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[WWGD]

At least you didn't get 8%7. That would really be bad.

Is that the modulus operator, giving me 1?

 

[Borg]

 

[Mondayman]

I still have a hard time believing that ten years ago is the 2000's and not the 1990's. Where did all the time go.

 

[Ibix]

We have new starters in the office who are half my age. People half my age should still have to hold their mummy's hand to cross the road, not be competent team members...

 

[WWGD]

Temperature in my room was actually colder than that in the refrigerator. I would put things in the fridge to warm them up...

 

[WWGD]

Awkward Halloween exchange:

"Ha-ha, great costume, man"

"What costume?"

...

 

[fresh_42]

Sometimes it's quite easy to see who payed attention at school and who did not. Many people get pale if they look out an airplane window in heavy weather and see how the wings move. I'll become pale if they don't.

 

[Borg]

It's election day in the U.S.

 

[Ibix]

I was walking to the train this morning and got overtaken by a guy hurrying for (I guess) the one before mine. As he rounded the corner of a pub he was briefly illuminated by what turned out to be the hazard lights of a delivery truck. It didn't change much about his dark-coloured coat but his shiny shoes did reflect quite well, and flickered as he was hurrying along. Just for a second it looked like his feet had caught fire. The lack of screaming convinced me I was wrong, but it wasn't until I'd turned the corner myself and seen the truck that I worked out what I had really seen.

 

[DennisN]

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Just testing how many nested spoiler tags I can post. So, PF can handle at least 10.
Sorry for wasting your time.

 

[Ibix]

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Just testing how many nested spoiler tags I can post. So, PF can handle at least 10.
Sorry for wasting your time.

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I just hit reply and read the message source.

 

[WWGD]

At the Vietnamese noodle shop: all Westerners eating with chopsticks, all Asians eating with fork and knife. Me being the exception.

 

[Borg]

Every time I watch The Martian, I have a craving for potatoes.

 

[CWatters]

Yesterdays new potatoes, cold with the skins on, are fantastic.

 

[CWatters]

It seems to me we don't get many homework questions here on optics.

 

[DrGreg]

It seems to me we don't get many homework questions here on optics.

That's because schoolchildren shouldn't be drinking spirits.

 

[dlgoff]

Big things are planned for winter 2018…

Winter is near @Greg Bernhardt.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Winter is near @Greg Bernhardt.

Winter is coming...

 

[WWGD]

No, not the female egg (An Ova), ANOVA! I cannot use an ova to test the hypothesis.

 

[DrGreg]

No, not the female egg (An Ova), ANOVA! I cannot use an ova to test the hypothesis.

I thought un oeuf is enough.

 

[Ibix]

I thought un oeuf is enough.

Listen vairy carefully! I shall test zis 'ypothesis only once.

 

[WWGD]

I thought un oeuf is enough.

Ova and out.

 

[fresh_42]

I wonder if kids use us for their excuses at school.

Teacher: Floyd, don't fall asleep!
Floyd: I'm sorry, I had a physics tutorial yesterday.
Teacher: So what?
Floyd: But he sits in Canberra!

 

[Stephenk53]

Why does the text at the top of the screen move when I put away my virtual keyboard? It looks like a glitch but it always ends up fixing itself almost instantly

 

[WWGD]

Will have it done ipso fatso. Or did I hear it wrong?

 

[WWGD]

I am not always 100% in agreement with market fundamentalists. Same service ---shredding docs --- for $4 a pound in 1 place
and for $.99 a pound right across the street. And both places have been in business for more than 10 years.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[skyshrimp]

Why have sub-atomic particles arranged themselves into lifeforms?

Yeah, I'm drunk posting. Do I get a cookie?

 

[Ibix]

Why have sub-atomic particles arranged themselves into lifeforms?

There's a lot of alcohol in nebulae. Somebody has to do something about it. We're the universe's liver, basically[1].

https://m.phys.org/news/2014-09-alcohol-clouds-space.html

Yeah, I'm drunk posting. Do I get a cookie?

No. You're just fulfilling your duty to the universe.

[1] Credit to... someone. Iain M Banks, maybe?

 

[WWGD]

I can't stand the recent trend of blasting sound from all sorts of devices in public...without using #$%^ headphones.

 

[fresh_42]

I can't stand the recent trend of blasting sound from all sorts of devices in public...without using #$%^ headphones.

Practice this:

 

[Stephenk53]

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Maybe it was a large order? I’m kind of grasping at straws to explain that one

 

[Stephenk53]

Which letter is silent in the word scent the s or the c

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe it was a large order? I’m kind of grasping at straws to explain that one

My suspicions is a typo. Maybe the 7 is a leftover from a former "Oct. 17".

 

[fresh_42]

Which letter is silent in the word scent the s or the c

I don't know which, but I know how to find out!