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Ah - yes I remember it well (use Maurice Chevalier accent).
Now you've gotten into the spirit of it. Be selfish - shorten meeting from your personal perspective and just not get invited.
All Hail Wally !
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I tell you three times that brigade can truncate a viaduct! (7)
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OriginalGriff wrote: truncate a viaduct
ABRIDGE ?
OriginalGriff wrote: three times that brigade
brigade (anagram). not able to connect three times to it other then last three letters moved.
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So you are up tomorrow! 
I tell you three times
that brigade can BRIGADE (anag)
ABRIDGE
truncate ABRIDGE
a viaduct! A BRIDGE
ABRIDGE
Three clues for the low, low price of one: or "solve one, get two free!" 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Three clues for the low, low price of one: or "solve one, get two free!"
There was nothing free 
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Oh, I'm sorry - I don't see your payment in my account.
Where do you want your bill sent?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Where do you want your bill sent?
My inbox 
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RIP Murray. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
A true great. The voice of Formula One for 50 years and responsible for some classic quotes:
- "There's nothing wrong with the car except it's on fire"
- "With half the race gone there is half the race to go"
- "I imagine the conditions in those cars are totally unimaginable"
- "Either that car is stationary or it's on the move"
- "Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken!"
- "And now excuse me while I interrupt myself!"
- "The young Ralf Schumacher has been upstaged by teenager Jenson Button, who is 20"
- "It would have been Senna's third win in a row if he'd won the two before"
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... closely following Leslie[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Apologies to OG. I don't pay much attention at the weekend, so hadn't spotted his post. Although, you can never have too many Murray Walker posts. 
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No need to apologize - we all do it!
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The Lounge is an all-natural, all-purpose Leslie generator.
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Murrary Walker the man, the legend, quick thing if you ever can find his Dad commentating on Motor Cycle racing pre & post (for a few years) WWII have a listen, my Dad got me to listen to an old Isle of Mann TT he comentating on, when I heard it I said 'Good grief, Murray Walker was commentating then?', they sounded the same, exactly the same. He will be missed 
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No Mike, as any fewl know Pi day is 22/7.
Now stop being irrational.
veni bibi saltavi
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LED lamps should be great. LEDs are great, they're efficient and almost never die (unless mishandled, of course). Put them in a lamp and suddenly they become trash - the kind of trash that has "100000 hour MTBF" on the box and then dies within a year. It keeps happening, I've thrown away about a dozen broken LED lamps over a time period that would have cost one or two incandescents.
LED lighting in other form factors seems to be holding up well though.
By the way, some of the LED lamps have a noticeable flicker. Not the kind of noticeable where the individual flashes are visible as such, but the kind of noticeable where the difference is easy to see, for example they replace motion blur with a trail of ghostly copies of a moving object. These lamps are trash, never labeled as such, stop making it.
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The LEDs themselves last seemingly forever. It's the power supplies in the bulbs backing the LED's that don't.
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The MTBF of the average LED is 20,000 hours, but for lighting LEDs it rises to 50,000 to 60,000: and since that is an average, generally the loss of a few LEDs isn't that noticeable - hence the "100,000 hours" they quote as a possible time for all LEDs to probably die.
And generally, they do last pretty damn well: I have had LED bulbs in my kitchen for over 15 years, and while a few individual LEDs have failed they still illuminate well (replacing the 50W halogens I moved in to).
Elsewhere in the house, I moved to LED almost exclusively five to ten years ago, and I've had a few "bulbs" fail. Those have all been the PSU part of the lamp that failed though so all LED's in the bulb went dark at the same time. Generally, I think they were where I bought cheap ones rather than the higher quality and price versions.
I've never had a LED bulb fail in less than a year!
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They contain other electronics that have to get the 120 /240 down to levels the l.e.d s can take. It's not the LEDs that give up, but the support circuits.
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White LED's started showing up in US in the late 80's early 90's (if memory serve)
NICHIA was first company. The white LED's spawned the use of LED has an illumination appliance.
flash lights, overhead lamps, etc. Philips was one the first to have a quality, uniform LED light in the standard filament light bulb format. Now the LED industry is all over the place. Super bright LED flashlights are often over powered and so they don't last. In fact, this is often common in other LED appliances as well. Poor driver electronics are also victims.
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I've not noticed the flicker, but I have noted the irritatingly short lifespans of the LED lamps. At this point if I can find incandescent bulbs, I'll buy them instead, it's sad really.
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Normally I don't notice the flicker, but...
Where I live it can be very hot in the summer, and my HiFi preamp is pure Class 'A', that also gets very hot and that combination can make the preamp extremely hot, so I have fitted a row of five small 12 volt PC fans across the cooling vents at the back. They are wired in series with a supply adjustable from 12 to 24 volts DC so they run extremely quietly, but fast enough to keep the preamp cool. When illuminated with a diode lamp, at certain speeds there is a distinct stroboscopic effect on the fan blades, so yes - they do flicker.
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Yes, LED lights are filth.
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Earlier generations of led bulbs had more visible flickers; now they are quite stable.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I replaced every light in the house 6 years ago and haven't had a single one fail.
Oh, except the one outside that had a leak in the housing. I had to replace that one, once.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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