Texas called Erath. Everything I do is Texas-oriented by default.
".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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