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Old 03-05-2011, 02:23 AM   #28281
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
But [back on topic] I'm just going to get ready for a funeral. The last of my Great Aunts died, aged 98.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I should be so lucky as to live as long as your Great Aunt.

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I sometimes invent problems for the purpose of coming up with an ingenious solution

This particular dee-vice appears to be a hacker's dream though. I think I made the right decision with it; I can make it my own rather than let a company dictate what it "should" be.
It was. Fortunately they supplied an instruction manual in Chinglish with the TV. Very little made any sense. I wish I'd kept it so I could post some of the text. Anyway applying some Sherlock Holmes enthusiasm I eventually discovered the language menu.

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I'm in my financial math class and wondering what to eat at McDonald's.
wyndslash, whatever it was . . . did it do the trick?
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you're in class (supposedly listening and writing), posting on MobileRead, wondering what to eat. I think they call this 'multifunction'.
Try multi-tasking

Another example of Chinglish on the box of a bike rack I bought.
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