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View Poll Results: Pootle wants a pole, what's the best line:
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42, and don't forget your towel!
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02-14-08, 18:08
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King of Understatement
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: One Flump in One Place
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Quote of the Week - Nominations
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Merely a bit of fun.
Every so often one of us notes a particularly funny, profound, evocative phrase in a post on the board. Informally we sometimes refer to it as Quote of the Week.
Reference the quote here. First week is extended (coz I only thought of it on a Thursday....) to 23:59PM Sunday 24th Feb. Nominations can be after this but the quote must have been posted on or before. You can't nominate yourself.
Nominate & post a link. You can vote for the best on the 25th (or so - depends when I can be bothered setting up the poll and whether or not anyone is fussed in the first place).
EDIT - addition to the rules. Someone has pointed out that this could become either an in-joke or a place to post links to put down or flame wars. Certainly this shouldn't be the case. Anyone can nominate and nominations from people that don't necessarily post 30 gazillion posts a week are especially welcome. To try to ensure that no quotes that are in some manner defaminatory against another user get undue attention, please use your good sense. It's impossible to come up with any hard and fast rules. I'll moderate nominations in any event. This is, afterall, supposed to be light hearted.
EDIT - further clarification - any nominations are to be positive. You don't nominate someone for saying something dumb.
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02-14-08, 18:10
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King of Understatement
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02-15-08, 09:02
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www.gvee.co.uk
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Here's my nomination
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Originally Posted by pootle flump
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Originally Posted by AccessUser
.. and poots .. if you call her [Ms Clinton] 'hottie' one more time i am going to throw up ..
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Butterfly flaps its wings in Australia, hurricanes on the Isle of Wight.
Flump gleefully hammers six keys in UK .....
HOTTIE
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http://www.dbforums.com/showpost.php...ostcount=12286
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02-15-08, 14:00
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www.gvee.co.uk
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Am I allowed more than one nomination?
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Originally Posted by Thrasymachus
to say this shows the same about you and triggers. the biggest problem with triggers are developers not understanding how to code them properly or when to properly use them.
In and of themselves, they are not evil. In the right hands, a hammer is a tool and in the wrong hands it is a weapon.
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http://www.dbforums.com/showpost.php...51&postcount=6
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02-15-08, 15:11
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Resident Curmudgeon
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Originally Posted by pootle flump
You don't nominate someone for saying something dumb.
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...and you say this after you nominated me? Almost everything I say is dumb!
-PatP
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02-16-08, 11:51
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SQL Consultant
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02-17-08, 12:48
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Resident Curmudgeon
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That was a very poor choice of pages to explain a phrase from the Japanese culture, although it might very well explain how venture capital firms use it. If it does, that firm does not have much clue about Japanese culture.
Find a reference that includes "Mikato" or "Sho-Gun" and you'll be a whole lot closer to the way I used the term. Culturally correct references are probably hard to find already translated into English, but the page that r937 cited is way off the mark from the way that I used/intended the phrase.
-PatP
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02-28-08, 09:36
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www.gvee.co.uk
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I finally got to use this one in the Corral today; it's one of my favourites so I'm entering it
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If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
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02-29-08, 04:54
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www.gvee.co.uk
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03-03-08, 10:17
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World Class Flame Warrior
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If it's not practically useful, then it's practically useless.
blindman 
www.chess.com: "sqlblindman"
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03-03-08, 10:36
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Resident Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by blindman
May I nominate one of my posts?:
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No, you can't (see poot's rules in post #1 of this thread).
That's Ok, I'll nominate that post anyway. Both a great quote and a nice summary of the thread that it is from.
-PatP
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03-03-08, 10:37
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King of Understatement
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by pootle flump
....You can't nominate yourself.....
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Originally Posted by blindman
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You know - you can lead some horses.... 
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ur codings are working excelent.
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03-03-08, 10:38
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King of Understatement
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Someone else could nominate you.
And we never had a poll for the last lot! I'm on t'case.
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pootle flump
ur codings are working excelent.
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03-03-08, 10:45
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SQL Server Street Fighter
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software development is where smart people go to waste their lives
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03-03-08, 11:09
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King of Understatement
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OMFG - who forced a poll into my post?
I feel .... violated .... and confused.
I bet his last name starts with the same letter as his first name.
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pootle flump
ur codings are working excelent.
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