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11 October, 2004: Revised *Revised* Downtime Advance Warning - 12 October, 2004 - 1000hrs BST
azahar Posted Oct 11, 2004
12 October (which this year is a *Tuesday* 
) is a national holiday in Spain. Because it falls on a *Tuesday* this year a lot of people take a 'puente' (bridge) and end up with a four-day long weekend.
Not bad, eh?
az
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Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Oct 11, 2004
It is not a national holiday or anything!!! - but today (Monday 11th) is my mum's birthday!
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Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday Posted Oct 11, 2004
Happy Birthday to Mort's Mum, 
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Oct 11, 2004
So Azahar, does that make the Monday another Saturday and the Tuesday another Sunday? Or is Monday just another day off and Tuesday a Monday like that? And if you play jazz all day long on that extra day off, does that make it a Tino Puente?
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Oct 11, 2004
Oh, and
Cumpleanos Feliz
Cumpleanos Feliz
Cumpleanos Cumpleanos
Cumpleanos Feliz
To Mort's Mum!
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the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish Posted Oct 11, 2004
perhaps this change will implement a new calender ?
so Jimster is back and things are still chaos
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GreyDesk Posted Oct 11, 2004
Watch it cl, that sounds suspiciously like "Happy birthday to you", and that is copyright and yikesable under the house rules 
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Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday Posted Oct 11, 2004
Well 10:00 12th suits me fine I'm off to the dentist, or you could make it 10:00 13th, I'm at the hospital then - having a good scratch 
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zendevil Posted Oct 11, 2004
Hoppo barfaday Mortmummy!
It seems to be the 12th here in France & so far no strikes or public hlidays, so no excuse for a "pont" either; all in all i think i will just stay in bed & let them get on with it & dream of "error on this page" messages floating quietly away....
*azahar, just sent you pics of me & yoda for the fokti thing*
zdt
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 11, 2004
Didn't we have a thread like this before (date confusion with downtime)?. Or am I having a deja vu?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 11, 2004
"Oh no, not again."
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Recumbentman Posted Oct 11, 2004
GreyDesk -- do you tell us The Birthday Song is still under copyright? That must be the most performed piece in the world!
Someone has tried to revive the copyright on "Desiderata" -- it was written in the 1920s but the author, Max Ehrmann, gave permission for it to be put out into the public domain, to encourage the injured troops in WW2; now his heirs and assigns (his widow is dead) are trying to claw back some revenue. Their sad tale is truly sickening. "It's all I have to live on and they're stealing it from me."
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GreyDesk Posted Oct 11, 2004
Oh yes, it's *still* under copyright.
Here is what happened the last time I tried to post the lyrics F47997?thread=Oh yes, it's *still* under copyright.
Here is what happened the last time I tried to post the lyrics F47997?Thread=246295
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Oct 12, 2004
Traveller in Time 
on his head
"Half an hour to go . . ."
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Geggs Posted Oct 12, 2004
It's a little late by my watch...
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Paully Posted Oct 12, 2004
Well it looks as though we're back up again.
Thanks for bearing with us, everyone! 
Paully
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Oct 12, 2004
Hooray
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 12, 2004
No more errors, but the site feels *incredibly* s
low... 
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Recumbentman Posted Oct 12, 2004
Well that's an interesting thread GreyDesk. Some names drifted up as from a dim distant past (to me) -- Sam who's left hootoo to become a song and dance man, RhoMuNuQ who subbed (excellently) an entry or two of mine, and Tango who is apparently still under pre-mod, and still 16.
Oh oh. Looking for which entries Rho subbed, I find that none of my Edited Entries exists any longer. Ah well . . .
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Oct 12, 2004
Traveller in Time on his head
"The site being _S_l_o_w_ I will not deny, but it does not have 'no more errors', I would rephrase that as 'not more errors'
Once '0 researchers' about five '501 errors', and currently trying to report 2 more '502 errors'"
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11 October, 2004: Revised *Revised* Downtime Advance Warning - 12 October, 2004 - 1000hrs BST
- 21: azahar (Oct 11, 2004)
- 22: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Oct 11, 2004)
- 23: Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday (Oct 11, 2004)
- 24: clzoomer- a bit woobly (Oct 11, 2004)
- 25: clzoomer- a bit woobly (Oct 11, 2004)
- 26: the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish (Oct 11, 2004)
- 27: GreyDesk (Oct 11, 2004)
- 28: Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday (Oct 11, 2004)
- 29: zendevil (Oct 11, 2004)
- 30: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 11, 2004)
- 31: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 11, 2004)
- 32: Recumbentman (Oct 11, 2004)
- 33: GreyDesk (Oct 11, 2004)
- 34: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Oct 12, 2004)
- 35: Geggs (Oct 12, 2004)
- 36: Paully (Oct 12, 2004)
- 37: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (Oct 12, 2004)
- 38: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 12, 2004)
- 39: Recumbentman (Oct 12, 2004)
- 40: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Oct 12, 2004)
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