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DinkyInky wrote:

BarGamer wrote:Boxes, cases, packages... I hate the English language, sometimes.

But yeah, 3 dollars, 20 cents, (and a little over a half-pence) per box is not bad at all, especially if they have to grease some floured palms, too. They're just a little bit bad-ass.

Now I wanna spin-off comic featuring the adventures of three Girl Scout para-normals.

Oy! Waitcher turn! Not until we see both Sugar bear and Space Alien Cat Girls first.

I wanna see him make a real comic out of Dark Alley:

TazManiac wrote:
Even if it's only One or Two items, it's good practice to get into to add a leading Zero. If for no other reason, some file managers, and even databases will sort poorly (= out of order). Its stupid but it still crops all the time;

https://support.sas.com/documentation/c ... a002400106

Without leading zeros, the variable names would sort in the following order: A1, A10, A2, ... A9.

Its gotten to where it doesn't look right, to me, without one anymore.

AMEN! And do not get met started on date formats - m/d/yy, dd/mm/yy - AAARGGG the only form that always sorts and lines up is CCYY/MM/DD. And yes, MM & DD are zero filled. I got an early introduction to date manipulation when I worked at a mortgage company in 1978. The full paperwork for a 30 year loan was already rolling into the next millennium. Which is greater: 10/5/80 or 2/25/6? twas madness! though I have lost all arguments about using CCCCYY/MM/DD :{

notStanley wrote: AMEN! And do not get met started on date formats - m/d/yy, dd/mm/yy - AAARGGG the only form that always sorts and lines up is CCYY/MM/DD. And yes, MM & DD are zero filled. I got an early introduction to date manipulation when I worked at a mortgage company in 1978. The full paperwork for a 30 year loan was already rolling into the next millennium. Which is greater: 10/5/80 or 2/25/6? twas madness! though I have lost all arguments about using CCCCYY/MM/DD :{

Some of us were software engineers dealing with the insanity of the whole Y2K mess...amen to standard date formats.

Suggested umbrella title for this week's arc: Cookie Mobsters.

kingklash wrote:Suggested umbrella title for this week's arc: Cookie Mobsters.

Seconded...

I wonder if the paranormal community has their own paranormal-only Girl Scout. . .troops? Platoons? Gaggles? Whatever the term is for a local group of such kids? Or do they just have to mix with the normal human Scout kids and hope that they don't notice anything odd?

Opus the Poet wrote:I think it was a military slang from the '70s or '80s. It has been a long time, and I have died at least once in the meantime, so I might have something reversed or otherwise screwed up, but I definitely remember "paras" being slang for people who jump out of perfectly good airplanes while carrying guns. I'm blanking on the GS but I know it was something like that and similar to the SAS.

I'm not so sure on the American slang, but in Britain the "paras" are usually the Parachute Regiment specifically (or apparently something to do with Pokemon). Different group from the SAS or SBS, but they work together often enough. As for GS, are you thinking of the German GSG 9?

Catawampus wrote:I wonder if the paranormal community has their own paranormal-only Girl Scout. . .troops? Platoons? Gaggles? Whatever the term is for a local group of such kids?

Troops.

I think that the original reference to "GS" was "girl scouts".

During the Algerian crisis, paras were some of the Bad Guys among the French forces.

As I pointed out upthread, there actually is a GS troop (though slightly inactive) at Copper Lake School. If they can have such a troop "behind bars", so to speak, why not a bunch of paras meeting at Gryphon?

There's a whole possible story that could be told there, but I'm not the one who could write it.

Catawampus wrote:I wonder if the paranormal community has their own paranormal-only Girl Scout. . .troops? Platoons? Gaggles? Whatever the term is for a local group of such kids? Or do they just have to mix with the normal human Scout kids and hope that they don't notice anything odd?

Opus the Poet wrote:I think it was a military slang from the '70s or '80s. It has been a long time, and I have died at least once in the meantime, so I might have something reversed or otherwise screwed up, but I definitely remember "paras" being slang for people who jump out of perfectly good airplanes while carrying guns. I'm blanking on the GS but I know it was something like that and similar to the SAS.

I'm not so sure on the American slang, but in Britain the "paras" are usually the Parachute Regiment specifically (or apparently something to do with Pokemon). Different group from the SAS or SBS, but they work together often enough. As for GS, are you thinking of the German GSG 9?

Like I said, it hit me after I typed it, and it was so long ago I don't quite remember where it hit me from.

are you thinking of 'Global Service for Mobiles' GSM?:)