TLPTP Wins thread ... 5 squared - (that's number 25 btw)

anniet

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23 Oct 2016 14:35:46 UTC

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RULE ONE*: (This is a very important one, people) Having fun will be tolerated, as will insults of the OP (that's me)

RULE TWO: I won. If you're having problems dealing with that, counselling may help. Nuclear strikes might be more satisfying though. I'll leave that up to you.

RULE THREE: Post until I tell you to stop. That will happen once someone has met my winning criteria.

RULE FOUR: Read rule one again

RULE FIVE: I will try to remember to PM the winner to tell them to start a new thread, the button for which is at the bottom of the page this thread is on, in case anyone's wondering

RULE SIX: Is for me to sort out, so you can all ignore it. Yes :) unless you happen to be one of our esteemed moderators, in which case you can't.

RULE SEVEN: Double/triple/quadruple etc posts can prove quite expensive in the café. Pleading subsequent homelessness may get you some sympathy, but with an "I told you so" thrown in as you are handed a cardboard box and a tub of lard for waterproofing it (at no cost to yourself). Beyond that, I really don't know what else I can do to help.

* Taken from inaugural speech made by Kim Jong-un (9 March 2014)

Below (that's down people) you will find the original rules. Above (that's up) you will have already found the modified rules.

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[RULES:]

1. Winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, old winner posts declaration of new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread. (My preference is for the winner to ask the mods to lock the old thread after the new one is started.)
6. No double posts. Violator buys a round for the house in the SETI Refuge Bar.

I think that covers everything, apart from the proof I won Thank you MAGIC :)

Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.

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Congrats Annie! Sorry for the

23 Oct 2016 15:52:57 UTC

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Congrats Annie!
Sorry for the short post. i have a tabby on my arm.

Kathryn :o)

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Anonymous

My windows are open. The A/C

23 Oct 2016 15:58:35 UTC

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My windows are open. The A/C has gone silent (at least for today) - 76 here today. I really hope we get many more days like this or cooler. It is days like this that we live for here - all 3 of them.

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In the last thread anniet

23 Oct 2016 18:42:54 UTC

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In the last thread

anniet wrote:

I've just remembered!!! :) I've got two tasks which I'm so glad didn't get curdled* when the computer got cut off from its life support, with the suffix "_2" which I thought meant they were resends, but they don't seem to be. I thought it was interesting * :)

Looked through you tasks and did find a couple of _2 tasks from October 20th that are resends. Checking the workunits both had a "Not started before deadline" for the _0 tasks so got resent to you. There are a few more examples further back in time that also looks like normal resends, couldn't find any _2 or higher tasks that did not have the _0 or _1 task fail in some way so all looks normal from here.

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Gasp ! I mean ..... congrats

23 Oct 2016 22:14:00 UTC

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Gasp ! I mean ..... congrats Annie on the win. Don't let it go to your head .... too late.

BTW : There will be no esteeming of moderators. Ouch! Sounds hot and watery, burny like.

Today's cuddly photo, two orphan wombats in a makeup bag :

... & not well known for lunging at helicopters.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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CONGRATS Annie!!!!!

24 Oct 2016 0:46:55 UTC

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CONGRATS Annie!!!!!

Good evening everyone.

TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
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Good morning

24 Oct 2016 11:07:33 UTC

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Good morning everyone!!

Congratulations on yor win of the last game Annie!!

And NO it was not me testing cats that threw one off the roof that you know own!!! I told me wife she can have a cat as long as I can 'test' it first, if it survives me throwing it out a 5th floor window then she can keep it. So far she has been unwilling to let me test one, so we do not have any cats!! The REAL reason is because everytime we have a pet it becomes MINE, as she is out and about doing stuff and I do NOT want another animal!!!

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I thought I would stop by and

24 Oct 2016 11:15:35 UTC

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I thought I would stop by and see how things went as I handed the throne back to the Queen of GB remember don't let the minions know that we will just hand the royal Einstein crown back and forth

I like the rules of course (don't want killer bees attacking me at 4am)

Yes your HRH I remember you taking care of the English bees and I do that except I tend to speak to them about bothering my hummingbirds.

Tonight (since I am the late-night person here) I was getting these onions I grew this year out to chop off their head again since they thought it was ok to start growing again in a bag I stashed in a dark,cold room.

So then I take the trimmings and bad onions (there was a bit more than I expected) and then try to decide if I go out the front or back door at 10pm since my pet deer tend to want some apples at that time........so I peak out at the tree and see no deer.........and decide to go out the front door to toss that opinion stuff out in the front yard.........I get about 10 steps straight out and about 30 feet in front of me as my eyes start to get used to the darkness I see........a herd of deer of all sizes........moms and babies all looking at me.......I didn't want to scare them since they hadn't got up to the apple tree yet........just tossed the onion stuff and said "its ok deer you can stay" and went right back in the house........well they all ran away

BUT on my walk around the place earlier today I found several deer trails all around the 5 acres and some look like it would be hard for the lil ones to get over the barbed wire fence.....but they do.

So maybe they will feel brave again tomorrow night (ok it would actually be tonight) and I will get those onion clippings off the lawn later today since I doubt onions attract deer.

(hey my secret text actually works here)

OK HRH take care of the Kingdom and make sure they all behave..........off I ride.......