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My grandfather, initially a Gunnery Officer on HMS Dreadnought, always bemoaned the fact that he was unable to take part in the battle, having just been posted to a Royal Naval Air Station in Scotland. However, as he had not procreated at the time, I am reasonable pleased. 
He did, however, give me a rather rare book, 'The Fighting at Jutland', produced privately, as the official inquiry was taking so long, from interviews with 60 officers who survived the battle, and also before 'The Jutland Dispatches' of 1920.
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Thank you for the link. I am from Jutland, but had to look it up as well 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: I am from Jutland
That would explain why you are so mad... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Don't mention the war!
(The Germans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^])
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Chris C-B wrote: I replied "What? I didn't think you were old enough to be at Jutland".
... And the WAR begun..
Thanks,
Milind
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War? No way! More like the slaughter of the innocents. 
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Chris C-B wrote: slaughter of the innocents.
That is the definition of war... isn't it..!?
Thanks,
Milind
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Ok, peacenik, why are your innocents wearing uniforms and holding guns then? 
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.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Not intending to diminish the point that many civilians are killed in wars but from the page you linked to
Starting in the 1980s, it was often claimed that 90 percent of the victims of modern wars were civilians.[1][2][3][4] The claim was repeated on Wikipedia's Did You Know on 14 December 2010, and it has been repeated in academic publications as recently as 2014.[5] These claims, though widely believed, are not supported by detailed examination of the evidence, particularly that relating to wars (such as those in former Yugoslavia and in Afghanistan) that are central to the claims.
Although they suggest the highest figures where cited from a source that included refugees as casualties. A truer figure seems to be 'only' around 50% of casualties are civilian.
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There's a song[^] for that.
"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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The first real computers could have been used at Jutland, for targeting, but the Old School Admirals didn't go for that new-fangled stuff, so they lobbed three-quarters of their shells straight in the water, instead.
Of course, the British know how to keep secrets, so no-one outside the RN upper echelons knew about it until half a century later, after a different group of Englishman had invented the computer unilaterally.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: "What? I didn't think you were old enough to be at Jutland"
At least you didn't pour gasoline on the fire by saying "I thought you were too old for Jutland"
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YAEO ( Yet another easy one )
Could it be indicatory of an aid for these (10)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Dictionary - Anagram and aid for words
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Good man - you is up tomorrow
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Movie Quote Of The Day
They hate us because they ain't us!
Which movie?
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Ghostbusters!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The Lord of The Rings?
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
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Lawrence of Arabia?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Paris and Debby in the club
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes[^]??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Sometimes you have to wonder about the mental state of the producers of films like this...
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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