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Ooops! My bad!
I forgot that those of you in the frigid far northern climates are used to seeking scantily clad women take on that Smurf-Blue look.
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Baby It’s Cold Outside!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Why does Bob have to be blue? Is Smurfette racist? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Well, it's a little know secret, but Smurfs, as a group, are rather, um, uh, very "selective" about with whom they associate.
On the other hand, if Bob goes around dressed as he is in a real winter climate (He's in Canada, aye?) then he'll be turning blue soon enough.
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@daveauld
You made the 200K!
Congratulations - here's to the next 200K! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Hi All,
Putting up the decorations today, I spent lock down working on some Adrino code for several set of WS2811 leds and various festive other things. Thanks to the black hole I tend to store stuff in (aka a 1 TB external drive) I can't find it! . So I spent most of the morning coding and soldering to get to where I should be (people can't come in this year so probably for the best a chance to prototype!). Probably because I wrote the code in the first place I knew pretty much what needed to go where. Now the lights are on the floor as I have to hunt the garage for the Christmas tree feet (last year we had only three!, timber). Yesterday I saw people stocking up on bread, milk & pasta to a manic extent (no toilet rolls,still got some from earlier?), it's closed for 48 hours. You have enough supplys to see out the sige of Stalingrad. Maddness. 
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glennPattonContracting2 wrote: Yesterday I saw people stocking up on bread, milk & pasta to a manic extent (no toilet rolls,still got some from earlier?), it's closed for 48 hours. You have enough supplys to see out the sige of Stalingrad. Maddness.
It's a neurological disease that's been spreading northward for some years, now. It respects no borders.
It started, as best as I can remember, in Florida - stores suddenly being wiped out before hurricanes (which were invariably hyped as the worst (or one of the worst), yet). This spread northward and the connection to the brain became all to clear with the hoarding of toilet paper (medical proof[^]).
In case it comes to mind, there's no hope of a vaccine for this: there's no cure for stupid.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: there's no cure for stupid
So true. But these people are beyond stupid. If they actually stopped to think they would realise that even after their panic buying back in April, the shops were still restocked within a couple of weeks.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: If they actually stopped to think
I think I see the problem. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: there's no cure for stupid.
Yes there is, but natural selection is just too ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing slow.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Yes there is, but natural selection is just too [mastadon] ing slow.
oh, yes... 
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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Happy Burfda ta Ye!
Happy Burfda ta Ye!
Happy Burfda deeeeaaaar @daveauld
Happy Burfda ta Yeeeeeeeee!
Here's hoping you're onshore this year. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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May his star keep on shining for a long time
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Thanks Griff!
Yes, I am offshore, left home 6-nov and here until end of January! 
Bought myself a Celestron 11" Rasa telescope to celebrate, it got delivered a few days ago at home.
Today was a good start, rescued a green turtle that had got hung up in fishing line and floats which had then got entangled round the platform.
Grappling hook to get it onboard then cut it free and removed the fishing hooks from its neck and body. God their skin is tough! Anyway, it's free and released back into the gulf now, to live another Day.
Hope the rest of the day is peaceful!
P.s. 200k is knocking on the door....cough cough been a while hovering around!
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You being offshore for the holydays seems to be constant... One may think you love the life better without the preparations and such 
Happy birthday!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I know, it's been a bad few years of timing! It was bad enough missing the whole of summer as well.
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Was the turtle wearing a red hat btw?
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No but it was wearing about 6 polystyrene floats and bottles. Poor we thing had hooks embedded in it. Kept trying to swim under the water but couldn't get anywhere. The line was also wrapped round it's front left flipper cutting in.
It swam away quite happily when we had cleaned it up and put it back in the sea.
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Have a couple of ups to get you closer - let's see if we can get you there today! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I think we have been making more effort in Cyprus than in UK. We have district movement restrictions, night time curfews, public masks, early restaurants closing, School closures etc.
Police are enforcing with heavy fines.
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I agree - the government is making all the right moves, and the fines can be eye-watering, but every day I read of tens - sometimes even as much as a hundred - fines issued that day. Over the last 60 days the average daily increase in cases is 290 per day, with a mean rate of increase of 6.3 cases per day. I doubt vaccination will start for another month, so we could be looking at up to 600 cases per day, with Christmas and the New Year coming up. The graph 'Total Coronavirus Cases in Cyprus' at Cyprus Coronavirus: 17,476 Cases and 89 Deaths - Worldometer[^] ] shows the worrying gradient of the infection rate.
The government has made some bold, but for some, unpopular decisions, but I fear they are being flaunted by a selfish few.
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Happy birthday Dave, new telescope looks awesome...keep the photos coming.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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