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Chris Cornell, Soundgarden frontman, dies aged 52 | Music | The Guardian[^]
I really can't believe it.  A true musical hero. For me, he's the best rock singer ever, apart from Freddie, and even then, Freddie was more of a pop/tenor working with a rock band.
I saw him live year before last, and he looked as healthy and fit as a thirty year old. Apparently he has been completely teetotal for some years now. Why is he dead, and Chris Martin still draws breath? Not fair.
I'm gutted, I was looking forward to another amazing album along the lines of Higher Truth.
(throws arms in the air) Oh well, back to work. Bugger it. 
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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I'm pretty shocked too. I loved his voice and his songs, Soundgarden and Audioslave will always be a part of my playlist as they have been for the past 10 years.
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Really bummed myself. One of my favorites ever. I still miss Layne to this day and I doubt I'll ever stop listening to Chris. Hopefully Myles Kennedy doesn't go anywhere.
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Don't tempt fate! The way things are going we'll have no rock stars left by the end of the year.... A lot of the legends (naming no names) are approaching *that* age as well.
I just wish Chris could've given us a few more years. I always find it ridiculous when people say things like this when their favourite artist dies, but I honestly feel like I lost a friend or a brother or something. I'll miss him. His songs have gotten me through some seriously dark times.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Looks like it is being investigated as a suicide, not of the OD variety, which is tragic.
His voice was amazing when he was younger but all of the promo material being aired for the show didn't sound right. Lots of cracks, didn't sound like he had the range anymore, that sort of thing.
And I regret not taking a chance and making time to go the last time he went through here. Because it would have been amazing and a once in a lifetime memory.
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I saw him at Zermatt Unplugged in 2015 (I think) and there was no problem there. He completely blew me away with his range, and ease. Just so much relaxed power, seemingly endless. It's even more staggering when there is no band to drown it out. I was about 8 feet from him, and I'll never forget the version of Blow Up the Outside World he played that night. Epic.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Sad, a freakish beast of a voice. 
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Wow! This is sad news. I agree, one of the best rock singers with a truly unique voice.
Strange, I hadn't listened to SG in ages until just a few days ago at the breakfast table when I made the missus endure 'Superunknown', 'Black Hole Sun' and 'Spoonman'.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: when I made the missus endure
I am lucky: me and my GF (whom I'll marry on September) share the same musical tastes. Many dinner were spent with Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, System of a Down, Depeche Mode or Marylin Manson in the background.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I was just typing up a reply to your post in the C# forum and now the question has disappeared
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Billy the Gates?
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.
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"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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The master enunciator. The bringer forth of the maelstrom of confabulation and parley. Bill of the Woodruff.
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At least he deleted his question himself.
I actually can't answer a comment posted to a solution because the question has been closed as unclear / incomplete more than one hour after the solution has been accepted. 
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Annoying, isn't it?
I've said it before: it shouldn't be possible to close a question as "unanswerable" if it has a solution.
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Implement that and the usual suspects will just start posting an "answer" reiterating how Urgentz they need someone to Gimmie Teh Codz to keep their drek alive. 
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Maybe a few will, but we can tell them off or "abuse" vote them if they persist.
That's a lot less irritating than spending half an hour writing, testing and posting a solution to find the question is closed. Or worse, posting that solution, getting a comment from the user which needs clarification and finding the question has been closed in the meantime so you have no way to contact the OP.
Some people seem to vote "not a question" if it uses the wrong words, or they don't understand it, maybe for the rep points you get (I don't know if you get rep points for "not a question" votes, but hey ho) rather than trying to understand what the OP is trying to ask.
If someone understands it enough to post an answer, then pretty much by definition it is a question!
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OriginalGriff wrote: I've said it before: it shouldn't be possible to close a question as "unanswerable" if it has a solution.
ummm, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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I must say that the conundrum of "open" or "closed" state of unanswerable questions ... brings to mind that half-you-don't-know-what cat-in-the-box.
meow, Bill
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OriginalGriff wrote: it shouldn't be possible to close a question as "unanswerable" if it has a solution.
Actually, here is a good example where it should be allowed: Where is the problem? Array?[^]
Your solution is good but no one is sure if it answers the question or not. And the question deserves to be closed as incomplete.
But I can see both sides of this debate.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Hi Pete,
Well I would, I am sure, have learned something from your response !
Just after I wrote that post, I decided to review the Lazy<T >documentation, and some relevant sources; I concluded that the question I posed was unnecessary: it's the nature of Lazy<T>'s to require instantiation with 'new, as with other 'objects ... with the exception of using the static System.Threading.LazyInitializer class to auto-mutate non-Lazy<T> objects into Lazy ones.
So, I removed the question.
But, now, after suturing and dressing the deep wound in my heart from your referring to me as "the master enunciator. The bringer forth of the maelstrom of confabulation and parley"  ... I think I will re-post the question, asking in a more general way about the parameters for "best practice" in deferring instantiation.
And, I hope I will see your reply !
lazily, Bill
p.s. Poe's "The Maelstrom" was one of my favorite childhood stories.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I shall take a look at your new question and comment if comment is needed. You should rejoice at the appellation I apply to you as it reflects the esteem I have for your elucidation.
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New question posted ...
and, I really appreciate your clarification even as I probe its every nook and cranny for double-entendre Quote: The bringer forth of the maelstrom of confabulation and parley
This delightful phrase connects, for me, with Pandemonium, the capital of Hell in Milton's "Paradise Lost." Also with "fake-news."
cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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The "In" joke this month is the Royal power! (7)
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Majesty
Joke - jest
Month - may
Jest in may = majesty
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So you are up tomorrow!
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