Magere Hein

I'm considering splitting this to a new topic, but I can't think of a good subject. 'TV commentators' perhaps, or mebby we want a journalist topic. Any suggestions? http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?...;hl=journalists Thanks. I knew there was one. I searched for it, but couldn't find it. After a few experiments I found that the search facility can find it. Use "jour*" as search key for the title. I suppose I'll have to rewrite the search part of the DL HOWTO. Ok, mr Rooney goes to the journo topic. regards, Hein

I'm considering splitting this to a new topic, but I can't think of a good subject. 'TV commentators' perhaps, or mebby we want a journalist topic. Any suggestions? regards, Hein

A Belgian (not famous outside Belgium, I guess): former deputy Prime Minister of Belgium Willy De Clercq died today. I only have a Dutch language news source, but I suppose the news will eventually percolate into English ones. regards, Hein

When I was twelvish I put ink in the font at the entrance of the local Catholic church. It took a while before members of the flock realised the blue stain on their foreheads wasn't a miracle. Apart from me nobody saw the funny side of it. regards, Hein

Done. Hope you like the tag line. regards, Hein

Allow me to comment on this. Members' accounts are blocked every now and again, there's no denying that. To get banned you must do one of the following things: Post spam Harrass other members Post (or PM) threats to other members Posting material critical of DL management is not a good reason to be banned. Posts do indeed get removed from this (and other) topics1. Any Mod or Admin can do so at his or her discretion. There's no such thing as an Official Deathlist Moderation Policy. Consensus in DL management is that such a policy would be a waste of time and effort. That doesn't mean that we don't have a pretty good idea of what kind of posts are to be removed: spam is an obvious target, as are duplicate posts, posts without content or containing only quoted text. As you posted what I now reply to twice, one instance of it got binned. Posting material that has pornographic or scatologic content is tricky. As this forum is intended for adults I expect some tolerance from the readers. For this reason the bad words filter has been removed2. On the other hand I expect a grown-up attitude from posters: don't post what you wouldn't want to read. Personally I don't care much, as it shows the mind of the pervoster better than anything else, but other Mods do. When they delete posts for that reason, I will not reverse their decision. If you care to answer them, I have two questions for you: Why is the snipped text relevant for the discussion at hand? What makes you think that a post that contains the text I snipped will find wide approval by the readership? Ah, now there is an interesting topic. Individual guests cannot be banned from posting, but IP addresses can be, and are. Spammers are IP banned on sight and occasionally a guest poster with a history of disruptive posting gets the same treatment. If I remember correctly this has happened twice, one of which recently, though that was not a guest. 1The logs show that in 2011 (up to October 27) six posts were deleted from this topic, including today's duplicate one. 2Although it finds a new role in marking spam. regards, Hein

Ah, beer ads. I rather like by a Dutch brewer. regards, Hein

We can't. As W.L. Brugsma, a dead Dutch journalist, once remarked: there's only one environmental problem: people. This will be the biggest problem of the 21st century and it will solve itself. It doesn't look like people can curb their repruduction enough to reverse this population growth, so war, famine and pestilence will do the work. This will happen when the supply of crude oil (and cheap transport of goods) runs out around 2050, if not sooner. It will not be a pretty sight. regards, Hein

Sad. regards, Hein

I suppose such shopping trips are much more entertaining when a dead dictator is on view.I have always hated shoe shopping with a passion, but my old boots went belly-up after the rigors of last winter and I need to get a new pair soon. The chance to view a dictator on ice would definitely take some of the sting out. Perhaps an international tour of Gaddafi's corpse could be arranged (Coming soon to a mall near you!) Yes, please! If the tour would would pass my country I might well make a trip to see it. Is the Libyan government pro tem reading this? Here's a way to make a few quid from all this unpleasantness. Hell, I might even try an find a new pair of shoes while at the mall. Perhaps an international shoe manufacturer wants to sponsor the tour. regards, Hein

Ah yes, the horrors of shopping. I hated shoe hunting in particular. A perfect afternoon, or even worse, Saturday ruined by walking from shop to shop for hours, ghastly sales staff and fitting dozens of pairs of shoes. The shoes I came home with invariably were too large and cheapish. Of course I could wear the new shoes only on Sundays, which did little to improve the Sunday afternoon walk. By the time the shoes were worn enough for every day use, they would be too small, so a new shopping trip would follow soon. I suppose such shopping trips are much more entertaining when a dead dictator is on view. regards, Hein

Cancer free, he says. regards, Hein

Topic closed. Unfortunately there's no way to close a poll without closing the topic. Please post your comments about the deposed and dead dictator in the brand new Gaddafi topic. regards, Hein

New topic for Muammar Gaddafi, to replace closed poll topic. regards, Hein

Seconded. Check. I congratulate the People of Lybia with their fine victory. regards, Hein

It's one of those bearded-face-onna-pancake thingies, innit? Or my favourite: deformed rabbit, better known from shadow play. regards, Hein

The dialect of the North East of Scotland is a product of millennia of culture and inbreeding tradition.My great great grandparents were first cousins. A good tradition, as I understand it, especially among the wealthy. To give an example: HM the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have a great great grandmother in common: Queen Victoria, and are therefore third cousins. In addition to that, Elizabeth's great great grandfather Christian IX of Denmark is also Philip's great grandfather, which makes them second cousins once removed. It's hardly surprising that their offspring occasionally behave funny. regards, Hein

Done. regards, Hein

Shitshitshit.Having (almost) completely forgotten about C, you've triggered some nasty flashbacks. If I remember right, my introduction to C consisted of reading the above book and producing the message 'Hello World'. As the Good Book says itself on page 9: I have the book somewhere. I used it successfully as a C cookbook, but later it bit me firmly in the arse when I learned through experience that mr Schildt is rather sloppy, a habit I inadvertently adopted. When I started writing MS-DOS device drivers in C, sloppy work nearly killed me, as such drivers are horribly difficult to debug. regards, Hein

Hein the date of your post above makes no sense -what have you been doing? Or where are you? When I wrote that bit I was sober, at home and very much in 13 October (in MEST). If you look at my original post (instead of the quoted material) you'll see that there's nothing wrong with it. I suspect that something funny happened when DJL quoted it, perhaps because he did so on 14 October, locally. I'll see and try to find out why. regards, Hein

Shitshitshit. Together with Brian Kernighan he wrote what are, in programmers' circles, called the Old Testament and the New Testament: Of course they aren't the original generation of computer gurus, that honour goes to people like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Grace Hopper and Donald Knuth. Of these the latter is still with us. Fisher, Ritchie, Kernighan and others are effectively part of the second generation of cumputer engineers, who turned computers from lumbering dinosaurs which limited application to modern all-purpose tools. To get an idea what kind of computers they used: C was developed on (and for) a PDP-11: That said: yes, they're going fast. Donald Knuth is another one to keep an eye on: at 73 he's getting on a bit, although in good health, AFAIK. He's certain to get the required obits when he dies. regards, Hein

And more pertinently, who's going to foot it. regards, Hein

As someone on there notes, he doesn't have a belly button! The conclusion is obvious: he was an alien. Or possibly a cyborg. Or both. regards, Hein

It seems the first moves of the Demjanjuk Defence are being played. Dutch news site nu.nl reports that his attorney claims that he's in hospital, possibly with a kidney stone. regards, Hein

Cats only have nine lives - Zsa Zsa has about 100!! The conclusion is obvious: she's an alien. regards, Hein