Wrongfellow - Public Profile
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Mostly I look after the technical side - the scripts, HTML, database and other magic that keeps the site working.
I've submitted a few juicy quotes, though.
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Here's the best of what Wrongfellow has contributed:
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"If Stephen Hawking were British, he would be dead" - Investor's Business Daily
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 16 Aug 2009.
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Of course he would be. If his computerized voice tried to talk with a British accent, it would explode.
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 21 Nov 2009.
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Damn those Brits. No respect for physicists. - I'm from London, btw.
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Posted by Destrii on 11 Jan 2010.
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"...A weakness we've seen since 9-11 -- airplanes can fly into buildings..."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 24 Feb 2010.
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Q: "What are you doing?" A: "Making sure my hair looks sober"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 16 Jan 2010.
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"That thing you just described... how can I describe it...?"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 11 Feb 2010.
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Friggin' ineffable, man...
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Posted by Necropaxx on 11 Feb 2010.
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The problem with the Internet is that 1 percent of the users use 99 percent of the bandwidth, and the other 99 percent of the users have to share the other 2 percent.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 12 Aug 2009.
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mike your a badger felching cheese monkey
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Posted by fred on 12 Aug 2009.
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MOD WARNING: Only the admins are allowed to call people badger felching cheese monkeys. And please learn to write basic English, or I'll burn your house down. And then feed the ashes to a donkey.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 12 Aug 2009.
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"It's cruel to farm animals to switch to DST each year. They have to get up an hour earlier. The cows get confused."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 23 Oct 2009.
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Sadly, this is true.
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Posted by Socky on 23 Oct 2009.
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Do cows get confused? With all that cud-chewing Zen meditation they do, I always thought they had stuff pretty well worked out.
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Posted by JT on 23 Oct 2009.
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We're a Cambridge based company. Our offices are in Portugal.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 14 Nov 2009.
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"Pirates seized the MV Theresa VIII, a chemical tanker with a cargo of 28 North Koreans..."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 17 Nov 2009.
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Presumably that should be "crew"?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 17 Nov 2009.
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It was a slave trade vessel.
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Posted by Necropaxx on 17 Nov 2009.
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Biodegradable plastic! That's amazing! What's it made of?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 19 Nov 2009.
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I bet it's a type of metal.
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 22 Nov 2009.
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Processed feces.
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Posted by Moosh on 23 Nov 2009.
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Regarding a local band: "The name rings a bell, but I haven't heard of them."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 29 Jan 2010.
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While looking at the night sky...
Bloke: "I wish I knew how to find Polaris."
His friend: "What does it look like?"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Mar 2010.
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There is no single classification system that can describe all the many variations of nerve injury.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 5 May 2010.
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From Wikipedia. Now, call me daft if you like, but I'd have thought that classifying them all as "nerve injury" might have done the job?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 5 May 2010.
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Stupid Wikipedia.
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 6 May 2010.
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"These days you can get arrested just for shooting people."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 19 Jun 2010.
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"Most genes in the genome are inherited from either father or mother"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 8 Oct 2010.
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"Most"?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 8 Oct 2010.
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Don't forget the genes from Uncle Carl.
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 9 Oct 2010.
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And Aunt Creepy.
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Posted by Tiger on 12 Dec 2010.
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Is a calculator like a spellchecker but for maths?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 3 Dec 2009.
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Excellent!
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Posted by JT on 3 Dec 2009.
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Seen on a building site: "SITE ENTRANCE. NO ENTRY."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 10 Dec 2009.
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I got a better look at the same site on my way home. It was actually 2 signs - the top one said "SITE ENTRANCE" and the bottom one said "NO ENTRY - AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY" on two lines. So it's not quite as daft as it seemed from my first brief glimpse.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 10 Dec 2009.
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"Facebook is destroying all physical interaction."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 25 Feb 2010.
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What, all of it? Every last bit?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 25 Feb 2010.
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Ooh, Facebook is Eevill!
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Posted by Moosh on 25 Feb 2010.
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"California drivers are pretty damn slow, especially around stop signs."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Apr 2010.
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We've had a lot of rain in the summer for the last few years. Do you think it's got anything to do with the cloud of ash?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 8 May 2010.
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Since the rain started first, I expect not.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 8 May 2010.
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"Some video games only have one player character, others, especially two player games have two"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 17 Jul 2010.
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From Wikipedia, fount of all wisdom that it is.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 17 Jul 2010.
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"How come birds can live on seeds? You wouldn't have thought there'd be any nutrition in a seed."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Sep 2010.
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Err... isn't nutrition what seeds are all about?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Sep 2010.
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"The 10 days free data credit we gave you 7 days ago have now expired"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 11 Oct 2010.
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A text message I just received from T-Mobile.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 11 Oct 2010.
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"The stationary supplies have moved!"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 16 Dec 2010.
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Sign in my office, where the stationery cupboard used to be.
I'm sure we've all seen this typo before, but this is the best form I've seen it in for quite a while.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 16 Dec 2010.
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I've seen the "typo" (genuine speling errur in most cases, IMO) a million times, but never in that particular environment. Excellent!
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Posted by JT on 18 Dec 2010.
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"Look at those notices! They're really badly grammared."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 3 Jul 2011.
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Found in some tabloid or other: "Helicopters aren't designed to go in the sea. If they do the results can be catastrophic."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 12 Aug 2009.
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haha l0l that's really funny d00d
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Posted by fred on 12 Aug 2009.
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Oh for Christ's sake, just shut the hell up Fred you semiliterate, badger-felching cheese monkey. I'd ban you, if I'd implemented banning.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 12 Aug 2009.
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Yeah Fred you arse - it's not even like you're a real person, so shut up.
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Posted by JT on 12 Aug 2009.
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"I've always been famous, it's just that nobody knew about it until recently." - some minor celebrity
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 12 Aug 2009.
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I thought I'd better edit this one. I'm fairly sure it wasn't P***s H****n, and I've just added a rule against posting personally identifiable information.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 14 Aug 2009.
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Turns out it was L**y G**a. "And I’ve always been famous, you just didn’t know it yet."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/mu...
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Mar 2010.
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"This girl of 11 was snatched off the streets 18 years ago." (7 years before she was born?)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 31 Aug 2009.
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Obviously she had a time machine, and was kidnapped by the CIA who wanted it.
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Posted by JT on 1 Sep 2009.
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"If that had gone in the net it would have been a goal! But it didn't..." (football commentator)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 10 Sep 2009.
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Commentators are DEFINITELY going to be providing us with a lot of material!
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Posted by JT on 10 Sep 2009.
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"Natural clay! You eat it, and it flushes the toxins from your system, and gives you loads of energy."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 20 Oct 2009.
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Self-employed painter: "I don't do commercial work".
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 31 Oct 2009.
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Said of a new warship: "Its crew of 37 sailed her over 5000 nautical miles...."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 4 Dec 2009.
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Now I'm not enough of a traditionalist to insist on seeing ships referred to as "her", but I do think the writer should have picked one gender and stuck to it.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 4 Dec 2009.
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It's a transsexual ship?
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Posted by Socky on 4 Dec 2009.
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Child: "What's a bacon bap?" Father: "It's a bap with bacon in"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 5 Dec 2009.
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Reminds me of ordering a pizza by phone, years ago... Me: "One medium size spicy beef pizza, please." Pizza person: "What's a spicy beef pizza?" Me: "Well, it's a pizza with beef on it and it's spicy."
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Posted by JT on 5 Dec 2009.
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"Good software's good, but crap software's rubbish"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 9 Dec 2009.
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But what about Windows Office?
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Posted by Tiger on 9 Dec 2009.
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"Paint is liquid even when it dries"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 23 May 2010.
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Posted by Socky on 28 May 2010.
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"I'm sure my kidneys aren't a significant part of your tank."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 17 Jun 2010.
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Sounds like a reasonable assumption to me.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 17 Jun 2010.
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"There is no obvious connection to explain why a theory that is being developed to describe the fundamental workings of our universe is useful for predicting the behaviour of entangled quantum systems."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 3 Sep 2010.
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Really?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 3 Sep 2010.
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...what?
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 1 Oct 2010.
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You can sleep for longer or shorter, you can sleep deeper or shallower, but you can't sleep faster or slower.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 21 Jun 2011.
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"The handling and sale of stolen goods is often linked to burglary." - An unnamed "police spokeswoman", quoted in the Cambridge Evening News
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 21 Aug 2009.
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They put radioactive chemicals in drugs these days. They do it cos it makes your heart race...
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Aug 2009.
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Oh, is THAT why they do that...? :-)
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Posted by JT on 30 Aug 2009.
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"A new study shows that dogs can get very upset during thunderstorms" - www.sciencedaily.com
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 2 Sep 2009.
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Regarding this site: "You should make it simpler. I had to look around to find a list of quotes."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 12 Sep 2009.
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Looking back on it I think he was either asking for more than 10 items per page (which I don't want to do because it makes the page a bit too long) or for page numbers / next / previous links on the Top Ten list (which I'd thought about, but haven't actually tried). Seems a very odd way to ask for it though!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 13 Sep 2009.
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"You shouldn't try to control your kids. If you tell them what they can't do, they'll never learn to think for themselves."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 13 Sep 2009.
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"Postmodernist deconstructionism and hypnotism actually have a lot in common."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 14 Sep 2009.
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"Have you ever noticed how people only started dying of cancer after electricity was invented?"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Sep 2009.
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And of course this proves the existence of the great government conspiracy, and probably ley lines and aliens too.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Sep 2009.
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It's not entirely worthless from a scientific point of view though. It proves that stupid people exist.
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Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009.
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Although this probably fits into the same category as the earlier quote about who was the first to prove that triangles' cprners add up to 180 degrees - Things That Do Not Need To Be Proved Because They Just Are.
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Posted by JT on 15 Sep 2009.
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On the way out of a museum: Q: Is this where we pick up our bags? A: It depends where you left them.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 20 Sep 2009.
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Patient in hospital: "Nurse! I need some more of those oxygen tablets."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 21 Sep 2009.
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"The sun moves through the sky? Wow! I never noticed that!"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 1 Oct 2009.
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Daylight saving time is bad for the environment. The extra hour of sunlight each day evaporates more water from the lakes and the rivers, and disturbs the ecosystem.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 19 Oct 2009.
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"The population is expected to rise by more than 10m in the 24 years between 2008 and 2029"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 21 Oct 2009.
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Cut-and-paste from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8318010... - if they can't get basic addition and subtraction right, why should we put any trust in their population growth predictions?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 21 Oct 2009.
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They've fixed it now. Maybe someone at the BBC reads WIF? (Or maybe I'm not the only one who spotted the mistake.)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 21 Oct 2009.
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Killjoys! Let's hope we have a fan at the Beeb though.
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Posted by JT on 21 Oct 2009.
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Ah! But with the apocalypse, not one [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Year...], but two years magically disappeared!
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Posted by Socky on 23 Oct 2009.
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...or make that three years.
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Posted by Socky on 23 Oct 2009.
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"Many a battle is lost in the courts of public onion"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 1 Nov 2009.
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Just an innocent typo, really (should be "opinion"). It made me chuckle though!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 1 Nov 2009.
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Heh, what if he meant it.
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Posted by Tiger on 4 Nov 2009.
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"Listening to you won't help me to understand your point of view!"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 28 Nov 2009.
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Drunken political arguments in the pub can be a great source of comedy! (The original speaker of this particular gem is actually a member of this site, though I won't name him.)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 28 Nov 2009.
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For a drunken comment, this is kind of... coherent.
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Posted by Necropaxx on 29 Nov 2009.
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"Ferret Kits For Sale"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 1 Jul 2010.
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Do they come with paint and glue? (Contributed by my father.)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 1 Jul 2010.
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I remember when ferrets first came out. Not only did you have to get them in kit form and build them yourself, you had to type in all the software too.
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Posted by JT on 2 Jul 2010.
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"Are those chillis?" "No, they're fuchsias."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 11 Aug 2010.
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That's going to be an - erm - interesting curry.
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Posted by JT on 15 Aug 2010.
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"If record labels made the decision to charge much less, fans would not think twice about buying an album on impulse"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Oct 2010.
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Whereas at the moment, they think very carefully before buying an album on impulse?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Oct 2010.
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"We are going to have 3 children of different sexes in one bedroom"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 20 Oct 2010.
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Which 3 sexes would those be, exactly?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 20 Oct 2010.
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Manager: "What's the difference between a short string and a long string?"
Programmer: <explanation>
Manager: "So they're different lengths?"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 5 Nov 2010.
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This reminds me of the PHB who, when seeing a screenful of code over Dilbert's shoulder, orders him to run spellcheck on it.
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Posted by JT on 9 Nov 2010.
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"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 19 Nov 2010.
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Of course they have. It's all a cover-up.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 19 Nov 2010.
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I don't think it matters whether or not they HAVE done, but they SHOULD.
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Posted by JT on 22 Nov 2010.
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Am I the only one confused by the use of the word "categorically" in this sentence?
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 25 Nov 2010.
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"I never understood why cars didn't go round in circles..."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 23 Dec 2010.
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Hey, am I going to get my own category?
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Posted by poppy on 7 Jan 2011.
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There are only two of yours on here. You'll have to be a bit more prolific if you want your own category!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Jan 2011.
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"The woman had contacted [the surgery] to obtain the H1N1 vaccine after discovering she was pregnant."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Jan 2011.
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Now I'm not a doctor, but I'm fairly sure babies aren't a kind of flu virus.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Jan 2011.
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"Go on then - have a baby, If you really must. Babies are better than rabies; But only just."
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Posted by JT on 9 Jan 2011.
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"I think they said they were sorry... is that the same as an apology?"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 20 Jan 2011.
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"It's amazing how women don't like you going to bed with someone else"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 23 Jan 2011.
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"NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL AS IT WILL BUY A FISH FOR AN OTTER"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 12 Feb 2011.
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Surely otters are perfectly adept at getting their own fish? That's why they're otters not, say, squirrels.
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Posted by JT on 12 Feb 2011.
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Quizmaster: "Name a landlocked country in Europe".
Contestant: "Belgium. We've been there!"
Contestant's wife: "We went by ferry."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 14 Feb 2011.
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Quizmaster: "A ship sailing south from Land's End will hit land where?"
Contestant: "Australia."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 14 Feb 2011.
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"Accidents are hardly the only thing causing traffic."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 22 Feb 2011.
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Far from it, I would have thought!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 22 Feb 2011.
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The [large radio telescope] has taken near-perfect images of a black hole ... This raises hopes that it could one day not just send radio waves into space but receive them.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 22 Feb 2011.
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Found in "The Cambridge Student", of all places. You would have hoped for better, really.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 22 Feb 2011.
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Wow... Don't know what else to say...
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Posted by JT on 23 Feb 2011.
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"O people, had it not been for electricity, we would have been watching television in the dark"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 3 Mar 2011.
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Attributed to Muammar Gaddafi here: http://www.daralhayat.com/portalartic...
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 3 Mar 2011.
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Oh, yeah, this one's a highly significant moment in Who Invented Foxes history: it's our thousandth quote! Wahey.
You've heard of Moore's Law, right? I'd like to propose Fred's Law: "The number of quotes on Who Invented Foxes increases by a factor of ONE THOUSAND!!!1! every eighteen months."
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"Obeying your parents is much more important than obeying your mother and father."
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Makes you wonder what Gaddafi's parents were like, doesn't it? From here: http://www.daralhayat.com/portalartic...
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Gaddafi has shown a true talent for foxisms lately - wonder if we should honour his skill by giving him Fred's place until the Libyan people manage to assassinate him?
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Posted by JT on 3 Mar 2011.
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I've wondered in the past about implementing subcategories. If I'd done it, this guy would definitely get his own subcategory.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 3 Mar 2011.
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Subcategories seems a good idea, but we definitely shouldn't have one devoted to GW Bush - that's sooo 2004.
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Posted by JT on 4 Mar 2011.
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"I didn't know trains have wheels? I thought they skidded along the track!"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 16 Mar 2011.
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"The Moon affects everyone differently! It affects water, and causes the tides, right? Well, people are 95 percent water, and it affects us all differently because we're all made of different amounts of water!"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 20 Mar 2011.
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Bin Laden had taken over Hitler's spot of "Evilest Guy Alive"...
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"You try cycling ... if you're in a wheelchair"
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"Here in Oklahoma, counterfeiting is a federal offense"
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but doesn't federal law apply to all the states?
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"Perhaps you do fall within categories of worry over your ability to use cognitive approach to debate within any medium"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 23 Jun 2011.
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"The Met Office said a large amount of rainfall in a short space of time could lead to flooding"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 27 Jun 2011.
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"I don't think there are any bugs in it, but I'm not surprised it doesn't work"
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"Obama blames Republicans on debt"
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Of course if it wasn't for that damn debt we wouldn't have any Republicans to deal with!
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"Children exposed to radiation risks during X-rays"
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"I cycled all the way here and then realised I'd left my bike behind"
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"If I had three testicles you'd be one of them"
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"You do understand that women don't produce semen, don't you?"
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"Are ducks like birds?"
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I remember saying this, but I really don't remember the context...
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"Why don't wireless mice come with a Kensington lock?"
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Regarding ISPs: "You can look up their AS number, BGP routing path, etc" "Yeah, but that doesn't tell you whose network they're using."
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"I've always been susceptible to swine flu because I cycle and then smoke."
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Don't know where you heard that one, but even if it was a total stranger I wouldn't have been able to resist asking them to explain why this raises susceptibility.
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"Why's it already Thursday?"
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Because some time-distorting crisis ended Wednesday earlier than intended.
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"Pear cider doesn't exist. It's called perry."
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I bet you're called Perry.
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Posted by Socky on 26 Sep 2009.
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Are we choosing a prime minister - or a primate?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 13 Apr 2010.
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From a well-known newspaper reporting on the coming UK election. Personally, I'd hope our next Prime Minister would be a member of the biological order that contains lemurs, lorises, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, gorillas and humans.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 13 Apr 2010.
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I wouldn't mind a different order altogether, just to lessen Cameron's chances.
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Posted by JT on 14 Apr 2010.
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"Musical instrumental gestures are actuations of a musical instrument by direct human control (typically by kinetic neuro-muscular actuation)."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 29 Oct 2010.
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From this paper: http://opensoundcontrol.org/publicati...
A few more of these and we'll need an "Academia" category, perhaps.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 29 Oct 2010.
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 29 Oct 2010.
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Far too many! It's perfectly easy to say nothing with a lot more brevity than that. :)
Scientists don't try to use artists' jargon in their papers - I have to wonder why artists use science jargon - maybe they think it makes them look clever? :)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Oct 2010.
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"The worst of the rain is over, but the water's still flowing down Quay Street in both directions."
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Sorry to say that this is actually a logical sentence, as water flowing down the street is not technically still rain.
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Posted by CheddarBBQ on 25 Nov 2010.
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"Flowing in both directions" is the bit that made me chuckle.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 26 Nov 2010.
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Well, I guess it could be an uneven street...
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"So I did the next logical thing, which was to pick a handful of grass and sellotape it to the wall"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 24 Nov 2010.
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I am sure that given the context that would have made perfect sense.
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Posted by poppy on 25 Nov 2010.
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That's probably true of a lot of the quotes on here :)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 25 Nov 2010.
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"In the shorter term we have got to stop using our own food as a food supply."
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 8 Feb 2011.
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From a famous environmentalist, quoted in The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/...
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 8 Feb 2011.
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They've changed it now to "...as a fuel supply", making me think this actually belongs under Typos.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 12 Feb 2011.
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"When will they learn, the bastards!" ...followed closely by... "Oh. They learned."
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Punching someone in the face is a multiple organism.
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"You can't solve the galaxy based principle"
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"...an 18-year-old arrested on suspicion of death by dangerous driving..."
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Dying is illegal now?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 3 Aug 2011.
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Making something illegal halts it - see the highly effective anti-drug laws for an example. Living people earn (taxable) money, dead people do not. Expect the Tories to criminalise death any day now.
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Posted by JT on 9 Aug 2011.
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Except for dole-scroungers, for whom it will be made mandatory.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 11 Aug 2011.
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"Don't put your finger in there! It'll hurt."
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I sometimes wonder if we need an "Out Of Context" category.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 2 Sep 2011.
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"Lots of things are edible. That doesn't mean you can eat them."
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"We're recording our album in January. It'll be out in the New Year."
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"What would happen if you ate your own hair?"
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"Unemployment fell and I think it will continue to rise"
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"I think you really need two people for a wedding"
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How do you write "Please Do Not Touch" in Braille?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 7 Jun 2012.
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"How come chickens can lay lots of eggs but human women only get one?"
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"Cambridge is better than Oxford because Oxford isn't as close to Europe"
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"I don't think I'm illiterate enough"
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I disagree. I think your illiteracy is more than adequate.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 9 Jul 2012.
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"The great thing about going to the toilet is..."
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You could finish this sentence off however you liked, and it would still be Fredworthy.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Sep 2012.
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"This change makes sense assuming the logic matches the the spec (which it does not)"
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From my Bugzilla mail folder.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 5 Oct 2012.
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"[This] has been 100% reliable (at failing)"
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More Bugzilla goodness :)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 5 Oct 2012.
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"If you have one of my tits, they're menthol"
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Me: "Can I get a <meal> and a <drink>, please?"
Barmaid: "Yes, of course"
Next customer: "Are you doing food?"
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"Why don't you come to our Thursday night class?"
"When is it?"
"On Thursdays."
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"Your brain isn't real. It's actually a giant fungus that controls everything."
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I don't see how this is stupid. In fact, I'm convinced it's correct.
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"Homicide victims rarely talk to police"
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But it's a bit worrying when they do.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 22 Feb 2013.
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"Stop fondling imaginary doughboobs, it's kinda pervy"
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From Poppy, whose computer is out of action after drinking a bit too much cider the other day.
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"In my head the cleaners are all robots"
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The "Out of Context" category becomes more and more tempting.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 30 Apr 2013.
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"Since I was a young child I've known I was a genus."
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"A hedgehog would make a nice bed of nails for a gerbil."
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Pregnant woman: "It's like I've got something wriggling around inside me!"
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"If you're going to write, you should write about something you understand."
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"See, my theory is that if this bit of wood is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony..."
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"Oxford is, like, a desolate wasteland of entomology"
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"Sunshine is bad for you! Too much of it gives you cancer!"
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"What kind of wood is that?"
"Some kind of renewable wood."
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"A vet report advised that the stomach would be a completely unsuitable place for a goldfish"
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"Breastmilk, people. That is literally all a child needs for the first 6-12 years of life."
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Of course, the evil medical establishment recommends weaning them onto solid food a little earlier than that, but what do they know?
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 14 May 2014.
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"You know you're in a posh place when there's no piss on the floor"
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"On a logarithmic scale, 2 is the square of 1, and 4 is the cube of 1"
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"Churchill wasn't really very pro-German, was he?"
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"There has never been any trouble [and] there will be less in the future"
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"Sometimes I say things before I've thought of them"
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"I am sorry — I am mid-diatribe and do not want to be interrupted."
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"I wouldn't need to be successful if you weren't such a twat"
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"In music it's about the note you start with, and the note you end with. And all the other notes in the middle, in relation to that."
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"I found an ostrich. It's called my headphones."
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"If I knew what I wanted to do, it would be a lot easier to do it."
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'It looked as good as it could have considering it had just escaped being eaten by a weasel.'
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"I mean, how many of the people who emailed him would have had Internet access?"
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"Look at his socks and shoes. They appear to be crying."
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"Kanye West - the best rap singer in the world!"
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"Our team goal is to do task related activities"
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"I did sacrifice a goat. I know that's probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans."
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When will Simon Cowell learn that just because he owns a record company he controls the entire music industry?
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One commentard's take on Rage Against The Machine taking the Christmas No. 1 position in the charts. (This might not mean much to non-Brits.)
I think he might want to re-read that sentence!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 20 Dec 2009.
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When American Idol boots him.
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"Most people in Iran are under 25"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 13 Oct 2010.
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I'm missing this one...
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Posted by JT on 14 Oct 2010.
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Two-thirds of children aged 5-15 who own a mobile phone had their device by the time they were 10, figures show.
A further 27% had acquired their phone by the time they were eight years old.
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"You can tell when someone's sent a text message from a touch screen phone because all the letters are missing."
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"A tall building should be defined as one that [...] is significantly taller than neighbours"
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 19 Jan 2011.
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