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  1. DiverMike
    I understand your action. I have never heard "The Bad Touch" on the radio, but if I did I am positive that unless my mother were in the car I would have to sing along with it. It is my favorite Karaoke song. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    I think he finally found the end of the internet. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    +1 For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    Hard labor doesn't amount to much. If that were the case, coal miners would be millionaires. I'm not rich, but I am firmly entrenched in the upper middle class almost entirely because I am smarter than most coal miners. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    I used that excuse until my wife had twins. Then I became a middle of the night dairy farmer. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    Read a 691 page government document? I think I'll wait for the movie. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    I especially liked the part where he said, "Since we are all skydivers we are all clean" and the whole room started laughing. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    Good code. Might I suggest a file exists function that would prevent overwriting a file with the newfilename: Public Function bFileExists(Sfile As String) As Boolean If Dir$(Sfile) " " Then bFileExists = True Else bFileExists = False End Function Then change your code: newfilename = Replace(Files(a), OldFilename, UserForm1.TextBox1.Value & "_" & Number) If Not bFileExists(newfilename) Then Name Files(a) As newfilename Else i = MsgBox("New Filename exists, keeping old filename", vbCritical, "Something Horrible Happened") End If For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    Looks like I got my custom dial done before they started worrying about copyright infringement. See attached. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    Sorry also I missed you. I paid very close to the camera flying safety presentation. I'm sure it was too long for almost everyone in the room, but I listened intently to every word. The best part of the entire presentation was the beginning, "You know you might be ready to fly a camera if , , ,". I will definitely wait. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    I have a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer Instructor Rating. PADI has a legal team that is quite active defending/preventing lawsuits. Every instructor who teaches in the United States is required to get liability insurance through Vicencia and Buckley or you are not allowed to teach a single students. The yearly liability insurance is $588.00. Multiple that by the teaching SCUBA instructors and you see that PADI has really deep pockets and rarely (if ever) loses a lawsuit. This protection helps other agencies (NAUI) because lawyers aren't sniffing around scuba diving fatalaties. PADI has done a tremendous job marketing itself. Because of this, it carries a big stick and can demand that it instructors pay big bucks to be associated with it. USPA - not so much yet. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    Is there a sign up for the water training or do I just show up? For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    A why doesn't Donald Duck wear pants, but when he comes out of a shower he has a towel around his nether region? For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    I think you may be jumping to a conclusion. It is just as likely that the individual who posted his skydiving video edited it for length prior to posting and cut out all of the parts he considered to be boring. I know it is popular to bash skyride, but when it is done indiscriminately it lessens the affect of legitimate complaints. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    This thread is certainly confusing, but I guess the someone in the Boneva's position today refers to someone born after 1986. Boneva's birthdate is before 1986. I suppose in 1986 they made the change from that point forward and did not make it retroactive. I'm just guessing. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    [sarcasm] yeah and they shold be Chuck Norris tough and just let the dog take a bite or two out of them to see if the dog is really mean or just a poser. [/sarcasm] For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    turbo tax

    DiverMike replied to keithbar's topic in The Bonfire

    I've used Turbo Tax for 15 years. In my petty attempts to become a slum landlord and other income producing chicanery, my printed return with accompanying subsidiary schedules to the IRS is usually about 50 pages long. It is a great product especially if you are using Quicken. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    He must have typo'd it. It is actually in section 4, Category E, 3, a Page 68: 3. Procedures for high-wind landings a. Before landing, disconnect the RSL as a precaution in case a cutaway becomes necessary to prevent being dragged. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    3 X 2

    DiverMike replied to bumgangster's topic in The Bonfire

    In the wacky world of homophones, a collection of three hardly rates. It falls in then middle of the pack with collections like "your, yore, you're","vain, vane, vein", et. al. There are dozens of them. If you were really cool you would come up with collections of homophones in the english language that contain four words, five, or even six. And to people like Billy Vance (whom I hope one day to meet at a boogy), a homophone is not a communication device you keep up your ass. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    'W' certainly was an idiot when it came to extemperaneous speaking, but why do you include: "I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 13, 2008 It seems to be a noble thing to do even given he sucked at golf. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    So do I. Anybody seen anything like the attached? edited to add attachment For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    The easiest way to prove that a climbing low pass was done would be to put the jump pilot on the stand and ask the question. Every pilot I know isn't going to risk his ticket and lie about not performing a low pass. It isn't violating an FAR, so it is easy to admit to. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    ooooh - I like your's much better. +1 For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    It is a good personal statement, however the comparative statement sounds awkward to me. You are comparing a general statement with a specific event that may or may not be counter to being a "good thing". The most highly publicized recent airplane crash is Chesley Sullenberger landing in the Hudson River. He was declared a hero and that crash was universally declared a "good thing". Your statement logic ends ups being: "'A' is good thing while 'B' may be a good thing." For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.
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    To me, economics is voodoo, but if we pegged the value of wealth to gold wouldn't it be a finite resource and thus zero sum? I know we went off the gold standard in the mid 1970's, and just continue to print pieces of paper with pretend value not based on a finite resource. And since this is in speakers corner, I'd like to close my post by saying something bad about Democrats. They have funny looking elbows which make them less patriotic. For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.