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#22
:D :) :( :o :lol: 8) :? :x :oops: :cry: :wink: :roll: :evil: :!: :?: :idea: :arrow:
For example.
For example.
Whenever an honest man discovers that he's mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or he will cease to be honest.
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#23
Ah see now, they're enclosed in colons.
Except dink
Just seems like a bit of a discontinuity...
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Except dink
Just seems like a bit of a discontinuity...
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"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
#24
Ok, fixed that, the new dink is Does mean the old ones will have disappeared from posts, but it seemed you couldn't live without the facility
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#26
and all this time I thought it was a little piggy saying Oink.....specsavers?
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#27
No, I think you just have better things to do...ed wrote:and all this time I thought it was a little piggy saying Oink.....specsavers?
I must admit, I still don't know what it means as a "emoticon". In my world, a dink is a small dent or indentation, not sure what emotion that relates to.
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#28
Well according to Wikipedia, the following are suggested under 'slang':
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- A person of Chinese / Far-eastern origin
D.I.N.K: Dual Income No Kids, a financial term used for couples with no kids
A 'jerk' or 'goof'
A euphemism for being delinquent on training
A hypocorism for the given name Dennis
A term used to mean "Mess With" as in "I'm going to dink with that until it works". Along similar lines, in computer science, to increment or decrement a counter. "In counting from 4 to 6, it dinks the counter two times"
An onomatopoeia for the sound when a golf ball goes in the hole
A fully grown person who looks like they are still dressed by their mother
A ride given to someone on a pushbike
Military slang for a recruit in training, "Desperately In Need of Knowledge"
In Counter Strike and Counter Strike: Source. a dink refers to taking damage from a headshot but not dying. It is called a dink because of the sound it makes when the player is shot in the head with a helmet (It makes a sound similar to saying "Dink")
A common reference for the short dagger known as a Dirk
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"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
#29
Cant say I have heard that once in the last 35 years of programming..."In counting from 4 to 6, it dinks the counter two times"
Whenever an honest man discovers that he's mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or he will cease to be honest.