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    #21
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    No, in fact word "merkin" is new to me, had to look it up ...
    Bugger, those citizenship tests for immigrants aren't tough enough.

    Next you'll be telling us you haven't trained in Morris dancing.

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      #22
      Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post
      Next you'll be telling us you haven't trained in Morris dancing.
      Morris dancing is the most fatuous, tenth-rate entertainment ever devised by man...

      HTH

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        #23
        Originally posted by AtW View Post
        Morris dancing is the most fatuous, tenth-rate entertainment ever devised by man...

        HTH
        That is an incredibly crass and stupid thing to say!! There is nothing entertaining about it!
        Jim is a Jedi! - Dara
        Jim is EVIL! - Jenny Eclair

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          #24
          Originally posted by Wodewick View Post
          That is an incredibly crass and stupid thing to say!! There is nothing entertaining about it!
          Shut up Baldrick.

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            #25
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            Shut up Baldrick.
            If only you understood
            Jim is a Jedi! - Dara
            Jim is EVIL! - Jenny Eclair

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              #26
              Originally posted by AtW View Post


              Better edit this nick before our own ninja squirrel moderator is back from pub, otherwise there won't be another monkey links monday...

              Nice knowing ya
              I'm busy advising him on code-orientated text editors for his lovely new MacBook over on twitter - I think I'm safe for the moment

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                #27
                Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                I don't know where this trend for developers with an inflated sense of their own abilities calling themselves "ninjas" started, but it's always grated on me. Chris Heilmann (who really is an awesome developer) had a good rant about it recently.
                For what it's worth I never liked the term "gurus".
                Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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                  #28
                  The one that winds me up is the government's use of "Czars".


                  EDIT: Czar is a damned useful scrabble word though!

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by k2p2 View Post
                    The one that winds me up is the government's use of "Czars".


                    EDIT: Czar is a damned useful scrabble word though!
                    I prefer to spell it Tsar or Tzar


                    BTW is connect.me some sort of trick being carried out by someone/some university to find the gullible around the world? There are a few universities doing research into social media.
                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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