Posts by John Gray 14 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2008
"When my partner lived in Newcastle, she'd travel to see me at about 80mph. She'd get about 40mpg. I'd do the trip in the same vehicle, at 60mph, using other traffic as wind-breaks, and get >65mpg. "
So from this I conclude that she was 4/3rds as keen to see you as you were to see her. Bit of an indictment, eh?
( Actually I thought you were going to go on to set a problem about men filling a bath with five buckets, etc...)
verb
[with object] British informal
take (something) for oneself, typically quickly or without permission:
e.g. shall we snaffle some of Bernard's sherry?
Admittedly the author is nouning a verb, but, hey, he's American - they can do anything!
> To the AC who soldered USB plugs and sockets together: It would have been better and easier to disable USB mass storage in the OS.
And, gosh, nobody would ever have been able nefariously to change it back again!
(I really hope you don't work in any job that requires logical thought...!)
I have treasured this gem from Computer Weekly in Feb 1982, a letter in response to a previous article:
"While Dr Paul Ellis's forward-looking meaningful ongoing software overview is welcome for its perceptive evaluation of the anticipated middle-future non-structured lifestyle environment, his projected scenario will engender a profoundly gloomy reaction among those of us who manifest a judgmental preference for the evolution of non-jargon-oriented communicative interactive relationships, for we are clearly in a strictly non-viable wish-fulfilment situation cliché-elimination-wise."
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