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Is it a BYOC thing?, or do you just approximate?
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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They presumably have a Standard Cow locked in an air-conditioned safe in the Bureau of Standards. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Angus I presume!
There's an Angus among us...kinda roles off the tounge.
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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Well, there is a British Standard Finger.
You use it for poking into holes ... to see if you can touch anything dangerous.
I became aware of this when my PM and I took a mains powered cobbled together prototype (housed in a bunch of cardboard boxes with slots cut for ventilation) into a major company headquarters. We had to make the slots thin enough that the BSF couldn't hit the mains components (but nobody cared about the rather larger risk of the whole thing catching fire - why did you think it needed ventilation in the first place?  )
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: Well, there is a British Standard Finger.
You use it for poking into holes ... to see if you can touch anything dangerous.
There's even a song about that: Jake Thackray - The Hole - YouTube
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Congratulations,
If you continue social distance dancing you could be eligible for MSFT-Bucks[^].
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Just wait a minuet ! You mention this charleston time to bring up whether this adds a new twist into ballet parking for restaurant pickups?
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"If I leave some chicken on the fencepost, can you smell it for me?"
My neighbour: his wife is out - she's a carer - and he wants to know if the chicken is safe to cook. It's in date, but he lost his sense of smell and taste about a year ago, and it's slow to come back. Apparently most people who lose the sense of smell end up with food poisoning, because they can't tell if food is off.
Go on - tell me you had a weirder phone request? Please? 
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You're going to need a taller fencepost to top that one.
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OriginalGriff wrote: tell me you had a weirder phone request? Please?
Uhm, yes.
But I'm not going to recap here, because of posting rules. 
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Spoilsport!
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Some things are better buried and forgotten.
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Bag it, and box it !
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Are you confusing it with red wine? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Burrrrrrrppppp, oops sorry for that
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Tell 'em it had gone bad, so you threw it away, but you've got another one you're willing to swap for a pack of toilet paper.
You'll have to look online for how to disguise a dead chicken to look like a different dead chicken; not my field of expertise.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A false moustache and some glasses should do it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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So you've never ordered a video card from Newegg.com?
It went something to the effect:
them: "What operating system?"
us: "This is a video card. PCI-E is the architecture. OS doesn't matter.
them: "Windows XP?"
us: "OS doesn't matter."
them: "Windows Vista?"
us: "It doesn't require a third-party driver in Windows other than the one I can download from the manufacturer's site"
them: "Ah, Windows 7."
us: "No Windows 7."
them: "I send for windows 8."
us: "No Windows 8. Who uses Windows 8 anyway?"
them "I send for Windows 10."
us: "The graphics card is PCI-E and as long as you've a slot on the motherboard that'll accept that card, what ever RUNS on the OS you've installed on that computer will drive that edge connector in that slot.
them: "I send Windows 10."
us: "Yes, thank-you". Windows 10.
I think customer support was on a backline coming from somewhere in the climes of the Andes listening in because as our polite conversation ended, someone breathed hard on the reciever. And just before the line went dead, on my end, I could here the "them" being coached by them.
(Yeah, I'll order from newegg.com again ... talk about hoarding behavior. Thats's gotta be what's going on there.)
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I once had a similar experience with Dell support many years ago. We had to get one of their laptop fixed under warranty.
Them: What city do you live in.
Me: Hamilton
Them: No. That's not in our Records. What city do you live in
Me: Hamilton.
Them: No it must be Auckland or Christchurch. Which city do you live in
Me: Hamilton
Them: No it must be Auckland or Christchurch.
Me: You can put your stupid laptop up..... In live in Hamilton.
I've never touched a damn Dell ever again, and at the time I was our IT Manager responsible for all our companies IT purchasing.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Though nothing to lose a limb over, the package for the vc came labelled with my address AND the contact phone number used to talk to me.
Really, some privacy issues are not really issues until one has time to consider all the things that could go wrong having that dangling participle out there. The real funny thing about that was that since I wasn't home at the time of the original delivery I got a notice that I could pick the parcel up at a local hardware store.
Oh great, now THEY know the what, the where, the who, AND have my number as well ...
I guess most pickup venues change so often that the chances of a persistent phone number cropping up are equally unlikely to matter much.
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OriginalGriff wrote: but he lost his sense of smell and taste about a year ago
That's a long time to have CV-19 symptoms! 
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There once was a Florida man
who hoped toilet paper get he can
so he went to the store
and found they had more
than the needs of his whole clan!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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reminds me of the pic floating around on the internet of a man in the check-out line at a CostCo type store with whole pallet of TP. 
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Not "the check-out line at CostCo", but this'll do...
I'd say this guy is full of sh*t.
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