“Similar to jobs in Jeopardy (C8), I would never move to Gunpoint,” muses Mick Miller of Ettalong Beach. “Too many people get held up there.” Mickey Pragnell of Kiama can think of another no-go zone: “There appears to be a growing number of people stuck unhappily in Limbo.”
Talk of the ‘Broke Finance Co’ (C8) has reminded Janet Bates of Neutral Bay of a large sign outside the Ross Walk Business Park in Leicester that advises that the managing agents are the ‘Shonki Brothers’.
James Hocking of Cronulla is “Surprised no one has mentioned the Bland Catering Company at Wandandian on the South Coast.”
Michael Payne of West Pymble is another friend of the space-time continuum (C8): “In a pub in Northern Ireland, I asked a couple of old guys, ‘My great-great-grandfather left here in 1853. Do any of you remember him?’ One replied, ‘No, but I did know his father’.”
All jokes aside, we feel it’s only fair to explain the real reason for the SQL Server stumble. Richard Murnane of Hornsby clarifies: “One plausible explanation about the 1/1/1753 epoch (C8) is that it came a few months after the changeover from the Julian to Gregorian calendar in September 1752, and that programmers doing date calculations are too lazy to account for the 12 days that went walkabout due to the switch, or anything that happened before then.” Acknowledgment also to learned calendar boys Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook, Bob Liddelow of Avalon and Kerry Kyriacou of Strathfield, who arrived at much the same conclusion.
“I’m here to ask C8 contributors for some understanding and consideration regarding the to and fro confabulation involving 1753,” announces Jack Dikian of Mosman. “My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather would be appalled by the unceremonious treatment of his death year.”
“I can sympathise with Kate Coates (C8) to a degree,” says Mary Carde of Parrearra (Qld). “My husband was a civil engineer, and he too prefers to wear a cardigan. He calculates that by placing it in the laundry, it will somehow soon be efficiently returned good as new. So I am wondering Kate whether your husband, who launders his own cardigan, albeit with the towels, was a dyed-in-the-wool software engineer as this could explain his preference for daggy bibbily-bobbily cardigans.”
“To help Kate with her husband’s cardies, a Fairy Godmother always recommends a salagadoola mechicka boola for a bibbily bobbily do,” offers Jo Rainbow of Orange.
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