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Excuse me the question, I'm not an initiate. Is this about Mikado or fishing?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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France is a medium-sized foreign country situated in the continent of Europe.
It is an important member of the world community, though not nearly as important as it thinks.
It is bounded by Germany, Spain, Switzerland and some smaller nations of no particular importance and with not very good shopping.
France is a very old country with many treasures, such as the Louvre and Euro Disney. Among its contributions to western civilization are champagne, Camembert cheese and the guillotine.
Although France likes to think of itself as a modern nation, air conditioning is little used and it is next to impossible for Americans to get decent Mexican food.
One continuing exasperation for American visitors is that local people insist on speaking in French, thought many will speak English if shouted at.
THE PEOPLE
France has a population of 57 million people. 52 million of these drink and smoke (the other 5 million are small children).
All French people drive like lunatics, are dangerously over sexed, and have no concept of standing patiently in line.
French people are in general gloomy, temperamental, proud, arrogant, aloof and disciplined; those are their good points.
Most French citizens are Roman Catholic, though you would hardly guess it from their behavior. Many French are communists.
Men sometimes have girls' names like Marie or Michel, and they kiss each other when they meet. American travelers are advised to travel in groups and wear baseball caps and colorful trousers for easier recognition.
SAFETY
In general, France is a safe destination, although traveler must be aware that from time to time it is invaded by Germany. Traditionally, the French surrender immediately A tunnel connecting France to Britain beneath the English Channel has been opened in recent years to make it easier for the French government to flee to London during future German invasions, and for them to offload all their illegal immigrants.
HISTORY
Charlemagne discovered France in the Dark Ages. Other important historical figures are Louis XIV, the Huguenots, Joan of Arc, Jacques Cousteau and Charles de Gaulle, who was President for many years and is now an airport.
CULTURE
The French pride themselves on their culture, though it is not easy to see why. All their music sounds the same and they have never made a movie that you would want to watch for anything
CUISINE
Let's face it, no matter how much garlic you put on it, a snail is just a slug with a shell on its back.
Croissants on the other hand, are excellent, although it is impossible for most Americans to pronounce this word. In general, travelers are advised to stick to cheeseburgers.
ECONOMY
France has a large and diversified economy, second only to Germany's in Europe, which is surprising because the French hardly work at all. If they are not spending four hours dawdling over lunch, they are on strike and blocking the roads with their trucks and tractors. France's principal exports, in order of importance to the economy, are wine, nuclear weapons, perfume, guided missiles, champagne, guns, grenades launchers, land mines, tanks, attack aircraft, miscellaneous armaments and cheese.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
France has more holidays than any other nation in the world. Among It's 361 national holidays are: 197 Saints' days, 37 National Liberation Days, 16 Declaration of Republic Days, 54 Return of Charles de Gaulle-in-triumph-as-if-he-won- the-war-single-handed Days, 18 Napoleon-sent-into-Exile-Days, 17 Napoleon-Called-Back-from-Exile-Days, and 2 "France is Great and the Rest of the World Stinks" Days.
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Actually neither champagne nor the guillotine are French inventions!
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 Champagne I'm not sure, but Guillotine you are very right 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I should perhaps have clarified the champagne. (Tee-hee, see what I did there!) Sparkling wine is not a French invention, the methode champenoise for making it is (well, probably, you can never totally discount industrial espionage!)
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Actually even methode champenoise is not French, they nicked it from some people across the water...
veni bibi saltavi
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You forgot to mention they don't have a word for entrepreneur.*
* Elephanting hell I spelt that correctly 1st time without Google correct, despite just returning from the pub.
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I use to make a living 20 years ago writing dll's for FORTRAN to call native OS and custom functions. 2 weeks ago a SAS AnalYst wanted to do some very odd things that SAS can't do and the only way to do it was calling dll's to interface to Windows and Office. Brushing up on SAS, and I swear FORTRAN was easier. Hopefully this will be a niche to exploit for a few months/years, I use to be pretty good at this.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) 
I never finish anyth
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I spent 4 years programming in SAS but have only done a small amount of functional programming.
With SAS in essence there is Base SAS, which is very limited, as well as a whole bunch of libraries that are required to do anything useful in SAS.
The problem comes with the libraries which appear to follow no particular pattern in their use when it comes to their functions.
So one function that performs an analysis on your dataset will have completely different parameters and calling systems to another function that again runs similar analysis on your dataset.
The conclusion I came to was that SAS was a system that was built by people with very little experience in programming - meaning that the language really gets in your way.
As an example - if you sort a dataset via sql, in SAS, then take that dataset and extract the first 10 items from the dataset you will find that the dataset is no longer sorted and those 10 items could be from anywhere in the datset.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
I dismiss that! 
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You now have me in an infinitely recursive loop having to think that one through!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Wait... Does this mean you are the OTHER FORTRAN programmer on this website?
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Hi!
I am trying to create new items on the right click menu on a ChartSpace (OWC11). This is for copy image to clipboard and possible other tasks.
Any that can help?
BR/Per
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Please read the message at the top of this forum that says "No programming question in the lounge".
And post your question in the appropriate forum, or in the Quick answers section[^].
Be prepared to face the question: What have you tried? You should read the guidelines of how to ask a question, if this is your first time in this forum.
I never finish anyth
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Try posting this in the programming questions forum.
My long term goal is to live forever. So far, so good...
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Just answer "eh" to every question. 
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"Are you deaf?"
"Eh".
"I SAID, ARE YOU DEAF?"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Reminds me a scene in a late 70's TV show called Taxi. one person was helping another study for a driving test;
Questioner: "what does a yellow light mean?"
Answer: "slow down"
Questioner: "what......does.......a ...... yellow .......light .......mean?"
Answer: "I said slow down"
Questioner: "what..................does....................a .................. yellow ....................light ...................mean?"
This went on for a while, it was hysterical.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Not safe for work nor kid sister friendly so I won't post it here - but look up the Peanuts Lauder cartoon for a similar joke.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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ROTFL! That is probably the funniest Peanuts I've ever seen.
Coming to think of it, that's the only funny Peanuts I've seen.
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I remember that scene...the questioner was Jim. Cool old show!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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You're right it was Jim, one of the best characters on any show.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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No wonder it went like this... Yellow light is always "speed up!" 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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jeron1 wrote: Questioner:
Answer: Jim Ignatowski
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