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[phinds]

Ok, guys, just STOP !

 

[gmax137]

Ok, guys, just STOP !

Two much?

 

[phinds]

Two much?

Painful

 

[WWGD]

Desmond told me, when he drinks too much tequila, he likes to wear his pink tutu. Tutu's tutu covers his two Tatoo tattoos.

I was hoping to write a full short story with similar phrases. More examples : The banana narratives ( triple syllable 'na'), I will miss miss mississippi, The melele legume.
Apologies, phinds.

 

[WWGD]

Gah! Can't remember how to use LEFT/RIGHT in Excel to remove $ signs from a spreadsheet. Anyone?

 

[Ibix]

Right(a1,len(a1)-1)

Or

Right(a1,len(a1)-find("$",a1))

...if you're paranoid about leading blanks (I might have the arguments to FIND the wrong way round - can't remember).

You may also want value(right(etc)) to convert the numbers-as-text to numbers.

 

[WWGD]

pro life tip: when going out with your mates, hit the gay bars so that you can get your drinks payed for by random 60 year old guys

But don't drink too much or else...

 

[WWGD]

Hope not overly political...

 

[WWGD]

Wow, seems Clint Eastwood came up with a new movie. Guy never stops.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Two much?

Too too much for a Tatoo tatoo and tutu discussion for two.

 

[WWGD]

It seems Norm McDonald died. RIP, Norm.

 

[Rive]

If you want low COVID numbers, just keep people away from testing.

I'm waiting for my official PCR test for more than a day already, and I can expect one more day or so. And then the result will be available in 2-3 days.
By the time I get the result likely I'll be healthy again (since I had both shots previously). But if the test is positive by any chance, I'll be grounded for two weeks anyway.

Hard to think that it's not a policy.
And it works.
Time to get my tin foil hat

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Ingrezza - a medication you can take that "is thought" to reduce errant signals in the brain caused by the other medication you are taking.

Sure makes me want to run to the doctors and get some pills to take. Then I can get pills to counter the effects of those. And maybe I can get pills to counter the effects of those pills.

 

[Keith_McClary]

I'll be grounded for two weeks anyway.

Here you're also grounded from when you make an online appointment until you get a negative result (which may take a few days if it is inconclusive and has to be sent to the lab).

 

[WWGD]

Next time someone comes complaining to me, I will just reply ' Chiornaya'. It's the name of...a river in Crimea . Crimea River.

 

[Astronuc]

The new media enable the instantaneous dissemination of thoughts, most of which should never have been thought, let alone given written expression. The velocity imparted by new media somehow is an incentive for intemperate discourse. Books, however, have long gestations and, usually, careful editors. One of the most demanding and satisfying facets of this columnist’s craft is taking the many hours required to distill to its essence a worthy book that took another author many years to write; to offer just one example, to be able to acquaint a large readership with the lapidary sentences and mind-opening nuggets of information in Rick Atkinson’s military histories — a specialty now almost extinct in the academy.

George F. Will, a brilliant journalist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/14/george-will-pursuit-of-happiness/

 

[Astronuc]

Why the Ottomans Never Colonized America?​

Some interesting commentary on history of the 1400-1700 period.

 

[fresh_42]

We have a lot of science fiction movies like Independence Day in which Earth is threatened by an alien invasion. However, we have only about a billion years left on our own planet before we have to look for emigration. I guess we will be those aliens invading other civilizations!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

We have a lot of science fiction movies like Independence Day in which Earth is threatened by an alien invasion. However, we have only about a billion years left on our own planet before we have to look for emigration. I guess we will be those aliens invading other civilizations!

We will just fix the sun or make a new one.



Of course we've known the secret to landing on the sun for decades - go at night.

 

[WWGD]

Elon is on track . Just give him 10-15 more years.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I was recalling today that I once worked with a direct descendant of Charles Babbage - the inventor of the first mechanical computer.

He (my customer) was a programmer.

 

[fresh_42]

I was recalling today that I once worked with a direct descendant of Charles Babbage - the inventor of the first mechanical computer.

He (my customer) was a programmer.

And I attended a guest lecture by Zuse! We should create a club.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

And I attended a guest lecture by Zuse! We should create a club.

We are a club!

 

[WWGD]

We are a club!

And I recently had a Turkey club!

 

[Jarvis323]

I can't stop thinking about this quite old woman (maybe 85 years or greater) who was new as a cashier at CVS durring the peak of wave 2 of the pandemic. It's a bit disheartening to think about.

 

[ergospherical]

why the heck am I allowed to go to a nightclub, the london underground at rush hour, etc., whilst the university won’t even allow in-person lectures?

 

[fresh_42]

why the heck am I allowed to go to a nightclub, the london underground at rush hour, etc., whilst the university won’t even allow in-person lectures?

Think about the following question: Who is running the nightclub, who the Tube, and who the university?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

And I recently had a Turkey club!

Had? Did the turkeys all quit?

 

[ergospherical]

Big Ben is (prussian) blue again

 

[WWGD]

Big Ben is (prussian) blue again

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I thought Prussian was from Pmoscow.

 

[WWGD]

So now it becomes harder to settle claims and discussions. Now impartiality of fact checkers is brought into question. Wasn't there a list of trustworthy sources here in PF?

 

[Bystander]

Necro-posters swarming earlier this year? Must be a hard winter coming.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I was fifth grade, the red-headed twin girls were in the 8th grade and looking for trouble. And this was our song. I kid you not! Me and two Catholic girls gone wrong!


Why is it that girls and women looking for trouble always came to me?? I'm not complaining mind you, just curious.

 

[fresh_42]

Why is it that girls and women looking for trouble always came to me??

This is definitely a local attractor. I know, since there must be another one near me.

But it seems to work in either direction:

Well, Whitney was the only one in the collection who could actually sing.

Without a doubt she was the prettiest.

Why do pretty women tend to fish absolute idiots from the pool?

 

[WWGD]

I was fifth grade, the red-headed twin girls were in the 8th grade and looking for trouble. And this was our song. I kid you not! Me and two Catholic girls gone wrong!


Why is it that girls and women looking for trouble always came to me?? I'm not complaining mind you, just curious.

Because you ( and myself) are strange attractors.