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This was one of my favorites: Employees are reminded that the book "A New Kind of Science" has been added to the destroy-immediately list created subsequent to incident ETERNAL GOLDEN BRAID. Said book actually describes a very old kind of...

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rk.radiohill commented on
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I know it's been a while since this ended, so within a conventional understanding of time there's no way it's at all related, but when I tried to go to work this afternoon my car was covered in bees. It was the only one in the parking lot covered, and there were like 50 of them....
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scott-sanford commented on
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...when I tried to go to work this afternoon my car was covered in bees. It was the only one in the parking lot covered, and there were like 50 of them. But is that an unacceptable number of them? The next memo might read: Painting your briefcase "nightmare green" is not as amusing as you think....
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UriGagarin commented on
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if ($Car.size > LookUpType("Smart").size) $AcceptableNumberofBees = true; else $AcceptableNumberofBees = false; }...
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UriGagarin commented on
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dammit it won;t compile - missing { at line 1...
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rk.radiohill commented on
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I think it was: I was too scared to get in the car, and had to get my partner to help. She, apparently, decided that it wasn't, and braved the bees to get into the car. She then drove it around to shake them off. (My plan if she agreed that it was too many was to call out of work on the grounds of excessive bees.) I parked somewhere else when I got home, and there were bees (and a lot of flies) on my car this morning, but few enough that I was able to skittishly charge into...

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