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[Jaysen]

@Sean Coffee

@Jaysen

@Sean Coffee

Is she right about this, or is she missing something?

Consider that this is your wife. Slowly reread what you asked a half dozen times. The answer is obvious.

Yeah, it was one of those things where I’m like “Really? You just asked THAT question on an internet forum?” But I was honestly too lazy to change it.

Which pretty much reinforces the answer.

Anywhoo, seen any good horses lately? My stick is dusty.

[Eddy]

@Jaysen

Anywhoo, seen any good horses lately? My stick is dusty.

I hereby award you my ‘euphemism of the year’ trophy (in the ‘phrase’ category), even though it may have been unintentional on your part.

Truly an amazing turn of phrase. Bravo!

Eddy

[Jaysen]

@Eddy

@Jaysen

Anywhoo, seen any good horses lately? My stick is dusty.

I hereby award you my ‘euphemism of the year’ trophy, even though it may have been unintentional on your part.

Truly an amazing turn of phrase. Bravo!

Eddy

Mr. Coffee and I have been perpetuating blunt force trauma on necro-equines in these parts for quite some time. Mr. Coffee deserves the credit though as he is the one who started it. Search his posts for stick and horse. We should collectively bow at the throne of Coffee (which looks oddly like a picture in the American Standard catalog).

[Hugh]

@Jaysen

@Hugh

… whilst …

sucking up to KB are you?

Oops, good spot. Mea culpa.

[Eddy]

@Jaysen

Mr. Coffee and I have been perpetuating blunt force trauma on necro-equines in these parts for quite some time. Mr. Coffee deserves the credit though as he is the one who started it. Search his posts for stick and horse. We should collectively bow at the throne of Coffee (which looks oddly like a picture in the American Standard catalog).

I readily come out in favour of the flagellation of moribund equines. There is no better test subject against which to gauge the effectiveness of cutting-edge lash technology.

Eddy

[Jaysen]

@Eddy

I readily come out in favour of the flagellation of moribund equines. There is no better test subject against which to gauge the effectiveness of cutting-edge lash technology.

Mr. Coffee,

Shall we accept Eddy as a member to the club? He seems to have experience and a flair that will bring prestige and honor to our humble society.

[exegete77]

@Hugh

Incidentally, whilst I like Excel, I also contend that it can be an instrument of evil. There’s a certain type of Excel practitioner, usually male, young and employed in finance or M&A*, who delights in creating hugely complicated, largely undocumented, multi-page spreadsheet machines, where all you can tell is that if put in “A” in the assumptions on sheet 1, you get out “Z” on sheet 35, but never know why.

I worked for 8 years (2000-2008) as an analyst for a Fortune 100 company; started not knowing or using Excel to become one of the top XL power users in the company. Sadly many who claim “power user” follow exactly what you describe. I had to clean up several of those monstrosities; in one case I changed a75 MB file that took 25 minutes to calculate, provided you entered data in the right sequence (and you had to turn off the calc mode because it couldn’t keep up!), to a 15 MB file that required only two entries and less than a minute to calculate. And every page was documented to describe where it fit within the sequence, why, and linking cells to other sheets.

Sometimes I really miss those challenges! Then I sit down and my heart goes back to normal and the urge passes. :mrgreen:

[Jaysen]

e77

There are medications for that condition. One of the more common is called “bourbon”. Taken at the right time it can prevent unexpected flare ups of self endangerment. Be careful though as over use can also create a condition of self endangerment known as “vic-k”.

[exegete77]

@Jaysen

e77

There are medications for that condition. One of the more common is called “bourbon”. Taken at the right time it can prevent unexpected flare ups of self endangerment. Be careful though as over use can also create a condition of self endangerment known as “vic-k”.

Thanks for the reminder. Yes, I have carefully watched "vic-k"tim mentality as well. :mrgreen: