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58 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

I remember the New Years Eve party, counting down to midnight and wondering if the lights would go out because someone somewhere didn't fix the Y2K bug in the electricity system.  Of course, nothing happened!

No need to thank me. It was all in a day's work (all through 1999).

 

We did have to make operating system mods in quite a bit of gear. You can thank Mr Gates for his mistake in DOS, and some proprietary software people for copying it.

 

In Telstra, the only phopa I was aware of was the mobile phone network got jammed for a while (at midnight) when all the Coke vending machines simultaneously called in to order restocking. Their fault, not ours

 

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Speaking of the NYE celebrations, there is a call in Victoria by an animal rights group, to outlaw ALL fireworks displays, including the professional displays on top of city buildings, football celebrations, entertainment fireworks like the Taylor Swift concerts, etc.

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Since before the year 2000, it has been an offence in NSW to possess or use what you might call "personal use" fireworks. However, you could go to Fyshwick in the ACT and buy as much as you liked, legally there. However, as soon as you crossed back into NSW, you committed the offence of importing, plus possession. That didn't, nor hasn't, stopped yobbos getting hold of fireworks and randomly letting them off, usually in the late evening in parks. 

 

It seems that it is sometimes the owners of animals, usually dogs, who contribute to the distress by not preparing for fireworks displays. They either don't bring their dogs inside with them and thereby give them the security of being in the "pack", or the owners themselves leave the home to go to see the displays, once again generating separation anxiety in the dogs.

 

I'm a dog person, so I can't comment on how cats react to fireworks. Frequently there are fireworks displays at agricultural shows, and the fireworks don't seem to affect the horses and other stock on the showground. Also, stock living in the open paddocks don't seem to be too worried about thunderstorms nearby. There were a few storm cells passing by my place yesterday afternoon and evening with a bit of thunder, but the horses just kept on grazing as if nothing was going on. Perhaps there are some clues in the condition of the atmosphere around thunderstorms that alert horses to expect a bit of noise.

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Since before the year 2000, it has been an offence in NSW to possess or use what you might call "personal use" fireworks. However, you could go to Fyshwick in the ACT and buy as much as you liked, legally there. However, as soon as you crossed back into NSW, you committed the offence of importing, plus possession. That didn't, nor hasn't, stopped yobbos getting hold of fireworks and randomly letting them off, usually in the late evening in parks. 

 

It seems that it is sometimes the owners of animals, usually dogs, who contribute to the distress by not preparing for fireworks displays. They either don't bring their dogs inside with them and thereby give them the security of being in the "pack", or the owners themselves leave the home to go to see the displays, once again generating separation anxiety in the dogs.

 

I'm a dog person, so I can't comment on how cats react to fireworks. Frequently there are fireworks displays at agricultural shows, and the fireworks don't seem to affect the horses and other stock on the showground. Also, stock living in the open paddocks don't seem to be too worried about thunderstorms nearby. There were a few storm cells passing by my place yesterday afternoon and evening with a bit of thunder, but the horses just kept on grazing as if nothing was going on. Perhaps there are some clues in the condition of the atmosphere around thunderstorms that alert horses to expect a bit of noise.

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A man goes into a restaurant, and he sits down. He’s having a bowl of soup and he says to the waiter, “Waiter, come taste the soup.”

Waiter says, “Is something wrong with the soup?”

“Just taste the soup.”

Waiter says, “Is there something wrong with the soup? Is the soup too hot?”

“Will you taste the soup?”

 “What’s wrong, is the soup too cold?”

“Will you just taste the soup?!”

 “All right, I’ll taste the soup - where’s the spoon?”

Aha. Aha!

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In the TV shows Cheers and Frasier, the character, Frazier, was divorced from Lilith Sternin (formerly Sternin-Crane), M.D., Ph.D., Ed.D, A.P.A. The character first appears as a date for Frasier Crane, though mutual hostility and discomfort causes the evening to end badly. Several months later, Lilith meets Frasier again and, with some help from Frasier's ex-fiancée, Diane Chambers, they start a romantic relationship, eventually living together, marrying, and having a son, Frederick.

 

In the opening scene of the 1993 pilot episode of Frasier ("The Good Son"), Frasier is hosting his call-in radio show and relates the following:

Six months ago, I was living in Boston. My wife had left me, which was very painful. Then she came back to me, which was excruciating. ...So I ended the marriage once and for all, packed up my things, and moved back here to my home town of Seattle.

 

 

 

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The lookout sees a pirate ship sailing their way. The captain shouts to his first mate, "Bring me my red shirt." The first mate brings the red shirt and the captain puts it on, and when the pirates try to board, the brave captain leads his men to victory. A few days later, the lookout screams, "Two pirate ships!" The crew is shivering like scared mice. But the courageous captain hollers, "Bring me my red shirt!" After the battle, the first mate asks, "Captain, why do you call for your red shirt before battle?" The captain replies, "So that if I am stabbed, you will not see me bleed." The next morning the lookout screams, "Ten pirate ships! We are surrounded!" The crew goes silent. They all look to their brave captain, waiting for his usual command. Calm as ever, the captain bellows…

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“Bring me my brown pants!”

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8 hours ago, spacesailor said:

We do know, EVE. Was ADAM 's second wife , Lillian was number one . 

did someone say Divorce. 

spacesailor

 

When I was younger I bought a painting of Lilith.

I didn't know who it was or the whole feminist thing around it, I just liked the nude redhead with the snake.

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6 hours ago, onetrack said:

Lilith was actually a succubus.

Ex-wives are almost always portrayed a evil immoral bitches. So to me that lends credibility to the stories of her existence.

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Wait a minute, what has this got to do with quickies?
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