“Guillaume has experience of taking prisoners in informal situations.”
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is it safe to come out now? 
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“That’s not more important than baseball!” (my daughter, mad at the preemption. )
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(The game is set in 1940.)
“…and you’re escorted into Kabul by a Hawker Hind.”
“If you’ve been to Old Warden, you’ll have seen one of those.”
“Surely not the same one of course.”
[sound of a critical success on Research]
“Well, it was one of the first eight sent there in 1933, and it came back in 1970…”
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I couldn’t rember what a hawker hind looked like, so I looked it up. Amazing how fast airplane tech changed in the 30s.
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The Gloster Gladiator is the pinnacle of that transition for me—still a biplane, but with a full enclosing canopy.
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I, too, dream of a dozenal norm. It’s evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Not 5 though, but my numerical synesthesia suggests 5 is the least comfortable-feeling number.
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You both have six fingers? What are the odds?
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Well that’s going to cause some confusion, from a Revenge perspective.
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If you’re curious the origin of the quote, it’s from the old SUSD forums
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Lol, apologies for not committing the previous lesson to memory.
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Ah man, and here I’m still working on figuring out the Dewey decimal system…
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That’s a slippery one to get to grips with.
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Base 60 has you covered… just sayin’.
It’s worked for clocks for a very long time. (Decimal time having gone over like a lead balloon.)
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I think that has something to do with the French Revolution at the time being very volatile as well.
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I just wrote in an article on software development:
Some people say I’m too cynical, but they’re all from marketing departments. I can point out several places in my carer where my employers lost time or money because I wasn’t cynical enough, but none where we missed an opportunity because I was too cynical.
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“[The CIA World Factbook] lists a ‘date of independence’ for each nation, and of course we [the UK] don’t have one.”
“Let’s face it, we’re already in a minority in not having a date of independence from the UK.”
“This is blasphemy. If you steal someone’s money, they can’t buy my goods.” [Spot the Issaries initiate.]
“Earthquakes are perfectly natural and normal, we should embrace them.”
“I think that’s called ‘hanging on’.”
“Roll another hit location. You can’t chop its tail off twice.”
“Just a sec… no, I don’t think it’s big enough to drop the tower. Damn.”
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This reminds me of the world map with nations that the UK has not tried to invade at any point of history…
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Does this include countries we’ve financed private armies to attack
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Assuming the East India company armies were “private armies”, it would have to…
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