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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Liked on YouTube: Trevor’s Daily Rant 🇬🇧

Trevor’s Daily Rant 🇬🇧

Disclaimer: @TrevorCoult_MC provides news and stories based on public information. All thoughts and opinions in these videos are my own and are subjective. These videos are for entertainment purposes only and I encourage everyone to not take what I say as 100% fact and to please do your own research. Source: https://ift.tt/xL9M0Jm Source: https://ift.tt/8dj0E5U Source: https://ift.tt/T90ytUC
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Saturday, March 04, 2023

Liked on YouTube: Brad Mack the Knife @ La Palapa Karaoke ATX

Brad Mack the Knife @ La Palapa Karaoke ATX

Shot by ijampro.com
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Sunday, December 25, 2022

Liked on YouTube: Using a Form in MS Word to Populate a Document

Using a Form in MS Word to Populate a Document

In this video, I demonstrate how to use a MS Word form to populate a document. You can find the example document here: https://ift.tt/POuwLdr
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Saturday, September 17, 2022

Liked on YouTube: TONY JOE WHITE Tunica Motel Live TV French

TONY JOE WHITE Tunica Motel Live TV French

Tunica Motel Live TV French
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Saturday, July 23, 2022

Liked on YouTube: The Best Of Soul Train - (1971 - 1979) Vol.6 HD

The Best Of Soul Train - (1971 - 1979) Vol.6 HD

Dear subscribers! Help my game review project! If you can subscribe, please! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCitQK1mEu7UkrIrgPLMd1wg?view_as=subscriber 01. So Very Hard to Go—Tower of Power 02. Yes We Can Can—Pointer Sisters 03. What Is Hip?—Tower of Power 04. Put Your Hands Together—The O’Jays Soul Train Dancers 06. For the Love of Money—The O’Jays Soul Train Dancers 07. Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)—Gladys Knight & the Pips 08. Good Things Don’t Last Forever—Ecstasy, Passion & Pain 09. Kung Fu Fighting—Carl Douglas Soul Train Dancers 11. Skin Tight—Ohio Players 12. Love to Love You Baby—Donna Summer 13. Livin’ for the Weekend—The O’Jays Soul Train Dancers 14. Disco Lady—Johnnie Taylor 15. Dance wit Me—Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan Soul Train Dancers
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Liked on YouTube: Surprise flash mob marriage proposal: Man books out entire restaurant!

Surprise flash mob marriage proposal: Man books out entire restaurant!

This is the story of how one brave guy chose to pop the question to his bride-to-be in a restaurant flash-mob style takeover.. This proposal was in association with The Proposers who we have collaborated with to offer diners a selection of restaurant proposals to remember. Oyin & Yemisi Marriage Proposal.
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Liked on YouTube: New App Grades Students Based on Their Identities and Not Their Merit! (THE SAAD TRUTH_1310)

New App Grades Students Based on Their Identities and Not Their Merit! (THE SAAD TRUTH_1310)

If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://ift.tt/2NLG6Md https://ift.tt/3tHVVmi https://ift.tt/3f5d0md _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://ift.tt/2WAiQlB https://ift.tt/305e16j https://ift.tt/2ZIw4hP _______________________________________ Please visit my website https://www.gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________
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Monday, October 11, 2021

Liked on YouTube: CalTech Professor Lior Pachter, Chief Academic Inquisitor of Cancel Culture (THE SAAD TRUTH_1315)

CalTech Professor Lior Pachter, Chief Academic Inquisitor of Cancel Culture (THE SAAD TRUTH_1315)

Correction: At the 7:47 mark, the third tweet was about my joking about the meaning of "Allahu akbar" in a Richard Dawkins tweet and not about Nancy Pelosi (which stems from another offended professor David Sloan Wilson; see later in the clip). Archived tweet thread: archive.is/9TYE1 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://ift.tt/2NLG6Md https://ift.tt/3tHVVmi https://ift.tt/3f5d0md _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://ift.tt/2WAiQlB https://ift.tt/305e16j https://ift.tt/2ZIw4hP _______________________________________ Please visit my website https://www.gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________
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Thursday, June 24, 2021

Liked on YouTube: Most embarrassing moment for Miesha Tate

Most embarrassing moment for Miesha Tate

#mieshatates #ufc #short
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Liked on YouTube: Fixing Brother Printer "Paper Jam" Error with No Paper Jammed

Fixing Brother Printer "Paper Jam" Error with No Paper Jammed

For help in clearing an actual paper jam: http://youtu.be/Pmt3qtJhjMk In this brief guide I show you how to try and fix a 'Paper Jam' error on a Brother printer when you can find no paper jammed inside the printer. This is not a guaranteed fix, but dirt/ink on the strip shown in a common cause of this problem. I hope this video has helped resolve the problem you are having. Be sure to also keep up with us on Facebook (http://on.fb.me/hZ1r4T) and Twitter (http://bit.ly/gtJNlw) for more great deals and reviews.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Cracking the code: the world of crosswords

There is a common misperception that the 'quick' crossword is easier than the cryptic crossword. Yet a moment's reflection should be sufficient to dispel this myth. The so-called 'quick' crossword – which is perhaps better referred to as 'straight' – is neither quick nor easy. The fact that people believe it is simply suggests that they have been lucky.

Cryptic crossword, by Terry Freedman

This type of crossword relies on two things for its completion: a knowledge of synonyms, and mind-reading. While it is true, as someone put it, that there are no synonyms in English, there are certainly enough near-synonyms to choose from when it comes to crosswords.

Take, for instance, this clue:

Achieved (3)

What answer is the compiler looking for? Won? Got? Did? Any of these is possible. Indeed, a colleague told me in 1979 that a man he'd met in the pub the night before was having trouble getting the very last clue of his (straight) crossword. It transpired that the reason for the impasse was that, incredibly, answers to all the other clues were wrong.

This could almost certainly never happen with a cryptic crossword because each clue consists of two parts rather than one: the definition of the answer, which is equivalent to the clue in the quick crossword, and a secondary indicator which tells you how to arrive at the answer. You just have to understand the strange mangling of the English language that comprises the crossword code. As the compiler Afrit put it:

"You need not mean what you say, but you must say what you mean."

Let's take a few examples. First:

Egyptian flower (4)

You might be wondering, what kind of flower grows in Egypt? A Rose? An Iris? And in so doing you would get precisely nowhere. But think of flower as rhyming with lower, you realize it is something which flows, ie a river, and you deduce the answer immediately: Nile.

Having mentioned the word 'lower', perhaps we might try this:

A little lower on the farm (4)

If you start thinking in terms of height, you may as well abandon all hope. Just as a flower in the first clue referred to something that flows, so a lower in this clue refers to something that lows, ie a cow or a bull. Clearly, a little lower is a calf.

Before we leave this farm, consider this:

Farm butter (4)

As you may have surmised, a butter in 'crosswordese' is something which butts – in this case a goat.

These are examples of the compiler deliberately setting out to draw you into making a false assumption, from which point it is all downhill unless and until you can step back and realise that is exactly what you've done.

Other clues have more obvious indicators. For example, "all over the place" or "disconcerted" would indicate an anagram:

Such an event would disconcert astronomers (2,4,5)

The word "disconcerted" indicates that the answer is an anagram of "astronomers". The answer is: No more stars.

Other indicators include:

Detailed – meaning the end of the word has been cut off ie de-tailed.

Beheaded – the first letter of the word has been chopped off.

Midnight – that is, the middle of the word "night", ie "g".

Finally, crossword compilers have a great sense of humour. Some years ago the Daily Telegraph crossword featured the following clue:

What an incompetent deep sea diver must do to get rid of an irritation? (4,2,2,7)

(A question mark at the end of the clue, by the way, indicates a mangling of the language that will cause the solver to groan.)

The answer? Come up to scratch.

It has been said that the job of the cryptic crossword compiler is to lose the battle gracefully. The 'battle' is one of wits between the compiler and the solver, and there is little that is more pleasurable than solving a really good clue.

Except, of course, solving the whole puzzle.