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[zdas04]

We had a guy posting a question about a 1200 mm pipeline and several of us called him on it. He got really snarky. The thread is thread378-320640 Take a look and see if we were ugly enough to warrant his response.

David

 

[Eltron]

Somebody liked his response well enough to warrant a LPS...

Dan

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[BigInch]

The guy needs a glass lens in his own naval.

What would you be doing, if you knew that you could not fail?

 

[vpl]

David, I'd put that "1200 mm pipeline" in quotes because as btrueblood put it, that sure isn't a pipeline you and BigInch deal with -- it's not even a pipe length found in the power plants I deal with!

For the record, I didn't give him the star. However, the thread has been keeping my spirits up all week. The snarky responses have been terrific!

Patricia Lougheed

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[btrueblood]

Sorry, I RF'd his reply. Somebody should get a screen capture of the whole thread before Dave blows it outta here through a 12mm pipeline.

 

[vpl]

I red flagged it also -- I noticed somebody added it to their FAQ which usually preserves it from disappearing to the great graveyard in the sky, but I'll do a screen capture and post here.

Patricia Lougheed

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[vpl]

As promised, screen shot

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[vpl]

Edit function would be good. Here's a pdf of the entire thread, updated to include IRStuff's comment.

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[IRstuff]

Dang, Patricia, that was fast...

TTFN
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[zdas04]

I added it to my archive to see if that would work. If it doesn't there's no big loss.

David

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[btrueblood]

Yeah, virtual lps for Patricia.

 

[patprimmer]

Well I had a good belly laugh. I'm tempted to attempt to quell the flame by dousing it with a bucket of petrol.

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[patprimmer]

Of course the appropriate response would have been a red flag without comment, but what fun is there in that.

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[patprimmer]

OK. It's been sanitised. Anyone want to buy a redundant bucket of petrol cheap.

Seeing as it is no longer a fun thread, I RFed the OP as being at the level we could easily teach a smart 10 year old to solve.

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[TD2K]

I thought everyone was pretty restrained. He's obviously lacking a sense of humor.

I wonder if the 1200 mm 'pipeline' should have been 1200 m (which is still sort of short) but he should have still seen the humor in it.

David, I loved your reply in the guy with the compressor endlessly filling the two tanks "what did this poor gas ever do to you?"

 

[zdas04]

It has been that kind of week.

 

[KENAT]

Ooh, someone may be in trouble - and this time I don't think it's me.

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[zdas04]

I deleted my archive entry and RF'd the thread. It isn't so much fun since the editing.

David

 

[TD2K]

Dang, I'd give you a star for saving that VPL if we could here.

I missed Tick's reply, that was great.

 

[BigInch]

Fun for us to look at or not, the guy is now feeling somewhat impotant in the presense of a universal higher power. That would be punishment enough for me.

What would you be doing, if you knew that you could not fail?