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'Tis a fine day[^] to be runnin' out t' Jolly Roger! Arrrrrrr!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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aye c'ptain
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you want to see pirates glorified, visit Tampa in Florida on Gasparilla Day, named after the pirate Jose Gaspar that used to troll Tampa Bay and the west coast of Florida. The next event is on Saturday January 30 next year.
Tampa even named their football team the "Buccaneers"! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Ship ahoy![^] 
I hear that drunken sailor song at least once a year on one fantasy fair or another.
Other favorites are Whiskey In The Jar[^], Caledonia[^] and the Dutch Wat Zullen We Drinken[^] (translates to What Shall We Drink)
I heard that last song about five times by five different bands on a single day a few years back, that's how bad it gets...
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Sander Rossel wrote: What Shall We Drink
Isn't that rather a short song? Most people I know would just answer "Everything!" 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's quite the party song actually.
What shall we drink, seven days long.
What shall we drink, what a thirst.
There is enough for everybody,
So we drink together.
Open up a barrel,
We'll drink together, not alone.
Some lines are repeated.
And then a same kind of stanza for food, partying and drinking beer.
It would put a smile to my face if I hadn't heard it a thousand times before
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Shiver me timbers, I'd been out splicing the mainbrace last evening and forgot about the day, I thank the kindley for the reminderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...rrrrrrrr
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Well shoot... Youtube hasn't a decent video of Adam Ant. 
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It's also my wife and I anniversary, but I don't think there is a correlation there... 
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It should really be "Talk like Robert Newton Day" since he was the origin of the "Aarrrrr!" style of speaking.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Remember about 3/4 through the day. I really need to start reading CP on the weekend
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Got E-Mail from a LinkedIN autoBot.
I clicked and took the survey.
Last page asked if I would be willing to speak to someone from LinkedIN
I entered my phone number, and left the written message about how I would be happy to speak to a living human being from LinkedIN who has a voice.
They'll probably sell my number to junk callers.
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I did the same survey - but I entered your phone number with an abusive comment 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: to speak to a living human being from LinkedIN who has a voic
Surely that could be arranged.
"Press 1 to update your profile, 2 to update your skill sets, 3 to record a new message, 4 to connect to an old colleague..."
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This Dilbert explains how to get them to fawn over you and beg for your talents:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2013-08-10[^]
We all know if you are aloof and ignore others then you are :
SUPER DESIRABLE!!!
It works.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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And being bad helps the universe to maintain symmetry.
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Without bad... how would you know what is good?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Just try it on: [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I have a bit of software that uses the office interop (.net wrapper of COM classes) library to import data from spreadsheets. Some of today's imports failed, the issue turned out to be that the person who edited them put a double line border on the bottom of the last row of cells. Somehow that convinced Excel that it needed to return an extra row when I asked for the range of cells that were in use. The parser then barfed on the empty row because strings that look like "" can't be converted into numbers, etc.
Thankfully one of my eagle eyed coworkers spotted the difference. Otherwise I'd be ranting about excel being a buggy piece of crap and inexplicably returning an extra blank row in some files that I had to filter out.
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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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Ew. I use OleDb and the ACE engine to read and write Excel.
But today... I found out that when I set IMEX=1 -- the system says the file is read-only. 
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