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Did everyone receive two different AWADs today? Has our Fearless Leader provided us all with a bonus new millennium gift? Or have I been given some special privelage?
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I received today's word, the newsletter and a much delayed word from last week, but nothing resembling an extra word.
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Are you sure you didn't get a word from last week late. This has happened to me on a couple of occasions.
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Yep, love a well-travelled word. You could go round the world dunamany times electronically in a week! 
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CapK joyously proclaimed Yep, love a well-travelled word. You could go round the world dunamany times electronically in a week! Then think of the crew on the International Space Station - 150 sunrises/sets to see in the New Year!
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I didn't receive anything!
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Max:
I think the number of sunrises and sunsets for the station crew are likely to be in the neighborhood of 16 of each. The orbit of the station is circa 90 minutes. At work I have a web link that gives all kinds of fascinating details, including when you can see the major satellites, so I could be off a little bit on the 90 minutes. The minimum orbit time is a shade less than 90inutes otherwise the satellite enters the atmosphere. For 90 minute-orbits that's two orbits in three hours or 16 orbits in 24 hours.
I suspect you would then add in one more susnrise-sunset for the earth's rotation, since the 90 minutes is in relation to the earth itself.
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>>>word from last week late<<< Nopers, it was definately not a word from last week. Both of the words I received yesterday had the same paragraph at the end to describe the new week's theme. "Why do we have so much negativity around us?..." Both were dated Jan. 1. My words were Sipid and Cantabrigian. I see from "yesterday's word" that sipid is the correct word. Maybe it was a belated birthday bonus.
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TEd, If you read what Max actually said, you'll see that he meant to calculate the number of sunrise/sunsets for a member of the crew to see in the New Year! Using this interpretation of the statement, there would be 16 sunrise/sets in one day times 365 days in the New Year for a total of 5840 sunrise/sets. 
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xara>My words were Sipid and Cantabrigian. the point of this week's theme is that these words are more commonly seen with a negative prefix; sipid vs. insipid, pervious vs. impervious, gruntle vs. disgruntle, etc. I don't think uncantabrigian is all that common, even if you can use it to refer to everyone not in Cambridge.
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>>> don't think uncantabrigian is all that common,<<<
I puzzled over that, and decided that maybe I just didn't get the reference. None the less, I got the word yesterday with the negative prefix paragraph in the same email. At least now I don't have to feel stupid because I couldn't come up with a good use for uncantabrigian.
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Cantabrigian was the word of the first day of january 2000!
Can someone understand the bug? Why ONLY to Xara?
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I just knew this was the *real* new millennium!!
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>>>I just knew this was the *real* new millennium!!<<< Hoorah! Hoorah! I can't wait to tell all my friends that I had a Real Millennium bug at the turn of the Real Millennium!  .o0(Of course, I'm the only person I know who had a Y2K bug either.)
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xara generously suggested that TEd, If you read what Max actually said, you'll see that he meant to calculate the number of sunrise/sunsets for a member of the crew to see in the New Year!
Whereas the real answer is that Max is an idiot who is having increasing difficulty keeping typos at bay!  That 150 should have been 15, goodness only knows where that rogue zero came from, although personally I blame shanks. 
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Max concluded, although personally I blame shanks. Yep, always best to blame someone who is as far physically removed from you as it's possible to be, especially if the blame is ill-placed, I always say. What say we nominate shanks to be an antipodean whipping-boy? He may even enjoy it.
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Capital Kiwi offered this: Yep, always best to blame someone who is as far physically removed from you as it's possible to be, especially if the blame is ill-placed, I always say. Mais non! I don't go around blaming people just for the fun of it - shanks is guilty! Remember that this thread discussed a possible millennium bug, and it was shanks' introduction of a rogue zero which allowed him to stick to his claim that the last millennium ended when 1999 did. The only thing left is to work out what punishment will truly fit the crime. Perhaps, given his liberal bent, exiling him to the newly re-conservatised USA would be a suitably severe sanction.
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I didn't get the Cantabrigian e-mail. I guess I got bitten too.
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Oooo, you boys are in trouble when Jackie gets back !
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Bel said, (somewhat fearfully? - NOT): Oooo, you boys are in trouble when Jackie gets back!We await the consequences of our putative delinquency in fear and eager trembling ... 
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What say we nominate shanks to be an antipodean whipping-boy? He may even enjoy it.
A--HEM, C.K. and Max:
In order to whip my sweet shanks, you will each, both, separately or together, have to whip me first.
Furthermore, I would advise caution: my tigress instincts are on a hair-trigger.
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Jackie returns, and In order to whip my sweet shanks, you will each, both, separately or together, have to whip me first.
Furthermore, I would advise caution: my tigress instincts are on a hair-trigger.Guess who's been to Washington, guess w-h-o-o-o-'s been to W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n! And come back power crazy. How's DC, Mrs Smith? You've obviously been appointed the Secretary of Justice! .
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You've obviously been appointed the Secretary of Justice!And about damned time, too!
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In order to whip my sweet shanks, you will each, both, separately or together, have to whip me first.
Is this a general invitation? or does it only apply to C-K and Max? I try not to reveal too much of myself on this (or any other) board, but this sounds like an offer that I can't turn down!
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Is this a general invitation? or does it only apply to C-K and Max?
I am not a masochist, thank you for that kind thought. That was not an invitation, nor a threat: it was a promise.
Woe betide any who threatens the well-being of one I love.
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This Londoner (ex-Mumbaikar) thinks the whole lot of you are off your rockers. Am willing to take credit for loosely placed zeroes, though - proud of the fact that it was developed in India! And Jackie for Secretary of Justice any time: its quality will not be strained and it will be twice blessed, dropping as the gentle rain from heaven... (one more for your files, JazzO)
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This Londoner (ex-Mumbaikar) thinks the whole lot of you are off your rockers. I would have thought this was axiomatic? the sunshine millennarian... millenarian... ahh heck, milliner..."If the cap fits - -" eh, shanks?
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You're all quite mad, milliners or not!
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You're all quite mad, milliners or not!
I thought Alice was busy Springing Australia.
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Jackie cracked wise I thought Alice was busy Springing Australia.When you mentioned this one to me, Jackie it was the first time I had ever heard it. Perhas because even here in NZ, the town is much more often referred to simply as Alice, and never as Alice Springs, Australia. Alice of course is in the dead heart, that 80% of Oz which inspired the famous question, "why do seagulls fly upside down over Australia?"
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Then there was the time I ran into a friend whose companion was wearing a T shirt that advertised Vernal Falls. I asked him if it was anywhere near... But then I shouldn't have to explain to this crew. He hadn't the slightest notion what I was talking about. My friend got it immediately
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