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  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    ps1borg said:
    Jan19 said:
    ps1borg said:
    Tjohn said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

     

    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Tjohn said:
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    aww lost the song.

    glue gears on 80's junk, call it steampunk laaaa

    was listening to american pie this morning, germinated render ideas.  pink carnation and a pickup truck ...

    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    thanks !   i can almost pronounce Caorthannach smiley

    It's pronounced  queer-hawn-nock

     

    thanks!  i was totally wrong blush thought  care-than-ack

    ka-noon-is

    bow (rhyme with cow) - dee-kah

    Tis useful having a grandaughter who is learning to speak Gaelic at school.

    Irish and Scottish gaelic can be very confusing, even worse than Welsh sometimes.

    "T" is silent? OK. smiley

    Interesting... I've noticed that people from that part of the planet seem to have no idea how to pronounce half the letters in their alphabet, yet claim there is some logical basis behind it.  I think they just forgot. devil  Either that, or they got some letters in a bargain basement and just toss them into their words at random.  But in some cases there must have been a shortage on vowels. surprise 

    I've never understood silent letters... Why have them if you don't pronounce them... Was it that once upon a time there was a Letter Union that stipulated that X number of letters had to be employed in certain words even if they were doing nothing...or you couldn't speak or write them?

    It not like we have silent numbers?

    But it could be a great excuse for bad math... "Oh, yeah... My numbers look off, but there were a lot of silent 7s and 9s, so once you factor those in you'll see it's all in order." 

    I suspect a lot of Mega Corporations have been employing silent numbers in their accounting practices lately.

    Raise your hand if you pronounce the "l" in "salmon".

     

    Hand is up. :-)

    Raise your hand if you don't pronounce the "l" in "help".

    Say what? surprise​  Yes, I do pronounce the l in help. 

    I'll drop a g in a heartbeat, but I do pronounce most words correctly.

    No o in (o) possum though.  Just possum. 

    Australia agrees. Just possum.

    Ours is marsupial, just to be a lil different but we talk Strine like "avago at that possum flat out in the long paddick" which loosely translated would be "did you see that possum running along the road?"

    laugh  I love the English and Australian accents.

    I don't much like that shrimp on the barbee thing though.

     

    We don't call them shrimps we call them prawns, whether they are or not :)

    That thing looks like a seahorse with the wrong body.

     

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited September 2016
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I feel like someone is mad at me but I am not sure.

    They'll get over it. smiley

    Hell, somebody's always mad at me.  And I wouldn't have it any other way.  devil

    It is called making the best of things.

     

    Post edited by Jan19 on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,076
    Tjohn said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've been watching the NetFlix original series "Marco Polo".  The critics didn't think it was that hot, but I find it very good.  Excellent scenery, lots of horses, good special effects, great costumes, plot hasn't gotten boring yet, acting is tolerable.  All in all, it's kept me entertained for a long time.

    Short on car chases, shootouts and robots though. no

    Yes but how often do you see a boar hunt in Starsky & Hutch?

     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    ps1borg said:
    Fixmypcmike said:
    ps1borg said:
    Tjohn said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

     

    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Tjohn said:
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    aww lost the song.

    glue gears on 80's junk, call it steampunk laaaa

    was listening to american pie this morning, germinated render ideas.  pink carnation and a pickup truck ...

    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    thanks !   i can almost pronounce Caorthannach smiley

    It's pronounced  queer-hawn-nock

     

    thanks!  i was totally wrong blush thought  care-than-ack

    ka-noon-is

    bow (rhyme with cow) - dee-kah

    Tis useful having a grandaughter who is learning to speak Gaelic at school.

    Irish and Scottish gaelic can be very confusing, even worse than Welsh sometimes.

    "T" is silent? OK. smiley

    Interesting... I've noticed that people from that part of the planet seem to have no idea how to pronounce half the letters in their alphabet, yet claim there is some logical basis behind it.  I think they just forgot. devil  Either that, or they got some letters in a bargain basement and just toss them into their words at random.  But in some cases there must have been a shortage on vowels. surprise 

    I've never understood silent letters... Why have them if you don't pronounce them... Was it that once upon a time there was a Letter Union that stipulated that X number of letters had to be employed in certain words even if they were doing nothing...or you couldn't speak or write them?

    It not like we have silent numbers?

    But it could be a great excuse for bad math... "Oh, yeah... My numbers look off, but there were a lot of silent 7s and 9s, so once you factor those in you'll see it's all in order." 

    I suspect a lot of Mega Corporations have been employing silent numbers in their accounting practices lately.

    Raise your hand if you pronounce the "l" in "salmon".

     

    Hand is up. :-)

    Raise your hand if you don't pronounce the "l" in "help".

    Say what? surprise​  Yes, I do pronounce the l in help. 

    I'll drop a g in a heartbeat, but I do pronounce most words correctly.

    No o in (o) possum though.  Just possum. 

    Australia agrees. Just possum.

    Ours is marsupial, just to be a lil different but we talk Strine like "avago at that possum flat out in the long paddick" which loosely translated would be "did you see that possum running along the road?"

    Ours is marsupial also, our only marsupial IIRC.

    Didn't know that, I wonder if they swam there ?

    Was a naming error by Captain Cook's botanist. They are both marsupials, but not related.You can read about it here:
    http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/4013/possums-and-opossums-australia-and-america-all-explained/

    The North American Opossum came up from South America during the Great American Interchange. You can read about it here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange

    Class dismissed. cool

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    Tjohn said:
    ps1borg said:
    Fixmypcmike said:
    ps1borg said:
    Tjohn said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

     

    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Tjohn said:
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    aww lost the song.

    glue gears on 80's junk, call it steampunk laaaa

    was listening to american pie this morning, germinated render ideas.  pink carnation and a pickup truck ...

    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    thanks !   i can almost pronounce Caorthannach smiley

    It's pronounced  queer-hawn-nock

     

    thanks!  i was totally wrong blush thought  care-than-ack

    ka-noon-is

    bow (rhyme with cow) - dee-kah

    Tis useful having a grandaughter who is learning to speak Gaelic at school.

    Irish and Scottish gaelic can be very confusing, even worse than Welsh sometimes.

    "T" is silent? OK. smiley

    Interesting... I've noticed that people from that part of the planet seem to have no idea how to pronounce half the letters in their alphabet, yet claim there is some logical basis behind it.  I think they just forgot. devil  Either that, or they got some letters in a bargain basement and just toss them into their words at random.  But in some cases there must have been a shortage on vowels. surprise 

    I've never understood silent letters... Why have them if you don't pronounce them... Was it that once upon a time there was a Letter Union that stipulated that X number of letters had to be employed in certain words even if they were doing nothing...or you couldn't speak or write them?

    It not like we have silent numbers?

    But it could be a great excuse for bad math... "Oh, yeah... My numbers look off, but there were a lot of silent 7s and 9s, so once you factor those in you'll see it's all in order." 

    I suspect a lot of Mega Corporations have been employing silent numbers in their accounting practices lately.

    Raise your hand if you pronounce the "l" in "salmon".

     

    Hand is up. :-)

    Raise your hand if you don't pronounce the "l" in "help".

    Say what? surprise​  Yes, I do pronounce the l in help. 

    I'll drop a g in a heartbeat, but I do pronounce most words correctly.

    No o in (o) possum though.  Just possum. 

    Australia agrees. Just possum.

    Ours is marsupial, just to be a lil different but we talk Strine like "avago at that possum flat out in the long paddick" which loosely translated would be "did you see that possum running along the road?"

    Ours is marsupial also, our only marsupial IIRC.

    Didn't know that, I wonder if they swam there ?

    Was a naming error by Captain Cook's botanist. They are both marsupials, but not related.You can read about it here:
    http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/4013/possums-and-opossums-australia-and-america-all-explained/

    The North American Opossum came up from South America during the Great American Interchange. You can read about it here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange

    Class dismissed. cool

    Nasty slick overgrown rats.  Down here, they'll get in people's houses once and awhile -- lord have mercy, please spare me that -- and they'll get beat with brooms and chased away.

    They don't want to go either.  I sure wish the South American folks would take 'em all right back.  Along with the armadillo.

    Dirty little rascals.  no​  They have no redeeming qualitites at all, that I can see.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    Tjohn said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

     

    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Tjohn said:
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    aww lost the song.

    glue gears on 80's junk, call it steampunk laaaa

    was listening to american pie this morning, germinated render ideas.  pink carnation and a pickup truck ...

    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    thanks !   i can almost pronounce Caorthannach smiley

    It's pronounced  queer-hawn-nock

     

    thanks!  i was totally wrong blush thought  care-than-ack

    ka-noon-is

    bow (rhyme with cow) - dee-kah

    Tis useful having a grandaughter who is learning to speak Gaelic at school.

    Irish and Scottish gaelic can be very confusing, even worse than Welsh sometimes.

    "T" is silent? OK. smiley

    Interesting... I've noticed that people from that part of the planet seem to have no idea how to pronounce half the letters in their alphabet, yet claim there is some logical basis behind it.  I think they just forgot. devil  Either that, or they got some letters in a bargain basement and just toss them into their words at random.  But in some cases there must have been a shortage on vowels. surprise 

    I've never understood silent letters... Why have them if you don't pronounce them... Was it that once upon a time there was a Letter Union that stipulated that X number of letters had to be employed in certain words even if they were doing nothing...or you couldn't speak or write them?

    It not like we have silent numbers?

    But it could be a great excuse for bad math... "Oh, yeah... My numbers look off, but there were a lot of silent 7s and 9s, so once you factor those in you'll see it's all in order." 

    I suspect a lot of Mega Corporations have been employing silent numbers in their accounting practices lately.

    Raise your hand if you pronounce the "l" in "salmon".

     

    Hand is up. :-)

    Raise your hand if you don't pronounce the "l" in "help".

    Say what? surprise​  Yes, I do pronounce the l in help. 

    I'll drop a g in a heartbeat, but I do pronounce most words correctly.

    No o in (o) possum though.  Just possum. 

    Australia agrees. Just possum.

    Ours is marsupial, just to be a lil different but we talk Strine like "avago at that possum flat out in the long paddick" which loosely translated would be "did you see that possum running along the road?"

     

    why did the possum cross the long paddick? smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ketchup sale, oh popeye, didnt win lotto

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited September 2016
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    Tjohn said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

     

    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Tjohn said:
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    aww lost the song.

    glue gears on 80's junk, call it steampunk laaaa

    was listening to american pie this morning, germinated render ideas.  pink carnation and a pickup truck ...

    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    thanks !   i can almost pronounce Caorthannach smiley

    It's pronounced  queer-hawn-nock

     

    thanks!  i was totally wrong blush thought  care-than-ack

    ka-noon-is

    bow (rhyme with cow) - dee-kah

    Tis useful having a grandaughter who is learning to speak Gaelic at school.

    Irish and Scottish gaelic can be very confusing, even worse than Welsh sometimes.

    "T" is silent? OK. smiley

    Interesting... I've noticed that people from that part of the planet seem to have no idea how to pronounce half the letters in their alphabet, yet claim there is some logical basis behind it.  I think they just forgot. devil  Either that, or they got some letters in a bargain basement and just toss them into their words at random.  But in some cases there must have been a shortage on vowels. surprise 

    I've never understood silent letters... Why have them if you don't pronounce them... Was it that once upon a time there was a Letter Union that stipulated that X number of letters had to be employed in certain words even if they were doing nothing...or you couldn't speak or write them?

    It not like we have silent numbers?

    But it could be a great excuse for bad math... "Oh, yeah... My numbers look off, but there were a lot of silent 7s and 9s, so once you factor those in you'll see it's all in order." 

    I suspect a lot of Mega Corporations have been employing silent numbers in their accounting practices lately.

    Raise your hand if you pronounce the "l" in "salmon".

     

    Hand is up. :-)

    Raise your hand if you don't pronounce the "l" in "help".

    Say what? surprise​  Yes, I do pronounce the l in help. 

    I'll drop a g in a heartbeat, but I do pronounce most words correctly.

    No o in (o) possum though.  Just possum. 

    Australia agrees. Just possum.

    Ours is marsupial, just to be a lil different but we talk Strine like "avago at that possum flat out in the long paddick" which loosely translated would be "did you see that possum running along the road?"

     

    why did the possum cross the long paddick? smiley

    If a possum could think, it'd probably wonder what was on the other side of the long road.

    I honestly have never seen a possum with the ability to reason before though.  IMHO, they are lower life forms that never chose to evolve.

    Then again, possums may be...no, they are lower life forms.  That's all there is to it. 

     

    Post edited by Jan19 on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Mmmm.... Possum surprise...

    ... With assorted nondescript vegetables and sauce compounds... Brownie sold separately...

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    McGyver said:

    Mmmm.... Possum surprise...

    ... With assorted nondescript vegetables and sauce compounds... Brownie sold separately...

    I think I had that for dinner last night.... ugh...  cheeky

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Not that good?... Never let them thaw, even the slightest...  You should try the rest... Especially the chipmunk... It's very... Crunchy.

    They don't take the bones out... If they did, it wouldn't be crunchy!

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    McGyver said:

    Not that good?... Never let them thaw, even the slightest...  You should try the rest... Especially the chipmunk... It's very... Crunchy.

    They don't take the bones out... If they did, it wouldn't be crunchy!

    Love all the parody products you've made. laugh

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    McGyver said:

    Mmmm.... Possum surprise...

    ... With assorted nondescript vegetables and sauce compounds... Brownie sold separately...

    Personally, I appreciate the warning to cook to 750F.  Gauranteed to be safe then!  Well.. sorta...  laugh

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    american possums metabolism immune to rabies, not so sure they lower life form.  
    if they had thumbs mann, possums, squirrels, raccoons mann they could allies against us deforesting trucks

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,237

    Steve is a good friend but he is a little fishy.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    soon, soooon, the donuts will arrive.  honey glazed!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    tawt i heard the truck.  it was a truck, but not the truck brringing me food

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    McGyver said:

    Not that good?... Never let them thaw, even the slightest...  You should try the rest... Especially the chipmunk... It's very... Crunchy.

    They don't take the bones out... If they did, it wouldn't be crunchy!

    OMG, man, you are insane. laugh yes

     

     

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Songbirds chorusing the breaking day still louder so far than the grumble of freeway traffic in dawn's indistinct first glowy light :)

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    MistyMist said:

    american possums metabolism immune to rabies, not so sure they lower life form.  
    if they had thumbs mann, possums, squirrels, raccoons mann they could allies against us deforesting trucks

    But they would look so adorable in their little paramilitary uniforms...

    Luckily they are terrible at following orders and have no natural strategic instincts... Well, possums, squirrels and chipmunks...

    Raccoons on the other hand, are damn good at reenacting historic battles...

    Well, mostly... And relatively... but unfortunately they are much more expensive to accurately cloth in period garb... That and raccoons are very selective about who they want to depict, so for example when they were reenacting the battle of Morrisville (US civil war), one of the raccoons (Franky Three Toes) that wanted to play confederate general Wade Hampton III, got all snippy because he was given the part of union general Hugh Judson Kilpatrick whom he felt was a reckless and inconsiderate individual, for which he resented the role... So he ran over to Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (Sammy the Mooch) and bit him on the foot, so Sammy gets all mad and bites him back, but in the process bites Louie No Lips (playing General Hampton)too,  so Hampton in turn bites Joseph Wheeler (Fat Frankie) and Jimmy the Chin get clawed in the eye, even though he wasn't even in that battle as he was to play Robert E. Lee... So now in runs Big Benny who was gonna play Abraham Lincoln (stovepipe hat and all) and the next thing I know instead of using their little rifles and shooting blank rounds at each other, they are tearing each other to pieces... 

    In the end Jimmy the Chin, loses an eye and can't play Lee, Don Carlito gets a bayonet in the face and dies,  Fat Frankie breaks a leg and and all the uniforms get torn to shreds... And I'm pretty sure someone ate a bunch of the brass buttons, because like half of them were missing... Not to mention someone pooped in Lincoln's hat too.

    Thats why I switched to hamsters and chinchillas for my historic battle reenactments... Besides, the battle of midway was so much easier with hamster sized aircraft carriers than the raccoon sized Viking ships.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    MistyMist said:

    tawt i heard the truck.  it was a truck, but not the truck brringing me food

    I used to get pound cake deliver by bulldozer... I suppose a truck makes more sense for groceries though...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    McGyver said:
    MistyMist said:

    american possums metabolism immune to rabies, not so sure they lower life form.  
    if they had thumbs mann, possums, squirrels, raccoons mann they could allies against us deforesting trucks

    But they would look so adorable in their little paramilitary uniforms...

    Luckily they are terrible at following orders and have no natural strategic instincts... Well, possums, squirrels and chipmunks...

    Raccoons on the other hand, are damn good at reenacting historic battles...

    Well, mostly... And relatively... but unfortunately they are much more expensive to accurately cloth in period garb... That and raccoons are very selective about who they want to depict, so for example when they were reenacting the battle of Morrisville (US civil war), one of the raccoons (Franky Three Toes) that wanted to play confederate general Wade Hampton III, got all snippy because he was given the part of union general Hugh Judson Kilpatrick whom he felt was a reckless and inconsiderate individual, for which he resented the role... So he ran over to Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (Sammy the Mooch) and bit him on the foot, so Sammy gets all mad and bites him back, but in the process bites Louie No Lips (playing General Hampton)too,  so Hampton in turn bites Joseph Wheeler (Fat Frankie) and Jimmy the Chin get clawed in the eye, even though he wasn't even in that battle as he was to play Robert E. Lee... So now in runs Big Benny who was gonna play Abraham Lincoln (stovepipe hat and all) and the next thing I know instead of using their little rifles and shooting blank rounds at each other, they are tearing each other to pieces... 

    In the end Jimmy the Chin, loses an eye and can't play Lee, Don Carlito gets a bayonet in the face and dies,  Fat Frankie breaks a leg and and all the uniforms get torn to shreds... And I'm pretty sure someone ate a bunch of the brass buttons, because like half of them were missing... Not to mention someone pooped in Lincoln's hat too.

    Thats why I switched to hamsters and chinchillas for my historic battle reenactments... Besides, the battle of midway was so much easier with hamster sized aircraft carriers than the raccoon sized Viking ships.

     

    remember the Waterloo!!

    misread Hugh Judson  as Hugh Jackman >.< smiley

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    Tjohn said:
    McGyver said:

    Not that good?... Never let them thaw, even the slightest...  You should try the rest... Especially the chipmunk... It's very... Crunchy.

    They don't take the bones out... If they did, it wouldn't be crunchy!

    Love all the parody products you've made. laugh

    Parody... ?  Well, I suppose they weren't marketed as widely as I had hoped... Sadly I had to discontinue the line... But with all the eco friendliness going on and recycling on the upswing, maybe "recycled food" might be worth trying again... The leftover stock is still frozen... Mostly... I don't think they really ever had an expiration date, what with them being naturally sun ripened to begin with, so that's a plus... Maybe if I just slap on a sticker that ups the cooking temperature... Hmmm...

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    MistyMist said:
    McGyver said:
    MistyMist said:

    american possums metabolism immune to rabies, not so sure they lower life form.  
    if they had thumbs mann, possums, squirrels, raccoons mann they could allies against us deforesting trucks

    But they would look so adorable in their little paramilitary uniforms...

    Luckily they are terrible at following orders and have no natural strategic instincts... Well, possums, squirrels and chipmunks...

    Raccoons on the other hand, are damn good at reenacting historic battles...

    Well, mostly... And relatively... but unfortunately they are much more expensive to accurately cloth in period garb... That and raccoons are very selective about who they want to depict, so for example when they were reenacting the battle of Morrisville (US civil war), one of the raccoons (Franky Three Toes) that wanted to play confederate general Wade Hampton III, got all snippy because he was given the part of union general Hugh Judson Kilpatrick whom he felt was a reckless and inconsiderate individual, for which he resented the role... So he ran over to Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (Sammy the Mooch) and bit him on the foot, so Sammy gets all mad and bites him back, but in the process bites Louie No Lips (playing General Hampton)too,  so Hampton in turn bites Joseph Wheeler (Fat Frankie) and Jimmy the Chin get clawed in the eye, even though he wasn't even in that battle as he was to play Robert E. Lee... So now in runs Big Benny who was gonna play Abraham Lincoln (stovepipe hat and all) and the next thing I know instead of using their little rifles and shooting blank rounds at each other, they are tearing each other to pieces... 

    In the end Jimmy the Chin, loses an eye and can't play Lee, Don Carlito gets a bayonet in the face and dies,  Fat Frankie breaks a leg and and all the uniforms get torn to shreds... And I'm pretty sure someone ate a bunch of the brass buttons, because like half of them were missing... Not to mention someone pooped in Lincoln's hat too.

    Thats why I switched to hamsters and chinchillas for my historic battle reenactments... Besides, the battle of midway was so much easier with hamster sized aircraft carriers than the raccoon sized Viking ships.

     

    remember the Waterloo!!

    misread Hugh Judson  as Hugh Jackman >.< smiley

    Oddly, I never realized till now the irony of having trained a wolverine to play Hugh Jackman... It was a terrible play... too much biting.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,237

    I found an old alarm clock that sort of works but sort of not.  I put it under my monitor and it raised it enough above the betta condos.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    I'm glad you didn't use pumpkins.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,237
    McGyver said:

    I'm glad you didn't use pumpkins.

    I thought about using a pumpkin but I remembered they are too soft and would start to stink.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Still on page 98?... Do we get cake if we are the last post?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,237
    McGyver said:

    Still on page 98?... Do we get cake if we are the last post?

    Um I would give you a cake but I do not know how to mail cakes.  Also I do not bake.  Not because I do not want to or because I cannot.  Wait I cannot as in I am not allowed to bake. I hate where I live.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Cake would be super... 

    Eddie Izzard has a funny bit about "cake or death"...  I usually choose cake.

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