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They look really nice on bearskin displays. 
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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Just been out for a two hour cycle in the Luberon foothills, all off road tracks, gravel roads and steep climbs. But the weather though, absoloute amazing for January, its 16 degrees, blue sky and no wind, like an English sumer. Even had to put the sunglasses on!
Sometimes living here has its rewards! 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: like an English summer
Wot - p1ssing with rain? 
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So, how many decades has it been since you were in England in the summer?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I was back two years ago and had a glorious few days of cloud free sun in Devon. Very rare, especially for Devon.
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yup, lovely area - know & love it, plus all the way up to Ventoux, west to Nimes/Arles
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I think I prefer it in winter you know. The summer is so hot, all you can do is sleep and drink rosé by the pool. Physical activity after 10 am is almost impossible, and the nights spent in the garden in the only cool part of the day (its often too hot to sleep indoors).
In the winter the air is clear and sharp though, like the alps proper. You can take the physical exercise, and enjoy the more substantial winter food; the roast duck, the foie gras, fondues and tartiflettes. For a northerner like me, its a more suitable climate. 
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Going well. Boy about to finish Pint 6 and he is not a beer drinker, preferring Vodka and/or Cider.
Few more hours left before the train ride home.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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If your boy is on his sixth pint of vodka, I am seriously impressed.
Can I suggest that instead of a train, you get an ambulance? I suspect he may need it... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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He's drinking real beer now.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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He´s in Belgium? 
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V. wrote: He´s in Belgium?
Nope. We were at The Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel[^] where German and English style beers are brewed and served.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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What good would an ambulance do?
I don't know how large a 'pint' is, but an ambulance will not help much against being drunk.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One pint is 0.568 liters, so 6 pints of vodka is about 3 1/2 liters @ 37%, so that's approximately 1 1/4 litres of alcohol over 6 hours.
A hospital may be able to save him, but it's not likely... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Weird.
Usually the body has a good defense-mechanism and very capable of dealing with a good flood of toxins. If the puking doesn't help a blackout often follows, with the body shutting down everything but the essentials. If that far gone, then it may be helpfull to dilute it with water, lotsa water.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Waiting for a train to turn up.
Probably won't hit the Lord Nelson till 16:00. Hope to post again before I'm too pissed to handle the phone.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: hit the Lord Nelson
Is that what you call it?
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It's the first pub we're going to.
If you find my post from much earlier this morning I list links to the 3 pubs I want to visit.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Sounds like fun, Michael! A good, old fashioned pub crawl. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's delightful to see a post like this one by Andreas Gieriet: [^] that stands out, in my (rapidly deteriorating) eyes, as what I consider a thoughtful reply that has enduring technical value !
You'll forgive me if I step, once again, into "Isiah's sandals" for a moment, and excoriate declaim once again: "how long will it take for CodeProject to reform rejuvenate QA ?"
cheers, Bill, ex-MVP
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on his translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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I'm curious, just what do you expect CP to do to QA to improve it?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Stop accepting questions? 
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Stop accepting questions?
Let me translate that into Isiah-speak:
"Change the structure that generates a tidal wave of garbage questions, garbage answers, and reputation scores that mean nothing."
For details, please see my response to MyCroft on this thread.
By the way, I think (hope) you know that I consider you one of the outstanding mentors, and responders, on CP !
cheers, Isaih
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on his translation of “Eugene Onegin.”/xml>
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