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Glad to hear you survived. Sometimes the strain of worrying what might be wrong with you is enough to kill by itself!
I was at work one day and we had a birthday party for a colleague I didn't like much (she was only employed due to her physical assets and my boss was a dirty old man). So I dutifully attended, worrying about some urgent code I was working on, and when they gave me some cake I wolfed it down in a few large bites to get rid of it quickly and went back to my office. A couple of minutes later my colleague came in to find me clutching my chest and obviously in distress. Despite my strong protestations that it was just indigestion from eating the cake too fast my boss whistled up an ambulance and shipped me off at high speed to the hospital south of town (not the nearest, which was 5 minutes away, for some reason) where after spending a lot of time getting my insurance information and only then several repeated failed attempts (and one successful one) to get a needle into one of my arms and covering me with sticky pads with wires attached and switching out the EKG/ECG machine twice to get one that finally worked they decided that I had suffered a severe attack of indigestion and could go back to work now after paying the huge copay at the door before I go. Tulsa, Oklahoma is not the place to get wonderful private health care especially not at St. Francis Hospital; not recommended. God, I missed the good old NHS!
During a follow up check-up with my new doctor - the old one had just died - he mentioned that my heart sounded as smooth and strong as any he had listened to and the EKG showed perfect rhythm - I always thought I was a good dancer!
I eventually got transport back to work because a colleague came to fetch me after having lost the ambulance and naturally going to the wrong hospital first (the nearby one) before trying the further away one and finding me stuck on a rolling bed in a corridor, covered in tape and blood and bruises from the various holes in my arm, waiting for discharge papers (this took an extra 90 minutes).
Luckily, I managed to fix the code by staying late that day. Fun times!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Do good things and good things happen to you - apparently this aphorism holds true[^].
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And how many people are now trying to think up ways to rob him?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bankers. Solicitors. Accountants.
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Exactly.
Bloody depressing, isn't it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Bankers. Solicitors. Accountants.
The thieves!
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Bankers. Solicitors. Accountants.
Nah. The IRS. He's received more than his allowable annual maximum of "gifts". I kid you not.[^]
Marc
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Am I overlooking something? There's an 14k per donor per recipient limit, and since a married couple can give someone 14k each unless there were a few really big donors he should be in the clear. Also gift tax is normally paid by the giver not the recipient.
He'll still be elephanted with normal income taxes though.
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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Dan Neely wrote: There's an 14k per donor per recipient limit,
Ah, my misread, I thought there was a 14K limit per year per recipient.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Nah. The IRS. He's received more than his allowable annual maximum of "gifts".
I've been through that myself. The IRS allows $14k from each person. As long as nobody gave him more than that he is okay.
In fact I thought it was now $15k but the IRS link clearly says $14k - thanks for the link. I'll revise my Christmas plans.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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How many of us could truly say we would do the same?
Well actually I probably would if it were that amount of money, but a £20 note would go straight into my sky rocket.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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A friend of mine found a holdall with [IIRC] around £20,000 in it; this was some twenty odd years ago. His first thought was woop-de-woop, but he handed it in. Turned out to be forged with a shed load of finger prints that helped nab several Austalians criminals. He got a nice thank you and a reward from the woodentops.
speramus in juniperus
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If I find a bucketful of ink, I'll happily return it to you with great enthusiasm.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dalek Dave wrote: How many of us could truly say we would do the same?
Just this past Tuesday, I found an iPhone and returned it to its owner (true story, no smiley).
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Dalek Dave wrote: How many of us could truly say we would do the same?
Depends on how good (or bad) the local laws are.
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Truly, a great story.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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In Norway I think you can demand a 10% finder fee if you give it up to the police.
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Again, he's nailed it[^].
Are you in the weird "sorry it's a mess" or the normal "feck it, that's where I left last week's pizza"?
speramus in juniperus
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Love this.
Chris and the Hamsters are respected.
I would love to visit Canada one day, it looks just like home to me.
Clicky Oh Clickity[^]
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Those Canadian stag parties will leave you hurting the next morning.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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You should visit India someday, we have much wider variety of wildlife on our street, and the best part is you can watch them year long and they will never attack you. 
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I would love to visit India as well.
I like the attack bit as well though.
Adds to the excitement...
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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It bites back however as this[^] reports.
You go down a river full of crocodiles in an inflatable dinghy. What part of snap, snap, snap did they fail to appreciate. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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A Briton got stomped to death by an elephant in the forest just the other day.
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