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 Posted: Mar 3 2013, 07:37 PM
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In Reply To: jwlkr's post @ Mar 3 2013, 07:09 PM Pass around the deodorant in that case. I'll have correct usage if there is a choice. 
-------------------- draughtsman
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Posted: Mar 3 2013, 07:09 PM
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Posted: Mar 3 2013, 07:28 AM
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In Reply To: alonso's post @ Mar 2 2013, 12:20 PM QUOTE Should I just learn to go with the flow? No. Maintain the rage. -------------------- Peace
Fforrest Try to be as good a person as your dog thinks you are. |
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Posted: Mar 3 2013, 07:27 AM
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In Reply To: nipper's post @ Feb 16 2013, 09:03 AM QUOTE It is a meteor until it hits the ground the rock fragments found after impact are called meteorites This is very easy to remember - Meteorites have made it right through the atmosphere to the Earth. -------------------- Peace
Fforrest Try to be as good a person as your dog thinks you are. |
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Posted: Mar 2 2013, 12:20 PM
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This is English as she is wrote.
Reading a letter from EAL just now:"The dividend will be payed on 14 June . . ." Am I just getting crankier with age? Should I just learn to go with the flow? -------------------- The only certainty is that nothing is certain (somebody must have said that), but I'm not even sure about that.
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true" Have you done a simple task the same way for years only to suddenly one day stumble on a better way to do it and wonder why you didn't think of it in the first place? Habit must be one of the biggest roadblocks to human progress . . .along with stupidity. Now we know how the Romans felt in 410 AD. Ooops, politically incorrect . . .twice. |
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Posted: Feb 16 2013, 11:22 AM
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In Reply To: nipper's post @ Feb 16 2013, 09:03 AM If it hits the ground and I"m anywhere near, I won't be worrying what to call it. -------------------- The only certainty is that nothing is certain (somebody must have said that), but I'm not even sure about that.
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true" Have you done a simple task the same way for years only to suddenly one day stumble on a better way to do it and wonder why you didn't think of it in the first place? Habit must be one of the biggest roadblocks to human progress . . .along with stupidity. Now we know how the Romans felt in 410 AD. Ooops, politically incorrect . . .twice. |
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Posted: Feb 16 2013, 09:03 AM
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It is a meteor until it hits the ground
the rock fragments found after impact are called meteorites -------------------- "Cause they told me everybody's got to pay their dues
And I explained that I had overpaid them" - Rodriguez |
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Posted: Feb 12 2013, 12:32 AM
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In Reply To: draughtsman's post @ Feb 11 2013, 09:05 PM hmm: so, if you don't know what you don't know, that would make you an anosognosic? But wouldn't that apply to all of us? Ain't I an oh so agnostic! 
-------------------- I trade daily, but I am not a licensed adviser. Whether you find my ideas reasonable or not: The only person responsible for your actions is YOU.
I follow two rules: (1) There are no sacred truths. All assumptions must be critically examined. Arguments from authority are worthless. (2) Whatever is inconsistent with observed facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Market as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. (inspired by Carl Sagan) |
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Posted: Feb 11 2013, 09:05 PM
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In Reply To: arty's post @ Feb 9 2013, 03:03 PM So children, our word for today is - anosognosic which means The definition of being anosognosic is that one is so stupid they don't even realize it. Or as wikipedia puts it - Anosognosia (pron.: /æˌnɒsɒɡˈnoʊziə/, /æˌnɒsɒɡˈnoʊʒə/) is viewed as a deficit of self-awareness, a condition in which a person who suffers certain disability seems unaware of the existence of his or her disability. I trust not even being aware of the word is not an early warning sign of the condition. Came across the word in a PC Geeks forum. Someone there well read in more than how to wire up a PC. cheers -------------------- draughtsman
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Posted: Feb 9 2013, 03:03 PM
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In Reply To: henrietta's post @ Feb 9 2013, 01:58 PM what do you expect from gridiron fans!? The supplements they take are unlikely to boost brain power, are they? -------------------- I trade daily, but I am not a licensed adviser. Whether you find my ideas reasonable or not: The only person responsible for your actions is YOU.
I follow two rules: (1) There are no sacred truths. All assumptions must be critically examined. Arguments from authority are worthless. (2) Whatever is inconsistent with observed facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Market as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. (inspired by Carl Sagan) |
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