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    Q: Why did the tennis player get wet? A:
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    The other 13% don't use cosmetics. 1730469412 A guy walked into a bar. "Oh!", said the bartender, "I didn't realise November 5th was so near."
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    An electrical engineer and his beloved had been going steady for quite some time, so thoughts of marriage were beginning to skittishly wander through their minds. Eventually, one day, the engineer said they should make sure they were really compatible, and would it be OK if they tried something...
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    It's a baaaad joke. American distance units: miles European distance units: kilometres. However, the UK still measures road distances in miles. So the joke is based on an American assuming that the UK uses European road-distance measures - so instead of smiles, it's skilometres*. The...
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    Q: What is a kilometer? A: Q: Why are some Americans 'people of size'? A: Q: Why was the Bavarian accompanied by singing wherever he went? A: Patient: Doctor, doctor, I'm not feeling myself. Doctor: A patient enters the doctor's office, and the doctor sees what looks like a large frog...
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    For anyone like me who did not immediately understand this joke, all I can say is, "Sikh, and ye shall find!". On the topic of holidays, my neighbour said he was taking his wife to the Caribbean for a holiday."Oh,", I said, "Jamaica?" - "No", he said, "she went of her own accord". Of course...
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    E-ink Screen

    That's because I understand it is not E-ink (rotating multi-hued balls), but monochrome/greyscale LCD with a reflective back layer. Liliputing reports: Display Ninja: IGZO versus IPS Android Authority: Display technology explained: A-Si, LTPS, amorphous IGZO, and beyond Profolus: IGZO Display...
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    Should I have received my final order eMail already?

    The Pyra is still absolutely brilliant. But the long development period means that things have moved on a bit: USB-C; and linux has pretty much transitioned to 64-bit, which makes life difficult for wanting to use a mainstream web-browser (for example). A physical keyboard (not Bluetooth) is...
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    Man at Silver Wedding anniversary, addressing the guests on the topic of marital harmony: "Well, I was lucky enough to marry a woman who was always right."
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    Q: Why do the indigenous bears in the Arctic get lost when you give them their GNSS Latitude and Longitude co-ordinates? A: . Q: Why don't bears in the Arctic eat penguins? A: . An Arctic bear and a narwhal are talking about going to a bar to cheer up the penniless friend of the narwhal, a...
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    Yes. A cause of great disappointment. Not only were the buildings not gratis, but neither were the beverages that were available within the building. Another example of English overloading the word 'free' with multiple distinct meanings: e.g. libre and gratis*. Given how much vocabulary English...
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    Bittersweet: As a child, when we went on road-journeys, we would reasonably frequently go past buildings labelled prominently with the term "Free House". I always wondered why we couldn't just go and live in one of them, because most of them looked bigger and nicer than the house my family lived in.
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    I'm more afraid of the legions of elves, commanded by Santa von Clausewitz.
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    Some of them go on to specialise in panto-mime. -Oh no they don't! Oh yes they do!
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    What’s the most frustrating part about being a chicken farmer? (This is the bad joke thread, isn't it?)
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    No, the correct last answer to the additional question Git1 posed is 'a doe'. Doh!. The correct last question is "What do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs, and no genitalia?" I guess this is a pull request on the fork. Further bad jokes of the same ilk: What do you call a deaf elephant...
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    What do you call a deer with no eyes? - No idea. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? -Still no idea, What do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs, and no ears? -Anything you like, it can't hear you!
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    Happy new year - 2024

    Arr. It be after June this year, innit?
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    Should I have received my final order eMail already?

    I am almost terminally cynical, so I apologise if I offend anyone with these remarks. The concepts described are probably novel to the young people encountering/rediscovering them for the first time. "It's new because I've never seen it before." There is also the problem of people regarding...
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    Should I have received my final order eMail already?

    Computers don't change at all. New designs come along, but there are plenty of old ones still working, sometimes decades after their introduction. There's a huge amount of 'legacy' equipment out there still doing its job - sometimes not always a good idea, but industrial control stuff tends to...
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